I am deeply grateful, Mr. Speaker, for the ranking minority member's words of praise, because he is among the most consistently thoughtful and serious Members of this body, and praise from him in this area means a great deal to me. I am…

I want to stress a couple of points of agreement between us. First, I very much have in mind trying to get France and Germany and England and Belgium and Denmark and Norway, quite wealthy countries, to contribute. I agree with the…

I have been persuaded that disciplinary action might well be appropriate. What I worry about is, given constitutional doctrines that apply, if we get too explicit in legislation directing the administration to take either law enforcement…

Mr. Chairman, I do want to address this amendment and I want to oppose it. A lot of my good friends are involved. I must say, I think the heat may be penetrating this building. Maybe we ought to check the air-conditioning. Last night by a…

I would hope that we would stop telling people what they have to wear when they swim and we would not try to repudiate the roundness of the Earth and that we would also refrain from intervening in the selection of individual research…

I disagree with the criticism. I think the role of the judiciary in defending our rights, particularly when legislative majorities err and disregard those rights, is a very important one. I am, therefore, pleased to note that there are…

The argument for committee infallibility continues to lack any persuasive effect. The gentleman said I am offering an amendment without analysis. I am offering the President's budget. I very much have to disagree that the President and the…

The amendment I offer would reduce the authorization by 0.7 percent, seven-tenths of 1 percent. I cannot tell the Members how much that is in dollars because there might be a spy that knows algebra and if a spy knew algebra he could take…

during the month of June, gay and lesbian people throughout this country celebrated our presence in this country. That is a tradition that has now gone on for more than 20 years, but this year there was one difference. As Herb and I…

This is the definition of adding insult to injury. These working people who work in hard jobs at relatively low wages are injured by the Republican bill by being denied the tax credit that everybody else gets. Even if they have two and…

my colleagues ought to make clear the basis on which the Republicans are denying these families that participation in the tax cut. They are apparently under the impression that Social Security payroll taxes are not taxes but are a…

The argument that we have heard from Republicans, from the Speaker, and others that, ``Oh, you shouldn't give the tax credit to these people who don't pay any taxes,'' they forget to say income taxes or capital gains taxes, that is true…

I differ with some of those who join me in supporting it. I think the mission has been successful. I think it was a good idea. I was glad the gentleman from California decried the argument that these are somehow subhuman people who cannot…

I agree that America should have gone in. I may differ with some of the others on this resolution. I think it was essential because only we could do it. But we have been in, and the fighting has stopped, and it is one thing to say, well…

first I want to correct the gentleman from Texas. He used the figure of families spending more than 50 percent of their income, but that depends on the family. If one is rich enough, thanks to the Tax Code, one is spending a much smaller…

Mr. Speaker, the desecration of graves is a particularly despicable act. It clearly bespeaks simply malice. No one can ever claim any necessity. No one can ever claim to be driven by circumstances to do so vicious a thing. The harm it does…

We are about to vote a budget deal, some of us will vote no but it will pass. It will severely constrain spending, including defense spending. We can differ over how much defense spending ought to be, but we all acknowledge that we are…

I think this is a mistake on the part of the Justice Department, and I am glad that Congress is appropriately stepping in to let universities do as they think best with the funds they have. We should note that this is twice today that we…

In an ideal world, we would not be coming up with this amendment because the administration would, as a matter of course, be doing everything it could to get our allies to do it. The problem we have run into... is there has been a…

No one is arguing, Mr. Chairman, that there is no benefit to the United States from our presence in Europe. What we are arguing is that there is at least as much benefit to the Europeans. They simply have not been doing a fair share. The…

I do want to talk about why this is so important, and I appreciate his spirit of cooperation. The gentleman from Connecticut and I have been working on this. We kind of inherited this from the former Member, the gentleman from Colorado…

I want to make this clear, this should not be interpreted as an anti-NATO-expansion argument. Indeed, I would tell those who are in favor of a full-fledged unrestricted NATO expansion that it is in their interests to be supportive of…

it is a terrible thing that this central question of foreign policy comes before us under a closed rule with only 1 hour. I think the concept of NATO expansion is a reasonable one, but it is not reasonable to go to the American taxpayer…

I offer this on behalf of myself and the gentleman from California [Mr. Condit]. Mr. Speaker, there are differing views about NATO expansion. There is, I think, great agreement in this Chamber that the cost of NATO expansion should not be…

I have rarely heard Members lavish on themselves more undeserved credit. The budget deficit has gone from $292 billion a year in 1992 to $67 billion. That is a reduction of about $225 billion in 5 years. Those were the 5 terrible years…