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I am pleased that our session today began with a prayer delivered by Bryce Anderson, pastor of the Church of the Living Word in Vincennes, Indiana. It is a proud and longstanding part of our heritage that the work of Congress begins only…
I want to emphasize two points about the Basic Pilot Extension Act of 2003. First, employers participating in the pilot program find it of immense help in the day-to-day operations of their businesses. Second, despite some of what we have…
Mr. Chairman, in short, we are talking a lot today about values, a very ambiguous time, from time to time, but in fact, Mr. Chairman, with the blood, sweat and tears of our men and women in uniform, they have bought the freedom of the…
on June 26, 2002, in Newdow v. U.S. Congress, a three-member panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a California school district's policy and practice of voluntary recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance was…
in Glassroth v. Moore, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore violated the establishment clause of the first amendment to the Constitution by placing a granite monument of the Ten…
This amendment establishes, Mr. Chairman, requirements that must be met by foreign governments in issuing consular identification cards in the United States and authorizes the Secretary of State to regulate the issuance of those documents…
even though I generally do not support amending the Constitution, today I rise in strong support of this proposed constitutional amendment. We have come here today because five individuals in black robes have opined that we must tolerate…
Today the question before this body, Mr. Speaker, is not ``How shall we respond to the unprovoked attack by a foreign nation upon the United States or its fielded military forces abroad?'' We are not debating ``How will we respond to the…
once again I would like to thank the committee for the legislation that is before us and that we are moving in the right way. The amendment that I offer at this time strikes the language in this bill that gives preferential treatment to…
Once again, Mr. Chairman, the amendment I offer simply opens up the bill and the provisions of the bill to all the pilots that desire to take part in this program, that volunteer to take part in this program, and does not discriminate…
The amendment ensures that the program proposed by this act will be carried out expeditiously by requiring that at least 20 percent of the pilots who volunteer during the first month be trained and deputized not more than 6 months after…
The amendment strikes the language in this bill that gives preferential treatment to pilots who were former military or former law enforcement personnel. It is correct, Mr. Chairman, that there is a preference only, but if we want a…
this amendment that I am proposing today would clarify what I believe this bill infers. Air carriers would simply be prevented from firing or otherwise discouraging those pilots who join the flight deck officer program. It also ensures…
I submit the following information on the subject of Cloning. National Right to Life Committee, Inc. Washington, DC, July 26, 2001. Scientists Say ``Therapeutic Cloning'' Creates a Human Embryo President Clinton's National Bioethics…
I would simply call to point that this is a very passionate debate that has taken place tonight, and that is exactly what the framers of the Constitution intended to happen. They intended to have passionate debate on issues relating to…
Why are we considering this legislation today? How is the offering of prayer at a football game unconstitutional? The root of this debate can be traced to 1962 when the Supreme Court opined in Engel versus Vitale that, quote…
I just returned from Russia where I joined a bipartisan delegation of my colleagues in communicating the intent of H.R. 4 to members of the Russian Duma. Although Russia is skeptical of America's intent to deploy a national missile…
As we all know, the U.S. easily pays the lion's share of the burden for keeping the U.N. in operation. Each year the U.S. spends approximately $1 billion for the U.N.'s regular budget, peacekeeping operations, and various other U.N…
I go back to the words of Jeremiah the profit, who said that he knew me in my mother's womb, and simply say that there are those of us that do believe that life does begin at conception and that we are indeed involved in the extermination…
as someone who has never received special interest PAC money in the history of his elections, I think it is important that the gentleman makes it clear that the gentleman has in the past. Is that not the case?
throughout the debate on the resolution before this House, there has been much discussion of the opinions of experts'' on Constitutional law
Mr. Chairman, this discussion has given credence to the old axiom that says that nothing is so absurd that if said often enough, people will start believing it. Those people who say that ATP is not corporate welfare I think are wrong. When…
this amendment is simple, straightforward, and necessary for the NLRB, the National Labor Relations Board, to do its job. The National Labor Relations Board currently has jurisdiction over many labor disputes that involve enterprises that…
Mr. Chairman, I wish to bring us back to the substance of this amendment. The substance of the amendment seeks to simply index the levels of jurisdiction, mandatory jurisdiction for the National Labor Relations Board. And it is important…
tonight this Congress is making history as we finally face the responsibility that previous Congresses ducked for a generation, balancing the Federal budget. On that we all agree. Where we disagree and what we are truly debating before the…
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