that is very reassuring because that gives us two chances to kill it: one with better minds; and, two, with the Senate as apparently an alternative line of defense there.

The gentleman has a perfectly appropriate question. Let me say, I do want to say to my friend from Colorado, it just struck me, when he mentioned we are from Virginia and Massachusetts, we represented the people who voted on the original…

I sympathize with the gentleman from Colorado. He has been left all alone on his side to defend this latest trampling of open procedures, and he is a little testy because he apparently thought he had a nice deal worked out last night and…

as much as I admire my friend the ranking member, his talking about the camel's nose under the tent reinforces my view that, if we were to restrict free speech at all, we should make it illegal to use metaphors in the discussion of public…

the previous remarks highlight the disconnect between reality and what the opponents are saying. There is now on the books such a mandate. The gentleman acts as if this amendment would create it. The law now says, and has for 10 years…

I will begin by stipulating that I do not purport to represent business here. I understand that a lot of businesses do not like this amendment. A lot of businesses, unfortunately, like to hire people who are here illegally. They find them…

Mr. Speaker, I want to say first that I appreciate the gentleman from New Mexico's point as a member of the Committee on the Judiciary. I think he has made the only appropriate statement we can make. We do not set precedents here in the…

I thank the senior minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary, who made such a good statement. I appreciate his reminding me that I have been on the committee, because I could have sworn I was on the committee. I went to a lot of…

I have noticed a very consistent lack of consistency on the Republican side. This bill carries it out. We are worried that people will get Federal money and use it to lobby us, so we have to ask them to report it, except we exempt the vast…

this has been the month of self-repudiation by the Republican majority. Last week, the Party of Free Enterprise brought forward a bill which said that while the free enterprise system can handle telecommunications and computers and…

This is for all who care about the best instincts of humanity, a terribly sad day. The people of Israel, a democratic society represented by a democratically elected government, have been in the process for the past couple of years of…

I acknowledge this is what Ronald Reagan did. I would point out by the standards of the current group, Ronald Reagan was a model of lucidity, reasonableness and logic. That is why I prefer the Reagan program. I look nostalgically back on…

not only is there no means test, there is an antimeans test. The more money you are making under the program generally, the more you will get. So it is the reverse. The wealthier you are, the more prosperous, the bigger your crop…

I rise in a moment of some solemnity because it is always tragic when something dies young, and the one piece of legislation from the Contract With America, the unfunded mandates bill, it had a very short life because one of the things we…

First, Mr. Speaker, my understanding is that the legislation did say that there should be a separate vote on a private sector unfunded mandate unless the Committee on Rules waived it. I understand the Committee on Rules can waive it. But…

As I understand it, if you happened to be the heir of someone who owns a farm and has been getting Federal funds and that person dies, you then inherit the land. You do not have to go to that land. You do not have to grow anything. You do…

this is the anti-means tested entitlement. It is an entitlement, and the more money you make, the more you get. I thank the gentleman from Missouri for pointing out I understated things. The gentleman from Missouri may be one of the few…

The one thing that surprises me is that the Republican Party has apparently, with regard to this question of how to use the new spectrum, so little confidence in the free market. We hear about the free market from time to time, but because…

the argument we hear against auctioning off the spectrum to the broadcasters, as we have just heard from my friend from Louisiana, after all, they operate with public interest obligations. I have been here with him 15 years, and that is…

Mr. Speaker, I agree that this bill is substantially improved from the one that originally came before us, although the notion of passing a bill which has had added to it at a very unusual point in the process, namely, in the conference…

I urge defeat of the rule. One, the need to dispense with the normal procedures is another example of rewarding one's own incompetence. The bill should have come out in time. The notion that we are ready to leave cuts no ice, because there…

I was surprised to hear the gentleman from New York [Mr. Solomon] say that there will be no more deficit spending with the Republicans in control. I had understood the Republican budget to accept the reality of the fact that there will be…

I hope we will vote this bill down. We are going to balance the budget. We are going to severely limit Federal spending. If you spend military dollars at the rate that this bill calls for, you inevitably will diminish substantially our…

I understand that the Republicans are frustrated. Watching the ``Gong Show'' they have been putting on today underlines that. But scapegoating when frustrated is not appropriate behavior. Mr. Speaker, this attack that is now coming on…

we do have a dispute, not about whether to balance the budget but how and by what specifics. But what the Republican Party has decided to do is to punish the American people because they do not like the way the President wants to balance…