we are being given an extraordinary constitutional argument, namely that when the President of the United States exercises his constitutional right to veto, he is then to be held responsible for a shutdown of the Government. That is of…

I do think that when we do that kind of accounting, when we say that a failure to keep up with inflation is a cut, it should not just be to the benefit of the intelligence community, it ought to be relevant to Medicare and everything else…

Amendment No. 5 offered by Mr. Frank of Massachusetts: Page 10, after line 17, inset the following: SEC. 308. DISCLOSURE OF ANNUAL INTELLIGENCE BUDGET. As of October 1, 1995, and for fiscal year 1996, and in each year thereafter, the…

we have just heard the ranking minority member tell us that, if we spend a little more money now on these satellites, it will allow us to reduce later on. I think this is now the fifth year in a row that I have heard that, and have yet to…

In fairness to the Defense Department, the people in uniform, there ought to be some knowledge. Nobody knows exactly what piece of the defense budget it is. It makes it harder even when people are talking about that. You might have a…

I think if we have the top line number and people can calculate the percentages, that is fine. Mr. Chairman, let me say, as I recall these debates, and the gentleman from Washington has been in them as well, we never debate more than the…

I want to thank the Chair personally for the consideration shown me during this debate, and I apologize for being held up a little bit. This amendment would have made the last debate intelligible. I understand that 'intelligible' and…

Mr. Chairman, I am touched by the endorsement of the Republican chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the Clinton policy in this regard, but I have to disagree with it. In fact, we are being told a couple of…

sadly, just before we left for recess, the President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, engaged in an unjustified wholly prejudicial attack on gay men and lesbian citizens of his country. The attack was in sharp contrast to the leadership of, for…

We are about to make the most important decisions a civilized democracy can make in about 2 days. We are being told that we will appropriate the two largest amounts, the Defense Department appropriations bill and the Labor-Health and Human…

I was appalled to read last week a statement from Speaker Gingrich suggesting that House Counsel Vince Foster was murdered, coupled with Mr. Gingrich's statement that he plans to do nothing at all about that. In other words, the Speaker…

we see a continuation of the pattern here that when amendments are inconvenient, they are simply prevented from being offered. I gather there was some reference to my handwriting, which I will concede is not much better than my diction…

I want to say that to say that you are sorry that the East Timor situation is a victim of dilatory tactics seems to me an example of the kind of disproportion we can get into. We are talking about repression. Hurt feelings between…

I appreciate the solicitude and care with which the gentleman from Texas has helped me get attention. I would appreciate even more, however, some solicitude for the ability of the House to legislate in a sensible way. The Committee on…

I thank the Speaker for his efforts, but it has been my experience that when people do not want to hear something, you cannot make them listen. The Republicans do not want to hear the reminders of how short-lived their promises were about…

I do take note of the fact that the majority has decided we will do no further legislative business today of any sort, and that will allow us to leave. But I was particularly struck when the majority leader said this is a routine request…

I was supportive of a letter that was sent by Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL-CIO, to the Government of Cambodia in which he makes some very cogent objections to the proposed labor law. The gentleman from Florida has quite correctly…

I want to reinforce what the gentlewoman from Colorado said. It is inconceivable to me that the proposal on the budget made by the President would not come forward. I want to add, I have been disturbed, I had hoped we had had some progress…

I do not regard it as an acceptable trade-off that you cut off debate time to have a quorum call. I do not think cutting debate on important amendments is an acceptable defense of a very arbitrary and unfair rule.

I am struck by a terrible national epidemic that appears to have settled on the land. Significant numbers of right-wing thinkers, politicians, and advocates appear to all have gone deaf in one ear. Recently, we have heard many of the…

Mr. Chairman, I very much regret taking the time away from Members on this serious subject, but the time is over when I will let that kind of gratuitous bigotry go unchallenged, and I take the floor simply to express my contempt for the…

The defense of a bigoted remark, and it was one of several remarks, makes even less sense than I had expected. I am talking about the formulation. It was bigoted, and I would hope it would not be repeated.

the Republicans are solving something that has bothered all the people, but I do not think they are doing it the right way. Older people have complained to me; I am not talking about the wealthy older people who will be the beneficiaries…

Well, I have news for the gentleman from California. There are quite a number of gays and lesbians serving proudly in the U.S. military, unfortunately not serving proudly and openly because of the fact that people like him exist and have…

I am particularly calling attention to the formulation, the gratuitously, I believe, bigoted and insulating formulation, and I am very disappointed to see that language on the floor of the House.