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I hope tonight Chris will ask him some of these questions that are very, very important that need to be answered for the American people. Here are a few of them: Why were 15 of the 19 hijackers that attacked us on 9/11 from Saudi Arabia…
Today we passed the IDEA bill, which was designed to help children who have learning disabilities to get the kind of attention they need in the educational systems across this country. The bill was not a bad bill. It did not go far enough…
Autism is one of the most misunderstood maladies that children have and adults have in this country, and it is a growing problem. We have one out of every 200 children in America now becoming autistic. It used to be one in 10,000. It has…
on a regular basis I come down here and talk about children who are autistic and the reasons for it. We have been receiving letters from across the country from literally hundreds and probably thousands of parents who have autistic…
I wholeheartedly support H. Res. 113 for several reasons. Approximately 3 million cases of suspected or known child abuse and neglect involving 5 million American children occur each year. The actual incidence of abuse and neglect is…
In the late 1980s, Congress passed a bill that established a Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund. It was supposed to be a nonadversarial fund that was to help children and their parents when they were damaged by vaccines. We have found in the…
It used to be that one child in 10,000 was autistic. Now it is one in 200. We have had a 50-fold increase in the number of children that are autistic in this country. It is an absolute epidemic. One of the causes, according to leading…
This lectern, or this stand, holds the faces of about 55 or 60 children who have been damaged, their parents believe, by vaccines that contain mercury and they have become autistic. One of those is my grandson. It is very interesting…
I have with me today a box, and on this box I am not sure my colleagues can see this, but there is 50 to 100 pictures of children who are autistic, and in the box I have in back of my office I have probably close to 1,000 letters from…
I have known the gentleman for many years, and I have never been able to get out of him a lot of the things that happened to him in Vietnam, but I want him to know that from other people I have learned that he really is a hero, and he is a…
everybody knows that mercury is a toxic substance. If it is spilled on the ground, they evacuate the area and they bring in the fire department and they clean it up with all kinds of paraphernalia to protect the citizens and the firemen…
Now, during the debate in the Senate, some of my colleagues, including some eminent doctors, said there was a Danish study that showed that thimerosal and mercury did not cause autism. First of all, let me tell the Members that the Danes…
I certainly support establishing the Department of Homeland Security. If there is one thing we need to deal with the terrorists and the terrorist threat, it is to make sure that we have a streamlined approach to dealing with the threat. I…
we are at war. Homeland security legislation passed this body in July, as the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Foley) just mentioned, and yet the Senate has not acted. The President wants the tools that he thinks are necessary to protect every…
I have high regard for both of them. We have tried to work on this in a bipartisan manner, and I really hope this whole issue does not degenerate into a political name-calling session, because we all want the same thing. We want to make…
We are at war, and we are talking about national security, and there is really no evidence that we have a problem. In fact, this very issue has been used very sparingly by past Presidents, both Republican and Democrat, and they have never…
first let me say that my good friend, the gentleman from California (Mr. Waxman), and I did work very closely along with the Democrats on the committee to come up with a product that we can all be proud of, and it did pass by a vote of…
the prosecutor allegedly threatened a witness and said if he did not say what he wanted him to say he would be indicted. He did not say what he wanted him to say and he was indicted. That could be prosecutorial misconduct. I do not know…
Well, this is a picture of my wife. We were married 42 years. We laid her to rest yesterday morning. She was one of the most wonderful people that I ever met. I promised her before she died that I would make sure that she would at least be…
the biggest industry in America is the Federal Government. It is bigger than Chrysler, it is bigger than General Motors, it is bigger than any company, Big Blue; and yet we have agencies that cannot talk to each other through their…
first of all, I think the Waxman amendment is well intentioned, and I know he has given this a lot of thought. Unfortunately, it has two problems, in my opinion. First, it goes too far; and, second, it addresses a problem that does not…
I was a personal friend of Bob Davis while he was a Member of the House. We participated in sports activities as well as cosponsored legislation here on the floor of the House. There was no finer Representative from the State of Michigan…
I think this is probably a very good bill and I support it. However, there are a few things I would like to say... Many scientists around the world believe one of the major contributing factors is these toxic substances that are being used…
Yesterday, the nation witnessed an evil, unspeakable act by an evil, despicable, and cowardly enemy. The terrorists who perpetrated these atrocities upon the United States, killing perhaps thousands of innocent people, shall have no place…
H.R. 2456 would allow Federal employees to keep frequent flyer miles they earn from official travel. This bill was approved unanimously by the Government Reform Committee last week. It will help Federal agencies compete with the private…
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