Lincoln Diaz-Balart

I appreciate the recognition. Mr. Speaker, on March 28, former President Jimmy Carter arrived on a trip to Cuba at the invitation of the Cuban dictatorship. He arrived there, and originally in his agenda that was made public he had no…

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Speaker, there are a couple of things that are really not debatable. I think the American people understand, and I think everybody understands, that we are on an unsustainable path. We're on an…

Again I will continue to work on this issue. Obviously the issue of freedom is something that I think is cherished by this House. There is a history of supporting freedom, and I know we will continue to support freedom. But we will have…

Just very briefly, look. Come on. Let's get real. Mr. Chairman, everybody supports protecting the environment. Every American supports protecting the environment. We also support protecting the jobs of the people who live within that…

Because there's only one kind of this totalitarian dictatorship in this hemisphere.

But that double talk is really shocking to me. And we have heard it now, frankly, more than I really expected. I do not know if that is something that the gentlewoman has gotten back home as well, as to how extreme the double talk and…

House Resolution 600 is a closed rule allowing for the immediate consideration of the Homeland Security Act of 2002. The rule provides for 1 hour of debate, equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the…

Mr. Speaker, we can engage in no more important task than this, debating whether to authorize the use of the Armed Forces of the United States. This task is difficult, but the issue before us is fundamentally clear. After it was expelled…

House Resolution 552 is a standard rule waiving all points of order against the conference report to accompany H.R. 2215, the 21st Century Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act and against its consideration. It has been…

I rise today to object to some language that is in this conference report having to do with assistance to Lebanon. There was an attempt early on with an amendment to eliminate most of the money for Lebanon, and I guess wiser heads…

today we remember. The pain has not subsided. The memories of those lost will not be forgotten. Today we honor their lives and their sacrifice. The terrorists have failed. Blinded by their hatred, the true result of the attacks on…

We have a policy goal, and it is a policy that has been set not only by the President but by the Congress and codified into law and clearly espoused by President Bush in repeated statements: A free Cuba, achieved through a democratic…

Mr. Chairman, by hearing the other side on this issue, we would seem to believe that they were talking with Costa Rica or Panama or some other country where there is a functioning democracy where there is no state sponsorship of terrorism…

What is new is that some hijackers smashed into the World Trade Center killing thousands of people and killed some heroes also in the Pentagon. What is new is that the administration has made public for the first time something that the…

House Resolution 473 is an open rule providing for the consideration of H.R. 2486, the Inland Flood Forecasting and Warning System Act of 2002. The underlying legislation will help to improve the capability to forecast accurately inland…

as one reads history, many times it seems as though the figures that one encounters are larger than life. It is uncommon to be absolutely certain that, during one's life, one has met someone who is like the greatest of the characters that…

House Resolution 446 is an open rule providing for the consideration of H.R. 3389, the National Sea Grant College Program Act Amendments of 2002. This obviously is a very fair rule, Mr. Speaker, that will allow Members all possible…

I am a bit perplexed when I hear the argument that there is no democracy in this Chamber, and hour after hour after hour after hour, we have been hearing debate on multiple issues, and the argument has also brought out that on this issue…

When we stand with our friends, and when we reiterate our solidarity and our friendship with a nation that is our friend and that is under attack, the message that we are sending is that precisely we stand with our friends in good times…

America has forces deployed all around the world as we root out the international terrorist networks. We have served notice to every Nation that there is no middle ground in the struggle to vindicate freedom. President Bush divided the…

Mr. Speaker, I do not know what the family feud is about, but I do know that the shameful attitude is one of standing with the dictatorship; and it is normal and I think to be expected that people, once they are free, do not want to do…

with regard to a couple of points made by the colleague who just spoke, he said that he has heard, and he is on the Committee on Armed Services, of no threats by the Cuban regime. Obviously he has not heard the debate that has gone on for…

Twenty-seven States require parental notification, recognizing the need for parental involvement when daughters face the confusing and sometimes frightening reality of an unexpected pregnancy. Strangers should not be allowed to deprive…

I have been an admirer for many years of the Jewish people. My family had to leave the country that I was born in, Cuba, where I am in the fourth generation of, in this instance, Cuban American, fourth generation in our family of public…

I can think of few crimes, Mr. Speaker, as serious as the sexual abuse of children. I personally favor the death penalty for the criminals that we are dealing with in this legislation. Though this legislation does not go that far, it does…