Harold Rogers: “There were also a number of language provisions that changed.”

due to a personal tragedy, the death of my closest friend, Dr. Stephen Kelley, I will be unable to cast my vote today against H.R. 4296, the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994, so that I may attend his funeral in Somerset, KY. While I loathe to…

the question here is fairness, purely and simply. Why not treat us fairly? Do not be fooled. We are paying twice to the United Nations for these peacekeeping operations. Number one, we are paying three times, almost, what Japan pays in…

H.R. 3421 provides an additional $616,282,000 in funding, after scorekeeping adjustments.

many of the speakers on this amendment this afternoon have no idea of the depth of poverty with which we are trying to deal in most of Appalachia. Mr. Chairman, I submit to the gentleman from Florida that the unemployment rate in Naples or…