William Tauzin

The Security Litigation Reform Act, passed in 1995, was indeed passed by a great overwhelming majority of the House and Senate Democrats and Republicans. It was the first class action reform, and it stopped the strike suits that were filed…

there are two amendments before this House, both of which provide access for these competitive telephone lines to the new fiber and the new systems the Bell companies would deploy under this bill. The only difference is that the…

I suppose everyone in America has heard the term Tauzin-Dingell to describe this bill, but I want to describe the full and complete name of the bill. The bill is correctly entitled the Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act of 2001…

Mr. Chairman, as we begin debate on the Tauzin-Dingell bill, I think it is important to recognize that once the House gets through with its business today perhaps Americans can start enjoying Coca-Cola and Pepsi commercials again instead…

Let me point out two factors about this provision that I think require us to pass this amendment. The first is that the provision allows not only the keeping of this soft money for the building of a building, but the keeping of it so long…

if ever there was an amendment that provided preferential speech in America it is the Torricelli amendment, and we ought to strike it. This amendment says that somehow Federal candidates for office in America, Federal politicians are…

Let me conclude by thanking my dear friend, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Dingell), for the extraordinary cooperation shown on this bill. Speakers have said this before, but I want to emphasize this: this may be the most important thing…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 90, the Know Your Caller Act, by my good friend the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Frelinghuysen), deals with the controversial business practice of telemarketing. There are thousands of reputable telemarketing companies…

First of all, the gentleman knows that he offered three amendments to the committee, two of which were accepted; and the gentleman voted for the bill in committee. On the last part, I want to make it clear to the House that current law…

Mr. Speaker, September 11 brought this country face-to-face with what was once thought to be an unimaginable series of events. However, these cowardly acts of terrorism sparked in this country an unprecedented level of generosity, an…

On behalf of my friend before I yield back, I think we all ought to take a moment to think about the folks in this town, the two postal workers who have recently passed away which in fact may have been a direct result of some of these…

If we want to look at something, look at how often we bemoan the fact that we are so dependent upon an oil cartel to supply 60 percent of the oil that is critical to this Nation's energy supplies. Then I want us to think about the fact…

this is the second time in my tenure in this body that we are called upon to vote to commit the sons and daughters in the uniform of this country to war, to put their lives on the line for this country again, and this is indeed a profound…

The bottom line is this resolution condemns Americans taking advantage of other Americans in the middle of a crisis, when there is no need whatsoever to raise gasoline prices. There is ample fuel out there for every American. This…

Six years, when the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Norwood) began this crusade for patient protections, he, through an exercise of extraordinary courage and conviction, has been willing to take on Members on both sides of this aisle. He has…

Mr. Chairman, on behalf of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, I am pleased to open this debate on the Patient Protection Act. A concern of all of us is the needs of American families for health coverage and health care. Let me make a…

as a cosponsor of the amendment, let me first make the point that no one argues, no one can argue, that unnormally high, runaway malpractice jury awards harms our health care. First of all, it raises costs, it absolutely raises the cost of…

Mr. Chairman, for a year now I have been fighting tires that kill. I am on the floor today fighting an amendment that will kill. If the Boehlert amendment passes, the National Academy of Sciences says that this kind of an increase in CAFE…

I want to make a point here that I hope all Members will pay some attention to: this bill does not do everything that this Congress needs to do. We are going to take up an electricity bill in the fall, we are going to take up a nuclear…

Mr. Chairman, the proposed amendment would prohibit the Department of Energy from selling into the open market approximately 85 percent of the Department's inventory of approximately 21,000 metric tons of uranium until after the year 2009…

I give the gentlewoman my commitment to do that. As the gentlewoman knows, we lost nearly 100,000 oil field jobs in my State alone, and more than that in her State during the oil crash of the 1980s. We desperately need well-trained workers…

Today we do something in this House we have not done in a decade. We enact a comprehensive energy policy for our country. After years of indifference toward America's energy future, we are about to take a giant leap forward. The bill we…

I hope Americans focus on this as they watch this debate. That is, while OPEC has an enormous influence upon prices and supplies of gasoline and diesel fuel and home heating oil and jet fuel in our economy, OPEC can meet tomorrow and…

Mr. Chairman, I will close in opposition to the amendment. I happen to believe, with the gentleman from New York (Mr. Boehlert), that we should believe the National Academy of Sciences. They say that if the Boehlert amendment passes…

I have walked around the bayous of Louisiana and paddled those lakes and canals and wetlands, and I have seen the egret and the crawfish and the deer and the rabbits and the squirrels, and I promise the gentleman, I have seen a thousand…