I beg of my colleagues the courtesy of not asking me to yield. I do not intend to yield. I have much to say and little time to say it in. Mr. Speaker, when you have a theme as large and as profound as ours is today, you need the help of…

Mr. Chairman, the debate really is not about family planning, although we will hear that term a lot. This is about abortion. Family planning, properly defined, is the matter of getting pregnant or not getting pregnant. It has nothing to do…

The popularity of term limits is a measure of the low esteem our citizens have for politics and politicians. Some of my colleagues may think that is fine. I think it is dangerous. Of course the way we attack each other and the way we…

the cost and length of traditional litigation is increasingly leading to the settlement of claims through alternative means. Many different techniques, such as mediation, arbitration, minitrials, and partnering have been found effective in…

I rise to inform the House of the serious problem that has come to my attention as chairman of the select subcommittee of the House Committee on International Relations established to look into the Clinton administration's policy of giving…

when the cold war ended, Americans rightly hoped that our national security would no longer be threatened. We soon learned, however, that new or previously overlooked threats would replace the Eastern bloc in the struggle for progress and…

Mr. Speaker, contrary to my good friend, the gentleman from New York, Chuck Schumer's comments, my judgment is this is a very fine bill. It is one that is long overdue as a supplement to the terrorism bill we passed in April. We must as a…

Mr. Speaker, as every one knows I strongly supported enhanced authority for law enforcement to investigate, prosecute, and punish terrorists. Specifically I believe Federal law enforcement ought to have the necessary tools in terrorism…

today we consider the Senate amendment to the National Gambling Impact and Policy Commission Act (H.R. 497). H.R. 497 creates a temporary, 2-year national commission to study the economic and social impact of gambling in our country. The…

I wanted to respond to my friend, the gentleman from Massachusetts, who is one of the very effective but selective crusaders for States' rights. This is a search for information, this commission, not legislative nor regulatory functions…

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…

I can tell you this is one of the most uncomfortable issues I can think of to debate. It is something I really shrink from because there is no gentle easy way, if we are to be honest and candid, to discuss the objections to same-sex…

Well, maybe, maybe not. Maybe, maybe not is all. You cannot speculate about the court. The gentleman from Massachusetts said that the unfinished business of the civil rights movement is homosexual acceptability. There is no power on Earth…

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…

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

I thank my dear friend from Arkansas, Mr. Dickey, for those extravagant words. The gentlewoman, my good friend from California, Ms. Pelosi, talks about the Flat Earth Society. That is interesting because the science is on our side. As I…

Mr. McINTOSH. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 3525, and I want to commend Chairman Hyde and his committee for their good work on this bill. It in some measure allows us to renew that great dream of Martin Luther King's that blacks…

I just cannot let this opportunity pass without paying homage to one of the really great people I have been privileged to meet in a rather long life. Bill Natcher was as close to a perfect legislator as I have ever encountered, a man of…

Today we consider the Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996, H.R. 3525, legislation reflecting a bipartisan congressional response to the rash of church burnings that have occurred in recent months. On May 21, the House Judiciary Committee…

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…

one of the least meritorious reasons the President has listed for his veto was that this bill infringed on States' rights. The newly discovered respect for the 10th amendment is heartening but somewhat misplaced. In our mobile society, 80…

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

you will miss my tirade about October Surprise. How soon we forget the greatest wild goose chase in history which spent $1.3 million. I have quotations about how important that quest was for the Emerald City that my friends on the other…

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…