Steve Buyer

I would like everyone to recognize, this has been one of the consequences of base closures. Many of the retirees, they located next to these military treatment facilities and now that the bases have closed, they are unwilling to move, and…

Let us stop and pause for a moment in where we are. This is a motion to recommit saying we are going to tell the President of the United States that he has to bring the troops home and we have to do it now. I have been before this body and…

Mr. Speaker, one of my former Democrat colleagues came to the floor and said he recognizes that there a general level of frustration in the House, and I think he is accurate and correct. The level of frustration is there because I believe…

reclaiming my time, what makes me uncomfortable is the fact that we are going to set forth a process that when the Attorney General notifies the Department of Defense, then they have to provide, and it becomes very bothersome to me.

What was very concerning to me was to learn that in 1996 Loral and Hughes had exported commercial satellites to China to launch the Chinese missile and then, in fact, it had exploded. A Loral subsidiary provided technicians and a report on…

But the sensitivity about the duality of the purposes, saying that this is a rocket system that could only launch a satellite, in essence is the same rocket system that it would take to send a nuclear warhead anywhere in the world.

Mr. Chairman, I guess I would share with some of the speakers, the proponents of this amendment, they should bring the amendment to be the proponents for those who are diabetic and fight for the diabetes or fight for someone that is…

I reclaim my time to say I respect human life, yes, on my set of values, on the set of values that is the proponent of life as opposed to killing a human being.

This is not a question of those in the military versus women who serve in the military, and I think that is an insulting argument for anybody to use and it is a red herring in this argument. If my colleague wants to talk about respect, I…

I yield myself 1 minute to make a couple of observations. One is that, in fact, the amendment before us is striking language. So with regard to the last speaker, when he said we only want to provide constitutionally protected abortion…

Thirty seconds? Well, in 30 seconds, let me just say, let us do the right thing. I am a Member that is very disturbed about the transfers of technology. Just pause for a moment in this body. We serve a greater cause than corporations…

Mr. Chairman, over the past three decades, the availability of abortion services at military medical facilities has been the subject of numerous changes and interpretations over the years. In January of 1993, President Clinton signed an…

this is not solely about rockets that may reach U.S. cities. We also have allies in the Pacific Rim for which we have responsibilities within that security of the world. And to think that China, when they had threatened Taiwan and the more…

Mr. Speaker, I rise here as the chairman of the Subcommittee on Military Personnel, and I also witnessed a lot of strain on military readiness. Last year, the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spence) released a report on military…

this is not easy for me. This is not easy for me because I have covered the waterfront like the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton) on this issue. We had a good discussion at a hearing this morning with the Secretary of State and the…

I want to be respectful to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Waters). I do not know if the example of a hunter with crack cocaine is the right example to use. Hunters in Indiana with crack cocaine are not out hunting game, they are out…

I wish to thank the gentlemen from California (Mr. Lewis) and (Mr. Brown) for bringing this. This is not easy. I think it is easier for me today than it was for some of us when we went to Sonny's funeral. Sonny had a unique way about him…

I say that the censure resolution that was offered has specific findings of guilt and therefore makes it unconstitutional in its form

there have been many who have come to the well today and they have been requesting that this body take up the issue of censure of the President

if many of my colleagues are sitting here somewhat confused and scratching their heads and trying to follow this debate and they think this is a bunch of lawyers speaking lawyerly language, I kind of agree with them

I appreciate the discussion from the gentlewoman from Houston, because I remember back in the 1994 crime bill discussion and the whole issue about midnight basketball and crime prevention programs. And what the dispute was about at the…

I am disappointed that coming out of the conference with the House and the Senate, the language that the House adopted has in fact been changed. We were seeking to have an independent commission to review what I find to be the very poor…

Just on the point on Bosnia, Mr. Speaker, part of the purpose I brought that legislation to the House floor is that I did not make up that day, that was the President's day. We sought to extend the time for him to fulfill that commitment.

we face a crisis in American education today. Forty percent of all 10 year olds can't meet basic literacy standards. United States eighth-graders recently placed 28th in the world in math and science skills. Two thousand acts of violence…

And you plused up the budget over and above last year's number even though the President reduced his VA research?