let me just say to my friend who just spoke, 60 percent of the votes that were counted that were registered by one organization had been found to be fraudulent by the Secretary of State. We have not got all the votes. There is not a single…

I am not going to yield until I am able to finish my sentence. That, I think, offers no value to this deliberative body, because there is absolutely no time given on the other side, and it gives the impression to the people out in the…

What I see in his bill is essentially what I offered, I think, with respect to Japan back in 1982, which is a two-way street bill, that we let the other side control the level of tariffs, and if they want to raise the wall, they raise it…

I learned a lot in this particular conference. I want to thank the chairman for his great leadership in trying to get these things through this conference, which is often like pushing a wheelbarrow full of frogs. Your issues continue to…

First, we are on a downswing with respect to defense spending. The force structure that we have now has gone down from 18 Army divisions that we had during Desert Storm to 10. We have gone down from 24 fighter airwings to only 13, roughly…

a couple of weeks ago I submitted an article for the prestigious military magazine on military affairs, ``Proceedings.'' In that article, I outlined the slippery slope that we are presently on with respect to our deteriorating national…

I think that particularly the homeowners' or home sellers' exclusion from taxation... has come in the nick of time. They can use that money for their kids' education and, incidentally, for buying houses for their children.

The rule of law, my colleagues, it is the most precious thing that we have, and perhaps the most precious rule is that we vote and the person with the most votes wins. And sometimes it means for us, in fact, at times during all of our…

I want to take this time to do something that I was not allowed to do, because I was given no time in the debate concerning our friend Bob Dornan and the banning of Bob Dornan from the House floor under what I would consider, in the least…

I thought I would just come to the floor tonight and talk about several issues. I was late to the special order of the gentleman from California where he spoke about his bill which would disallow automatic citizenship to the children of…

a contested election is a very difficult thing. It strains friendships, often friendships between Republicans and Democrats because we all have our political alliances and those are legitimate alliances, and we have our friends and we have…

Mr. Chairman, let me issue my dissent, my objection, to what I think is one of the cruelest tradeoffs that can ever been offered on the House floor, and it has been offered here, and that is the idea that if we do not build B-2's, somehow…

I think the point that we need to be able to have a large inventory of long-range aircraft is very, very essential in this debate. In 1962, we had 81 major overseas air bases that we could fly short-range aircraft out of. That 81 major…

I listened to this debate. I had to rise because I am familiar with a lot of the facts with respect to the investigation as to illegal voters voting in the Sanchez-Dornan race, and this is not about the gentlewoman from California [Ms…

Mr. Speaker, this Tickle-Me-Elmo made in China is more coherent than the trade policy of the Clinton administration. Trade is a balancing of interests. Whether we engage with a nation with respect to trade is a balancing of interests. What…

Mr. Chairman, we do have a very important choice to make tonight, and it is a choice between a policy that shortchanges the men and women that risk their lives in defense of our Nation or it is a policy that will provide those men and…

Mr. Chairman, let me just answer my friend that there are a number of experts who disagree that 20 B-2's is enough. Brent Scowcroft with the Scowcroft Study that the gentleman has a copy of is one of those leaders who believes that…

Mr. Chairman, first, the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Kasich], for whom I have great respect, said the cold war is over and the B-2 is a cold war relic. The problem with the Soviet Union dissolving is they did not dissolve their SAM…

The standoff weapons, Mr. Chairman, are extremely expensive. They are over $1 million apiece. That is our air launch cruise missiles. In fact, closer to a million and a half apiece. That is compared to $23,000 for the short-range weapons…

Mr. Chairman, let us start with stealth because, that is an important part of the B-2 story. In Vietnam, we lost 2,300 aircraft. In fact, in the last phases of the war, when we threw B-52's against surface-to-air missile systems from…

I will explain what I think is the wisdom there. We are going to a smaller and smaller strategic triad. Both sides have agreed that part of the triad that remains is going to be as modern and effective and as reliable as possible. Now our…

First, according to the Navy, and if we are going to save money, we have got to put a pencil to the balance sheet and we have to try to figure out whether extending the life of the C-4 is going to be cheaper or more expensive than buying…

I too look forward to a robust debate on the B-2 bomber, and I think it is our duty to force as many colleagues as we can to listen to us one more time on that issue. I want to assure my colleague that it is my desire to have a robust…

everybody agrees, even the proponents of this amendment, that we have to have a national defense, and the question is how much? They have cited that we outspend other countries in the world for defense, and therefore, we should be able to…

Let us just walk through these. First, it was stated that these sales have been made carefully. They have not been made carefully. The first sales to the Soviet Union, the individuals who made the sales have been, according to the…