I am in entire agreement with the authors of this amendment in their concern for the systematic attack on religious expression throughout the country. There is no doubt hostility exists, especially against conservative religious…

the Soviet system, along with the Berlin Wall, came crashing down in 1989, the same year the new, never-to-end, era came to a screeching halt in Japan. The Japanese economic miracle of the 1970's and the 1980's, with its ``guaranteed''…

I rise in opposition to the Chairman's amendment and in strong support of the amendment of the gentlewoman from New Jersey. There are two positions that one could take on this. We could have zero integration, which this amendment would do…

I rise today to speak for 80 percent of Americans who support the National Right to Work Act, H.R. 59. The National Right to Work Act repeals those sections of Federal law that give union officials the power to force workers to pay union…

Congress should reject HR 6, the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 because it furthers the federal stranglehold over higher education. Instead of furthering federal control over education, Congress should focus on allowing Americans to…

Mr. Speaker, as I said, in most of our history, the control of drug abuse has never been a Federal issue. This is only very recent. This does not diminish one's concern. It is respecting the Constitution. It is also emphasizing the fact…

this amendment is not a complex amendment. It merely states that Social Security numbers cannot be used to identify the individuals who will be participating in this program. This is a common practice, obviously, today. The Social Security…

I have an amendment that I am going to offer in Title I which will be designated so that the Social Security number cannot be used for the electronic personal identifier for any of the programs in this educational bill. The American people…

the big question is how history will play the current financial situation if all the great wealth accumulated in the last 10 years dissipates in a financial collapse. According to an article in The New Republic, Greenspan is not only held…

education in this country is facing a crisis. If we look at our schools carefully, we find out that there are a lot of drugs in our schools, actually murders occur in our schools, rape occurs in our schools, it is infested with teenage…

the House is about to implement rule changes that will require random drug testing of all House Members and staff. Drug usage in this country, both legal and illegal, is a major problem and deserves serious attention. However, the proposal…

since I was the first one in this Congress to step forward and introduce legislation affirming the NCUA's position allowing multiple common bonds for credit unions and signed on as a cosponsor of H.R. 1151 as originally written, I feel…

last year's attempts by some in Congress to tie the Mexico City Policy to the issues of funding for the United Nations (UN) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week come back to haunt those of us who believe in the sanctity of…

I strongly favor this, and I believe that the Congress should send a strong message that we should not casually and carelessly send troops around the world to police the world. This is a good way for us to get into trouble. Our national…

I rise in opposition to S. 419, yet another circumvention of the enumerated powers clause and tenth amendment by this 105th Congress in its continued obliteration of what remains of our national government of limited powers. For most of…

last week it was Saddam Hussein and the Iraqis. This week's Hitler is Slobodon Milosevic and the Serbs. Next week, who knows? Kim Chong-il and the North Koreans? Next year, who will it be, the Ayatollah and the Iranians? Every week we must…

if I had a chance to pick a topic for my special order today, I would call it the folly of foreign intervention. We have heard very much in the last few weeks about the possibility of a war being started in the Persian Gulf. It looks like…

I talked about a policy of nonintervention; and I would like to talk a little bit more about that. Because some might construe that if you have a policy of nonintervention, it means you do not care; and that is not the case. Because we can…

I have always lamented the fact that we so often are anxious to close down our bases here within the United States because we are always looking for the next monster to slay outside of the country, so we build air bases in places like…

this Legislation, H.R. 3116, will not solve the Year 2000 problem. Giving some financial regulators ``statutory parity'' with other regulators will not solve the problem. Everyone will have to take responsibility to secure that their own…

I rise to opposition to H.R. 424 for the following reason. Crime control and crime-related sentencing, the stated reason for enacting gun control legislation in the first place, was never intended to be a function of the federal…

I equally condemn the horrors going on in the country of Iraq. I have no desire at all to defend Hussein. I rise, though, to just urge some caution on what we do. I have a problem with the procedure, which we are pursuing, that we are…

the morning papers today recorded that Russia was providing weapons technology to Iraq. We have known for years that China has done the same thing. Does this mean that we must attack them as well as Iraq? Instead, though, we give foreign…

the question is not so much, let us say, that we could concede some of the gentleman's argument, but why do you have such hostility to the Constitution and to the process as what we are talking about? Why do we not have a declaration of…

Overall, I believe this country faces a serious problem in that our government is too big. When government is big, it means that liberty is threatened. Today, our governments throughout the land consume more than half of what the American…