Can the gentleman envision Saddam Hussein taking comfort in the fact that after 60 days maybe the troops would be withdrawn while Congress dithered?

There is no carte blanche authority given to the President by this amendment of mine. This amendment strengthens. There is nothing requiring notification in the War Powers Act. This amendment says the President shall in every possible--not…

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.

I just want to simply say in Vietnam there was not a bullet shot, there was not a gun held by a GI, that was not authorized and paid for by this Congress, and this Congress can stop it, or can make it go ahead any time it wants. I suggest…

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

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…

Yes. Section 2707(a)1, the War Powers Resolution, is repealed. That is the law that requires the President after 60 days to bring the troops home if we have not acted affirmatively to support the presence of the troops there. In other…

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…

I think it is a fact of modern history that declarations of war are gone. I think they are anachronistic. I do not think they will happen. Clearly the Constitution assigns the declarations of war function to Congress and only to Congress…

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…

we set a personnel ceiling of 4,000 Americans in Vietnam 6 months after the enactment and 3,000 within a year; in Somalia we did the same. In Rwanda we did the same. And interestingly enough, the congressional reference service says, and I…

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…

this resolution is an expression of this body's outrage at the manifestation of unmitigated evil that was visited upon Oklahoma City, its people, and our Nation on April 19. It also provides us with an opportunity to recognize the real…

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. Speaker, there are three points to be made on this motion to recommit. The first one is on the first part of the motion to recommit, it has to do with service on foreign corporations. The amendment of the gentleman from Michigan [Mr…

I am consoled that the class struggle has not expired with the demise of the former Soviet Union. We still put class against class here. The inability to understand that the nonavailability of medical help, and vaccines and drugs because…

this amendment eliminates one of the most important features of this bill: the cap on punitive damages. Under section 201(b), a punitive damages award cannot exceed three times the award for economic loss, or $250,000, whichever is…

Mr. Chairman, the amendment offered by the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Hoke] provides for 75 percent of punitive damages awards in excess of $250,000 to be deposited to the treasury of the State in which the particular Federal or State court…

I shall have to talk fast. Mr. Chairman, 33 States have abolished joint and several liability. That is the problem. There are 33 different laws, different methods of avoiding and evading joint and several liability, which is very unfair…

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…

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…

we have heard for the last 2 days capping noneconomic damages and liability suits would hurt women. The reason given is that women stay at home, so juries cannot calculate economic damages for them in the way they can for men who work…

Mr. Chairman, every State has statutes of limitation that prescribe the period of time within which a law must be brought. Similar but not identical is a statute of repose. Statutes of repose specify the period of time after which a…

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.