Mark Souder

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…

I thank all the sponsors of the bill that went into this historic omnibus. It is very important that we preserve the natural sites but also the tremendous history of our country, the oil, the National Aviation Heritage out of Dayton…

My bill, H.R. 1204, would reform the concessions process within the National Wildlife Refuge System. Under current law, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service structures such as restrooms, boat docks and other buildings have fallen into disrepair…

H.R. 1651, introduced by the gentleman from California (Mr. Radanovich), provides for the exchange of lands within the Sierra National Forest, California, and for other purposes. The bill would exchange 160 acres of Forest Service…

I rise with reluctance to oppose this bill. I have not opposed an appropriations bill for many years. I appreciate the difficulty the subcommittee chairman and the gentleman from Florida have with the Senate, with the budget, and with all…

first let me make it clear that I strongly support this legislation and also the necessary appropriations to follow through on the authorizing, and I think it is important we do it as soon as possible. I would first like to express on the…

It has now been more than a decade since partial-birth abortion was first exposed for the horrific and violent act that it is. In that time, tens of thousands of healthy babies have been brutally killed as they exited the birth canal--just…

I have been involved in the pro-life movement for many years. Not as long as Grandpa Smith who literally, along with the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde), have been the crusaders in the United States Congress and have kept this issue…

Mr. Speaker, I wanted to clarify one of the matters from the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Waters) because under President Bush, in 2 straight years of requests, he has had larger increases in treatment than in supply reduction. And it…

Mr. Speaker, the abuse of illegal narcotics and its silent, everyday impact on the health and safety of families and the stability of every community across the country continues to be one of the most pressing issues facing the United…

I do want to pay tribute to two Yankee ties who clearly show that even the Yankees have Hoosier ties, which partly makes them successful. Don Mattingly will not be remembered in the same light as Ruth, Mantle, and DiMaggio given his lack…

Mr. Speaker, I wanted to make sure that Members understood there was one program we have not talked about at all today which is CTAC, the Counter-Drug Technology Assessment Center, which has a technology transfer program that is so…

for several years now we have been having the discussion on how best to help faith-based organizations. Very few clear answers have emerged. Today we are here to discuss H.R. 7, the Charitable Giving Act, which addresses the two areas…

It is awful when your parents get older and have different struggles and we need to look and we have found drugs to give them to try to address this question. That is not what this debate is about. The gentleman from California and I have…

tonight's Special Order is going to be on Colombia in particular and the Andean Initiative on Narcotics. I appreciate the gentlewoman's assistance over the years and having gone on a Codel with us down in the Caribbean last summer when we…

as a cosponsor of H.R. 760, the Partial- Birth Abortion Ban Act, I strongly believe that the Congress must act now to pass this important bill. We should no longer allow the abhorrent killing of a partially-delivered baby to be lawful…

Mr. Speaker, H. Res. 195, introduced by the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Gutierrez), celebrates and congratulates Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs for hitting 500 major league home runs. It is a unique honor to bring up this legislation to…

Mr. Speaker, the dynamic economy of the United States that hopefully will be fueled additionally by this tax cut has provided a level of success in the United States that our forefathers really did not know. John Adams once said that he…

first I, too, want to thank the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tancredo), the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Hoekstra), the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Shadegg) and others who have been down on the border. We held a hearing there in the…

what is really disturbing in debates is how to counter misinformation when it is repeated on a constant basis on the floor of this House. The constitutional protection for religious liberty also extends to churches and it extends to…

Or they would like to bid for, say, military training base equipment at a housing unit, tables, sofas, other things, file cabinets, whatever it is; and they go in, and because of the points that are in effect given to prison industries…

We do not know the way this is going. People in my hometown who have worked all their career building furniture, all of a sudden are put out from somebody from Federal Prison Industries. It shows graphically, if one visualizes it, what if…

Let me take a guess. Let me take a wild guess. When a company closes and jobs are laid off in an individual's district and they say, why are they laid off? And they say it is competition from Prison Industries?

The extraordinary thing here is that if they can meet these standards, that the Federal procurement officers would like to do this. And they are doing this, as he has so eloquently pointed out, that they do not have OSHA, the Occupational…

I believe if most Members actually looked at this bill, there is just no defensible rationale to be against it. It is something that is often under the radar. One of the good things about the district of my colleague, the gentleman from…