Henry Hyde

I urge the President to tell the truth about his multiple perjuries and his efforts to obstruct justice, and I urge the Congress to deliver this message of impeachment to the Senate in the knowledge that we are all victims, including the…

I believe my fellow Democrats on today's Judiciary Committee have a moral, ethical, and constitutional responsibility to vote to impeach President Clinton.

I ask every Member of the House to consider the question I posed to my colleagues on the Committee on the Judiciary last week: What message are we sending to the youth of America if we abdicate our constitutional duty and condone perjury…

I also rise in support of S. 1377. I have introduced an identical bill, H.R. 2835, which expands the Vietnam-era eligibility dates for membership in the American Legion. It is very significant that the House is voting on this veterans bill…

You know, it is very unfair debating Barney Frank, because he can get 20 minutes into 3 minutes. Never forget, this is a Federal constitutional right we are seeking to vindicate, and if the Federal courts do not want to hear these cases…

How does the gentleman's definition in his bill trump the Supreme Court, which defined health in Doe versus Bolton as a state of emotional well-being? How does his mere statute trump the Supreme Court's definition of health?

Let us pass this law and then we will have some experience and see how many cases are brought that they cannot prove substantial justification. To take the gentlewoman's version of things, every case is substantially justified. I am…

The only reason it is here now, I saw the Murtha amendment, it was coming to the floor, and I thought we could do it better. That is all. I am trying to improve someone else's amendment to make it fairer, to make it not too broad, and to…

I do not know the gentlewoman's personal experience. Most people are not indicted by the U.S. attorney. But I can imagine, and I know people who have been, what a shattering experience it is.

There are 13 percent that were not, and if the litigation against them was not substantially justified, we are not talking about a lot of money to give them justice, are we?

I do not extend this protection to anybody who is successful in Federal court. They are successful and the Government cannot substantially justify. That is not a tough threshold, that is not a tough threshold under the Government to meet.

I have just made a suggestion to the gentleman from California [Mr. Berman], and he seemed favorably disposed. The problem is the date certain. It encourages gridlock if you have to wait for a certain date. Let us remove the date and just…

But, Mr. Chairman, the fact is, a hung jury, and the court says, can you reach a verdict? and the foreman says, Your Honor, we are hopelessly deadlocked. The judge does not keep the thing pending, he declares a mistrial, and the State's…

Any program that deliberately bypasses parents to provide birth control devices to minors, in my judgment, is an egregious violation of family values. It is little less than legitimating promiscuity. What kind of a lesson do we teach? We…

The gentlewoman protects the submariner. She really protects and enhances the submariner.

I would suggest to my friend that if she does not want it ever published, she wants to keep it a secret in perpetuity, do not ask for a patent. Keep it as a trade secret and get protected under the trade secrecy laws. But if she wants a…

What about provisional rights? Does the gentleman agree that there is protection called provisional rights following publication? The inventor then says, ``Look, I did this, I invented this''?

I remember Wernher von Braun. He had an accent, but he was certainly a brilliant scientist. He came over here. A fellow named Einstein did pretty well.

I searched the globe, and I see all of these countries wanting to trade with us. They like our markets. They do not really want to destroy us economically. They would like to get an advantage, but destruction, I do not think that is part…

I just want to say we do no service to the people of America, we do no service to the quality of justice or the quality of government by treating everybody with the same flagellation, the same masochism that we treat ourselves with. If we…

It could. But that is why we need this statute in my judgment, to give a little more leverage to the States.

The Chairman, I would just like to ask the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Moran], what effect on your last statement that the States have the power to do this, what effect does the Romer versus Evans case, decided May 20 of this year, have…

I strongly support H.R. 2511, the Anticounterfeiting Consumer Protection Act of 1996. Soon we will consider the renewal of most-favored-nation status for China. This timely legislation highlights one of the growing problems we have with…

I do not want to vote for this, because if there is a program that is diminishing the nuclear threat to our country... However, I learned that the Russians are modernizing their nuclear capability. How does that diminish the threat to our…

Would the gentleman tell me under what circumstances someone is completely denied a right to seek recovery for damages?