Sam Gibbons

I note that the legislation states that Romania, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania should be invited to become full members of NATO at the earliest possible date upon complete satisfaction of all relevant criteria. The legislation also…

Why then does the legislation postpone for 180 days the effective date of the designation of these countries under the NATO Participation Act?

In January of this year northern Nevada was ravaged by torrential rainstorms and devastating floods. In response to this and other natural disasters, the House and Senate passed legislation providing vital disaster recovery aid, including…

I want to pay tribute to the lady who sits to my immediate right here, Mary Jane Wignot. She has been an effective, wonderful, intelligent staff member for the Subcommittee on Trade on the Committee on Ways and Means for many decades. She…

I gave the gentleman an opportunity to put it in the trust fund, and he said no.

Mr. Speaker, this bill needs to be adopted. I am not opposed to it. It is equivalent of a $62 billion debt increase for a period of only 2 weeks. Unfortunately, 28 percent of all the debt, Mr. Speaker, that we are talking about here is…

I would like to commend all the people in Bulgaria for what they have done. I do not think it is widely known here in the Congress or widely known throughout the world, but Bulgaria has modernized its revenue collection system, and has…

It is way past time we got rid of the sugar program. I am not going to make villains out of them. They are fine people. They are wonderful farmers, and they are very efficient farmers. But their complaints that they will be overridden by…

Keith Jewell has lived up to his name. He is really a jewel. I watched his entire career here in the House of Representatives and he has always done his job to perfection. I have never seen him without a smile and a willingness to be…

But you insult me, you insult this Congress, you insult the American Government when you compare this Government to the Government of Russia. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

When I came to Congress, the Eisenhower administration had just left here. And the tax rate at the top was 94 percent. And all through the tax rate was much higher than it is today. We Democrats, who have controlled the Congress ever since…

Mr. Chairman, if this is so profamily and prochildren, why in the world did the Republicans introduce two bills that give it to all the children, but then finally in this bill they brought to the floor start cutting children in families of…

Mr. Speaker, this is a lousy bill. It is the wrong time to be reducing taxes. We ought to be reducing the deficit now. We should not be cutting taxes the way we are doing it. It is reckless, it is irresponsible, it is bad policy for the…

We should vote against the previous question, we should vote against the rule and if it passes, we should vote against this bill. It is the wrong time to be cutting taxes. We ought to be cutting the deficit. It is the wrong time, it is the…

Mr. Speaker, it is obvious that many of the proponents of this proposal have not even read it, for if they had, they would discover to their chagrin that it only limits the Congress in enacting income tax rate increases, not tax increases…

I want to say, as I said there, that there are a couple of lessons that we ought to draw out of our experiences in Normandy, and the first lesson is that America must remain involved as a world leader. Being involved is not pleasant. We…