let me say this. I think the gentlewoman has made something of an assumption that is not fair to the gentleman from North Carolina. I do not see why she would assume that we could not have a hearing on this issue. I would be surprised if…

And I am glad the gentleman from Texas does, and therefore there is no reason to interrupt me. Let me just say to my friend he should only interrupt me when he disagrees with me. He need not interrupt me when he agrees with me. He should…

I do not like the underlying provision. I think requiring witnesses to a trial to be on camera, I think, is a mistake. I think where you are talking about appellate courts, it is reasonable, and I think the Supreme Court of the United…

let me give another example. Two people for whom I have an enormous amount of respect are two people who may be considered to have betrayed the family tie, but they are the Kaczynskis, Ted Kaczynski's brother and mother. They were not…

In fact, if you are a corporation trying to make a profit, which most corporations do, you are not covered by this amendment. That is true. If you have a profit-making corporation that is selling girl scout cookies, they could not be…

Mr. Chairman, we will now find out if on the Republican side sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. I opposed an amendment that was offered before by the gentleman from California that would have created a brand-new privilege, a…

Of course there is a difference, and this is a very profound and very clear difference. There is a difference between the day-to-day decisions that government makes and the question about what the basic rules will be. Of course the…

I must say the relevance of where either the gentleman or I went to law school, my friend talked about red herrings, that seems to me totally trivial. The fact is this: There is a very clear distinction between a Constitutional Convention…

I just want to summarize, to say I understand particularly that the conservative wing of the Republican party has been dissatisfied lately. They used to be dissatisfied with the Democrats, they were dissatisfied with the President. Now…

The motivation for this is a distrust of democracy in the people. The gentleman from Pennsylvania said the Democrats kept control by buying the support of the people with programs. In other words, the people dared to disagree with him. The…

while I am not authorized, I think on behalf of the Clinton administration I can thank the Republican Party. There has been a lot of controversy about the President's decision to have troops in Bosnia. This bill, if it passes as is, will…

Put that doctrine in the hands of the Chinese or others overseas and you say to them, okay, as long as something was once paid for in America, this book, this movie, this recording, this CD, then I can sell it without paying the owner, and…

What we are saying is, if one earns money in part by playing music, then one should share some of that with the people whose music one is playing. This notion that there should only be one source of revenue for each program does not…

There is a commercial nexus here. No, not every time one turns on the radio and someone else listens does one have to pay the fee. If one turns on the radio in one's office and people wander in to talk, one does not owe them a thing, and…

If the United States Congress, in this, so substantially diminishes this notion of contributory and vicarious liability and exempts people who are making money by playing other people's music, or maybe showing other people's movies, or in…

Let me stress that because the doctrines of contributory and vicarious liability are not obscure, what they say is, if one has rented the premises to people, and as I read the amendment, even if one has rented the premises and one knows…

on this question about whether or not this is a compromise, and the gentleman has mentioned our late colleague Sonny Bono who worked so hard for this, he frankly thought this went much too far. He wrote a letter to the Registrar of…

Mr. Chairman, to begin, I want to answer the question posed by the gentleman from Indiana about whether Members of Congress who play music when people are on hold are paying ASCAP. My understanding of this bill is that you incur that…

and on the other hand you have an insistence on attachment to unyielding, undeviating fealty to the notion of bureaucratic perfection. That is hardly worth inflicting this degree of inconvenience on so many decent Americans and their…

Mr. Chairman, I guess the House is about to vote on the theory of the infallibility of the bureaucracy. The chairman of the subcommittee believes that when visa applications come, they are decided with a degree of precision and exactitude…

I would ask the ranking minority member, has there been any conversation on the part of any member of the majority, from the Committee on the Judiciary or elsewhere, with the gentleman dealing with how we might respond to Independent…

I know as the second ranking minority member that neither he, I, nor any other Members have been consulted. We have read a lot in the paper about what the Committee on the Judiciary was going to do, what it would not be allowed to do, how…

I am going to vote in favor of this resolution. Let me say, first, that I think the predictions of chaos and gloom are mistaken. If we were to vote this resolution and begin an orderly process of involving the courts and requiring this…

So, Madam Chairman, there is an urgency to providing this protection for the recipients and benefits, which is not the same as for more sophisticated, better financed litigants who were dealing with public policy in the field of labor law…

I am against the rule because if we defeated the rule, we would save time, not vote on the useless resolution, and be a few thousand bucks ahead.