Sam Brownback

I want to use most of my time to show some very graphic pictures of the face of genocide that is taking place in Darfur, Sudan. I wish I didn't need to do this. I wish the international community, particularly the United Nations, was…

Our overall ICC policy is consistent with the American Servicemembers' Protection Act, passed by the Congress with strong bipartisan support, which prohibits assistance and support for the ICC.

It creates a prosecutorial system that is an unchecked power and is open for exploitation and politically motivated prosecutions.

It's important that we have a good relationship with India. It's a very important country.

the elections were certainly very encouraging to all of us.

Is there anything further that we can do from here to try to bring pressure?

I admire her work. And our only charge here is to protect the dollars of the American taxpayer.

We believe the Rome Statute establishing the ICC is fundamentally flawed and cannot support it.

The American people will pay a high cost for freedom.

Not on your life. We're going to go forward with it.

the Iraqis' resolve and standing up and willing to show up in face of danger really did encourage us.

If there's some redundancy here, we need to know.

on a personal note, I knew Zurab Zhvania. I worked with him quite a bit. He was one of the original democracy advocates inside Georgia, a country that came out of the former Soviet Union, a wonderful man, with a great heart. He started out…

I view this bill as a chance for us to grow the economy, as a chance for us to do something to create jobs and opportunities. We may disagree on what are the various issues and what we need to do to create those jobs, to address issues for…

I rise in support of Judge Gonzales, President Bush's nominee to serve as our Nation's 80th Attorney General. I want to address a few points that have been brought up today and discuss those a little bit. We will be able to vote on this…

These are difficult times but they are also times of opportunity. We will face on Sunday, with the vote in Iraq, difficulty, but also a time of opportunity for people to know democracy and freedom who have never known it before. Freedom…

The effective date of the placed-in-service-extension, section 336 of the conference report, states that the amendments "shall take effect as if included in the amendments made by section 101 of the Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act…

I would like to be sure that, by using the word ``and'', the conferees did not intend that a business aircraft would have to be described in both the existing subparagraph (B) and the new subparagraph (C) in order to qualify for the…

One thing I am going to draw to the attention of some of my colleagues in this bill that is very helpful in my State is a particular provision extending the bonus depreciation allowance for civil aviation aircraft. That bonus depreciation…

This bill establishes for the first time--the first time in at least a generation--a human rights principle toward North Korea. Everybody is familiar with the six-party talks that are going on regarding North Korea and nuclear weapons and…

I believe this body is about to consider and pass the North Korea Human Rights Act and our amendment in the nature of a substitute. It is cleared through the House of Representatives and is on our consent calendar. It is about to clear…

I wish to speak briefly in favor of the Baucus amendment because of the situation in my home State. Parts of my State have had the worst drought in a century. It is being compared by some veteran farmers to what they witnessed in the Dust…

I also appreciate the first part of his speech when he talked about the Sudan, which is something I wish to address for my colleagues. The House of Representatives has just passed 422 to 0--they rarely do things quite in that fashion--a…

There is not only a rational basis as the legal argument would have it, there is a moral imperative to do so. If you want a strong citizenry in the future, raised in a situation that is optimal--a mom and a dad bonded together for life, in…

Obviously we know that from the social data. I have charts I have gone through previously that show that each contributes differently to the makeup and the nature of that child and making a healthy, well-rounded child. We know that from…