Harry Johnston

there is an old saying: ``If it ain't broke, don't fix it.'' There is a new saying here today: ``If it ain't broke, break it.'' There is really no rational reason for this bill. In Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties in Florida, there…

I know that I am chasing windmills when it comes to this particular bill because it has a degree of unanimity in this body, the State Department and the President. But, probably for cathartic reasons, I must oppose the bill. For the past…

Mr. Speaker, I really have to say that we should be embarrassed today to consider this legislation. Of all the pressing needs facing our country, the leadership has chosen to focus on this, the so-called Defense of Marriage Act. Defending…

I guess the politics of Bill Emerson and myself were 180 degrees apart. We were diagonally opposite. He is a conservative, I am a liberal. He was for a constitutional amendment against flag burning, I was against that. He was for English…

the gentleman's bill has not eliminated what is in progress right now; but has eliminated any future allocations to the housing project.

I address this bill on two levels: No. 1, my interest in Africa; and, No. 2, just general foreign policy. First, the bill cuts back the development funds for Africa. There is $800 million for 600 million people, and now that is gone. Next…

I was inquiring and investigating the process of the committee itself, and not into the specific inquiry of the Speaker. I think if the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Ehlers] listened closely, the gentleman would see the distinction of his…

in an article in the Hartford Current dated September 27 of this year, the chair of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct reflected on the committee's inquiry into the complaint against Speaker Newt Gingrich. I quote, ``The letter…

this is a friendly observation, and I thank the gentleman for yielding to me. In the previous amendment on Ethiopia, I made a commitment to the gentlewoman from Texas [Ms. Jackson-Lee] that I hoped to be in Ethiopia and in Kenya in 3 weeks…

I have probably been the most severe critic of Ethiopia and, on the next one, Kenya, under human rights. Last year I visited both countries, spoke to President Moi at length of Kenya, spoke to President Meles at length in Ethiopia. Also, I…

until 2 weeks ago, in almost 20 years of public service, I had never filed a complaint against a colleague, even though I twice served on committees charged with investigating colleagues for ethical violations in the Florida State Senate…

I come before you mainly on the proposition of peacekeeping. I have been intimately involved in Africa the last 2 years. If this bill is passed, you would not have any such thing as Rwanda, where we went in under the U.N. umbrella…

In 1995, 46,000 women will die from breast cancer, and another 182,000 will be diagnosed with this disease. The incidence of breast cancer has increased by 2 percent every year since 1980. Today I am introducing legislation to help reverse…

Mr. Speaker, on this floor, the spoken word is just as indelible as the written word. A Member may defame anyone he chooses--the President of the United States, the Speaker of the House, the minority leader--with total impunity. The…

I appear here in somewhat of an ambivalent position because I feel the embargo should be lifted but I do not think it should be lifted unilaterally, and I have expressed my opinions in the past to the gentleman from Indiana [Mr…

It is not my intention in offering the amendment to imply any war power authorization for United States military force to act in Bosnia. This subsection of the amendment would only have the Congress advise the President that he should…

I rise in strong opposition to the Burton amendment here. As a major superpower, the United States should be in the forefront of support of democracy for this thriving free market economy in South Africa. The present South Africa…

I am concerned that the definition of environmental technology might be interpreted too broadly, specifically, that the definition might be used to encompass technologies developed by the Department of Energy. What is the Senator's…

I have several concerns with the bill as reported. H.R. 3870 would establish the definition of environmental technology so broadly that energy technologies such as those involving nuclear power, fusion, solar, or energy efficiency could be…

S. 21 is one of the most significant pieces of environmental legislation that will be considered by the 103d Congress. The California Desert contains some of America's most spectacular, diverse, unique, and fragile landscapes which deserve…

I rise in strong opposition to the Penny-Kasich amendment. This amendment would unfairly and drastically cut U.S. development assistance to Africa, the poorest continent on Earth. U.S. aid to Africa is already disproportionately low…

I rise in strong opposition to the Penny-Kasich amendment. This amendment would unfairly and drastically cut U.S. development assistance to Africa, the poorest continent on Earth. U.S. aid to Africa is already disproportionately low…