I just hope that the Members will override the President's veto. I know that is difficult to do for some Members, but there are some very important human rights provisions in this legislation, most significantly, the MacBride principles…

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…

I regret the gentleman from North Carolina has left the floor. I hope he can hear me, anyway. He said some rather harsh things. He said this bill is a fraud. Since I am the chief sponsor of the bill, I guess I am trying to impose a fraud…

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…

those of us who thought the end of the cold war ended the danger of communism to the West had better think again. The headline on the front page of the New York Times recently read ``Fear of a Communist Comeback Has Many in Russia Packing…

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…

132 years ago, in a small cemetery in Pennsylvania, one of America's great presidents asked a very haunting question, whether a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal could long endure…

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 yield myself 30 seconds simply to say I have heard so many things about this bill that just are not so. There is nothing in the world inhibiting a woman who has a faulty breast implant from suing and getting full recovery, economic…

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…

I rise in support of H.R. 3136, and particularly title III of that bill, the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996. Title III, as amended by the rule, is patterned after the provisions of S. 942, legislation sponsored…

I just ascribe the failure to consider the unborn, and I listened to all of the impassioned remarks of my friends on the other side, they never talk about the unborn. It is the woman, it is her family, it is her doctor, but the little tiny…

this is a very painful vote, because there are great arguments on both sides and there are great people on both sides. I do not see the point of polarizing this. This is across the lines of politics and party and geography. But I, after…

Mr. Chairman, immigration reform is one of the most important legislative priorities facing the 104th Congress. Today, undocumented aliens surreptitiously cross our border with impunity. Still others enter as nonimmigrants with temporary…

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

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…

Mr. Chairman, it is kind of deja vu to hear the four Attorneys General routinely trotted out by the opposition. They have been referred to as the four horsemen of Swan Lake. But we also have our retinue of Attorneys General who disagree…

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

Well, yes, that was an overstatement on my part out of the depths of my dismay that I was losing. But on sober reflection, I think it is an antiterrorism bill, not as robust as I would like it to be, but still worthwhile. Now there are a…

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.

it is kind of a sad day for me, and I will tell the Members why. Earlier in the day, standing back there I heard a dear friend of mine, a great Republican, say ``I trust Hamas more than I trust my own government.'' Those words hurt. That…

the gentleman is moving to strike the enacting clause and to kill this legislation. I know that would please him and it certainly would not disappoint the gentleman from Michigan, but I think it would disappoint a lot of people, such as…