Mark Souder

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

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

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 want to make just two brief points. One is Vancouver, when they were first looking at it because of their at that time rising AIDS rates, which were not nearly as high at D.C., had a similar plan, or met with similar people from the…

The point is, we have debated this in multiple ways, we had faith-based debates. We had the debate the other day on international family planning. Money is fungible, and it's very difficult to sort out which is which when it's this big…

I agree with that. My question then would be, given what we've been hearing and we have been suggested and it is all over that this amount just happens to be the amount that was proposed for the lease and that it's intended for a lease…

Mr. Chairman, H.R. 2638, as currently written, prohibits the use of funds for additional unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, until the Customs and Border Patrol informs the House and Senate Appropriations Committees that their use is…

I would like them to be accountable to Congress because they have not resolved how they are going to move and deal with Air and Marine assets related to ICE and investigations. They sometimes have even sent helicopters where we needed a…

As much as I appreciate my friend from New Jersey's comments, in the committee we had a different amendment which said that nobody hired in the last 30 days before an election could vote, and then we wouldn't have had to be discriminatory…

I saw with my own eyes in the middle of the night, about 1,200. But as we fenced that area, we broke up the big groups there in San Diego. And so in San Diego you no longer have the huge groups of 1,000. We thought we were down to groups…

We were restricted to 50 seconds. Most people have gone through the process, but many Members did not come over who could have spoken. I have a general concern that the Appropriations Committee on all the amendments can gang up, as we saw…

In the future, I will be objecting if that is going to be the order of the House.

Earlier today, I mistakenly cast my vote against tabling the privileged motion offered by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. In fact, I intended to vote in favor of tabling the motion and would like my intentions to be reflected in the Record…

I claim the time on behalf of Mr. Terry to offer his amendment. The Acting CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Amendment No. 15 printed in House Report 109-387 offered by Mr. Souder…

We will include for the Record a series of letters that we have written to Secretary Leavitt. One of the panels on this conference was: We Do Not Need a War on Methamphetamine. Another title was: You Don't Have to Be Clean and Sober or…

I will introduce the Baird amendment. I am a cosponsor of the Baird amendment. The Acting CHAIRMAN. Is the gentleman the designee of the gentleman from Washington?

My concern is that, as he knows, I had two other amendments that I withdrew because we had jurisdictional questions. Clearly, the Parliamentarian has ruled in this case that this amendment is germane to this bill, is in the jurisdiction of…

I agree that we have not had hearings. I believe that the urgency is great and that we fight so much over jurisdiction in this body that literally this Congress and this city could have been theoretically blown off the face of the Earth…

My amendment does not specify that it comes from the Chief of Staff's office, was it? That was not my impression. Because it is in the section of the bill that relates to the Chief of Staff?

If the chairman will agree to work with leadership and with the Speaker's Drug Task Force, which has supported this, I will withdraw the amendment on the grounds that the chairman will continue to work with me as we move to conference.

One would think that the District of Columbia has a good record rather than eight times the national average, leading the Nation 14 of the past 15 years in the murder rate. As a former mayor said, ``Other than the killings, their crime…

There are so many aspects to the 9/11 Commission report and all the many day-to-day activities in fighting terrorism that it is hard to even begin to fathom the number of issues that we have to deal with as we move through the committee…

Tomorrow starts an historic process as we move through the 9/11 Commission recommendations and other actions by this Congress in committee to try to address many of the terrorist concerns and how we are going to handle those terrorist…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1189 which was introduced by my friend and colleague, the gentleman from American Samoa (Mr. Faleomavaega), is important as a component of the larger interest in encouraging economic development in the territories. This…

Mr. Speaker, S. 254, introduced by Senator Daniel Akaka, would adjust the boundary of the Kaloko-Honokohau National Park to include two adjacent parcels of land totaling 2.14 acres to be used as the park headquarters to house the…