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last week we had a historic symbolic vote on the war. This House voted against ground troops. We also voted against, in a tie vote, a resolution to support the air war. This week we have the real vote. Are we going to fund the war? Are we…
last night's votes on our war were a wakeup call to our President, to NATO and to the world. The American People's House voted against a declaration of war, against ground troops, and also defeated a resolution on a tie vote, even, in…
I personally am very disappointed that we had to withdraw the Senate amendment that would have allowed some of these funds to be used from last year's teachers program, if a school so chose, for IDEA. Because, in fact, this sets parameters…
the question is: Why are we here particularly today in addition to it being tax day? When the Republicans took over Congress in January of 1995, the first major legislative vote for me as a Member of Congress was the first item of the…
first off, this is not a question of an accurate count, it is a question of an accurate count versus a possibly inaccurate guess or, more likely, a probable inaccurate guess. We hear all this talk about wanting to count people. The…
one of my concerns when I read this article and in listening to the gentleman go through this is that we on the Committee on Government Reform, we have heard some of this type of thing before, that the constant trying to limit…
Mr. Chairman, I have been here wanting to speak on this amendment. While the other side would like to impugn the motives of many of us, which I do not appreciate, the fact is that this is the start of a process this afternoon that I…
we have heard a lot today and we will hear a lot more in the future about who is saving social security, but there is a key fact we should keep in mind. That is, for 40 years the Democrats held control of this House. The number of times…
reclaiming my time, in addition, when the gentleman earlier focused on cocaine and talked about the shift of cocaine to Colombia, and the gentleman presumably gets into some of this here, too, but we have seen a shift in heroin, because we…
I would like to conclude, Madam Speaker. We are about out of time here. If the gentleman could put the one chart up there that had Colombia on it. And let me thank the gentleman for laying out systematically the background of the problems…
I and others tonight will be using most of this hour to talk about the drug issue and our battle against illegal narcotics in this country, but I wanted to take a few moments at the beginning here to kind of put some of the other issues in…
I want to again thank the distinguished chairman of the Committee on International Relations because he has frequently been down in these countries that he has complimented and seen firsthand the successful efforts or the progress being…
It is ironic. Sometimes here we look more organized than we are. I was going to speak on the drug issue. I did not know the President was going to be sending over right before me his initiatives and comments. This is a particularly…
It used to be years ago in the schools they taught the Constitution. Constitution said you actually have to count people. You cannot guess. I have a business undergraduate degree, a business graduate degree as well. I have worked in the…
Yes. Hopefully later today we will be talking further about that. In fact, this is interesting, the board that I chose to put the national testing on is one I had earlier of 94 witnesses who have fled the country or pled the fifth. The…
In science, we gave him a D. He misimplies census statistics. Clearly he does not know how to count and what the Constitution means regarding counting and what math means there. Sampling is one thing, but when we come down to actually…
how could you have a national test? Every teacher with a right mind and every principal would say teach to the test. That means, to teach to the test, they have to have courses that have the subject matter that is in the test. It is not…
Yes. Mr. Speaker, he is moving so fast, it is hard to tell when it is an actual pivot. Mr. Speaker, then what happened this year, he sent down a series of proposals, as he does regularly, to try to nationalize education. Because his…
once again it is important to point out why we are here. We have a Democratic President and a Republican Congress with disagreements. We have disagreements that are deep and heartfelt. However, we have known these disagreements since at…
it would be really helpful if we did not attack each others motives. I do not consider myself a mean person. I consider myself like other Members of this body on both sides, deeply committed to the issues we believe in, and we confuse the…
I try to be generous to the President when possible. In physical education he got an A. He is an excellent golfer and a jogger. No comment beyond that. In attendance, we have had an attendance problem. We have a serious attendance problem…
Well, as I went through this I found I have gone through seven parallels, and I found 21 minimum. Number 8: Take advantage of the public's belief the Presidents act logically. November 1, 1972, Nixon and Erlichman. Erlichman: We do not…
Okay, one I want to finish on then is the loyal secretary/scheduler, Nixon and Rosemary Woods. Two points, one Woods. He said says, well, I think he is too a nice man, referring to a man, but because of that fact is it even safe for me to…
Yes, I am saying that there appears to be historical parallels. Erlichman says the Watergate thing, I do not think there is anything to add what we have already said. Haldeman said you might re-say it. Erlichman: That nobody in the…
You would at least think they would come out and say they are sorry. "We're sorry that for 40 years we did this." Maybe it would take seven speechwriters to sort through this over time to get the "sorry" part down just right. But how you…
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