James A. Leach: “let me say, in hopes that the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Frank) can still be persuaded to this amendment, I would…”

with mounting sectarian tensions and unabated insurgent violence, I rise today to discuss the deeply troubling situation in Iraq and its implications for the national interests of the United States. Sometimes it is harder to know how to…

I would only say to my distinguished chairman, I realize how difficult these circumstances are. There is one amendment in that en bloc circumstance, the Neugebauer amendment, that I think the House should be alerted to. It could put us…

at issue in the case of Colombia are priorities, but in a different sense than is usually assumed. The ``priority'' debate today is not about whether stemming the drug trade is appropriate, but the methodology of going about it. Military…

To be blunt, we can do better than this. Congress is missing the big picture. Ethics cannot be legislated, but the role of lobbyists and their disproportionate, sometimes corrupting, power can. The issue is money in politics and the need…