Andy Barr

So can we expect the committee to help us make a determination of how to assure these communities that they will receive what they were previously promised?

many communities throughout the State of Georgia, including those within my own district, have raised a concern regarding the proposed reduction of $349 million in community development block grants. I am informed that the cut amounts to…

Mr. Chairman, this begins an important process that is not independent of the process but it begins an important process, this legislative proposal, in curbing the worst excesses of the current tort system. In the future, I propose that we…

I strongly believe along with many of my colleagues that tort reform must address the serious abuses that occur in the area of punitive awards for non-economic damages. On this subject, I seek a balance that takes into account important…

I might point out to the gentleman from California [Mr. Berman] that the report of the committee of the House on this legislation very clearly indicates that the amendment that I had proposed stayed in, was voted on, was not withdrawn, and…

That is fine. I appreciate the gentleman's remarks. During the debate here this evening, we have heard a great deal of talk, a great deal of sophistry, a great deal of hyperbole about who this legislation, if it is enacted, is going to…

I think focusing on that really misses the mark to some extent, that those funds will continue that have already been appropriated, for example, those under the cops program and under the prevention programs under the bill last year. So…

Mr. Chairman, there has been a great deal of talk this morning, very understandably, about this issue of H.R. 728 and the broader issue of how we are going to provide the support to law enforcement that they need, whether it is through the…

Mr. Chairman, I think we would be remiss if we did not seize our opportunity to provide even better and stronger and more consistent relief for law enforcement, and I will look forward to writing an even stronger, more aggressive letter in…

Mr. Chairman, we are really talking here today not about thousands upon thousands of court decisions, not about tens of thousands of pages of court documents, but about two documents, the Constitution of the United States of America, and…

over the last 24-hour period, we have heard a litany of reasons in support of what the Clinton administration has done in its efforts to prop up the Mexican peso. We have heard, for example, that the United States economy will suffer…

Mr. Chairman, for too long the American taxpayer has suffered from Congress' inability to control spending. That is why people all across the country, and in particular my constituents in Georgia's seventh congressional district, so…

during the recently concluded campaign, which culminated in the landslide victory for myself and many other candidates all across this land, we heard a message loud and clear. That message was: less government, lower taxes, and less…

at the beginning of this session, I introduced with several of my colleagues The Taking Back Our Streets Act of 1995. Last week, my colleagues and I on the Judiciary Committee's Crime Subcommittee completed 2 days of hearings on this bill…

House Democrats, searching vainly for an issue to sidetrack the Contract With America, have now decided to attack the Speaker regarding a book he has not written yet. Instead of attacking Republicans for writing books, I suggest the…

Last week was a great and important beginning to a new way of doing the people's business in Washington. In a record-breaking first day of the session, we demonstrated that unlike the politicians who merely talk the talk, we walk the walk…