David Weldon

I can speak on this issue from personal experience. I have several people on my staff who are graduates of Catholic schools, including several who went through Catholic elementary school, high school, and college. As well, I can also speak…

stop the raid. Stop the raid on Social Security. That is our simple message, and that is what Republicans are now fighting with Democrats over as we finalize our work on the national budget. Since 1967, Democrats have been using the Social…

Mr. Chairman, I rise to announce to my colleagues that at present, in the basement of the Rayburn Building, we have 45 young children from all over the country who are the victims of terrible tragedies in their homes who have been burned…

I rise tonight to speak out in support for all of those people who are now working to prepare for the probable arrival of Hurricane Floyd. Hurricane Floyd is a Class Four, possibly Class Five, hurricane right now, which represents an…

I simply rise at this point to speak directly to the issue of what we are doing in this veterans budget under the leadership of the subcommittee chairman. We are increasing veterans health care spending by $1.7 billion. That represents an…

the Washington Post editorial page has editorialized yet again against the Republican tax cut proposals. Hardly a week goes by without the Washington Post and other liberal publications warning against the idea of letting Americans keep…

my amendment would shift $445 million from the Department of Housing and Urban Development Capital Fund Account to NASA which is funded at a woefully inadequate level in this bill. Mr. Chairman, my amendment would simply result in bringing…

The actual construction cost on the Space Station is about $24 billion. I agree that is a lot of money, but it is money that has already been spent. We are ready to roll. And for the sake of abbreviating the debate here, we have had this…

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently testified in a way that my colleagues will never ever hear quoted by the other side. In fact, none of the mainstream newspapers appear to see fit to publish this portion of his remarks…

we have heard that we should should not make the perfect the enemy of the good. We have some people, I believe, who would like to make the perfect the enemy of the very, very, very good. We are about to set history here. This body has…

Today Congress takes definitive action on addressing the recommendations in the Cox Report. My amendment addresses the issue that was the catalyst for the establishment of the Select Committee--the transfer of missile technology under the…

Mr. Chairman, the Cox Commission report in recommendation No. 24 recommended that it is in the national security interests of the United States that we expand our domestic launch capacity. My amendment addresses this issue. I would like to…

I understand that the work of this committee is very difficult, that we are operating under very tight budget constraints and priorities have to be set. But it is really the will of the People's House that sets the ultimate priorities…

I rise reluctantly to speak in opposition to sending our the United States Armed Forces into Kosovo. If we look at the U.S. military, it is overwhelmingly apparent that the Clinton administration has placed our military budget and the…

colleagues, it is with great sadness that I rise to speak in support of this resolution. I would like to confine my remarks to the issue of judgment. Several speakers on the minority side have risen today and quoted the scripture ``Judge…

several people on the minority side have risen today and quoted the scripture, ``Judge not, that you not be judged.'' Careful reading of this scripture makes it quite clear that the message is not that we should never judge or exercise…

The challenge before us today is: Can we keep it? Because a republic is a Nation that is guided by the rule of law. Not the whims of a dictator or a majority that can trample on the rights of a minority, but the rule of law. I urge my…

we are all concerned about educating our Nation's children. For 30 years the Federal Government has been creating big Federal programs to try to improve education. It has resulted in lower scores and more bureaucracy. Federal education…

I think taking the Social Security Trust Fund off budget and stopping the process of borrowing the money out each year is part of what I consider honest budgeting. I think my colleague's speaking out in support of reducing the tax burden…

It is an irony today to be in a situation as a Nation the United States is where our former Cold War adversary is essentially becoming an economic basket case, and I do believe that we as a body are going to have to wrestle with this…

I am a practicing physician. And I do not plan on staying in this body. I plan on returning in a few short years to my practice. And I think it is a wonderful thing that we are having this debate today. We both want to do what we can to…

As a physician who still practices medicine, I rise in strong support of this rule. I have worked in managed-care settings and I have worked in fee-for-service settings. The important issue here is can we, in Washington, pass legislation…

The alternative procedures, in my opinion, are just as gruesome and grisly. And I have actually seen some of them. In my opinion, late terminations of pregnancy should be illegal. The bill which the gentleman is talking about I am sure…

I disagree, as do many people in the United States, with the decision of the Supreme Court on this issue.

I rise in support of the veto override. I would like to address an issue that has been brought up repeatedly by the other side that most of these partial birth abortions, or a substantial portion of them, are done for medical necessity…