Henry Hyde

I just want to say I was here in 1975, and I remember it was 2 o'clock in the morning, and we were debating, and we debated--the total debate lasted three weeks, and President Ford wanted authority to send troops to get our people out of…

Can the gentleman envision Saddam Hussein taking comfort in the fact that after 60 days maybe the troops would be withdrawn while Congress dithered?

I want to suggest to the gentleman I am as concerned as he is with the lives of young people. I have been in combat, I was in an invasion, so I am very sensitive to that. Now will the gentleman tell me why is it, does he believe, that…

Why does the gentleman assume paralysis on the part of Congress when it comes to appropriating money? Is the gentleman not aware that we have cut off funds time and time again for military operations? And the gentleman, as a Member of…

You are getting me in trouble here. I would work very hard for the gentleman's vote. Let me just say this to you: There is no question that a law on the books has to be taken into account by a President. He may think it is…

Government ought to do what it has to do, not what it would like to do. We would all like to play Walter Annenberg or Lorenzo de Medici and be patrons of the arts. If we are serious about getting the deficit down, we can no longer do the…

If the gentleman has insurance, if he is farsighted enough to pay premiums and make an insurance contract, and he is injured, and his insurer, his health insurance, pays that, the benefit of his foresight and the premiums that he has paid…

Mr. Chairman, I yield myself 1 minute. I just wish to say, we are talking about punitive damages, which can have a serious impact on the economy, on jobs. They can extend, and do extend, well beyond the borders of a State. The purpose of…

The language I seek to strike was not in the bill in our committee. It was put in by the Committee on Commerce, and I think upon mature reflection it undoes the purpose of the statute of repose. It would leave it open-ended, almost…

I never doubted the business community will benefit from this legislation. I have never said otherwise. But I also do not make the distinction between the common working man and woman and the consumer and corporate America that you do. I…

I was talking about the rules. I was talking about your love affair with really closed rules during the entire last Congress and now complaining that we only gave you eight amendments this time.

But it really cuts both ways, and I believe it started on the other side with our camaraderie with corporate America and the economic royalists and all that tone was set, that they were our friends and we were doing this because they were…

We need an analysis of these rules. This is just cursory. This is off the top of my head. Let us go into this in depth.

Well, I am going to resist it. I am going to say it may be the law, but it is not good morality, and its lousy policy, but it is the law, and we are sworn to uphold the law. But let us fight to reverse it.

That is the law, though. That is the law unfortunately. The gentleman and I voted against it, but it is the law, and the gentleman and I are sworn to uphold the law.

We cannot protect people who violate the law, no matter what their motives are. I say, ``You may not do evil that good may result, and violence has to be stopped whether it's in front of abortion clinics or somewhere else.''

Whenever there is a threat to public safety, if it is in the lobby of a church, if it is around an abortion clinic, if it is in my home, I want law enforcement to be there to protect innocent people.

I vilify the act of abortion, I vilify the fact that it occurs, bloodily occurs, against defenseless, unborn children, but I do not vilify people who engage in that--I pray for them.

If we are going to block grant money for prevention and for police, I want that money to go to you, the cities in this country, not somewhere else. You are the ones on the front lines. You are the people that have got to show results. And…

I would accept that as gospel if you would accept the other things he says as gospel.

I would make one other point: It is not just we Democrats who say we should not be trusting the local politicians.

Yes, but we are not promising them 100,000 policemen, which are not in the cards by anybody's computer. The gentleman knows that. Will you concede that?

Well, the city council in Cincinnati thinks just the opposite. There are plenty of municipalities that understand that this is illusory, that in the first year, 25 percent of the cost is going to have to be assumed by the local units of…

I just want to say the reason the gentlewoman's subsequent amendment is flawed is it continues to erode the notion of block grants, which is that the call for where these policemen should go and with what equipment shall be made by the…

Only if in their judgment the public safety is endangered. Surely the gentleman does not want the public safety endangered by any group that is picketing.