Henry Hyde

I would say to the Democrats that I thought I had seen it all, but to listen to them squabbling over enhanced penalties for criminals who violate elderly and children, it is a new revelation to me. You just never know it all, do you? You…

There is so much said here that is not so. There are no secret hearings. Nobody gets deported. Even an alien terrorist does not get deported unless the evidence that convicts him is introduced in trial; in open trial, no secret trials, no…

Is the gentleman aware that at the World Trade Center there were no suicide bombers? Is the gentleman aware that at Oklahoma City there were no suicide bombers?

I know the gentleman's concern. It is a common one. It has to do with the deference that Federal courts will give to State court decisions. I believe that is what he is talking about. We will discuss that at some length in our debate on…

In listening to the remarks of the distinguished gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Kennedy], now I am confused. I remember they used to criticize a former President by ridicule, saying he could not walk and chew gum at the same time. It…

I did not have the honor of personally knowing Ron Brown, but I knew him by reputation and by watching him work with flair and gusto in a very important job. He was a great role model for everybody. He was indeed a marvel. One searches…

With great respect I would like to advise the gentlewoman, there is no limitation on economic damages or noneconomic damages. It is punitive damages only that there is a limitation. That provision was taken out of the bill and there just…

If any Federal agency issues what the Congressional Review Act defines as major rules, those rules would not be allowed to go into effect for at least 60 calendar days. However, I advise my colleague that the President, by executive order…

But the gentleman knows that sure punishment and swift punishment is a deterrence, and that is the answer to the gentleman's question.

I presume the professor is referring to habeas corpus reform, because habeas corpus would not deter anybody from anything. The reform might.

I am anxious, but I am not anxious to ever go on record as rejecting something we have been looking for, for 10 years and working toward, and that is habeas corpus reform. Also, Mr. Chairman, I am still puzzled by the gentleman's…

I must oppose the amendment because I believe that we do need in this legislation to use the terrorism bill, the bill that we call now the death penalty bill, in order to finally get to the President's desk an effective death penalty…

I understand that, and there are more people who support the death penalty overwhelmingly than oppose it.

I think terrorists who kill ought to die, and they ought not to linger for 16 or 17 years. That is why habeas corpus is in there. I commend the text of the bill to my friend. He said one cabinet officer can come up with a list of terrorist…

Yes, Mr. Speaker, it is our intent that the U.S. Territories, Commonwealths, and possessions be included in H.R. 497, as the gentleman has stated.

I can only express the found hope that when we do get to debating immigration this hostility toward foreigners is somewhat diminished. I do not mean on the part of the gentleman from North Carolina, but others, who shall be nameless.

I hope the gentleman in Prague can find an attorney in Omaha to run in and defend himself before he has defaulted and the default judgment is entered so that due process gets at least a pass at being respected.

Reclaiming my time, I disagree. The gentleman is looking for protection and recourse for the injured plaintiff, and the injured plaintiff can have it against the seller. Now you wish to have a multimillionaire manufacturer in Prague. They…

Well, reclaiming my time, Mr. Speaker, I certainly agree with the gentlewoman that any discussion about abortion, both pro-life and pro-abortion rights, is protected by the first amendment guarantee of free speech; and I certainly agree…

I was somewhat taken aback by the gentleman from North Carolina's concern about the extra burden on the courts for convening a three-judge panel to decide a State referendum or initiative that the constitutionality, because my memory could…

But that is costly and cumbersome, and maybe the people who are initiating this do not have the resources that some of the special interests who want to set it aside do. But an appeal is never as good as winning it in the first place; the…

I do support the manager's amendment. I think it has tied up a lot of loose ends and makes the entire telecommunications field more competitive. The purpose of the entire legislation was really to enhance competition, because that…

I do not know what knowledge Congress had of what was going on. If they knew and were looking the other way, as I suspect was the truth, nothing would have happened.

If he was sending troops into hostilities or into a place where hostilities were imminent, that is the language of the War Powers Resolution.

It would not. What we did was transferred destroyers to Great Britain. He declared them surplus.