Dan Burton

I wish my colleagues' frugality had been apparent when we were talking about the Iran-Contra investigation, which ended up with nobody really being convicted. Everybody was dismissed, and we spent $48 million; $48 million on Iran-Contra…

This is very, very disturbing, because we have been led to believe, I and all my colleagues, have been led to believe that our military preparedness is adequate for almost any eventuality. We have been to Somalia, we are now in Bosnia, we…

So any citizen of the United States might be subject to this good-faith exception which would allow the Government to find something out about them inadvertently through a wiretap that could cause them unbelievable problems.

This is going to expand the ability for people to be wiretapped way beyond where it is right now.

A great, great honor befell one of our colleagues yesterday. Jim Bunning from Kentucky, a very good friend of mine. Everybody here in the front row was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. This is an honor that very few baseball players…

Barbara Kennelly is one of the finest people I know in this Chamber, and her husband likewise was a fine person. On behalf of the people who are not here tonight on our side of the aisle, we want to express our condolences to her and her…

We are the only country that has this recoupment provision in law, the only country. Our competitors subsidize their military production, their military equipment, which they sell around the world, but they do not have that recoupment…

He is not broadening the waiver authority, he is repealing the fee. He is throwing the baby out with the bath water.

Mr. Chairman, I think there has been some problem in the course of this debate. First of all, if we are going to change the law we ought to be able to point out a problem. I do not see anyone who has identified a problem that contractors…

Has any country outside of a NATO country benefited from the recoupment provision we are talking about? I know the gentleman is saying it is not limited just to NATO. What I would like to know is, has any other country really benefited…

I stand corrected. But I would just like to ask the question, why is there this double standard? This double standard should not occur. People who are held to a high standard in one body of this government should not be singled out when…

The gentleman is going to get that chance, because we are going to propose that amendment to your bill.

The fact of the matter is, will the gentleman vote to limit your campaign contributions to $1,000?

Will the gentleman vote for an amendment to your bill to limit campaign contributions from PACs to $1,000? Because I am going to introduce it, and I want to see if the gentleman will vote for it because you are getting all these $5,000…

No. The people who put on fundraisers for cancer research are organizations, not lobbyists.

I have played golf at the expense of people raising money for leukemia research and for cancer research so the taxpayers do not have to.

Mr. Chairman, this legislation in a tougher form, in a tougher form, passed the Senate with 73 Members of that body voting for it. Members who were here before, conservatives, liberals, moderates, they are not for Government censorship…

After the President signs the bill, the time starts. Then the requirement starts. Not after we pass it here in the House.

Let me read once again, since the gentleman said that this was mostly high school seniors, these were middle school students, we are talking about children in the 10, 11, 12-year-old age range. Listen to this question. It is very…

Many times they are asked of children in primary and secondary education, way down below the senior high school level.

But those questions are asked of children in the schools in the education system.

We do not believe Federal moneys should be used for these kinds of questionnaires.

And the gentleman keeps talking about a contingency basis, but many of those are on hourly rate, and so the plaintiff does pay legal fees in many of these cases on an hourly rate, and it is pretty doggone high. So this contingency thing is…

I really believe we should take a hard look at having a lower percentage than 100 percent. I think 25 percent sounds reasonable.

10 days before the trial, this is a very contentious case, the defense has two attorneys working on it at 10 hours a day, 20 hours a day at $100 an hour, that is $2,000 a day, but I think that is a low fee for some of these attorneys. Say…