the Buckley decision was obviously the most important campaign finance decision made by the Supreme Court. Justice Thurgood Marshall in that opinion wrote, ``One of the points on which all members of the Court agree is that money is…

last summer, State attorneys general, representatives of health care groups, representatives from the White House, and the tobacco industry met to see if they could come up with a settlement of a tobacco controversy regarding teenage…

I find it ironic this evening that some of our Democratic friends... are bringing four bills to the floor. They made a commitment to do so by the end of March of this year. They are living up to that commitment.

I must say that I was shocked that the gentlewoman from Texas would refer to this rule as being silly. What we are talking about here is ethics in government, really. And if there were a way that we could do more than simply pass a…

while I am not a member of the Committee on the Judiciary, I came to this debate today with the great hope that the advocates for the President would spend considerable time addressing specifically the articles of impeachment

today the United States House of Representatives begins debate on Articles of Impeachment of President William Jefferson Clinton

thanks are owed to several Members for their leading role in the development of the food provisions of this bill. Special thanks must be given to Chairman Bliley, ranking minority member Dingell, as well as Messrs. Towns, Hall, Gankse, and…

Mr. Speaker, I am delighted that today we have the opportunity to talk about very serious issues facing the American veterans. All of us obviously support the American veterans. There is no question about that. In this House on July 16, we…

I would be happy to look this up and I will get back to the gentleman on it, because I do not want to mislead anybody on the amount of money available, and of course whatever is available is really not enough for veterans, but in trying to…

I would just say once again that of course we want the veterans to pursue any legal remedy that they have. I know that there is an attorney in Houston by the name of Gary Pitts who is working with a lot of veterans to pursue claims in…

I looked at the Congressional Quarterly this morning, and the figure that I saw set out in there was $90.7 billion for the VA. If the gentleman is saying that I am wrong, and I am wrong, then I would apologize about that.

While the DAV is certainly supportive of the principle of ensuring that there is just compensation for any damages or injuries received by a veteran or his or her family as a result of the war in the Persian Gulf, we are very concerned…

I think this debate has been quite helpful today because it has truly focused the issue of the importance of veterans to the American people and to the sacrifices that they have made. My purpose in having this debate today was to bring…

I would just simply say that adopting this motion, as I said, does nothing. If we go through this process, the Government continues, this administration continues, to go by the priority that it has established: The veterans are not going…

President Clinton and Vice President Gore got their hands caught in the cookie jar. If they did not violate Federal campaign laws, they came as close to wholesale violations as any Presidential campaign in the history of America. Now that…

today is a day of celebration. This House will take up an agreement reached between the Congress and the White House on a tax reduction package. The last time Congress and the White House reached an agreement on a tax package was in 1993…

those of us who oppose this amendment do not represent the tobacco lobby. We represent 142,000 farm families around this country who for generations have grown this product. If we continue our efforts to destroy the tobacco farmers, we…

Finally, after 16 years, this Congress has passed a tax reduction for the American taxpayers. Listening to the debate on who will benefit from the proposed tax reduction, one would think that the President's plan and the congressional plan…

Bill Emerson truly was a remarkable man. I had the opportunity to come to know him just since 1994 when he became involved in my race for the U.S. Congress. My district is right across the river from his. And he came to my district on one…

It is impossible today in today's climate to discuss anything relating to tobacco without discussing the political correctness of the issue, and I think that all of us would agree with that, and I do not think there is anybody in this…

over the past 40 years the National Democratic Party has shown without question they sincerely believe that higher taxes, more government, and more regulation can best solve the problems of the American people. In 1993, the Clinton…

yesterday we were treated to a tremendous display of partisan rhetoric on the floor of this House. Madam Speaker, most of yesterday, liberals took to the floor and accused Republicans of being extremists, mean-spirited, and shameful. The…

one of the most egregious wrongs imposed on taxpayers during the past 40 years has been a policy which gives tax money to various lobby groups that advocate special programs for particular groups. The Istook-McIntosh Federal grant reform…

Mr. Chairman, I represent the First District of Kentucky, which includes the Land Between the Lakes. LBL is a 170,000-acre national recreation and environmental education area managed by the Tennessee Valley Authority. LBL supports a $400…

President Clinton is threatening to veto the Republican rescission bill. This rescission bill will actually pay for emergency spending by cutting money out of the current year's budget. Responsible, commonsense action like this was seldom…