2 weeks ago the Republican majority leader, Dick Armey of Texas, was asked on one of the Sunday morning talk shows why the Republicans would not disclose to the American people what kind of cuts in Federal spending would come with the…

this is not a routine or simple bill. This is a bill of vast significance. The unfunded mandate bill, taken together with the balanced budget amendment, if both are passed and signed into law, will call for a significant reordering of…

No. I think in some areas you have to draw lines where you can go too far. I don't argue that you can. Let me say to the gentleman, I think many times what the Republican Party misses is that aspect of our Federal Government which talks…

There has been a larger hearing on unfunded mandates in Capitol Hill in the last 45 minutes than at any time when this legislation has been making its way to the floor. We have heard more testimony right here in the last 45 minutes than we…

Speaker Gingrich has said that his multimillion dollar book deal was ``like winning the lottery.'' Well, not quite, Mr. Speaker. Your lottery was no game of chance. You see, Mr. Speaker, you were the only one holding a lottery ticket. And…

I am glad that he could attend. He and I both counted Ed Madigan, a Republican, a good Republican, as a good friend of our party and our side of the aisle, particularly when it came to issues of importance to Illinois. It is hard to…

I can certainly understand what many families and people in California are facing today. Let me say that it has been my honor to serve in this Chamber for 12 years. I have at various times been asked by people from across the country to…

I wish for one minute that the people in Washington would put their feet in our shoes and understand what our lives are all about. It is what people want to know, is their standard of living going to be raised? Are they going to be able to…

In the name of that spirit of openness I am calling on Speaker Gingrich to make a full disclosure of not only all of the contributors to his multi million-dollar GOPAC, but also a full disclosure of the contributors to the Progress and…

there is a reason why the Republicans oppose the Democratic rules change in this closed rule. Our rules change makes every rules change proposed by the Republicans today pale in comparison. Theirs are plastic and papier mache. Ours have…

This amendment establishes smoke-free schools across America. It is consistent but slightly different than the Goals 2000 legislation. Mr. Chairman, scientific evidence is mounting that secondhand smoke breathed by non-smokers is a…

as I listened to this debate, from time to time it sounded like a prayer meeting. Those who spoke critical of the Frank amendment kept using the familiar prayerful chant, ``Hallowed be thy Army''. And yet the simple fact of the matter is…

I have listened carefully to the debate in this Chamber over the problems and challenges facing school children in America. In this section of the bill, we attempt to address many of the more serious health problems facing our children…

Every day approximately 3,000 children start smoking for the first time and 30 percent of all high school seniors are smokers. Half of all new smokers begin before the age of 14, 90 percent before the age of 21, and the average age of the…

It is my understanding that the gentleman's en bloc amendment actually weakens the language which is in the committee version of the bill which is coming to the floor in that it limits the education standards relative to this danger.

I have asked the sponsors of this resolution if there is any precedent in this Congress for condemning an American for statements he has made. Neither Mr. Lantos nor Mr. Hyde can recall such a condemnation ever having been made in the…

I thought what irony. I am leaving to go to his funeral and seeing this book for the first time. It is interesting to me that if you wanted to get a caricature of Tip O'Neill, you find one every day in the comic pages. There is one comic…

I can recall very well when I returned to Washington to attend Tip's funeral... The real question was not how a politician fills a suit, but what fills his heart. And when it came to Tip O'Neill, it was very clear that what filled his…

I would urge my colleagues to vote against the Myers amendment. Let me give two reasons. We first should not be dealing with this kind of last-minute attempt to come up with emergency relief while the people of southern California and…

I would urge my colleagues to vote against the Myers amendment. Let me give two reasons. We first should not be dealing with this kind of last-minute attempt to come up with emergency relief while the people of southern California and…

I want to salute the people both in my region of the country and those across the United States who have faced these disasters. They have demonstrated the kind of courage, the kind of sensitivity and compassion for their fellow man which…

I think what they are suggesting in terms of cuts, in terms of essential services, are wrong, dead wrong. To cut 581 employees from the Food and Drugs Administration means, for every American family within the sound of my voice, we will…

I want to salute the people both in my region of the country and those across the United States who have faced these disasters. They have demonstrated the kind of courage, the kind of sensitivity and compassion for their fellow man which…

I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time. Madam Chairman, the disasters which we have witnessed in America in the last 12 months have demonstrated extraordinary acts of courage by Americans and extraordinary acts of political…

my Republican colleagues looked down right uncomfortable last night. They were sitting here listening to the President's State of the Union Address and realizing that their dire predictions about the first year of the Clinton…