Mark Souder

much of what we do here in Congress is very contentious. Our 1-minutes and 5-minutes tend to reflect a lot of those deep divisions. And while we sometimes share basic views, I think that they get carried to extremes sometimes on House…

I want to thank and praise Chairman LoBiondo for his steadfast, consistent, constant advocacy of the Coast Guard because that has been very important here in Congress and very important to the Coast Guard. I rise to commend the Coast…

anyone who has been exposed to this is just appalled. And one thing that surprises me is even as our own country was lackadaisical on international prostitution for many years and would not stand up on international conferences, and as we…

I rise in support of the PATRIOT Act and, in particular, title VII of that report, the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005. This is certainly the biggest, and last night we passed Chairman Boehlert and Congressman Gordon's…

in the legislation that hopefully will be before us tomorrow, Congresswoman Hooley and Congressman Kennedy and others were dealing with international, with drug kingpins. We have had many Members dealing with how to control the…

there is quite frankly some disagreement in the field. Generally speaking, we figure six to eight times somebody's going to go through drug treatment. Many times they are pressured by a family member, and they did not really make the…

I thank my colleagues in the entire House today for adopting H. Res. 485, supporting the goals of Red Ribbon Week. Red Ribbon Week, which is this week, helps bring together local communities for anti-drug abuse education and other…

first I want to again thank the chairman for making my amendment in order. Let me give a very short history, and then I will elaborate a little further. After the Great Society was less than sensitive to many urban areas in the United…

I rise to ask my colleagues' support for this amendment which seeks to obtain vital information necessary for congressional oversight of our policies in Afghanistan. I first want to commend the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) for his…

I also want to talk briefly about the offset from ONDCP, the Office of National Drug Control Policy and the national ad campaign. This was funded under former President Clinton at a level of $180 million back in the 1990s. What we have…

first, let me make a couple of points clear. This amendment does not save a dime. It merely transfers money from counternarcotics efforts to other efforts. Those Members who act like it saves money are wrong. Secondly, it is about kids and…

pretty much everybody tonight has been upset about something, and often when I come to the floor, I am too. But I wanted to share some good news, actually some good news inside the Labor-HHS appropriations bill, which is very tight in…

let me state that my mother and father-in- law both recently died of cancer as well. Compassion is not limited to either side, but there is science and there is not science. In fact, the Carbolic Smoke Balls and the snake oil is very…

The gentleman brings up a very critical other point. That is that the map we saw earlier that Coach, Congressman, maybe Governor Osborne had up here showed all these States where meth has been in. But it has been predominantly in the rural…

there are many important parts of this bill, but I want to speak briefly to the House about our love for the national parks. We have about a $600 million backlog, and it is overwhelming to try to address this in an appropriation bill where…

I yield myself 2 minutes. After the first attacks on 9/11, the Secret Service was given responsibility for the airspace in the National Capital region. During the final 6 months of the Department of Defense working with the Secret Service…

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…

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.

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?

tonight I am going to give an overview of the war on illegal narcotics in the United States. I chair the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Drug Policy and Human Services in the Government Reform Committee, which when the Republicans took…

I rise to remember the 90th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923. We are familiar with these events. Hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children were driven from their homes, starved, beaten, and shot…

H. Res. 853 may be the most self-evident resolution this body has considered in the 108th Congress. It is a bill to recognize the good service of the Boy Scouts of America. One would think we might as well consider a resolution recognizing…

Sixty years ago, the forces of the Third Reich pushed forward into the mountainous and heavily forested Ardennes region of Luxembourg and Belgium. Since the landing of Allied forces in Normandy six months before, the war had not gone well…

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…