Bob Barr

This simply cleans up the language. It struck a number of us, in trying to analyze the final language on this page of the amendment offered by the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Goodlatte) that the words ``thus erecting barriers to…

Would this language, as proposed, permit a defendant in the recipient State or in the shipping State to delay enforcement of a valid State alcohol law by claiming that the law creates a barrier to competition, that this language creates a…

In other words, just to clarify this point, I appreciate the indulgence of the gentleman from California. If in fact the law prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages to anyone under the age of 21 in the recipient State is based on a…

In other words, if a State, as many States do, have a flat out prohibition on the sale of alcoholic beverages to a person under the age of 21, then the language that the gentleman is proposing here would not prohibit the recipient State…

This Congress needs to take immediate steps to ensure Executive Orders are used for their intended purpose.

This is a clear example of the President abusing the power entrusted to him by the American people.

The United Nations has frequently shown only contempt for biblical values, American sovereignty, and the U.S. Constitution.

Committing the American people to United Nations treaties is an endeavor that should be carefully scrutinized.

These treaties were never given the advice and consent of the Senate.

Recent events in Washington bring to mind nothing so much perhaps as the Bizarro World into which the comic book character Superman sometimes found himself, where everything is the opposite of reality, where ``is'' does not mean ``is,''…

I would like to point out and reiterate to the membership in voting on the Burton amendment the language previously cited by its author, that "the official English language requirements of the Federal Government apply in Puerto Rico to the…

I must, therefore, express some surprise at the amendment that the gentleman from Indiana is offering and would respectfully urge my colleagues to vote against it. There are such things as wolves in sheep's clothing. This is a sheep in…

Any Member who is serious about getting tough in the war against drugs should vote for it. Anybody satisfied with the status quo or desiring to move backwards should vote against it. The GAO, which is a nonpartisan watchdog agency of our…

My problem is, and the reason that I think this amendment is necessary, is that even though the director of ONDCP states on record that he is not in favor of studying legalization of drugs, at the same time through his office they are…

I would cite to the distinguished gentleman from Kentucky the fact that the administration is proposing to spend $1 million of taxpayer funds for the so-called medicinal use study of marijuana.

As the gentleman from Minnesota earlier said, we must stick to the facts. Then he said there were simply no cases where Legal Services Corporation funds continued to be used to evict people for drug-related evictions. The facts of the…

This simply provides that none of the funds appropriated by this act shall be used for any study of the medicinal uses of marijuana. As I stated previously, and I would respectfully direct the attention of my colleagues on both sides of…

Really the only thing that this amendment provides over and above the existing language of the legislation is somewhat greater accountability and specificity in the plan that would be set forward, and to make sure that it is specifically…

I probably would have said they were crazy. This is America. This is America. This is the land that has as its most basic building block the family unit, a marriage between a man and a woman. But here we are, and it is indeed an issue. It…

Some police officers, some police chiefs endorse the gun ban. Some do not. ... These officers know that a responsible citizenry with the capability to defend itself against well-armed criminals and thugs who will always, I repeat, always…

The devil is the person with a gun in his hand who murders anybody in this country. That is the devil. That is the person to which this legislation today is aimed. It is the devil in Scotland who murdered 16 children and their teacher in a…

This is hardly a sneak attack. This is an issue, Mr. Speaker, that the American people know. This is an issue, Mr. Speaker, that every Member of this body, every one of the 435 Members of this body, every one of the 100 members of the…