Mark Souder

Thank you. I'm going to yield to the ranking member in a minute. I didn't want to repeat questions when I was over at Homeland Security earlier.

This was governors joining together. Now, he freely admits that... the federal government makes it happen.

There is no 'we' here. Education starts with the parents and the local, moves up to the state.

I feel like I woke up in the morning, and missed the big meeting where the federal government was declared God.

I don't hear a lot of people in my district, wandering around, going, 'Oh, you know, I don't like these fusion centers.'

Let me first ask a quick question on the, separate from the structural problems, isn't it, as far as the deficit that you are running in the relationship to income and so one, hasn't it always been true in the Post Office that the money is…

My biggest frustration is that ICE--under both Republican and Democratic administrations--has not done enough to support the program.

We have been frustrated. I have asked to insert into the record a three-page memo I got this morning from Sheriff Leatherman from Noble County.

the reason FEMA is in your agency isn't because of tornadoes and floods; it is there in case we have a catastrophe

it is important that in what is perceived as a little bit of a back-pedaling on focus on terrorism, that doesn't turn into wholesale retreat

I am concerned that counternarcotics is not as much in the administration plans or some of the committee plans.

I wanted to share a few thoughts. Many years ago, I was a student at Indiana Purdue University in Fort Wayne. I'm old now. But in the late 1960s and 1970s, prior to Roe v. Wade, many of us were concerned about the liberalization of…

as the representative in Congress of Fort Wayne, Indiana--home to an estimated 3,000 to 3,500 people from Burma, the greatest population of Burmese in the United States--I rise today in support of H. Con. Res. 317. Over the last year…

I support H.R. 5715, and voted for it when it was first considered on the House floor. Although I have some reservations, I believe it is a reasonable compromise that will provide the student loan market added flexibility and stability…

I rise for a different reason in opposition to this rule. We have been battling with the Coast Guard and their budget submissions from OMB as to why narcotics are not considered part of their terrorism mission. We have made some progress…

I believe education is the responsibility of the States and local; and yet I passionately believe in the importance of education. I don't know how we are going to compete in the international marketplace if we don't compete on math and…

But isn't it ironic that while I was trying to argue for a student bill of rights and free speech, that we're not allowed to have free speech and a bill of rights in the United States Congress. How in the world, when we're having 27…

I thank the distinguished former chairman from North Carolina who's been a leader in the anti-narcotics efforts in the Judiciary Committee and elsewhere and a tireless combatant against illegal drugs. I also want to thank Chairman Oberstar…

in our discussion about how to achieve safety in our Nation's mines, there's one issue that, until today, has been conspicuously absent: drug testing. Our late colleague from Georgia, Charlie Norwood, had the courage to introduce mine…

I am very supportive of this bill, but I want to share some vague uncomfortability with what I think is potentially happening here in Head Start, and I think it's very important to clarify for this administration and for future…

I am against the underlying bill. I have never hidden that I'm against the underlying bill. I think it's a disaster for Christian bookstores, at least 85 percent of which would fall under this, all sorts of Christian colleges. Even with…

I appreciate the Chairman's explanation, and there's no use to belabor a point when you've won. At the same time, I do want to clarify a couple of things inside that. A, my amendment is far too weak to reach my own goals, and I realize…

This amendment both would protect transgender in the sense of people who have had sex change operations, and transvestites, people who dress up as the opposite sex, who are not covered, apparently, under the underlying bill. This bill was…

There are probably no things more upsetting to Members of Congress than to know that the difficult decisions we have made here have resulted in the deaths of young men and women in battle. Lance Corporal David Fribley was actually the…

I stand up in opposition to this bill, not because I don't want to control tuition costs. This bill doesn't control tuition costs. This is a fundamental disagreement about the direction of our government. Do we believe in markets or do we…