Steve Buyer

When you compare this year's budget compared to what the President sent you, did the President reduce his VA research budget?

Being very pragmatic, following the gentleman's thought process, why did we give inoculations to over 10,000 soldiers in the Persian Gulf actually for botulism and then require all soldiers in the gulf to receive two shots of anthrax if…

I would ask of him to never refer to this as a gulf war syndrome. A syndrome infers a sole source causation. I would ask for the gentleman to always refer to this as the gulf war illnesses, because in fact it is multifaceted.

When a young man or woman joins our military, they make a commitment to support and defend our Constitution. At that same time, our Government assumes a sacred commitment to care for those personnel throughout their service. I am appalled…

I do not have to be shot by a bullet to understand pain. A man can be compassionate, can have sincerity, can love. I find it offensive that anyone can allege that judicial rulings based on one's gender are somehow what is wrong. I find it…

Just to respond to my colleague from Virginia, I lay the blame for a lot of this at the feet of a culture within the bureaucracy, whether it is a political appointee or not a political appointee. That is what this bill is trying to get at…

I am curious. Did not Carol Browner and the EPA come before the gentleman and ask for an increase in funding, and now the gentleman is telling us they are spending dollars, taxpayer dollars, on coloring books?

Mr. Speaker, I just want to state that through this whole debate, gun control is not crime control. Here in Washington, where the possession of handguns are illegal, you can walk right out that Capitol Hill door and you see windows that…

My only question, Mr. Chairman, is does the gentlewoman support an effective death penalty?

It is almost comical to me, because the gentleman from California almost gave my speech. I think that as I sit listening to the gentleman from Michigan, Mr. Conyers, even Mr. Conyers, I do not think, would advocate--matter of fact, I will…

It is amazing how we can debate an issue of $1.5 million and interject all the rhetoric as if it is $1.5 billion. Well, gentleman that have particular defense contractors in their districts may be asking for particular things, but come to…