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…

H.R. 824 would redesignate the Federal building located at 717 Madison Place, NW., in the District of Columbia, as the ``Howard T. Markey National Courts Building.'' Judge Markey clearly deserves this recognition as a result of and in…

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…

The fear that I have with the initiative of the gentleman from Maryland [Mr. Cardin] and the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. Livingston] is that they will politicize the ethics process in an election year. Every campaign check a Member gets…

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…

Mr. Chairman, this is an updated version of the Hyde amendment which has been in the law since 1976. Essentially, the Hyde amendment denies the use of Federal funds to pay for Medicaid abortions except where the life of the mother would be…

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…

with some but not a great deal of reluctance, I rise to oppose the amendment of my good friend from Michigan. Traditionally, the aggregate amount of funds spent to support our intelligence agencies has not been disseminated publicly. It is…

Mr. Speaker, I would state that in 1995, Congress learned of an assault on charitable giving that was being waged in a class action lawsuit underway in the Federal court in Texas. The defendants in the case, a collection of charitable…

the goal of H.R. 1532, the Veterans' Cemetery Protection Act, is one which I wholeheartedly support, sending a strong message to criminals who would desecrate or destroy property at a national cemetery, that the United States will not…

I listened carefully to his debate, I listened to the gentlewoman from California's debate, and I daresay I listened to everybody on that side in the debate, and none of them will mention a baby. All they mention is the woman. The woman…

I am strongly in support of H.R. 908. It was reported unanimously by the Committee on the Judiciary and addresses in a comprehensive manner and in a bipartisan manner some of the concerns that exist about the Federal court system. This…

If I may respond to the rather strident criticism of this bill by the gentleman from North Carolina, there is a practical reason why Federal preemption occurs here. Many of the disasters, such as the earthquakes in California, the forest…

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 think this could be boiled down very simply. We have a mind-set that thinks publication is an open door to thievery and to stealing our secrets. There is another philosophy, it is in our Constitution. It says that if you want to get a…

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…

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 just am uncomfortable with that kind of a chart, because what it seems to be saying is that Occidentals are smarter than Asians. It is kind of a racial bias to say that some groups, some races, some ethnic clusters are smarter than other…

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''?

this is about submarine patenting, and lest anyone be confused, a submarine patent is an application made by somebody who does not really want a quick and speedy issuance or grant of a patent. He wants to keep his application alive below…

If my colleagues do not think submarine patenting is a serious problem, and it has been diminuendo by some on the other side, let me quote from a witness before the subcommittee of the gentleman from California [Mr. Rohrabacher], a…

let me just suggest to my friends that H.R. 400 is a very good bill. We have heard about corporatizing the U.S. Patent Office, new word, ``corporatizing.'' There is more oversight over the corporate U.S. Patent Office than if we kept it as…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1225 corrects a drafting error in the foreign sovereign immunity provisions of last year's antiterrorism bill. We enacted these provisions to allow victims of state-sponsored terrorism, like the Pan American 103 tragedy…