is there any coincidence to the fact that the gentleman is not running again that he brings up the pay raise?

reclaiming my time, what I am trying to say is that not being able to think of anything to say himself, borrowing a wholly irrelevant comment from the Vice President does not seem to me to advance the gentleman's argument. Because the…

Let me say to Members who may think that this is not at a high level, that is where we started. This is about nothing. This is a political game. This is the Model U.N., about nothing. It is wasting time and money.

I must say, of the large number of people I have gotten to meet, of all of them, Sonny was probably the hardest guy to be unhappy in his presence. There was about him a determination to seek out the most cheerful and the most upbeat in any…

first I want to express my agreement with the gentleman from California on the importance of putting back in here important international financial material. But secondly, I want to congratulate the gentleman from Ohio for his work on the…

I am opposed to this resolution, and I think that I am as sensitive to the issue of persecution as anyone. I believe I am the leader in minority group membership in the House, claiming two myself, and I am going to vote against this…

I must say I was a little surprised to hear my friend, the chairman of the Committee on Rules, say that one of the reasons we have to do this is that it makes for bad television. He said we have people calling up and complaining. I can…

I would simply differ when he said why did I not talk about our decision to pick certain people to offer these resolutions. I must tell the gentleman people do not pick people on this side. When the women or members of the Hispanic Caucus…

This is a bill which was broadly supported on both sides. We have some controversial issues that will be coming up later dealing with the copyright subject matter. This is not one of them. What we are doing here is concurring in the first…

I hope the House will vote this down. First, we are dealing with a budget which we adopted recently which Members know will severely constrain our ability to spend on a variety of purposes a few years from now. Passing this authorization…

I am going to talk today about why I am opposing the Presidential request for fast track legislation and, while I am not authorized to speak for anyone but myself, I think I reflect the views of many of my Democratic colleagues and some of…

I would have to say to my friend apparently there are some cities somewhere where people, having voted for the mayor, city council and to establish a zoning board, found they cannot trust them, and want the Federal courts. There may be…

I seriously appreciate having the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary give this testimony to the important role of Federal district judges. We have heard too little of that. While I disagree with him on the specific bill, I am glad…

I read today that Roger Ebert, I guess it was today, has an article in which he says there should be a new category of Nobel Prize for Movies. Well, I am going to add one. We should immediately ask that they institute a Nobel Prize for…

I rise out of my respect for this institution to give it the opportunity to rebut an unfair accusation. There have people who argue that a double standard obtains, that when it comes to showing compassion for people who have not fared well…

Yes, Mr. Speaker, it was a subpoena that came from the former Member, Mr. Dornan, as opposed to one solemnly voted by the House in the course of an investigation. But the argument that it was not authorized by a district court, no, under…

we should be very clear on what this resolution says. It forthrightly demands that the United States attorney do whatever he thinks he ought to do. Now, I did not realize that we had become the paymasters of the U.S. Government. Apparently…

if what the gentleman who just spoke wanted to have happen could happen, I would support it. What he said is look, there is a constitutional question here. Let us, before anything happens, go to the United States Supreme Court and ask them…

Mr. Chairman, the failed premise of that last comment is that if we ask members of board of directors to do 8 hours of community service, they will reject the loan. I reject that. People who serve on the board of directors have a…

I believe the conference committee did, given what it had to work with, a very good job. I was particularly pleased that they have adopted language which will enable the President to refuse to go ahead with any new B-2 bombers. I assume…

I will be voting for the amendment offered by the ranking member of the subcommittee. The effort to get a Supreme Court decision on the census before we take the census simply will not work. The American Constitution is very clear. For…

last year in a combination of procedural outrage and substantive outrage, we enacted into law, over the objection of myself and many others, provisions which made deportation automatic in a number of cases where deportation is inhumane…

Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Smith], the chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. I agree with the legislation that the gentleman has introduced, and I share his regret that the Senate made it…

This is not an across-the-board cut. This would, if it passed, have the Subcommittee on Appropriations, in conference, have the authority to allocate where to reduce what they ask for. And if they have trouble fingering places, I will…

let me say the gentleman noted that the defense budget had gone up to 385, as I understand it, which I thought was too high then, but he said we have cut it $100 billion. That is what; about a 30-percent cut? I would ask the gentleman from…