Mr. Chairman, let us not involve the military in abortion. Is that a double standard? Yes, it is a double standard, and the military has a double standard in a number of areas with respect to marital fidelity, with respect to pornography…

I wanted to thank our great chairman for putting this package together, and the gentlewoman from California [Ms. Harman] who has worked so hard on it and all the Members on both sides of the aisle. I think one theme that we have heard this…

I hope they will be well taken on the floor tomorrow. Let me go back to what we actually have in terms of a defense apparatus that he spoke so eloquently about. As I have said, we have gone from 18 to 10 Army divisions, 24 to 13 fighter…

Because if they do not do the environmental cleanups on places like Camp Pendleton, the commander goes to jail if he does not comply.

let me rise briefly to support the Smith amendment and to say that the Mexico City policy that we propagated under the Reagan administration sent a moral message to the world. As I understand it, most of the organizations that heretofore…

let us walk through what the gentleman just said. He said these people are protected once they publish. They are not protected, and I will tell the gentleman why. To be able to sue for royalties, and that is not 20 or 30 percent of the…

I guess my point is this. We need to get some running room, some momentum, the opportunity to go out and line up investors before the patent is issued. The point that is made by this patent analyst is very good. He said unless startup…

The point is you have a different system. It is the publication that kills the early innovator, the entrepreneur.

I rise to say a few things about two great Americans. One of them is my good friend Bob Dornan, who is no longer with us, but may be back soon depending on the outcome of the election challenge that he has offered; and the other one is…

Here is my answer to the gentleman. My answer is that 2 or 3 percent of royalties, if you can afford the lawyer to get them, are no substitute for getting 20 to 30 percent of the action, which is what an inventor gets when he lines up the…

As I read the manager's amendment, there is the opportunity for a small business to opt, if they have had two office actions, to either opt out of the patent system or to delay publication for 3 months, but they still have the publication…

I thank my friend for those gracious words. But when I compare my brief career in the military in which I went to Vietnam, and basically the best thing that could be said about me was I showed up, when you compare that with Frank Tejeda…

I was reminded of Stonewall Jackson's comment that defending Harpers Ferry was like trying to defend the bottom of a teacup. Somebody placed those thousands of Americans in the bottom of a teacup right next to public roads where terrorists…

Let us review the basic facts here. This bombing took place because we had a building housing thousands of Americans literally within feet, within 85 feet, of not only a public highway, down which any terrorist could drive a truck, but…

I have often thought of politicians, some politicians, some members of the political establishment make a great 30-minute impression. If they have a 30-minute meeting with you, you think you are the hottest thing in the world. But other…

I think this bombing and the way it took place is symbolic of the way the Clinton administration conducts national defense, at least the American preparation. And the situation we placed ourselves in, that our military leaders placed our…

I just wanted to go over the language of the provision itself and what it does because the operational and tactical control that is vested in the President and his subordinates in the American chain of command is a very precious thing not…

I want to thank all of the subcommittee chairmen who worked this bill, because they are all great people; the gentleman from California, Bob Dornan, the gentleman from New York, Mr. McHugh, the gentleman from Pennsylvania, Mr. Weldon, the…

I have friends on both sides of this argument. I understand there are merits on both sides of the argument. But let me give you my humble opinion as a guy who used to practice law in the barrio in San Diego about 5 blocks south of Chicano…

very simply, this amendment affects the proposal that the gentleman from California [Mr. Filner] made on the border train, which lies mainly in my congressional district, and I brought up to my colleagues the problems that we presently…

I would ask all colleagues who have not seen it to take a look at that picture of Bill Emerson carrying the stretcher on which resided a Congressman who was shot up in, I believe it was, the 1954 shooting in the House Chamber when several…

I know that the President's, the Clinton administration's appointees in the Pentagon have said there is no threat to national security. They also told us the other day and repeated in a statement there is no threat to this country in terms…

What is appropriate to this gentleman is to put in the Armed Services bill what we need to defend the country. That means we hold hearings like the ones we had on aircraft safety, on Army and Marine ammo, on the needs of the Navy, on the…

I want to note to my colleagues in the full committee and all the Members that this is one of those occasions, as you can see with respect to this substitute amendment, there is solidarity in the Committee on National Security, on the…

If I could take back my time, I agree with the gentleman, but I think it is also important to have the facts on the table. The facts on the table, according to the report I have gotten back, is the increase in defense expenditures we put…