Mark Souder

I, too, want to point out that I have two children in college. Both of them went through public schools, through elementary, junior high and high school. My youngest is going through public schools. I went through public schools. I get…

I wanted to make a brief comment associating myself with your earlier remarks. One thing, I was a little concerned that you were going to discourage them from advocating socialized medicine when, in fact, you and the gentleman from…

I have a slightly different perspective than many here because my family once was Amish. My great-great-grandfather, great grandfather was one of the first Amish settlers in Northeastern Indiana. My family left the Amish faith around the…

I rise today to offer a perfecting amendment to this bill. Let me be perfectly clear. I support the bill as it is currently drafted, and I am one of 14 original cosponsors. I believe, however, that the bill could be perfected with the…

You have documentation that he did not participate, not that he participated and took somebody down. I want to illustrate what is at stake here. We have Huey helicopters that we would not allow Americans to ride in. Our only line of…

the point here is that the gentlewoman alludes to allegations. There is one specific point, it is well known publicly, that is, that the National Police antinarcotics unit did not participate in stopping a paramilitary group. That is…

First off I know the gentlewoman shares a deep concern about the heroin and cocaine on the streets of Los Angeles and in Fort Wayne in my hometown, but she maligned the name of the National Police. This hat belongs to Colonel Gallego who…

I stand in somewhat of an unusual position today. I serve on the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families of the Committee on Education and the Workforce and have worked with the gentleman from California (Mr. Martinez) and the…

it is hard to believe, at a time when this entire Nation is abuzz about what kind of moral leadership is coming out of Washington, that we even have to consider this resolution. In my hometown in Fort Wayne and throughout northeast Indiana…

let me state at the beginning here a couple of entry points. One, I talked last night and earlier tonight a little bit on this particular subject, and I do not want to give the impression that that is all that I am focusing on or anybody…

I would first like to say a few words in defense, albeit a mild defense, of Attorney General Reno. Her job is not easy. After all, it is not as though she is a nonpartisan person. She is a long-time democrat. She was a staff director at…

So the person who might be able to answer that larger question, when you asked, took the Fifth?

let me, once again, I want to reiterate, what I have been discussing tonight is not what the rest of the country has been discussing this past weekend for the most part. What I have been discussing is what has the earmarks at some level of…

One of the similarities that the gentleman is starting to run into, because you have clearly proven from the statements that you have made and from the indictments, that there was corruption inside the Teamsters election; in fact, that…

I think that as the gentleman from Michigan and I both would state unequivocally, one of the problems is that we have too much power in Washington because when you have that much power there is going to be a temptation to cheat. But even…

let me first say at the beginning of my remarks tonight that one of the questions that I received all weekend, and that many others are, is do you guys do anything out there other than talk about certain pending matters that have been…

Did not the gentleman say earlier that the Fifth Amendment, which can only be used if you could go to jail, was taken by the second ranking person, did you say, in the AFL-CIO?

Yes, I have a question. I want to see if I understand the scope of this and how this starts to interrelate. Carey was running for the leadership of the Teamsters against Jimmy Hoffa, Jr., and he felt he needed more money to run. So if I…

I just wanted to correct, for the record, it is a $25 million reduction out of the increase. There is still a 2 percent increase.

So is it is an increase; it is just a question of how big an increase and what that means. Is the gentleman familiar with the GAO study that says, for example, the Rutgers study referred to earlier did not establish the direct connection…

this amendment raises the funding for drug court programs by an additional $6 million over the amount currently contained in the bill, which we also just added $3 million to a little while ago in the amendment offered by the gentleman from…

I wanted to clarify a couple of things that were said here earlier. One is, in fact, when the government cut back its interdiction effort, we saw the street prices on cocaine and crack drop and the epidemic swept across America. Another…

I am pleased to be involved with this very important sense of the House resolution. Although this resolution is nonbinding in nature, it is important. It sends a wakeup call to Americans. By way of background, this resolution was…

the problem with the science that is being argued on the other side is that it is just not there. The fact is that at the very best, at the very best, there are mixed studies. It is clear that in Vancouver, that in spite of providing 2…

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