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I think we ought to, as we go back into our district and talk to middle school students, and explain how this Congress works and what's the purpose of authorizing committees and appropriations committees, so they can understand that. This…
Mr. Chairman, I believe our Nation needs to secure its points of entry, and specifically I believe that we should prevent additional countries from joining the United States visa waiver program until we have technical and human resources…
once you sift through the mountain of misinformation presented on the floor tonight, it's clear that those who advocate cutting funding from WHINSEC do so, as I say, in the absence of fact. WHINSEC is not the School of the Americas…
what is truly disingenuous is that nobody here tonight speaking against WHINSEC, to my knowledge, has ever taken the time to visit the school. The gentleman, the author of the amendment, my good friend, talked about transparency. It's not…
I want to say that I'm very supportive of family planning, but not family planning that includes definition of abortion as part of family planning. In the Lowey amendment, which I'm opposed to, I'm not questioning her integrity or intent…
Reclaiming my time, I will quote USAID on this, Mr. Ryan. Twenty countries that currently do not receive USAID family planning would not receive donations under this amendment because the countries in question that you're talking about…
Yes, Mr. Chairman, there is a security fence around Fort Benning, but I would not describe the home of the Infantry as a fortress by any stretch of the imagination, as my colleague just referred. Mr. Chairman, here we go again. Once more…
I think that national debt is something like $8.77 trillion now. It is $29,000 for each man, woman and child. Well, the Democrats have come with these 11 spending bills... to increase that spending an additional $23 billion. If my math is…
Then when we come back from the August recess, he can bundle those all up as a bill or a resolution coming through the Appropriations Committee, having a special rule, hopefully an open rule, bring it to the floor of this House, and then…
I rise today to honor Dr. Harlon Crimm, who last week announced his retirement as president of Chattahoochee Technical College. In the past 24 years, Dr. Crimm's contributions to Chattahoochee Tech have been profound. He quadrupled…
Mr. Chairman, what I would suggest is that very easily a package of these earmarks, I don't know how many are going to be put in the final conference report; if there are 30,000 earmarks, maybe 15,000 of them in the aggregate in these 11…
over the past 3 years, we have repeatedly stood on the floor of this House debating whether or not to expand the Federal Government's role in funding embryonic stem cell research. Today I implore my colleagues that, for once in this…
This is a political ploy, bringing this bill up under suspension, in my opinion, to give Members on the other side of the aisle the opportunity for cover on this bill, this Castle-DeGette legislation that's coming up tomorrow. When King…
I wanted to come and lend my support to my good friend, Congressman David Scott, my colleague from Georgia, and the John R. Justice Prosecutors and Defenders Incentive Act. Congressman Scott and I both served in the Georgia senate, he for…
for months Democratic leaders have tried to dictate military strategy by press release with little regard for the service men and women putting their lives on the line every day. Perhaps my colleagues on the other side of the aisle did not…
3 weeks ago the Supreme Court upheld the ban on the abomination of partial-birth abortion. I come this morning to say thank you to one of our former Members, the Honorable Chairman Henry Hyde, who served in this body for almost 30 years…
I do rise to support the underlying rule and the bill, H.R. 1868, the Technology Innovation and Manufacturing Stimulation Act of 2007. I want to take the opportunity to thank my chairman on the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation…
I rise today, firmly and resolutely opposed to both this rule and the underlying conference report. I regret to say that the Democratic leaders have once again demonstrated that it is either their way or the highway, except this time it is…
But I rise, Mr. Speaker, in strong opposition to the underlying legislation, H.R. 1361, the RECOVER Act. This legislation is bad fiscal policy. It increases the cost to America's taxpayers of providing disaster assistance, while increasing…
Judge Gohmert, I thank you for your kind remarks; and of course you are here not to praise me but to praise God and life and the sanctity of life at the extremes, the embryo and the senior citizens as well. My colleagues, I cannot…
I am very happy to be before my colleagues on the House floor this evening to talk about a hugely important issue that we will be dealing with once again this week in all probability. As you know, Madam Speaker and my colleagues, I am…
In addition to the work that Dr. Atala is doing at Wake Forest, ... his research would be to obtain those embryonic stem cells from those embryos so you wouldn't be destroying human life.
And it reminds me that there is another date coming up pretty soon, and I think that is on April 22, and that is called tax freedom day. And that day gets later and later in the calendar year each and every year. That is how long a person…
I rise today not only in strong opposition to this ``our way or the highway'' rule, but also to the underlying bill, which I believe encroaches on the constitutional principle of separation of power, particularly the President's authority…
The point the gentleman from Iowa is making is that we have really tried hard in this body to address this problem. We on this side of the aisle, when we were in control and had the majority in the 109th, felt very strongly that first and…
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