I was listening to the debate in my office on the Watt amendment, which would simply say that whenever the trustee or any party or any attorney requests a copy of the tax returns that that would be turned over, as opposed to having a…

I have four questions to ask my colleagues and the American public: Is a ground war in Kosovo imminent? We are being pushed towards a ground war that is not in our national interests. Tony Blair, the Prime Minister of Britain, the…

this bill, if it is passed, could have the law of unintended consequences. Let me explain. Kelly Springfield has a radial tire manufacturing facility in my district, and I would really appreciate if the House could listen very closely to…

the issue is very simple. We want, on the Republican side, to allow Americans to keep more of their hard-earned dollars. The Democrats want to increase the size of government. Let me say that again so the message is clear. On the…

government does not have to be as complicated as we here in Washington make it. In fact, the only thing that counts to the folks that we represent, and the district that I represent runs from the Mississippi River across the top of the…

I would just say, I put in 70, 80 hours a week and nobody has ever accused me of killing children because Republicans are withholding money from the FDA for E. coli. It is a shameful remark for the last speaker to say that. We gave the…

as my colleagues know, the fact that Congress does not pass a lot of laws does not mean it is a do-nothing Congress. Did my colleagues ever stop to realize that a Congress that passes a lot of laws is the same one that passes a lot of…

we are finally taking a much-needed step to advance the cause of religious freedom and liberty around the world. I am proud to support this legislation here before us today. Initially, I had several reservations about the original version…

the reason for the Istook-Barcia-Manzullo amendment is simple. In McHenry County, Illinois, which I represent, a 37-year-old teacher was raping a 13-year-old student of his over and over and over again. He took her to the Title X-funded…

It is important we pass this rule because we will have on the floor a very interesting story of a 37-year-old schoolteacher who repeatedly statutorily raped his 13-year-old student, brought her to a title 10 clinic, which gave her birth…

in the case in Illinois, under Illinois law, the 13-year-old did receive abstinence counseling.

They get up at the crack of dawn and they work 18 hours a day. They take care of their animals. They cultivate their crops. They repair the roofs of their barns that have been torn off by savage winds. They are preparing to go into the…

can you imagine State and local governments saying we really do not like these international postal agreements, so we are going to enact a community postal agreement, or perhaps a statewide one; or we think there is an infringement on our…

the Jackson-Vanik amendment to the 1974 Trade Act focuses on using various U.S. trade inducements to pressure non-market countries to allow freedom of emigration. It is not supposed to be a total referendum on that nation's internal…

I share the concern of my committee chairman. What we are doing is selling 48 ships for only $13 million apiece. About 3 years ago in a hearing in the Committee on International Relations, which has original jurisdiction over the sale of…

I first of all I want to commend the gentleman from New York (Mr. Solomon) for his rigorous and correct defense of an underfunded defense bill. What bothers me more than anything is the manner in which this occurred. The Committee on…

Mr. Chairman, what the House is doing today, the House of Representatives, the People's House, is so unique in history, and it is truly remarkable, because what we are doing today is we are showing that when the Constitution was drafted in…

if there is any phrase that sums up the reason for the existence of this Republic, that phrase is ``no taxation without representation.'' That is not the phrase of Don Manzullo. It is the phrase of Thomas Jefferson, who, when he wrote the…

Mr. Chairman, the Delahunt-Boehlert amendment would gut section 5. There is a legal fiction as to whether or not a court can order the increase of tax or a court can order a municipality to increase tax. Our bill provides in both…

the proponents of the Delahunt-Boehlert amendment are trying to draw a fine line between a direct tax and an indirect tax. The effect is the same. The elected representatives still have to raise taxes and is it not interesting, they say…

I strongly opposed the measure based upon one section of the bill: Section 202. This section would grant magistrate judges contempt authority. I am adamantly opposed to granting such power to these judges on constitutional grounds. I am…

Africa is a continent on the move and it is time we recognized that fact. We have neglected the people of Africa and ceded many export opportunities to their former European colonial powers. This legislation will for the first time focus…

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all

with all deference to the gentleman from California, the Eximbank has nothing to do with projects overseas. All Eximbank does is make otherwise unavailable financing to companies, such as Beloit Corporation, which is one of three worldwide…

the Eximbank, to my dear colleague from the State of California, does not build factories overseas. That is not what the Eximbank does. What the Eximbank does is make loans to foreign companies so that they can buy goods that are…