Cliff Stearns

The gentleman from New York would agree that we are not amending the first amendment or otherwise limiting in any way the guarantees under the Bill of Rights. Is that not true what we are doing?

I think I would ask my colleague why he is against 200 years in this country, when we protected our flag, why is he standing on the floor today not respecting the tradition of this country for 200 years and realizing that all 50 States…

I wish to reclaim my time, because the gentleman from California (Mr. Lantos) is very eloquent, and I would like to continue to have a little less say on my amendment. If he is accepting my amendment, I would sure appreciate his support…

Let me just complete my presentation, then. I will be glad to withdraw it as long as I get the confirmation that there will be a GAO study before these moneys are issued.

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…

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…

I think the point of my amendment is not to discredit any one government agency but just to set priorities here and say that the amount of research increase in dollars in the VA is very small. And so I am just in a very small way asking my…

If the Democrats' plan is for $1 trillion and our is for $400 billion, we cannot say they offered a plan that met the budget requirements. I would like to ask the Democrats tonight: Do you have a plan that is under $400 billion like the…

I am here to congratulate General Tommy Franks, Chief of Military Operations, and our brave military forces. Of course, I also congratulate Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, General Myers, and of course, President Bush and the administration…

I have to be honest. I think what she is saying is praiseworthy, but the amendment is not necessary because we already have in the bill the language that is needed. We have used the words ``negligent entrustment,'' and this is a legal…

I want to quote this morning from an article by Mona Charen, ``War and Psychology,'' in which she says: `` `War never solves anything.' So say dozens of callers to C-SPAN all day long and left-leaning radio programs.'' ``The answer to this…

I am urging my colleagues to support a bill that I introduced to eliminate impediments that restrict the ability of certain wireless telecommunication providers to, I think, meet the urgent need of the consumers. The bill has bipartisan…

But the gentleman would agree that advertising to minors to allow them to go across State lines for an abortion is wrong?

We need to expedite and to take the bills that were in the House and get them passed by the other body. The American people want action by its elected officials here in Congress.

Maybe a forbearance or some type of policy, as you point out, where they are strategically located, and to give us an Air Force Base at that particular site, at Incirlik, and to allow us to have this full freedom with our Air Force is…

Could the gentleman give me an example where in his mind the authors of this substitute give a specific example where the first amendment would be in conflict with physical desecration of the flag?

Mr. Chairman, I conclude by just saying this is not about cutting the NEA. This is continuing the level of funding and moving the money that we increased to energy conservation, a priority between energy conservation and increasing the NEA.

Obviously, years from now little will be remembered about this debate this morning. But in many ways, as my colleagues know, Mr. Speaker, there is a time and a moment when there is a sense of goodwill and a feeling in the House when we are…

Just one final comment. I do not know how soon the gentleman will be 65, but under the Gore plan, at age 64½, if the gentleman does not want to join at that time, or changes his mind later, he is out of luck because he has got to make his…

Remember back in 1992 when President Clinton was criticizing then President Bush for his travels around the world? And remember in the Democrat Convention they had T-shirts that said, ``George Bush's around-the-world tour''? Well, it has…

Mr. Speaker, I rise obviously in support of H.R. 4680, the Medicare Prescription Act of 2000. Our plan is market based, this is the key, rather than relying upon a government-run program, like many of the Democrats have proposed time and…

I urge the gentleman not to dismantle a system that is working for the veterans in this country. I also note that the VA maintains a reserve fund to handle the kind of problems that the gentleman has raised... For those areas of the…

Mr. Chairman, my amendment takes a very small step in reducing questionable spending and shifts it to a much more needed important area. I believe our money would be better spent protecting Americans than being used to promote art that is…

Dr. Harold Varmus was the former NIH director, and he sort of confirmed what my amendment intends. He recommended steps to make the agency more welcoming to the public and available and transparent, including what he called a Council of…