Nathan Deal

Mr. Chairman, the administration included a land acquisition request for several tracts of land along the Chattahoochee River within the Chattahoochee National Forest in my Ninth Congressional District of Georgia. This particular…

In the 1996 Telecommunications Act, one of the purposes, and the primary purpose, was to deregulate the issue of telecommunications in this country, but we have not deregulated the regulators. I commend the gentlewoman for bringing this…

assistive technology--products designed to maintain or enhance functional capabilities--enables people with disabilities to assume greater control over their lives and contribute more fully to society. Rapid advancements in technology…

But there is one point of view we should all agree with, and that is we are a nation of law. It is our responsibility to make that law. It is our responsibility to forge support for the concept of law. This is a situation, as I view it, in…

I, too, like the speaker who preceded me, am not particularly fond of commissions, but this one is of short duration, 4 months, and will address some very serious issues that we need to be concerned about. We are spending $35 billion in…

I rise in support of H.R. 5. As someone who is involved with education through my wife's teaching in a middle school in my district, I think that I can share with my colleagues the same concern that most administrators and teachers would…

I am afraid so. Mr. Isakson is a businessman and he looks at it from that point of view. He said, if the dollars spent could be concentrated, there would be less disturbance and that more of the money would actually flow into education and…

First of all I want to join with my colleague from Georgia, Mr. Norwood, in his compliments to the gentleman from Michigan, Mr. Hoekstra, for holding the hearing in Georgia. We do regret the gentleman was unable to be there with us, but we…

too often we ignore the caldron of neglect, violence, and moral decay that pervades our society until its poison boils over into our own lives. On January 16, 1996, that occurred in my community of Gainesville, Hall County, GA, when a…

I think it should be abundantly clear as a result of the debate on the previous bill and on this bill here that the enforcement of our immigration laws has a very low priority in the minds of some, and perhaps not the same degree of…

we have heard a lot of terms here the today. One is unfairness. Let me talk about the greatest unfairness there is. That is those citizens and those legal immigrants who are finding their jobs taken away from them, who are finding their…

I think the ultimate mandate of this Congress has been to try to balance the budget. I commend the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations and all of those others who have made Herculean efforts in that regard. We have done so in this…

I would appreciate the committee's support in urging the U.S. Postal Service to consider building a new postal facility that provides safe, accessible, postal services which meet the needs of the Dalton community.

both gentlemen have adequately addressed this issue as to its purposes. I would simply like to elaborate that this is one of the oldest military parks in our country. It is on a major route that has been there for years. Unfortunately…

I would briefly like to say that we should test this legislation by the light of reasonableness. When we do, I would ask the question, is it reasonable for punitive damages to be limited to a quarter of a million dollars or twice the…

Mr. Speaker, there is one abiding fear that all parents share. That is the fear that something tragic will happen to their child. We pass laws to make sure that their childhood toys are safe and that they will not be swallowed and choked…

I think this debate highlights the fact that we have a serious problem in this country in terms of those who come into the country, give birth to children and citizenship being granted upon that birth and, obviously, it will require…

Mr. Chairman, there is a truism that I think applies in life as it does in legislation, that one excuse is just as good as another if we do not want to do anything. We have heard a lot of excuses today. I am afraid that this amendment, as…

I have introduced House Resolution 66, which is a proposition that hopefully accommodates all of those who are interested in this issue. It would set a 12-year outer limit by this constitutional amendment, but would also recognize that…

this amendment is hopefully a noncontroversial one that addresses the issue of expedited judicial review. Since we are proceeding in a statutory form for a line item veto and not a constitutional amendment, it should be obvious that until…

term limits for Members of Congress is an idea whose time has come. We have seen 22 States attempt to limit the membership in this body by statutory law within their States. Those limitations have ranged from 6 years to 12 years, with…

I extend my appreciation also to the Members from across the aisle, including the gentleman from Colorado [Mr. Schaefer], and I thank the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Stenholm], on the Democratic side for his leadership in undertaking this…

I rise in support of a constitutional amendment to balance the budget. The United States of America is the demonstration project of modern civilization whose purpose is to prove that free people can govern themselves without the…