Dan Burton

Reclaiming my time, the man has a permanent disability. Because of the jury's decision, he is going to end up with $25,000, and he has a lifetime of pain and suffering. It just seems to me there ought to be some balance in this. For the…

So that would be a total of $50,000 that he would be out as far as legal obligations. For his shoulder injury, that is a permanent impairment, he now is going to get a $25,000 settlement in reality.

As I yield back, let me say this in conclusion, Mr. Chairman: This modular cell construction we are talking about is one new technology. There will be others in the years to come, and we believe every Governor of every State should be…

It ought to be pointed out, and I think the gentleman did that, and that is, if they are constructed off site, it is going to cut down construction costs----

It a very simple and straightforward amendment designed to make sure that the latest and best technology is used in building prisons and prison cells. It mandates that the States look into this to make sure they are using taxpayer dollars…

Let me just say I share the concern of the gentlewoman from Ohio. We will hold extensive hearings on this subject, how it will impact on the United States, Mexico and other Latin American countries. It will not be just window dressing. We…

I think the FDIC is looking into this already, because it involves taxpayers' moneys and loans from the Federal Government. And so I think that the FDIC is going to look into this at the request I believe of Chairman Clinger and others. I…

Yes, I think that should be done. And I also believe we should seriously consider urging that an independent counsel be appointed to thoroughly look into all of these activities I have alluded to. If we can get the Justice Department and…

Yes; I believe all of these activities should be very thoroughly documented in his report, and that is one of the reasons why I believe that the Senators and those of us in the House are asking the FDIC, and other agencies of Government to…

Not knowing about the activities of one of the partners, so it is beyond comprehension to me that Mr. Brown would not know of these activities.

I would think that any investigative attorney would question highly a partner in a firm with these kinds of resources.

The people of this country spoke last November. But it is apparent to anyone who is paying attention to what is going on in this House that the Democratic Party is doing everything they can to derail the Contract With America. They are…

Because the inflation rate got out of control, and Mr. Volcker thought he had to do that to choke off inflation, and, when President Reagan came in and cut the top tax rate, which is not talked about very much, we ended up with seeing…

I just want to say I do commend the gentleman. I remember him standing tall on this side of the aisle. I think he is one of the finer Members on this side of the aisle, and maybe in the Chamber. I think the President should have gone, and…

I do not think the taxpayers of this country want to pay for that. And they were not veterans. He did not ask any of the veterans organizations to send veterans. We talked to veterans who were wounded in a hospital in California who said…

There is an old Chinese proverb that says if you give a person a fish, you feed him for a day; if you teach him to fish, you feed them for their entire lifetime. And it seems to me that welfare, whether it is here or around the world…

American industry would like to go over there and are going over to South Africa. All I am saying is rather than send American taxpayers' dollars over there, let us send American industry over there and let them mine these natural…

There has never been a finer Representative than Sam Hall to serve in this body. Sam and I and his lovely wife Madeline had an opportunity to take a trip abroad on one of our foreign policy problems a few years back, and I got to know them…

Let my constituents judge by having me report all that. I am for complete reportability, but my constituents can judge better than that.

Briefly I would say that anybody in this body who believes that a lunch would have more influence than a $5,000 contribution from a PAC I do not think is living in the real world.

As a school administrator, I would like to ask the gentleman, in your school, did the students have to have it certified that they had their measles shots and other shots?

This Congress needs to take responsibility for not dealing with the illegal alien problem.

I submit to my colleagues that one of the ways to get to the bottom of the problem is to find out how many illegal aliens are in the schools and being taught. If we found that out, then they could find a way to address this problem through…

Well, the independent counsel law was abused by Mr. Walsh. he spent millions and millions and millions of dollars and did not get one conviction.

I do not believe we should cut the Department of Defense any further. We have cut it too far already. I believe we should keep a strong national defense, but this is the vehicle for this. In addition to that, they are putting all of these…