Mark Souder

I would agree to such an amendment and believe it is consistent with what we have been doing all the way along and consistent with court decisions that we cannot discriminate among recipients.

I accepted an amendment that in my opinion was already covered by the bill under the establishment clause, but this clarified that. Obviously the gentleman's concern is the guts of my bill, which would allow faith-based organizations to…

nonprofit organizations are already covered under the Tax Code, because under religious freedom in the United States, one is allowed to exercise freedom of religion. What this does would leave the discretion to the Department of HUD, as…

the gentleman is aware, as we debated a number of times, that there are multiple rulings if it is used to teach primarily sectarian doctrine. In other words, if you teach religious doctrine, the courts clearly ruled. However, if one is…

I read with concern this week that we have had another incident on our southern border in Tijuana with Mexico and their inability to get control of the drug problem. The attorney general of Mexico was quoted, who has been a crusader in…

But this has support from all across America because of the inequity of the Tax Code. I want to congratulate my colleague for his leadership and persistence in pushing this and not going away when people said, no, we want to do other…

first I will join with those praising our chairman, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Miller), who stuck with this through good times and tough times, as well as the ranking Democrat on the committee, the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs…

it is kind of ironic we have this religious debate from time to time here, and when we stand in the House well the only lawgiver facing us is Moses, whose head is turned right towards the Speaker; and above the Speaker's head it says, ``In…

I would like to reiterate what I just said a minute ago as far as the gentleman from Florida's work for many years as a Senate staffer and then as a leader here in the House and has been down in the region for multiple times. You can hear…

I wanted to congratulate the chairman on his leadership and his diligence in coming down here to the House to keep America informed as to this process. I was privileged to join the chairman when we were in Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Panama…

We need to encourage efforts to implement such programs.

The CHARACTER COUNTS! Coalition hopes to combat violence, irresponsibility and dishonesty while strengthening the character of the next generation.

We believe that CHARACTER COUNTS! in personal relationships, in school, at the workplace, and in life.

It is important that we continue to encourage such creative flexibility.

Yesterday Congressman Ernie Fletcher introduced an amendment, which allows teacher training funds to be used for character education training, to the Teacher Empowerment Act. It was adopted with my strong support.

This I think would put them roughly at $1.4 million. It was at roughly $1.3 million in 1994 when the Democrats were in. That is not much of an increase in the whip operation. Furthermore, the Democrats are getting more money for the…

the whip's office took a $300,000 cut the first year the majority took over because of differences internally. This will put them, inflation-adjusted, about where they would have been. The minority is actually getting more than the…

We have a budget agreement that the President says he supports, that all of us in Congress say we support, that calls for very difficult appropriations levels, and quite bluntly, none of us are really happy with it. We want to keep the…

years ago when George McGovern ran for president, our current President and National Security Adviser worked in his campaign. Sandy Berger supposedly even coined the phrase ``come home America.'' Our boys of the Vietnam era have now grown…

My understanding of the bill, my amendment to the bill, would eliminate the invitation that both the chairman and the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton) have for a supplemental, but it would not prohibit the President from coming with…

I wanted to clarify the amendment, if I may. It only affects fiscal year 2000 funding. It has 4 months for us to withdraw. It does not have any immediate impact.

One is I do not think it is helpful to take really serious deep disagreements about the validity of this particular war and imply that it has a political motive. I think I can stand here with the respect of this House and say I am not…

Mr. Chairman, I have a series of four amendments, three I understand are in order, but this one has been ruled not to be in order, and I will not challenge that ruling. The intention of this amendment was to take in this section where it…

this amendment is in order because it does not move the money but addresses the same point. If I can explain the technical part of this amendment again so people understand exactly what we are doing here. In the operation and maintenance…

having visited the Balkans, and I was privileged to be included in the trip with Senator Stevens and Chairman Young a few weeks ago, I have been aggressively against this war which I do not believe is winnable in the traditional sense. And…