when a man and a woman exchange the vows of marriage, they traditionally promise to their spouse that they will be there for richer or for poorer. Unfortunately, for too many years, our government has wanted to make these married couples…

the money we spend today will start the process of giving our soldiers and sailors and airmen the resources they need to do their jobs. It will make certain that they have the training they need to keep them safe. It will give them the…

I rise in support of the constitutional amendment today. Make no mistake about it, working Americans are taxed too much. They are taxed at a higher rate than since the Second World War. They are taxed when they eat. They are taxed when…

When I think about education, I think about putting good teachers in the classrooms. All the other folderol and bells and whistles, sometimes it helps but it does not make the difference whether kids are learning or not. I think the effort…

We stand at a solemn moment in our nation's history. Today, the House votes on a recommendation from the Judiciary Committee to proceed with a fair and judicious inquiry into the charges contained in the report from the Independent…

Mr. Chairman, this bill is one part of the solution to the most insidious national security threat that we as a Nation face today. International drug trafficking is rampant across our borders, and unfortunately this does not affect our…

I think we need to state that. I think the gentleman has accurately and correctly stated the fact that we need to treat this on a wartime footing. It is the same as terrorism. It is our kids whose lives are being lost, and while if we were…

If we are going to look at the totality of drug abuse in this country, we certainly have to look at the supply side where drugs come from, how they come across our borders, but we also have to look at the other issue, and that is the issue…

I want to take a minute, I will not take long, and talk about the substance of the bill because I think the quality of this bill stands on its own. I also want to acknowledge the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Elijah Cummings), who is not…

Mr. Chairman, this piece of legislation says that basically the District of Columbia should not and shall not make marijuana a legal substance. Of course, marijuana federally is an illegal substance. This is a Federal district. I think…

I am convinced that we are at the crossroads at the terms of the decennial census. Either we will pursue a census with the goal of actual enumeration or we will allow the Clinton administration to gamble on a population polling scheme with…

we have heard a lot of diatribe over here about health care, but the fact is that what the Republican Party is doing and what we are going to deliver to the American people is for the American people to make the choices of where they want…

I rise in support of H.R. 2097, the Tax Code Termination Act. I am pleased to be a co-sponsor of this legislation which will sunset the current tax code effective December 31, 2002 and require that Congress enact a new code by July 4…

not to detract from next week's Drug-Free Athletes and Role Models Week, but today I must speak directly to the role models of our Nation's youth, and that most certainly includes the Hollywood elite. The toxicology report is back on the…

I have taken about four or five trips to the border myself to try to look at the problems, understand what is going on. If we go to Tijuana, the crossing there, if we go to Laramie, if we go to El Paso, if we go to Nogales, what they tell…

I wish to say, Mr. Speaker, that I appreciate the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Brown) joining with us today. This is, just as the gentleman said, 3 pages of pages. It is merely words. It is actions that the American people want. It is the will…

Mr. Speaker, we are facing a grave situation in this country, a situation that is not unlike scenes that we have faced within the last 20 years. Our children are being constantly nibbled away at with the threat of drugs, drugs in our…

It is interesting from time to time to take the floor. We try to reason out an issue and we try to decipher what is right and what is wrong, what is right and wrong for kids, what is right and wrong for our system of education, whether it…

Certainly I want to thank the gentleman from California (Mr. McKeon), who has worked with me to try to structure this language that made sense. I like to fish. I wish I had my pole here today because we have a lot of red herrings that have…

we all know satellite technology is moving at light-year speed, and that our manufacturers are the best in the world. However, the 30-year-old law under which they operate needs to be updated for the twenty-first century. Private companies…

What we have seen when somebody gets a buy of cocaine or heroin to be able to inject, they really do not care. They need that narcotic. They do not care whether they are going to go out and be able to buy a needle or trade a needle or…

I feel sorry for the 40 percent of the AIDS victims who are children, but those 40 percent of the victims who are children are not using needles, so the whole needle issue does not affect those folks at all.

I appreciate him talking about what happens when government has too much money. And when they have too much money there, there is a lot of ideas that people have about how to spend that money. Unfortunately, one of the ideas that this…

But the sad story is that we have 20,000 people who die of drugs in this country every year, 14,000 directly from drugs. They die because of overdose, they die because of gang violence. They are our kids. They are dying today at our street…

I am saddened that there is clear and convincing evidence that the President lied under oath, obstructed justice and abused the powers of his office in an attempt to cover up his wrongdoing