Joe Scarborough

my point would be if that gentleman came to this floor talking about the need to clean up campaign finance, I would be the first one to come to this floor telling him that he is acting shamelessly, telling him to get off the floor of this…

I, too, want to stand up and echo some comments that were said earlier about how important this military construction budget is, and how important it is that we do first things first and take care of the men and women who have been taking…

Would the bill that they speak of erase the abuses that the New York Times reported today this morning when it said, Democrats Skimmed $2 Million To Aid Candidates?

4 years ago the Democrats in this Congress passed the largest tax hike in U.S. history. They told us that tax relief for middle-class Americans was out of the question. That is why every Republican voted against their budget. Three years…

I do not know what it is, maybe it is the summer heat, maybe it is the 50th anniversary of Roswell, but the Democrats, the liberals, actually the radicals that control this party are crawling out from underneath their rocks and once again…

Yesterday in the New Republic we had this headline talking about persecution of Christians. It is in stark contrast to what we read about and hear about from apologists for China, whether it is in Wall Street, Washington, or in Hollywood…

in the immortal words of Ronald Wilson Reagan, there you go again. We have been hearing claims of class warfare, of how the rich are somehow going to be soaking the poor, but the fact of the matter is that for 40 years Washington, DC has…

this past weekend and over the past 3 or 4 weeks we have been hearing a lot on television about flood relief and the politization of that process, and we have been hearing about how flood victims got caught in the middle of a political…

as I was saying just a minute ago to the gentleman from Mississippi, it is frustrating to hear time and time again about the need for these clean CRs. Now, if we wanted to address just how clean this CR was, and I may ask the gentleman…

my amendment attempts to address some appalling activities of the government of Sudan. As my colleagues may know, Sudan has been certified by the administration as being an active supporter of terrorism since 1993 and is currently known to…

I guess my biggest concern is regarding part B, which talks about financial transactions with terrorists. The Sudan has been considered by most human rights groups as one of the greatest sponsors of terrorism across the globe. And what…

I have had a fairly good environmental rating over the past couple of years, but what happened last week shows us how far environmentalists will go; actually, not even environmentalists, but environmental extremists, how far they will go…

I have grown up believing, being taught by my parents, in the idea of an America built on unwavering values, rock-solid principles that have been built into this culture based on thousands of years of other people's experience, where…

today from this center of freedom in this people's House, I come to raise my voice in support of a lonely voice for freedom halfway across the globe. I speak of Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng. Yesterday, in a New York Times editorial…

I thank the gentleman for talking on this important issue. In just listening to it, it sounds too good to be true. It sounds too easy to be true but actually it is not. You look at the numbers and they actually all add up. With somebody…

I believe that the ethic that the gentleman was talking about and that my colleague, the gentleman from Wisconsin is talking about also begins at home, that we, as Members of Congress, should save this country $500,000 by pushing our own…

The Constitution says that this body, the people's House, as the Speaker says, this body that is closest to the people has the checkbook. And so we have to stop pointing our fingers at the Senate, we have to stop pointing our fingers at…

And if the gentleman will continue to yield, the gentleman talks about children, and I know he has seen and I have seen and others have seen people pile on to the floor over the past 3 years since we came here in 1994 and they talk about…

I know that as a businessman, as a father and as a husband, there have been times when the family, we have put our families around the kitchen table, and I remember my parents did it when I was growing up, we do it at our home, and we look…

I want to speak on an issue that is not only important to me but also I think very important to this Chamber and also very important to the people of America. I could not help but take note of the statements of our previous speaker, the…

I think it is time for us to come together as a country and as a legislative body and reexamine the realities of the judiciary in the late 20th century and recognize that things have moved in a certain direction, a bit away from what our…

The gentleman is correct. It certainly makes for good drama when we talk about a single judge eradicating the popular will of 5 million people. But the same thing could be said about, again, a decision, to be really honest with the…

But still structurally again, there is a question on whether we would want a single judge being able to sign off on that, because by this single judge doing that, he has put himself in the middle of a 3-year budget debate that seriously…

there they go again. There they go again. Now the Washington Post called what they are taking under here, called it medagoguery. Ted Koppel in ``Nightline'' talked about how the Democrats were scaring senior citizens to try to get…

I want to briefly talk on the subject of judicial activism. This was talked about a few minutes ago by the majority whip. I have to say that it personally hits home in what I have been reading lately about the threats of judicial activism…