We had a hearing before my Asia Subcommittee on what China did to Fellowes Shredder. It was absolutely outrageous how they literally stole $185 million worth of intellectual property.

If MetLife failed, would the failure of the company threaten the stability of the United States? We agree the answer is no.

I don't see the need to drag the insurance companies into this particular rule when in fact they did not present a systemic risk.

We need the flexibility of this new law so that it becomes practical to implement, but still maintains the goal of the legislation.

President Reagan taught us you don't negotiate from a position of weakness. There are over 80 foreign government export credit agencies that vigorously support their local companies in winning export sales. We cannot unilaterally disarm…

As someone who also serves on the Foreign Affairs Committee, I am well aware of the situation in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but I also know that oftentimes unilateral trade sanctions backfire on the very…

There is no real rule of law to constrain government behavior.

this is a triumph for the idealism of the Burmese people, and they did not succumb to the type of mass bloodshed

I championed the cause of freedom in Burma not because it was politically advantageous, but because it was the right thing to do.

We can match action with action but we should be cautious and skeptical.

Our increased engagement with the Burmese Government must be accompanied by a push for engagement with civil society.

The question that we face today is whether these activities of the past year represent real reform or modest window dressing.

We must never forget a people who, at no fault of their own, have been deprived of so much.

I believe we must be careful to not lift sanctions too quickly.

The story of Burma is a heartbreaking tale of needless suffering and unnecessary sorrow.

I missed votes today to attend to official government business in Illinois. If I had been here, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 172; ``yea'' on rollcall No. 173; ``yea'' on rollcall No. 174; ``no'' on rollcall No. 175; ``no'' on…

I had the honor to be part of the Republican Congress that produced the first balanced budget in nearly 30 years. Part of that effort included providing the President line- item veto authority. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court ruled the…

I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding. Mr. Speaker, we have something very interesting going on in this administration, and it's called ``Who's in Charge?'' At one time, we believed that the National Highway Transportation Safety…

Today we recognize the Roe v. Wade decision and its aftermath. In 1982, my wife and I had the opportunity to work to start what became the seventh crisis pregnancy center in the country. Now they are known as pregnancy care centers. The…

Any vote to raise the debt ceiling should be tied to restraints on spending. This is the voting card, America's most expensive credit card. During my time in Congress, I voted nine times against raising the debt limit because it was not…

I often hear complaints from farmers back home about the numerous regulatory burdens placed on them by the government. In fact, this whole past summer we worked with the farmers who have been in a real brouhaha with the EPA concerning the…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. First of all, the doctors that I talk to--the experts themselves, not the lobbyists in Washington--I talk to them on a continuous basis. They're very upset with more regulations. And NFIB is behind the…

This is one of the most important bills that we will pass in Congress. I'm just amazed at what I hear from the other side--we're over here endangering safety; we're poisoning water; we're doing everything we can in the workplace. That's…

The legacy of the Korean War reverberates 61 years later, with a nuclear-armed North Korea still menacing peaceful nations.

Families all throughout this great country still do not have the closure they deserve after so many years, and it is time that North Korea told the truth about their whereabouts.