Mark Souder

Mr. Speaker, Red Ribbon Week is a national week celebrated at the end of October that honors the sacrifice made by DEA Special Agent Enrique ``Kiki'' Camarena. It brings together local communities all over America for anti-drug abuse…

as the nation's largest AIDS-specific care program, the Ryan White CARE Act plays a critical role in providing HIV/AIDS treatment and support equally to all U.S. citizens needing such medical care. Ryan White, as many of you know, was a…

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…

first off, I have had hearings on this very subject, not as a whole, but because certain gentlemen may only be absorbed in their own realm and may not realize that there is a narcotics subcommittee on drug policy and criminal justice. We…

it has been my privilege here in Congress to serve as the Drug Policy chairman, and also as a senior member of the Homeland Security Committee, and thus, during most of my career, I have been on both the north and south border. A number of…

I first want to thank our majority whip, the chairman of Government Reform Committee and Senator Coburn in particular for the way they moved this bill, introduced the bill and moved this bill through. We all realize that the government…

my subject for tonight is on Afghanistan and the narcotics problem, but before I address that, I would like to insert into the Record an excellent newspaper article about Tom Jehl, who died Tuesday in Fort Wayne. He had this tremendous…

let me first explain a little bit about who the Shadow Wolves are. They are a specialized, all-Native American unit of the legacy U.S. Customs Service that were created by an act of Congress in 1972 to patrol the U.S.-Mexican land border…

regardless of how you have voted in the past, there are two critical developments since the last vote that make compelling arguments for a ``no'' vote on the Hinchey Amendment to the SSJC Appropriations bill. The Hinchey Amendment would…

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

So if I understand what the chairman said, the rest of the House only gets 5 minutes, even if it represents the majority position of the House, but the combined Appropriations Committee can take 25 minutes to oppose our amendment, and our…

My parliamentary inquiry is, the only way to have stopped this was to have objected to the unanimous consent agreement? The CHAIRMAN. The order of the House was propounded by unanimous consent and was accepted.

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…

Does our unanimous consent agreement give the majority subcommittee chairman the ability to speak for 5 minutes whenever he wants, plus the ranking member of the full Appropriations Committee, plus the subcommittee on any motion in front…

there are a couple of interesting things about this substitute. One is that, as we just heard from Subcommittee Chairman Keller, it is apparently a guideline of the House that when the Democrats do cuts, and they are real cuts in…

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 yield myself 2 minutes. Today I am offering an amendment with the gentleman from New York (Mr. Bishop) that will ensure students have greater access to information about a university's transfer-of-credit policies without placing new…

the last speaker, I realize he is not on the Education Committee, but stated an appalling misrepresentation of what has happened on two different fronts. First off, as he probably realizes, or should, this is not an appropriations bill…

my intention is to withdraw this amendment. But I want to express my frustration at actually a combination of issues but particularly related to Colombia; that I have been a strong advocate that the military has been slow in responding in…

Yes, I am acting as his designee. The Acting CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Amendment No. 2 printed in House Report 109-387 offered by Mr. Souder: At the end of the bill, add the…

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?

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 submit these letters to further illustrate the matter raised by Mr. Graves. House of Representatives, Committee on Government Reform, Washington, DC, August 12, 2005. Hon. Michael O. Leavitt, Secretary, Department of Health and Human…

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…

I sat here and listened to the last special order. It was the longest extensions of remarks devoted to how to increase taxes in America that I have heard. It is one thing for the other party to criticize us in spending and then vote…