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I hope I am quoting him correctly; he said, ``If I do the wrong thing, a thousand angels screaming from the rooftops won't make it right, but if I do the right thing, history will prove I did the right thing.'' Mr. Speaker, I hope that is…
let me just say that there is enough blame to go around. Obviously we do have a consumption problem here in the United States, but a major part of the responsibility for the drug problem in America rests in Mexico, and for people to deny…
Mr. Speaker, this is a sad thing to do right off the bat, in a new session of the Congress, to have to eulogize and remember a fellow like Frank Tejeda. He did a great service to this country. He was an outstanding Congressman. One of the…
let me just end by saying I really and truly feel for my colleagues in California and their constituent, and I hope all of their colleagues paid attention to this special order tonight, because they are right on the money. It is an…
I would like to say the majority of this hour is going to be given to my friends from California, who have a lot to tell my colleagues about, and people of this country, regarding immigration reform. Immigration reform is absolutely…
we had two FBI agents who worked at the White House, both of whom have retired now, who are very concerned about the policies of the Clinton administration. I have talked with both of those individuals, and they have for the most part…
There was an attempt to get retroactive pay. People showed up at the White House to work in the Clinton White House, with many not having a job arranged. Later, David Watkins wanted to pay them retroactively, go back and pay them for the…
Bill Clinton said on June 16, 1992, when asked about inhaling marijuana: Sure, I would inhale marijuana if I could, I tried before. After the took office, Bill Clinton effectively abandoned the war on drugs. He slashed the White House…
Mr. Speaker in 1990, we passed the Aviation Security Improvement Act, which was supposed to protect people in airports getting on their airplanes. It was supposed to deal with the possibility of detecting plastic explosives, which could…
Let me read to my colleagues what a Legal Services grantee in California said about the new restrictions. He said, ``If Congress can screw people with technicalities, we can unscrew them with technicalities. That is why we are lawyers and…
during the debate to which the gentleman from West Virginia [Mr. Mollohan] refers, it was made very clear that many legal services corporations that did not want to abide by the new rules were forming shell corporations to get around that…
every American values his or her privacy. The people who work for this Government are no exception--408 individual Americans who worked for previous administrations, Republicans, had their files taken from the FBI, and we believe that many…
I was kind of distressed today when I turned on the television set and saw the report that came out from the Senate Banking Committee on Whitewater. I was not upset about the report; I was upset about how it was presented by the media and…
Larry Byrne (Assistant Administrator for Management at AID) said that AID was 62 percent through this fiscal year and we have 38 percent of the dollar volume of procurement actions completed; we need to do, or spend, $1.9 billion in the…
In that one category it is $144 million above what the administration requested. Tell me what is in the bill. There it is.
What I am talking, if the gentleman would yield further, what I am talking about is cutting developmental assistance alone, not talking about child survival. Leaving that account aside, I am talking about cutting the development aid down…
I want to really get to the bottom of this. If the gentleman would yield further, the point I am trying to make is when the administration made its request, they obviously folded into this account all the things the gentleman is talking…
There was absolutely none. As a matter of fact, 2,300 POW-MIA's were not accounted for, as every President before demanded.
Kicking Turkey in the teeth, our friend right now, is not a constructive thing to do. If my colleagues want to write a letter to the Turkish leadership, and I would be happy to participate, expressing our concern about some things that we…
I may be a voice in the wilderness, but I do not agree with all of my colleagues who have preceded me. Mr. Chairman, Turkey has been an ally of the United States through thick and thin. In the Persian Gulf war we had our bases in Turkey…
last fall we had a hearing on Haiti, and during that hearing we had the administration's point man, Ambassador James Dobbins, appear before the committee, and we asked him about the progress that was being made about the FBI investigation…
Everybody is concerned about Iran and the terrorism that has been exported from Iran throughout the Middle East. As the gentleman has just stated, Iran has a great deal of influence in countries like Turkey, and it is a very fragile…
What my amendment does is it says on page 95, line 12, that the administration must give a report before any additional money goes to Haiti on the murders of Ms. Bertin, Mr. Gonzalez, and Mr. Feuille in addition to other political…
when we cut 200 jobs out of 8,000, that is one-quarter of 1 percent, and you keep saying you are going to hand the checks to the Rotary Club to give that money away, that is a ludicrous thing to say. The fact of the matter is that 200…
Well, I certainly agree. We are not cutting AID to the bone. We are cutting out the fat in my amendments, and what we are doing is sending a signal. Seventy-four percent, the gentleman is a taxpayer and so am I, 74 percent of the American…
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