tonight I want to take some time and talk to you and the House about a very serious problem that faces this country, not only facing this country but it is facing many nations across this planet, and that is drug abuse. Many times we see…

I would hope so, and I hope that they learn from our good experiences. But you are right on target. You know we have about 36, almost $37 billion of Swiss investment in the United States so we are dealing with Swiss companies day in and…

in Minnesota, our Members from Minnesota might consider calling the Brudier Co. and tell them to take a stand in favor of Youth Against Drugs in Switzerland. We talked about our tourist trade. Swiss hotels that are across this country in…

I think the pressure could start here in the United States. You talked about Ciba-Geigy. I think we could call the president of Ciba-Geigy, Doug Watson, and tell him to stand up against the legalization of drugs in Switzerland. Perhaps…

I just have to say that we cannot think of Charlie without that big smile and the gentleness that he had, the love that he had for this body, and the reflection that he had on the long road it took to get here from a very humble beginning…

What we do is to stay that decertification for 90 days. What we are trying to say is there has got to be a commonsense approach with our Government, who is not without fault, certainly, in the drug program, we have the demand problems and…

I rise in support of this attempt to override President Clinton's veto of the partial birth abortion bill and I hope my colleagues will join me in this effort. Mr. Speaker, I have listened with some care to the comments by my distinguished…

This bill gives people availability of insurance and affordability of insurance. These were the guide words, the words we talked about to make this happen. That means that a mother who wants to change jobs and has a child that is asthmatic…

I will tell my colleagues, the insurance companies would love to have mental health parity because they would like to have those premiums coming in. ... if mental health parity is in that bill, it would cost the moms and dads, the…

I rise today to announce to the American people and to this body that the score is not exactly an Olympic score, but it is big Government, big obtrusive Government, 0, the American people, 2. That is a good trend, and we hope to raise and…

I rise today to support a measure that will help provide veterans in Illinois' LaSalle County with outpatient VA services. LaSalle County veterans have had to travel long distances to receive needed VA medical services. This often requires…

thank you for reversing a trend that has happened in this country over the last 5 years. This bill changes a trend that has seen a reduction in drug interdiction. It has seen a reduction in the ability to stop children from using drugs…

we all support the $1 million allocated for the State Model Drug Law Conferences. We understand the gentleman is open to considering in conference where this funding may be most appropriately obtained to ensure the implementation of an…

I object to the second part of the amendment, which would prevent ONDCP from spending $2.5 million until the House and Senate Committee on Appropriations and ONDCP reach agreement on a revised staffing plan. At what point would the…

The statistic is since 1992 to present there has been a 100-percent increase of teenagers that are on, for instance, just cocaine. I think it would be behoove everybody to study what is happening in some of the South American countries…

I have to take a few minutes today to just talk to the House and its membership about an important issue coming before this body. It is called health care security. It is about people being able to move from job to job, whether they are in…

I am glad to see consensus has been reached to move ahead with bipartisan legislation that will equip America's capital markets to compete in the global marketplace. The changes in this bill will ultimately make it easier for business…

the time for health care reform is at hand. Congress, for the first time, will deliver health care reform that will attack waste and fraud, make health care more affordable and make health care insurance more available for the American…

it is interesting to hear our friends on the other side of the aisle talk about an increase in the deficit, where we all know the deficits have been increased, driven by entitlements, Medicaid and Medicare. Mr. Speaker, sometimes we can…

It is also interesting to hear the rhetoric from the other side of the aisle that tries to create a class warfare on a piece of legislation that is really for what the American people want. If my colleagues would look at this bill, this…

I think this House does not do itself any honor when in my opinion we try to impugn a Members' motives of why an issue is included or an issue is not included. I guess we could go back and forth in this Chamber and point fingers at each…

Reclaiming my time, we have used the word ``balance'' a number of times, but this is a balance purely between supply and demand. We have to do our part. We promised those Presidents and those Congresses in those Central American countries…

I think an important point that you started to bring out is that not only did the Peruvian campesinos or farmers start to abandon their fields, but the price of cocaine in Peru went down tenfold, and all of a sudden it was so cheap that…

As I started out and talked about Mexico, I think the key thing is in our meetings with the President of Mexico and with the Ambassador, Mr. Jim Jones, a former Member of Congress, that we found out in discussions with the President, that…

Before you stood up, I wanted to congratulate the gentleman and his subcommittee work on the intervention and looking at the oversight. You have the oversight responsibility in the Committee on Government Oversight. You have done a very…