Maxwell Frost

I would point out to the distinguished majority leader that it will be very difficult for Members of Congress to leave town unless we have acted on that legislation. They will not feel good about going home and seeing their constituents…

Mr. Speaker, we will hear a lot of rhetoric today; but the issue before this House is a very simple one: Do you support the current system in which low-bid private security companies are responsible for airline safety? If so, then vote for…

Mr. Speaker, it is with a sense of deep disappointment that I rise today, not because it is difficult to oppose this rule and this bill. Republican leaders have presented the House with a bill that is so partisan, so unfair to laid-off…

Mr. Speaker, here we have before us a bill that will cost the taxpayers of America more than $20 billion. There will be 1 hour of debate. No amendments will be allowed. Even if this bill passes, 100,000 people in jobs directly related to…

Last night, Mr. Speaker, we were all impressed by the President's resolve. Today, this Congress continues the work of helping America recover and rebuild from last week's cowardly, barbaric attack. On September 11, terrorists murdered…

as many people have indicated, this is not a perfect bill, but we have very little choice. We need to move forward tonight. We must pass this legislation. I urge adoption of the rule and adoption of the bill, and I yield back the balance…

I will be very brief this morning, because a lot of people have already spoken very eloquently about the barbaric attack of September 11th--about how it has changed America and the world, and about the war against terror it has started…

today we debate the gravest and most important matter that ever comes before the Congress, the use of military force. Mr. Speaker, the cowardly, barbaric attack of September 11 was an assault on America, on humanity and on the civilized…

Mr. Speaker, yesterday was an horrific day. On September 11, 2001, international outlaws committed a cowardly, barbaric assault against the United States of America, against innocent civilians, and against the brave, honorable men and…

let me start with the rule today. In a continuing effort to block Democrats from imposing fiscal responsibility on the House, Republican leaders have prevented us from paying for this bill. That fiscal irresponsibility is why Republicans…

There are 51 billion reasons to be against this rule. That is how much the Treasury has announced it is borrowing to finance the tax rebate passed by Congress and signed into law by the President. The President and this Congress are now…

This is a very peculiar result. The Republican leadership has crafted such an unfair and unusual rule that it may have the exact opposite effect of what the Republican leadership intended. They are trying to defeat Shays-Meehan, but they…

Mr. Speaker, today we have a historic opportunity to enact meaningful campaign finance reform. The Senate completed its work and passed a bill. The bipartisan Shays-Meehan measure has been twice passed by this House in previous Congresses…

I am pleased that the bill will provide $70 million to the North Central Light Rail Transit Extension. A bipartisan group of North Texas members worked very hard to get this funding that will more than double DART's light rail coverage and…

Mr. Speaker, perhaps the previous speaker was confused. Perhaps he did not realize that this supplemental bill has money in it for this fiscal year. We are talking about the fiscal year that is currently in process, fiscal year 2001, and…

Joe Moakley was a great Member of this body, and I rise in support of this resolution with a heavy heart. Joe's passing has left a very large hole in the fabric of this institution, a hole that will be difficult to mend. Joe Moakley and I…

Mr. Speaker, I really wish that I had three little shells to put up here on my podium with a pea under one of the shells, because that is what you need to follow this tax bill. They have done something extraordinarily ridiculous just for…

Today, Mr. Speaker, the budgets of the President and the Republican Congress are perpetuating a fraud on the American people, one that threatens the economy and Medicare and Social Security, and one that sacrifices priorities like…

20 years ago, this House and the Congress rushed headlong into the promised land of supply-side economics. This institution bought this medicine-show magic of cutting taxes along with rosy economic forecasts that within a year left us…

Mr. Speaker, Democrats have no objection to this rule, which will allow the consideration of three bills under suspension today. Those bills include a concurrent resolution honoring the 21 members of the Virginia National Guard who were…

Mr. Speaker, I have long been a supporter of bankruptcy reform, and I support the bill before us today. I am, however, concerned that the Committee on Rules majority has started the year by denying Democratic Members the opportunity to…

as President Bush said last night, ``We will be judged not by what we say or how we say it, but by what we are able to accomplish.'' But despite the President's best assumptions and intentions, here is what his tax plan would actually…

I rise today in honor of my friend and colleague, the late Henry B. Gonzalez. I remember the day in January of 1979 that, as a new freshman Congressman from Dallas, I walked across the floor of the House and first introduced myself to…

last Thursday a terrible and cowardly act of terrorism was made against America and our armed forces. The U.S.S. Cole, which had entered the Yemeni port of Aden, was blindsided by a small boat in a group helping to moor the ship for…

I support passage of bankruptcy reform, and so, in order for it to pass before the adjournment of the 106th Congress, I will vote for this rule and for the conference report. But the reason the Republican leadership has been forced to…