Cliff Stearns

last week a few of us had the opportunity to attend the opening arguments at the United States Supreme Court for two cases about the public display of the Ten Commandments. These cases are very interesting because not only are they…

the economy continues to grow as a direct result of the President's economic policies and those of the Republican Congress. Here are a few facts to illustrate this. In January, we saw 146,000 new jobs and witnessed the twentieth…

last month a U.N. committee approved a resolution calling on nations quickly to adopt and implement legislation ``to prohibit all forms of human cloning inasmuch as they are incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human…

I support the bill. There is going to be opposition from a few people. They are going to complain that this bill is arbitrary; that the fine on individuals, which is $500,000, is too much, too expensive. But I think the gentleman from…

I rise to celebrate the city of Jacksonville, Florida, which is the host for the 39th Super Bowl championship this Sunday. I think a lot of people were dismayed and a little bit surprised to read about a sportswriter, Tony Kornheiser, when…

tonight we vote on the final version of the Intelligence Reform bill. It's appropriate that we do so today, December 7th, Pearl Harbor Day. We hope that this legislation will help prevent future attacks on our homeland. I will vote for…

I think all of my colleagues know that Florida has one of the largest growing populations of veterans. So many of us in Florida have to be particularly sensitive. We need new facilities down there. That is why I am very supportive of H.R…

we recently read in the newspapers of the murder of a prominent filmmaker, a distant relative of Vincent van Gogh, in the Netherlands, or Holland. Holland has been a very open, tolerant society for many decades. However, many immigrants…

Not often when we come to the House floor do we have legislation that will save lives. I had this experience when I was working on the defibrillator bill, which the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Brown) is going to offer later on, which is…

Mr. Speaker, I am proud also to author this bill, H.R. 2023, the Asthmatic Student Treatment and Health Management Act, ASTHMA, with my colleague, the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Kennedy). He and I have been working together on this…

I rise in support and as a cosponsor of H. Con. Res. 250, recognizing public access defibrillation, or PAD, programs. My colleagues, years ago I had the opportunity and honor to work with the American Heart Association and we developed…

whoever is elected President will face the prospect of another terrorist attack. The question is: Will we have the right policies in place to best protect our country? George Bush has waged an aggressive war on terror by going on the…

a country was looking for free, democratic elections. Yet, a violent insurgency controlled about one-third of the nation's territory. Insurgents mined roads to prevent transportation and potential voters had to dodge sniper fire just to…

last night the House voted to strip language in the Treasury bill that would have made a small step towards restoring some sense of sanity to our national immigration policy. Even though we are supposed to be reforming our immigration…

I rise again to pay tribute and support to our troops, particularly in Afghanistan. We should be reminded that there is a lot of inordinate negative press and that Americans have been apprised of the situation in Iraq, and I think there is…

first of all, most of the folks on that side of the aisle keep talking about that we are mending and changing the Constitution. But I think the argument has been shown to be overwhelmingly wrong and the gentleman from New York (Mr. Nadler)…

Yesterday the House voted to block a rule that would require companies to count stock options against their profits. Now, Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan, a proponent of mandatory expensing and the Financial Accounting Standards Board…

I contend, and I submit, that the original bill, H.R. 3574, would bar them from that practice. At a recent hearing I held as chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection with…

while we were in our districts late June and early July, celebrating the anniversary of our independence day, we handed over to the citizens of Iraq the gift of their independence, 2 days early no less. Barely on anyone's radar screen…

Mr. Chairman, I have to tell my colleagues that this is a very interesting amendment and perhaps I would use the word ``clever,'' because it is really a back-door attempt to change our energy policy, to really take it away from the…

after 4 years of leadership by President Bush, I believe our Nation is safer, stronger and better. We are fighting and winning a war on terror on many fronts, including Iraq and Afghanistan; Afghanistan is free; Libya is disarmed; and Iraq…

What distinguished President Reagan among American Presidents in the last century? Where many Chief Executives saw gray and moral relativism on the international landscape, he saw good and evil, right and wrong. What relationship should we…

we have heard all about the prescription drug card being available this month for the most disadvantaged, but there has been some discussion about how much this prescription drug benefit costs and whose estimates are the best estimates…

today the United States proved that we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of justice. In Baghdad, Army Specialist Jeremy Sivits pleaded guilty to three charges surrounding his mistreatment of prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison. The judge in the…

30 years ago a Vietnam veteran went to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and he delivered a stinging indictment of our American troops, all of the American troops serving in Vietnam. He stated that murders and other crimes were…