in answer to your question, I do not think anything is going to accelerate this until Mr. Chavez decides what he wants to do, and Mr. Chavez was given, if the gentleman will let me finish, Mr. Chavez and you, my good friend, asked for us…

Well, I didn't yield any more time to my colleague, he just started talking. But that is okay, I have a high regard for him. Let me just say once again that we have gone the extra mile on this agreement with Mr. Chavez. He wouldn't sign…

Let me just say I support the amendment. I have been concerned about the problems between India and Pakistan for a long, long time, particularly in the area of Kashmir. They are talking now. Prime Minister Singh and President Musharraf…

Reclaiming my time, and I just want to say this. If there is a problem that has evolved out of this discussion tonight, it lays at the feet of Hugo Chavez. It lays at his feet. Because there was an agreement that was hammered out between…

the Speaker of the House came down to the floor just a few minutes ago and talked about Helen, who worked in the Cloakroom for probably 40 or 50 years and told about what a wonderful lady she was. I don't want to be redundant, but I want…

Congressman Stark and I both realized a problem that exists in the redrawing of the floodplain maps across this country. FEMA is in the process of reshooting the maps in several parts of the country, and the only way people who are in the…

Once again, I want to thank my colleague for being a cosponsor; and I want to thank the chairman for accepting.

the United Nations has had a myriad of problems over the last 4, 5, 6 years. There has been tremendous scandals, there has been waste, fraud and abuse. There have been atrocities perpetrated by the U.N. peacekeeping forces in Africa where…

First of all, the Saudis don't need our money. They are one of the biggest oil producers in the world. And so why are we giving them $400,000 or $500,000 or a million, or whatever it happens to be? I understand this is symbolic, but the…

tonight, we are coming down here to honor one of the greatest orators that has ever been a Member of the House of Representatives. Henry Hyde, I have known for about 24 years, and I do not think there is a finer Member of Congress that has…

I get a big kick out of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, for whom I have great respect. You know, I remember when Jimmy Carter was President of the United States, we had those gas lines that went all of the way around the…

I just want to say that we are drilling for oil in Texas, California, Oklahoma, and Nebraska. How did the gentleman vote when we wanted to drill in the ANWR, which is 3.5 times the size of Texas? We could have gotten almost 2 million…

Iran, as my colleague leaves the floor, is a terrorist state. They are trying to develop nuclear weapons, and the world and the United States cannot tolerate that. We will rue the day if we allow them to go forward with their nuclear…

the war on terror goes beyond just worrying about our borders and fighting in other parts of the world against known terrorists. Money from the Middle East has been coming into our universities in large amounts to try to indoctrinate young…

I have discussed at length with the chairman of the subcommittee from Arizona and the chairman of the full committee the problems that we faced with Plan Colombia. In the last 5 or 6 years, there have been 23 aircraft lost that are vitally…

the liberal media and my liberal colleagues are attacking the President for protecting America. The wiretaps that he has ordered are legal, and he informed the Intelligence Committees 12 times about them. What are we going to do? Are we…

I do not think so at this time. I think this resolution sends a very strong message, and I think we need to pass it.

I know I get a big kick, Mr. Speaker, out of listening to my colleagues come down here and talk about the sky falling. After 9/11 we had an economic downturn and tourism suffered and all the ancillary industries suffered, airlines suffered…

the debate over the potential costs and benefits of the proposed Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement, CAFTA, has been contentious; and at times it has been difficult to separate fact from fiction and the myths from…

I love you, man. You know that. But I have got to tell you, the Sandinistas and the leftists in Central and South America are against this for the reasons I stated. If you really believe in stability in our hemisphere, and you do not want…

we had a situation a few years ago where on the homeland security bill at about 11 o'clock at night, they stuck language in the bill which prohibited class action lawsuits against the manufacturers of thimerosal, which is a preservative…

Thimerosal was approved as well. You say there is language in here that does exempt vaccines?

most of my colleagues and the people of this country are not aware that the shoe bomber that was on the plane that was going to blow up that plane and kill all those innocent people was recently convicted and sentenced. People across this…

I have heard what they are against. What are you for? We have got a drug problem that we are trying to deal with. Plan Colombia, according to the statistical data that has been quoted time and time and time again by my colleagues, and I am…

due to illness I was regrettably delayed in my return to Washington, DC, and therefore unable to be on the House floor for rollcall votes 322 and 323. Had I been here I would have voted ``yea'' for rollcall vote 323, and ``yea'' with…