every bill and subsequent law that we pass in the House of Representatives has a face to it, and I would like to tell my colleagues about a couple thousand faces, people who get up at the crack of dawn, pack their lunch, get their kids off…

All laws have faces, and every statute we pass in this body has a consequence. Let me tell you about a consequence as a result of title X that has occurred in the district that I represent. She was 13 when she was first molested by her…

I want to respond that the Congressional Research Service has supplied a memo dated July 28, 1997, stating the title X regulations do not require that title X providers report cases of incest or statutory rape. We are trying to change that…

the problem is that they have read it as parental consent. Ours is parental notification. The gentlewoman has used ``consent'' during the course of the argument. I am sure that is the way they phrased it.

I do not come from the city of Chicago, and I do not claim any of the Illinois politics. All I know is that every additional dollar that goes back to the school district in my school district, not one more cent goes to a bureaucrat. They…

I understand, but it is our job to stop bureaucracies from being wasteful here in Washington. It is the jobs of the folks back home to stop bureaucracies there. But it is also our job to make sure we do not have any more of these unfunded…

Is the gentleman saying that money is spent more wisely in Washington than locally back home?

I received a letter from Gary Hall, dated July 4, 1997. Dear Congressman, I am sitting here at my dad's grave, missing him so much. He was not only my father, financial adviser, supervisor, the best farm adviser I know. He was my best…

OPIC provides a unique service to this country. It provides political risk insurance. That does three things: currency and convertibility, political violence, and seizure of assets. That is pretty unusual. There is a statement made that…

back in those days the main income for the United States was international tariffs. We have these incredible tariff barriers, and that is how we supported the economy of the Nation before the income tax. I mean nobody wants those tariffs…

I would cite with authority Article I, section 8, clause 3 of the United States Constitution that it is within the powers of this body to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and if I could make my point, then I would be glad to yield…

the people of the district I represent earn between $30,000 and $40,000 a year. What does that mean to them? It means that 113,600 children in my congressional district are eligible for the $500-per-child tax credit. That means that people…

this is not a vote about who is more against religious persecution in China. We all deplore violations of human rights not just in China but in the entire world. Defeating MFN will not stop human rights abuses in China. Many Christian…

I am honored to be able to take this opportunity to commemorate the more than 8 million people, 6 million of whom were Jewish, who a little more than half a century ago were brutally, deliberately and systematically exterminated in a…

there is a person who has been forgotten about in this entire debate over our constitutional amendment to curb the powers of the U.S. Congress to raise taxes. It is the person who gets up every day at the crack of dawn, packs the kids'…

tomorrow we will vote to outlaw the practice known as a partial birth abortion. That procedure is both tragic and needless in that there are at least 2,000 such abortions performed annually, far more than advocates have initially claimed…

we are engaged in a massive war, not with communist enemies or terrorist states, but with our friends and allies. This is not a military conflict, but a global economic war, competing for billions and billions' worth of export…

the House has just voted on a very interesting bill expressing the sense of Congress regarding the display of the Ten Commandments by Judge Roy S. Moore, who is a circuit court judge in the State of Alabama. The judge had posted the Ten…

And You know what is amazing about this is that Mr. Babbitt, claiming to be a conservationist, would want to try to do everything possible to encourage the wisest use possible of our natural resources and to encourage people to feed the…

And would the gentleman comment on whether or not the new Clinton tax would impact birds that decided to be hygienic and take a bath?

Reclaiming my time, would birdseed for robins and birds that are not considered to be wild, would that be taxed? Perhaps the tax would be based upon the tax people would have to come to your backyard and determine which birds were eating…

what happens during the month of July and August is that the average American decides to go on vacation.

So if a Swiss army knife has a spoon on it or a fork, that would be taxed, but a smaller Swiss army knife would not be taxed.

Secretary Babbitt wants to put a 2 to 3-percent national sales tax on cameras, film, lenses and, look at this, an outdoor sleeping mat. Now there is no tax on a mattress inside the house, no national tax, but if you sleep outside, he wants…

Today we will vote on the Exports, Jobs, and Growth Act. This bill is divided into three parts, first the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, which helps to ensure against long-term political and commercial risk. The Congressional…