Maxwell Frost

Mr. Speaker, it is a foregone conclusion that the House will vote today to create a new Select Committee to investigate the allegations that a U.S. company transferred sensitive technology to the People's Republic of China that could…

Was he concerned at the time that he voted for the legislation about the amount of pages that were being added to the code?

I would ask the gentleman why he participated in all those tax shelters. Was this on the advice of counsel? Was this on the advice of his agent? He is a grown man and could make those kind of decisions of course in terms of how he…

I just asked my distinguished colleague who apparently received a considerable tax advantage in his contract negotiations during his professional career, which he certainly was entitled to do, whether he is prepared when we have the…

Is the gentleman prepared to forgo the tax advantages that he negotiated as a part of his contract when he was a professional athlete if we wind up having no code? If we are sunsetted and we have no code, then he would lose all the…

Mr. Speaker, my staff contacted the committee. They were told two copies were available in the anteroom. Beyond that, we know that the process is preloaded. I have just reviewed the list of amendments that are being allowed. There is not…

This is a terrible rule. This is a terrible bill. This is a closed rule. We have been denied the opportunity for the one representative from the District of Columbia to even be heard on this matter, to offer an amendment. I urge this rule…

Clearly that is the case. They are just not getting anything out of this, unless they happen to be wealthy. This does not help lower income and middle-class families. The gentleman is correct, it is after-tax dollars. It just does not…

I am opposed to using tax money to send kids to private schools in Washington, DC; that is correct. I am only asking that when Members on the other side argue in favor of this bill they should not pretend that this bill helps lower income…

The facts are that poor and middle-class families get almost nothing under this plan. It only goes to upper middle-class families. A family earning up to $17,000 a year gets $1 in tax savings under this bill; a family earning between…

The point that I was trying to make is that this is a subsidy for upper-income suburbanites. This does not help anybody in the inner city send their kids anyplace. This is a sham piece of legislation, but I thank the gentleman for making…

I am not affiliated with the DNC. I am chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Also, I would point out to my friend on the other side that there has been one conviction of a sitting Member of Congress during this…

Mr. Speaker, the last speaker has made a bunch of interesting comments. I would point out to him that the only Member of the House of Representatives who has pled guilty to campaign violations during this session of Congress was a Member…

The adoption of the Solomon amendment to the rule later in this hour is critical. I intend to support that. If the Solomon amendment fails, this rule is in jeopardy and the rule may not pass. So I will support the Solomon amendment and…

This is the most arrogant political act since the Saturday Night Massacre, when Richard Nixon fired Archibald Cox 24 years ago. We, as a bipartisan group, had agreed upon ways to reform the ethics task force with all the Republicans except…

I would point out, again, as the gentleman knows, that the Members on my side of the aisle moved in the Committee on Rules last night that the Minge amendment be made in order and that that was rejected on a straight party line vote. It…

I would only caution my friend, the chairman on the other side, about certain remarks. I would remind him that the Speaker of the House, Mr. Gingrich, did not serve in the military. The majority leader of the House, Mr. Armey, did not…

Every single rule the House has adopted this session has been a restrictive rule; you heard that correctly, the Republican House has so far adopted 100 percent restrictive rules in this session. And if it is adopted, the rule before us…

Again, I urge that we defeat the previous question. This is a very serious matter. It is the other side of the aisle that will not bring a debt ceiling vote to the floor this week. They bring only this little piece of it. It is an…

I am pro-choice. However, I agree with the gentleman. This is a pro-choice bill. The gentleman has correctly analyzed the legislation.

I would only ask the gentleman, Mr. Cox, our meetings are publicly noticed. Members know when the Rules Committee is going to meet, particularly when we're going to vote to actually take final action on a rule, and other Members have not…

Mr. Speaker, I would ask the gentleman who just spoke, the gentleman from California [Mr. Cox] a question: Mr. Cox, why did you have to change the language between the time we considered the amendment yesterday afternoon in the Rules…

However, he has engaged in this just extraordinary double negative. That was, it was bad in the last session, and so that justifies doing bad things in this session. This is not what his party ran on in November. His party ran on open…