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I find this to be a bit humorous and ironic considering the President is now asking for $18 billion more than what we have budgeted. I suppose it is acceptable to raid the Social Security trust fund of $18 billion if we want to waste it on…
On the cover of the New York Times earlier this summer was the headline, A Boy's School Project Aims to Revise History. It told the story of Hunter Scott, a middle schooler who is trying to change history as it was written 50 years ago. In…
This religious persecution act is an important first step toward protecting the freedom of all to worship as they choose. For too long, America has turned its eyes away from those who are suffering religious persecution across the globe…
in listening to those who have discussed the matters before Congress regarding the President, I agree these are very pressing constitutional issues before us. Regrettably, the Presidential crisis has magnified the extremes in our political…
I come to the floor of our Congress today to continue the discussion in our Record on America's responsibility for the rights of all people across the world. On this day and in this year, such a discussion seems appropriate. Today we mark…
despite all the heated rhetoric today, there are some stubborn facts that cannot be denied. First of all, Dollars to the Classroom requires that 95 percent of the funds go into the classrooms where my two boys attend public school in…
President Clinton signed Executive Order 13083 on May 14, while out of the country, and we believe it is a serious affront to the Federalist framework established in the United States Constitution. It could potentially lead to the abuse of…
I love these debates just because of the things that we hear. I heard earlier the human rights conditions in Arkansas being compared to the human rights conditions in China. Just 5 minutes ago we heard it. How desperate can you be to pass…
Unfortunately, today I am concerned, as are a lot of other Republicans and Democrats, about what this administration is doing halfway across the globe in Communist China. The gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi) who has worked on human…
this past weekend, human rights activist and former political prisoner, Harry Wu, was interviewed on ``This Week.'' When asked about America's relations with China, and specifically asked about President Clinton's assertion that one must…
earlier this week we had a rally on the Capitol talking about freedom in Tibet, and there were a lot of people talking about the need to pray for the people in Tibet. I believe, though, that we need to worry about the people of America and…
If there is, it is because there was a backroom deal between Vice President Gore and a bureaucrat for the FCC. Mr. Speaker, there should not be confusion, but there may be because of the tax increase on the phone bill of all Americans…
What is outrageous is that you will have a multimillion dollar artist that is in the middle of a contract and decides, as I have read in one case, does not want to make $15 million in the next album, but they want to make $30 million on…
Last night, again I met one of the gentleman's constituents, Shawn Colvin. Now, Shawn Colvin just won a Grammy, and everybody thinks she is at the top of the world because she won the Grammy. I saw her last night, she was in a dressing…
I do not think it is they. I think it is a very small number of people in Washington, D.C. Because again, people that own the restaurants in my district understand. I have talked to them about this. I would not come on the floor without…
Again, reclaiming my time, it certainly does, and I remember hearing Sonny Bono talk about this, hearing him over and over again. He wrote us Dear Colleague letters, he talked about it nonstop. Everybody has this image of Sonny Bono as…
I am a friend of small restaurant owners, I am a friend of small businesses. My voting record over 3 or 4 years has shown that. In fact, I think the gentleman has called me a right-wing extremist because of a lot of my votes on less taxes…
the gentleman from Missouri said something needs to be done, he said that the property rights need to be protected, he said that they need to do something, and yet he was talking about endorsing an amendment that is a black-and-white, an…
I am not afraid of an arbitration process, and I like the McCollum idea that we are actually taking it out of New York and moving it across the country. What I fear is that the gentleman is setting up an arbitration system that has…
But these servers will also be able to provide the restaurant owners in the future services that will allow them just to pipe in music by BMI or just to pipe in music by ASCAP. And that technology is available today and certainly will be…
again reclaiming my time, she was in a dressing room smaller than the bathroom of many Members in the Rayburn Building, and I will guarantee, she will not make as much money as a song writer as any Member in this Chamber today. I wrote…
This is an issue that was very important to Sonny Bono, and in fact is one of the issues that he talked about the most when he was here on Capitol Hill, because Sonny understood, he had been struggling his whole life to create songs, to…
there is a misperception with what the gentleman said, and knowing the gentleman, I know that he did not intend to make this mistaken statement, but he is talking about, it is going to be a new back-door tax increase, it is going to be a…
I ask my conservative brethren that came here in 1994 fighting for property rights, if they were to fight for Bill Gates' right to make sure that he protects what is his to protect, then we do the same thing for the small, struggling…
I hear all these arguments, but they are arguments on policy, they are not arguments on Constitution; they are not arguments on law, they are not arguments on the procedure that James Madison and our Founding Fathers gave to us over 220…
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