JOHN LINDER

House Resolution 263 waives all points of order against the conference report and against its consideration. The rule also provides that the conference report shall be considered as read. In brief, the transportation appropriations bill…

I am entertained by the crocodile tears that I hear about the length of time not to read the bill when everybody knows they would not have read it anyway. I believe it was in 1984 when Speaker Wright brought a $1.3 trillion budget to the…

this is fun. We have just agreed to the largest new budget proposal in generations, a balanced budget, tax cuts for everyone in America, and they want to change the subject to campaign finance reform. The fact of the matter is both sides…

This whole discussion has sort of an Alice in Wonderland quality about it. We are talking as though hard working American citizens are being denied basic rights of employment. These are welfare recipients. These are people who have been on…

The liberals have always trotted out liberal so-called nonpartisan organizations to argue against letting people keep more of what they earn, and we are seeing it now. How do these people get wealthy? Let me tell my colleagues how the…

The people watching this on C-SPAN must be thoroughly confused by now, because according to the comments from the other side, virtually everybody in America is wealthy. They have been quoting all day Citizens for Tax Justice, a so-called…

I rise today to denounce in the strongest possible terms the ghastly policy of the Palestinian Authority, which imposes the death penalty on Palestinians who would sell their land to a Jew. Clearly, this abhorrent practice is contrary to…

I think it is fascinating to watch the hue and cry for campaign finance reform from the Democrats when they controlled the House, the Senate, and the White House 4 years ago and chose not to bring it up. The fact of the matter is we have…

as a Georgian, I am proud to cosponsor this bill to rename the Southern Piedmont Conservation Research Center in Watkinsville, GA as the J. Phil Campbell, Senior Natural Resource Conservation Center. For those who may not be familiar with…

it is always humorous to listen to the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Klink] stand here and complain about this Congress. The gentleman said that the Accountability Act was one that he introduced in the 103d Congress. That was a Democrat…

The gentleman in the well is making characterizations of allegations that are nowhere in any reports that anyone knows of. He is characterizing the Speaker and he is out of order.

one more time today we have seen a pathetic display from the Democrats, who for the last 2 weeks have been demanding that a report, that now we know did not exist at the time, be published. The report was published yesterday, and we now…

at what point does the Chair decide that these scurrilous attacks on personalities and this abuse of the House rules becomes so out of order that people are asked to take their seat?

over the course of the last 10 days or so, when the minority party has tried to bring to the floor of this House a discussion of matters before the Committee on Ethics, the Chair has consistently ruled that not only referring to the…

Whereas, a complaint filed against Representative Gephardt alleges House Rules have been violated by Representative Gephardt's concealment of profits gained through a complex series of real estate tax exchanges and; Whereas, the complaint…

pursuant to notice given earlier this day, under rule IX, I offer a resolution (H. Res. 524) raising a question of the privileges of the House, and I ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res…

I think it is vital that we establish as a Congress our commitment to publish that report, and to release those documents, so the country can judge whether or not the man second in line to be President of the United States of America, the…

Mr. Speaker, in closing let me just say this is a modest attempt to do what the people of this country have wanted for some time in overwhelming numbers, to establish English as the first and official language of this country. For over 200…

Mr. Chairman, this is a fascinating debate, because a week or two ago nobody offered an amendment in committee, nobody showed any opposition to this bill. The President has said he supports this bill. All of a sudden, then, the labor…

I am pleased that the Atlanta community and Atlanta Jewish Federation is seeing fit to make a memorial to this occasion at this Olympics at this time. But how many memorials must there be? How many more opportunities to shed tears over the…

We in Georgia are celebrating the 100th Olympiad, the centennial games, and there is great joy and great excitement in Atlanta for all the 11,000 athletes participating there. But for all the winners, we need to look back at the Munich…

is it appropriate to deal specifically with Members of the other body by name in making or casting aspersions on the motives?

it is interesting that the people who are complaining about cuts to Medicare are offering no program to save it. The President's own trustees on the Medicare trust fund said it will go bankrupt a year ago by the year 2002, and I will say…

the last 20 minutes discussion on Medicare is only a symbol of what has been wrong in this town for 30 years. This body and the other has been voting benefits to America's citizens and said do not worry, you are not going to have to pay…

I did not know Mike Boorda personally, but I knew of him and followed a career that was meteoric. Our Nation is going to suffer a great and tragic loss. Our side, as well as yours, is going to miss this great man.