Mark Souder

It is important to know these were not additions after the Republicans took over Congress in 1994. They have been here under Republicans, they have been here under Democrats, because we have a unified tradition in America that this is our…

Perhaps my colleague had not heard, we cannot refer to him as Santa Claus. It is just Claus. "Santa" is, of course, "saint" in Spanish, so we really should not say that. And I am waiting for it to be called Patrick's Day rather than St…

I too am very embarrassed for this House. We came here in the Class of 1994 in particular claiming that we were willing to trade about anything to balance the budget and cut taxes. Tonight we are the people busting the budget. We are the…

Mr. Chairman, I am a cosponsor of H.R. 789, the Fairness in Music Licensing Act, which has bipartisan support of over 157 Members of Congress. While I wish that it were what he was offering today on the floor, I believe this compromised…

I would hope that there is an understanding in general when it is background music and not primarily, something that is the primary business of the company that is playing the music. But there is an understanding that this helps promote…

I am delighted to rise in honor of our country's greatest president whose birthday we celebrate today. We Republicans honor Lincoln as a founder of our great political party and the first Republican president. We are right to this. But…

national testing is opposed by the far right. It is opposed by the far right but not just the far right. That is quite the definition. Apparently, the conspiracy is America has now gotten to be now 350 Members of Congress. Two-thirds of…

I know many people are concerned about the standards in their schools. But this is something different. This is Washington pointing an accusing finger at our Nation's children, many trapped in inner city, broken down schools and saying you…

as a member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, we have been working on education all year

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania and the gentleman from Ohio for their leadership, and also my colleague from Indiana for his leadership, and the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr

I support H.R. 2534, the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reauthorization Act for 1997. I have had the opportunity to meet with farmers, producers, and processors from northeast Indiana, as well as Dean Vic Lechtenberg of…

Compromise is probably not my greatest strength, and while there are many good things in this bill, there are many things that I not only dislike, I detest, but that is kind of the rule of how compromise works... I probably will not say…

I wish to congratulate you on this important bipartisan legislation to protect the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program [FEHBP] from fraud. I strongly support this legislation, which protects taxpayers from the misuse of their tax…

And we are committed to getting to the bottom of this, regardless of the smears that are done on our committee or the chairman, because we must for the preservation of American democracy. Mr. Speaker, I include for the Record the…

And the quote that is on there, ``Trie bragged on NBC that he could continue to hide out in Asia for 10 years. They will never find me.'' He said. His sister today said that she talks to him when she needs to; that she had not had a direct…

I think that they initially found 44, and now they found 140 allegedly under 'Democratic fundraisers.'

Sorry, audio missing.'' In other words, even in their editing they showed part of a tape with John Huang, who in this case is the person who allegedly made the statements about fund-raising there, and miraculously, like the missing…

And part of the problem here is that as we see these interconnections relate to policy, the question was we do not see the systematic abuse of Latin Americans or of African Americans or of Greek Americans. We did not hear how other groups…

A clear picture is emerging and it has four distinct components: the utter lack of internal controls at WHCA, the problem of WHCA mission creep, the absence of accountability, and the disturbing pattern of White House obstructionism…

So if the gentleman will yield. What the gentleman is saying is that Vice President Gore, who was a member of this body and knew full well he could not use any Federal buildings for fundraising, had been through that here, and Vice…

I believe between 25 and 30 that have fled and 60 that have pleaded the fifth amendment.

You are jumping to the conclusion that that is the famous CIA. It could be a local agency. It could be a grocery store with those initials or something.

These are people that have fled the United States and will not testify. And we are having to get fairly small fish, documenting how their money is going through. And we know the Lums are the next step in this process.

And it is important to note, because people may get confused sometimes in these special orders when we, some of us in particular, have been trying to point out some of these problems that have developed in basic justice in this country and…

The key thing is, as the gentleman from Arizona [Mr. Shadegg] knows, he is an attorney, what we need to do is check out the statute of limitations on a lot of these things.