Mark Souder

I know this will take a couple of minutes, but I want to show how overwhelming public reaction has been around the country. New Mexico, Albuquerque Journal: ``The administration could save itself considerable trouble and criticism if only…

I think before moving into the general topic I am getting into tonight, I want to express my support for many of the education initiatives, although I think sometimes we get it backwards and think Washington is the fount; unless something…

We honestly do not know. We know there were at least 200, then 400. It appears there were at least 800. Chuck Colson went to prison after the Nixon administration for showing one. We documented that interns had them, that multiple people…

And to take the gentleman's analogy further, in addition to, in effect, pickpocketing people's billfolds and private things that were official and on record, this is not a matter of FBI files where they just have whether an individual has…

reclaiming my time, clearly the Vice President of the United States first was warned by the legal counsel in a memo that has been circulated all over the country in newspapers. He was a Member of this body in the House and knew that we…

The Vice President has been a good student of President Clinton's in more ways than one in fundraising. He attended a fundraiser in Florida for 60 wealthy contributors. One of the attendees was Jorge Cabrera, a drug trafficker with links…

I was certainly suggesting that the only difference was that there might be a third minority on the one and the other would be all Clinton appointees.

I may be even more scared than you because Indiana is only 600 miles away from Washington; therefore, we are even more vulnerable than the people in Arizona. One of the things that is unusual about this Congress is that we are actually…

The reason I want to point this out is this is what we do not want to have happen in a Federal test. If it happens in a Federal test, we will never get it changed. Question number one starts off, ``I have a regular physical checkup by my…

The people of Wisconsin have an independent tradition and the people of Indiana have an independent tradition. And the Founding Fathers knew, although Indiana and Wisconsin were not in existence at the time, that we have inherited that…

what the gentleman has pointed out is absolutely correct. You have devastated our hardest argument to make, which is that math even is politicized in this day and age, and can be ineffective if consolidated with power in the hands of the…

For technology class, and it is a career study. It is to help channel kids as to what they should do. Think of this explosive information. Is this what we want public authorities knowing about our families? And if you do not think this is…

The fact is it was a sham compromise to try to get themselves out of a pickle because the nominees, the overwhelming majority of those nominees would be picked by the President, recommended by the Department of Education, so in fact it is…

An extraordinary achievement for our children and our families, because our interest rates are staying low, our unemployment rate is staying low. We are not only able to absorb all of the immigrants who are coming into this country, but we…

I want to finish this point, because in my kids' own high school in Indiana, a survey was passed out in class through the high school yearbook that led me to get upset in my first term, and we passed some legislation here, but it concerned…

I think that is what I am saying. And, furthermore, a convicted drug dealer was let in. So it was not as though they did not have a record, it was not as though they did not have background checks on these people, it was the classic cannot…

With benign neglect, would be kind. With overt refutation and opposite action, would be the correct way, because not only did they allow him in, they allowed him in repeatedly, and at a radio address, and into the White House with the…

it is unfortunate that the most felicity about this bill has been because our pay raise, our COLA increases, are tied to the salaries in this bill, because in actuality that is less of the amount of dollars than we are increasing the IRS…

is it not true that our salary increases are tied to the increases of Federal employees?

Is it not true that this bill has historically, because it contains the salaries of Federal employees, the amendment to not have the pay raise, to eliminate the COLA is historically placed?

Then the President says it is old news. ``They already proved I did this immorally and illegally.'' What is news about this?

I appreciate the gentleman calling my attention to this article and the fallacy of these national tests, because if we do not have a country that can defend themselves, they are going to get run over by the Washington bureaucracy. I thank…

I wanted to briefly join in here, because the gentleman called my attention earlier this evening to an article that ran in the Wall Street Journal today, and Congressman Shadegg from Arizona cited it in particular, and then I actually read…

Especially when we look at the--it is hard to read the small print, but it is talking about the $5 million needed by year's end, refers to other specific individuals, and then it said BC made 15 to 20 calls, raised 500 K. Hard to believe…

Well, there is one here that says HRC was making calls, too, which I assume is the human resources counsel. I would not want to jump to the conclusion it was Hillary Rodham Clinton.