Jerry Moran

We rise in strong support of this resolution and commend the chairman for bringing it before the House. We want to commend the humanitarian relief organizations and the individuals who have cared for the victims of the Chernobyl disaster…

has anyone noticed what has happened to the stocks of oil companies in this country? Their profits have gone up phenomenally. Exxon made $2 billion in the last 3 months. Other companies have shown profits in the range of 40 percent…

I was not here when we had the Iran-Contra investigation of clearly illegal activities, but I was here when the new Republican majority took over the Congress with promises to slash congressional spending, to cut committees, to reduce…

it is immoral to stand by while a quarter of a million people are massacred as victims of genocide. Maybe that is why for the last 2 years the Congress has not done anything about the information that it had in June 1994. The Congress…

The fact is that most Americans think we should be spending five times what we are spending for foreign aid. The fact is that AID is a principal funnel for that foreign aid. I do think that their mission would be compromised if in fact…

a year ago, a 12-year-old boy by the name of Iqbal Masih was murdered in Pakistan because he had dared to speak out against child slave labor. Iqbal had been sold by his father for $16 when he was 4 years old. He was chained to a loom…

If I might suggest to my friend from Texas, the Constitution is not a rough working draft. You know, here we are, for the first time you are telling us what the words ``de minimis'' mean, which you want to put into the Constitution. Well…

It is exactly the way I read it, and it is the way that Mr. Dreier, who is one of the leaders on the Republican majority, reads it as well. In the Committee on Rules, consideration of this legislation said, well, what a minute, the way…

It is absolutely correct. You know, I think that this amendment in some ways shows almost a contempt for the wisdom of our Founding Fathers. They tried to do what this does because they knew the political expediency of making it very…

I have only five problems with the issue that was just discussed by the gentleman from Texas to require a two-thirds vote to raise taxes. Actually, the language that would be made part of the Constitution says to make any change in…

In fact, it might strike one as the height of arrogance to think that after our Founding Fathers put together a Constitution that has withstood the test of time and made us the strongest country in the world economically, socially, and…

I would underscore the point that my friend from Colorado has been making. We ought not be flying blind on legislation to amend the Constitution of the United States, not even knowing what the terms mean, not even getting it out of…

If I might suggest to my colleague from Texas, we are not suggesting that our colleagues need to be physics majors but they ought to be responsible legislators, particularly when we are attempting to change the Constitution of the United…

The worst thing this legislation does is to take away the equal representation of our constituents, the American people. The vast majority of the American people will lose the right, the power to determine the legislation of this land. The…

I might remind the gentleman from Texas that one of the reasons why we are the strongest military power is that we spent money that we did not have, particularly during the 1980's. But what I think is more important to remind the gentleman…

there are at least five very good reasons to vote ``no'' on this ill-advised constitutional amendment. The first is that it is a classic example of pure political posturing. At the very beginning of this session of Congress we passed…

If I could suggest to the gentleman, $360 million is not exactly getting down to the penny. That is the amount of money that we would recoup if we simply made people pay taxes on gains generated here in the United States, rather than being…

I think obviously the answer lies in the question. It is not. It is an aberration of what our Founding Fathers intended, and I think this is a terribly important point. You know, if I were a lobbyist for a corporation that was using a…

there is a lot that could and should be said about MSA's. I am going to save that for another time. Right now I would like to spend maybe a minute and a half and talk about the subject of hypocrisy. Tomorrow the Committee on Rules is going…

Mr. Speaker, the Democratic minority is going to support this resolution as amended. We do wish it was a little bit more balanced. It is true certainly that the human rights situation in Cambodia has deteriorated over the past year, but…

on behalf of the Democratic minority, it is appropriate to take note of a distinguished Governor, U.S. Senator, Secretary of State, and Vice Presidential candidate. It is on Ed Muskie's shoulders that much of the intellectual foundation of…

Mr. Speaker, it is amazing that there have only been 140,000 volunteers over the last 35 years, when you consider the profound impact that the Peace Corps has had in the lives of individuals and in fact in the progress of nations around…

I am encouraged by what the gentleman from Illinois shared with us in terms of the new leadership in Turkey. That is major progress, to consider opening up the supply lines, economic and humanitarian supply lines, to Armenia if we can make…

It is appropriate that we express our sense of outrage over the massacre of 5,000 Kurds by gas bomb attack. It is a timely reminder that we have to continue our vigilance and pressure against Iraq with and on behalf of the international…

Mr. Speaker, this resolution makes an important statement, that the Congress continues to hold the Government of Iran responsible for upholding the rights of all of its nationals, including members of the Baha'i community. Concern about…