Mark Souder

as a cosponsor of the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, I strongly support its passage. This bill would firmly establish that, for purposes of federal law, an infant who is born alive is, indeed, a person and is entitled to the…

as we depart for the Christmas and the rest of the holiday season, we all pray for peace and justice in the world. But I think that I have some concerns, as do others, that some people are having difficulty sorting the differences between…

on Tuesday evening after returning from a day and a half visit with the Canadian parliamentarians and government leaders in Ottawa, I spoke briefly about the importance of our mutual trade and our mutual concerns about terrorism. It is…

I appreciate the difficulty that the subcommittee chair and the full committee chair have with the moneys; I know these things are very difficult to balance, but it is clear we have an emergency in the Coast Guard. We have had to divert…

last Friday I led a bipartisan delegation to Europe that met with the exiled King of Afghanistan in Rome, and I want to say up front one of the most common questions we had was, is United States policy tilted towards the King, or is it…

first let me speak to the underlying bill, which I strongly support and have supported since its introduction in the Congress. Ronald Reagan was not only an inspiration in my life, but many others. His speech for Barry Goldwater is what…

tonight I would like to focus on our border policies and drug and anti-terrorism policies and want to share a number of things that we have been working on, and hope to continue to do this as we are in session the rest of this year. First…

tonight I would like to talk briefly about some concerns I have in the foreign operations appropriations bill, about some rumors that are circulating. The bill has passed the House and it has passed the Senate. As we go to conference, it…

first before I discuss what I intend to discuss here for a few minutes, a matter of importance, the National Park System, let me make a brief comment on capital gains. Depending on when the effective date of the capital gains cut came in…

it is hard for us, as we have been in one of centers of the firestorm, to react emotionally as we have tried to deal with this issue with our staff. We can see the pictures like other Americans. But last night, when I went home to my…

Madam Speaker, this is a worldwide battle. It is not a battle just in the United States. Yesterday five Colombian national police were painfully gassed in police headquarters in large part because of a war caused in Colombia because of…

House Resolution 202 expresses the sense of Congress that the President should establish a Summer Emergency Blood Donor Month to encourage eligible donors in the United States to donate blood. Although we just celebrated Labor Day, which…

Madam Speaker, it is appropriate and an honor that the first legislation we are to address upon our return is to fund community-based drug prevention programs. Nothing is tearing at the social fabric of our Nation like the abuse of illegal…

This is a very difficult vote for me and many others who are concerned about our fish and wildlife areas. But there was an agreement made in Alaska that set part of this area aside for potential oil and gas drilling, a very small portion…

it is critical, not because of what is happening in Colombia, but because 67 to 80 percent of all the crime in every Member's district is drug-related. We should not cut back our efforts when we know where the coca is being grown; we know…

Colombia is critical to our efforts to keep the devastation of narcotics from American streets but just as importantly to the overall security of our hemisphere. I chair the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human…

I do not favor campaign finance reform, but I believe that our leadership had been trying to work out a way for Shays-Meehan to have a straight up-or-down vote. In fact, this is what we need on charitable choice and this is what we need in…

first I want to praise the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means for his ability to work his contributions within the budget context. We would have all preferred to go to $500, but he has taken a stair-step method that enables people…

first and foremost, let us point out that were this amendment to become law, we would raise the nullification question. I believe this has been decided in United States history. The Supreme Court has clearly decided that, in fact, Federal…

I wanted to raise a couple of things that were in yesterday's newspaper that illustrate that as much as we would like the drug problem in America to go away, it has not gone away. The front page of The New York Times says, ``Violence Rises…

why build a memorial to John Adams along with Abigail and John Quincy? That immediately leads to the question why one, has not one been built before? John Adams was not a dramatic leader like Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Teddy…

the subject I want to address tonight is one that has been in the news a lot lately, and a lot of people are confused and many Members of Congress are confused. I want to review some of the basics, and that is about the faith-based…

Angola is a town in my district of 67,000 people in northeast Indiana, and it has become a hot zone for economic development, and will become ever more so in the upcoming years. Obviously, a hard-working work force is important, but that…

for six years this Congress has insisted and held firm that there should be no national test. We have heard it said that the heart of the President's proposal was to find a national test. I do not believe this is true. The heart of the…

first let me, too, congratulate, as a fellow Midwesterner, the city of Detroit. We had many escaping slaves go through the Underground Railroad through Detroit. We provide many auto parts. Unfortunately, our beloved Pistons used to be the…