Bob Barr

Matthew Shepard a 21-year-old student in Wyoming is dead, brutally murdered by those who for one reason or another did not like him. The perpetrators need to be punished swiftly, thoroughly and appropriately, namely, the death penalty…

As a lifelong Democrat and chief counsel of the House Judiciary Committee at the time of the Nixon impeachment inquiry, I believe I have a personal responsibility to speak out about the current impeachment crisis. And I believe my fellow…

on November 5, 1997, I introduced a resolution calling for an inquiry into the impeachment of President Clinton. Yesterday the House Judiciary Committee, 11 months to the day thereafter, voted to begin that inquiry, having before it at…

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 rise today in support H.R. 3892, the English Language Fluency Act. Every child in the United States deserves a change to learn the English language so they may take advantage of the extraordinary opportunities this nation has to offer…

Mr. Chairman, it always strikes me as rather odd that people take hours and hours and hours debating amendments, and then, when one comes along that they disagree with, oh, they are so concerned about the Members having to be here. Well…

I knew that we were once again hearing those who believe that we can attack and cure the drug problem by fostering the drug problem; that we can solve one problem by giving people the means to kill themselves with mind-altering drugs. The…

as with most pieces of legislation, it is as important to raise what a proposal does not do as it is what it does do, and I urge all of my colleagues to listen very carefully to these final minutes of debate. This is a very emotional issue…

this language simply directs that none of the funds appropriated by this act shall be used to implement certain rules proposed by the Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, on June 17, 1998, in the…

today I ask my colleagues to send a clear message to the White House that our venerable Constitution is alive and well, if not at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, at least here in the People's House. Especially, that the principles of the Tenth…

last Friday, shots rang out in the Halls of this Capitol, and today we come together to remember two officers and the tragedy that has befallen all of us. Even in the midst of tragedy, we must reflect on the fact that these two men were…

when you connect the dots of several recent Clinton administration actions, a frightening picture clearly emerges. Over the past few months, the administration has issued several executive orders and proposed agency rules which will…

very infrequently I come across an article written by a person that rises so far above and beyond the normal, mundane literature we read daily in newspapers and see and hear visually and verbally on television that it bears special…

I rise today to honor Jake and Josh Ryker, Adam Walburger, and Doug and David Ure for their courage and bravery. On May 21, 1998 these students witnessed a fellow classmate walk into the Thurston High School cafeteria in Springfield…

recently Dr. Gloria M. Shatto retired as president of Berry College. Dr. Shatto was inaugurated as Berry's sixth president in 1980 and thereby became the first woman to become a president of a college or university in the State of Georgia…

in 1897, William Pickens Harbin, M.D., later known as Dr. Will, accepted his brother's offer to join his surgical practice in Rome, Georgia. Shortly after arriving in Rome in 1898 and borrowing money from his brother to begin his medical…

in my home State of Georgia, a record number of high school juniors, over 17,000, failed this year to pass a basic skills test as a prerequisite for graduation. This week the House of Representatives took steps to respond to this problem…

in just 5 short months, we will have an opportunity to witness real progress being made in our effort to keep guns out of the hands of criminals when the National Instant Check System, the so-called instant background check, goes into…

India conducts nuclear tests; Pakistan then conducts nuclear tests; China we know transfers nuclear technology to Pakistan, to Iran, and possibly other nations. Now it turns out that the United States gave missile technology to China. That…

What exactly is it that you fear? What is it in this amendment that makes you so fearful of having the American public debate and decide this issue, that causes you to deny even the American people the right to debate and vote on this…

Unfortunately, Mr. Speaker, by action of the Democrats unanimously today in the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, we were not even afforded the opportunity to trip over the truth. The Democrats have erected yet another…

We have, in recent years, as we know and, Mr. Speaker, as you know, become a Nation deeply concerned with the messages that we, as adults, send to our children. We yearn for the athlete whose poster hangs above our child's bed to be as…

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…

we have heard a lot of proponents of H.R. 856 argue that this bill is necessary in order to offer the people of Puerto Rico the opportunity to determine their own political destiny. This is not right. This is not correct. No one disputes…

I think this is a unique situation. The gentleman is certainly correct in his implication that this has not been required before, but I do not think that is necessarily a reason why, in this particular case, given the language difficulties…