Mark Souder

this afternoon and this evening I would like to talk about our problems with illegal narcotics. We have a new President. We have a new Congress. I have recently, as of 2 weeks ago, been named chairman of the Subcommittee on Criminal…

Earlier this week, President George Bush announced his faith-based initiatives office and different proposals that he will be sending down to Congress. Earlier today, the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Watts), who has been a leader in this…

today was an historic day for the United States because our President, George W. Bush, announced a new office for faith-based initiatives. Many of us have worked for many years, as has President Bush and the State of Texas, in many of…

this afternoon I have introduced a bill to restore the Federal recognition to the Miami Nation of Indiana. The Miami Nation of Indiana is one of our most historic Indian nations. Unfortunately, it is not currently recognized by the Federal…

I rise tonight to oppose the Interior appropriations bill that is likely to come upon us, at least in the form that we have been hearing about. It is pumping millions of dollars into the appropriations process but guts CARA, the…

some of what I have to say here this afternoon is not going to be very comfortable to hear, and it is, quite frankly, pretty uncomfortable for me to come forth and to talk about this directly. The poster my colleagues see beside me, and I…

I am a proud conservative cosponsor of the gentleman from South Carolina's bill to provide loan forgiveness to teachers in title I schools and special ed. Sometimes, just once in a while, our liberal friends accuse conservatives of not…

In doing so we hope to recapture some of the vision and excitement of the space program for Americans as we enter the 21st century. It is by no means an exaggeration to say that the landing was one of the most significant events in human…

I appreciate her leadership. Mr. Speaker, I am not going to get into a lot of discussion here about the amazing wonders that some of these groups are accomplishing around the country that are faith based, but I want to get into the…

let me make it clear. There are only two scientific long-term studies, one in Vancouver and one in Montreal. In Montreal, the number that contracted the AIDS virus more than doubled; in Vancouver, it was higher among participants in the…

one thing we need to clarify right off the bat is what the intent of the Founding Fathers was, in fact, in religion; and this bill does not go near that far. In fact, the Founding Fathers printed twice copies of Bibles to be distributed in…

I am aware that we have directly banned abortion funding, but the question and what we have tried to address and what this language tries to address is fungible funding. The argument of many of us is that in an organization that on the one…

I do believe and what my point is is that these funds can be used directly for abortion, because the money is commingled, and while there is a bookkeeping process, the fact is that the actual dollars that are used on abortion are fungible…

I wanted to reinforce some of the points that my friend, the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), made but add that it was not just the road damage. They will have 580 to $600 million estimated in trade damage and other costs. They have…

this is clearly going to be an abortion debate. Others can try to turn it into recycling the old phrase about the gag rule, but this fundamentally an abortion debate, and whether those of us who strongly believe that abortion is taking the…

Amendment No. 75 offered by Mr. Souder: Page 107, after line 21, insert the following: TITLE VIII--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec. 801. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be made available for…

It is very easy to feel guilty in this job, unless you are a very kind of hard-skinned person. Many of us tend to blame any problems we have with our kids on the fact that we are separated at times, when, in fact, we might still have those…

It is no secret that children who have fathers in the home tend to do better in school, have more success in relationships, and get into less trouble. A broad array of America's leading family and child development experts agree that it is…

I said earlier that I was very excited to see this bill move forward, but there were a number of questions that I had as we first brought this up in the Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands and the Committee on Resources, which…

on June 1, I received a letter that was written by seven members of the biology department and one professor of psychology from Baylor University in response to my co-hosting a recent conference on intelligent design, the theory that an…

One thing that has not been pointed out enough is this training center is the only one where it teaches in Spanish. Our other courses around the country reach the other echelons of leadership. This has tried to take our message of…

I would like to join with those who are taking a few minutes today to remember and pay tribute to those Armenians who lost their lives and national identity during one of history's most tragic examples of persecution and intolerance, the…

my understanding of this, and there are only a couple of exceptions which we could get into if we wanted to, but in this grant, there would not be an exception, and that is that one cannot discriminate on who one covers, nor can one force…

I merely want to reiterate that for all the hullaballoo here, this is the same language we had in the juvenile justice bill that passed 346 to 83 with the same language; the same in the Fathers Count, in the welfare bill, the human…

many of the Constitutional issues relevant to the Charitable Choice debate were discussed in an excellent article by Carl Esbeck in the Emory Law Review, which follows: A Constitutional Case for Governmental Cooperation With Faith-Based…