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the suffering of the Cuban people is caused by Fidel Castro, and not by the embargo. The money that is paid to the employees down there by businesses that go into Cuba does not go to the employees; it goes to Castro. If they are paid $400…
Mr. Speaker, first of all, let me say to everyone paying attention to this debate that I am under no illusion that this bill is going to go down to defeat. I think it is going to pass overwhelmingly. I do support wholeheartedly the $14…
everybody knows about Iwo Jima and the horrible battle that took place there back in 1945. This weekend an organization called Freedom Alliance is going to have a number of specials on this on the Fox News Channel, and I hope all of my…
Mr. Speaker, vaccinations have been a real plus for this country. We had a lot of diseases that used to be so feared, like polio and diptheria that we do not have to worry about anymore, and it is because we have vaccinations that really…
I did not know much about autism, except it was a disease of some kind that afflicted a lot of kids and some adults until it happened to my grandson. One day he was normal, starting to talk, walking, great kid. He got nine shots in one…
There are 24 million small business people in this country that have been suffering dramatically under the burden of overregulation and paperwork. This bill takes a giant step toward eliminating a lot of the problems they face. This is…
when one gets into those figures, it gets very confusing; but the fact of the matter is, it is costing small business people in this country a ton of money.
I promised my mom and my dad that, if I ever made it to the United States Congress, I was going to take them in the front door of the White House to meet the President of the United States, not the back door, but the front door. And so…
during rollcall vote No. 602, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been here I would have voted ``yea.'' ____________________
we are going to be losing two of our Congressmen from Indiana, and they are both very fine Congressmen. One of them is Ed Pease, whom all of us have seen in the Chair many, many times over the past couple of years. He has done a great job…
last year, during our investigation, the Committee on Government Reform had John Huang testify that James Riady, a close personal friend of the President of the United States, organized a scheme to funnel a million dollars into the…
I will end by saying that a few years ago, this amendment did pass. Since then the other side, the Indian lobby, has been very effective. I congratulate them on their effectiveness. The problem still exists, though. I hope one day we will…
this amendment is simple in nature. It moves money from three accounts bloated with bureaucracy and into an account which helps fight the scourge of drugs which are devastating our society. As the gentleman from New York (Chairman Gilman)…
We have found through the hearings that many of the people on these advisory committees have financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry. They have financial ties directly to the companies that are producing the drugs that they are…
Mr. Chairman, the health of every American child is affected by decisions made at the Department of Health and Human Services about vaccines. Those decisions have to be made free of conflicts of interest, and right now that just is not the…
Larry Bird was a great player, but he is also a great coach. Mr. Speaker, let me get back to the focus of my short message tonight. That is that the Indiana Pacers for the first time in history are going to be playing in the finals of the…
Mr. Speaker, we have not talked much about our national security. The Chinese have a $68 billion trade surplus; and after this agreement is signed, if it passes today and passes the Senate and is signed by the President, they are going to…
real briefly let me just ask the gentleman this. Does he really believe after American industry invests plant and equipment and money over there that they are going to allow us to withdraw permanent trade status?
What kind of checks and balances will we have on China if they get permanent trade status? We have been reviewing them once a year and, because of that, they know that once a year we are going to vote on it and we can withdraw that…
Tomorrow in Ankara, Turkey, Judge Ahmet Necdet Sezer will take the oath of office to become president of that vitally important Nation and its 65 million people. This is truly an historic moment. Judge Sezer is the first president of…
Mr. Chairman, for several years now the gentleman from New York (Mr. Gilman), the chairman of the Committee on International Operations and Human Rights, and I, as chairman of the Committee on Government Reform, and the gentleman from…
back in 1993 I met a gentleman named Binh Ly. And Mr. Ly told me and other Congressmen that he had a business partner, Mr. Nguyen Van Hao, who met with former Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown to seek his help in normalizing relations with…
this amendment contains technical and clarifying corrections to the legislation that I have worked out in advance with our ranking member, the gentleman from California (Mr. Waxman), and the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Turner), the…
Mr. Chairman, today we are going to do something that is a little bit unusual for the Congress. We are going to vote on a bill that will save taxpayers' money instead of spending their money. Today we are going to vote on the Government…
The Gambia's President, Dr. Yahya Jammeh, recently completed his first visit to the United States as head-of-State, and I had the opportunity to meet with him personally to discuss issues of mutual interest.
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