We agree that requiring housing authorities to set a minimum rent of 30 percent is a mistake. Let me be fair to a man I voted for a couple of times, Ed Brooke. Ed Brooke did not do that. Ronald Reagan did it and Gramm-Latta did it. The…

as I understand the manager's amendment, which we did not get much time to look at, instead did an excellent job of analyzing it, the manager's amendment does two things. First of all, it does a revised version of the Brooke amendment, and…

The last 10 years cannot be relevant to my question about 1981. We are talking about 1981. In 1981, under the Reagan domination of this House, Gramm-Latta amended the Brooke amendment to make it what the gentleman objected to. How was that…

Reclaiming my time, I am only talking about the Brooke amendment now. I would make a couple of points. The gentleman from New York's argument that during 1981, when Gramm-Latta passed with Ronald Reagan's first year of the presidency, it…

That is not the argument. The gentleman shifts from substance to this, ``Oh, no, it is not up to us.'' It is up to us. I think I understand the principle. It is up to us when we want it to be up to us and it is not up to us when we do not…

I would expect more in the gentleman's logic that we would propose that people could keep 30 percent of their pets; that would be more in line with the kind of thinking the gentleman has had.

I am reclaiming my time because the gentleman simply refuses to answer a plain English question. No, there is no disincentive, and I would ask the gentleman please to abide by the rules. The point is he does not want to answer the…

So, in other words, Washington knows best on that, and that is the one size fits all. That is a fair point that ought to be made explicit.

Mr. Speaker, I want to add my words in support of this bill. It is a lot easier, it turns out, for the Members on both sides of the House, Democratic and Republican and across the ideological spectrum, to abolish a program in principle…

this is a speech I was hoping I would not have to give. It is a speech I may have to repeat at greater length, and I hope I will not have to do that. In the City of New Bedford, which I represent, there is a plant, the J.C. Rhodes Co…

I would modify that to the wing that expressed they trusted Hamas more than the American Government.

As a result of the changes that were made when the bill left committee and came here, if there is an attack of a terrorist nature involving a major explosion anywhere in the world, and the U.S. military has the expertise to help analyze…

I am severely disappointed that this legislation continues a pattern of rewarding the Government of Indonesia, which continues to engage in some of the most oppressive and racist activities in the world in their maltreatment of the people…

typical of the hit-and-run tactics of the gentleman, to make abusive remarks and then refuse to yield so I could respond.

No, I follow the gentleman's example, and I ask the Chair to please restrain the gentleman. The gentleman gets up, makes insulting remarks, refuses to yield and then tries to interrupt me when I am speaking. I am simply responding as he…

I hope I have better luck getting a straight answer. When the gentleman said that it was the liberals who controlled Congress in 1982 that forced Ronald Reagan to have a tax increase, does he include in that the man who was then chairman…

I do want to repeat, because the outrageous tactics being used here need to be underlined This is an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the text of which has never had a public hearing, has in fact been in existence for…

the concept is popular, but the problem Members cannot seem to get through their heads there is we do not deal just in concepts. We have to deal in reality. We are amending the Constitution of the United States. We are creating litigation…

I am honored to follow the gentleman from New York, because he laid out what we are talking about: A political trick being played with the Constitution as a prop, and that ought to be beyond the pale. Mr. Speaker, what we have here is the…

I had been undecided on this bill. I am now going to vote against it. It is a far better bill than the one the House previously did. I still have concerns about the unequal effects on women. But I must tell you that I am very unprepared at…

Mr. Speaker, I was sorry the gentleman from New York would not yield to me. He said there was a glass of milk here from Massachusetts. Yes, there is a dairy compact from New England, which I opposed, which I think will hurt the consumers…

This rule, in fact, provides quite deliberately the minimum time that it is legally possible to give a bill on the floor of the House. The rule gives 1 hour. That is the minimum that is allowed under the basic rules, so this is part of an…

I salute the courage of the gentlewoman from Colorado [Mrs. Schroeder] and her willingness to take this issue on. Mr. Speaker, we are clearly here dealing with a political issue. We heard one of the previous speakers say the purpose of it…

reclaiming my time, and of course that is only life. It does not deal with health. The majority refused to allow an amendment. Be very clear about it. We have twice asked them let us vote, as the Senate did, and the amendment in the Senate…

I do not remember one. I was told that when the equal rights amendment came before us, I do remember it came before us under a suspension of the rules. It was my impression that it had gone through the committee. It had certainly gone…