Bill Delahunt

This is a very dangerous amendment. This sends a message to the antidemocratic forces in Haiti that America is ready to disengage. This coupled with a hole that was placed by the majority in terms of human rights observers. This amendment…

During one of our hearings there was a panel of nine witnesses, including representatives of the credit card industry and minority witnesses. I asked a question and polled each of them, and all nine unanimously stated that this bill would…

Let me be really clear. This is not a civil war that has been raging. This is nothing more than state violence and state terrorism against a class of citizens who are unarmed, for the purpose of forming a pure enclave, a mini-state, if you…

Again, just to pick up on the theme from my friend and colleague from Massachusetts about the reluctance to instruct the Senate when it comes to the issue of censure, and I presume that the position of the House managers would be…

Ms. Currie appeared before the grand jury on eight different occasions. On each occasion, she testified that in no way was she pressured to make any statement exonerating the President of the United States.

When Monica Lewinsky was confronted by Ken Starr in her proffer, she clearly and unequivocally stated that neither the President nor anyone in her behalf ever asked her to lie, and that is the evidence.

In my judgment, the headlong rush to publicize secret grand jury testimony not only endangers the rights of the individuals involved in this particular case, but also undermines the integrity of one of the cornerstones of our system of…

As I was saying, every single inmate that was incarcerated for first degree murder is still serving that time. It has nothing to do with this particular amendment. At the same time I hear the gentleman from Florida telling or instructing…

I do not know what States the chair of the subcommittee is referring to when he talks about murderers being held for 7 or 8 years, and rapists and muggers out on the street. I served as district attorney, as the gentleman knows, in the…

I would seriously contest the validity of any study that shows that. This amendment should be defeated, if we are going to get the 85 percent rule adopted in the other remaining States, the remaining ones other than the 28 that have done…

I believe, as others, that it would be very foolish for us to allow the Internet to become encumbered with a patchwork of duplicative and overlapping taxes. The moratorium provided under the bill before us would ensure instead that…

I want to address the scenario that the gentleman from Florida raised about the poor widow and her family. The manager's amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde), which I think was accepted and will receive support from…

Mr. Chairman, I would correct the gentleman, because I come from that part of the country where the gentleman was born and raised who had made that quote. His name is James Otis and he lived on Cape Cod. Mr. Chairman, I do not know whether…

I think what is most interesting is that upon a careful and thorough analysis of the language that presently exists in title V, that there has been a conclusion by many legal scholars that that language is patently unconstitutional as a…

This amendment, the Delahunt-Boehlert amendment, makes clear that the levying of taxes is not an appropriate judicial function. It leaves it to State and local governments to decide how to fund a judicial remedy to some illegal or wrongful…

Is it not absolutely critical that whatever we talk about in terms of our own responsibility, it is to ensure that those standards that were created, as the gentleman said, through struggle and toil, stay the same so that we continue to…

If those that went before us had not prevailed, would there be a middle class in America today?

But what about the other 80 percent? What about the middle class in America? It is really about the middle class, because if we do not have a viable middle class, the poor and the disadvantaged have nowhere to go but even further down. So…

I did learn this that I had never known before. When we talk about globalization, when we talk about trade, you mentioned, for example, that 70 percent of the food that is consumed in the State of Michigan during the course of the winter…

So from the time it was first diagnosed that this epidemic broke out, it has almost doubled in terms of the number of young children that have been conclusively diagnosed and contracted hepatitis as the result of the importation of unsafe…

It was not the expensive boat ride. But I think really what that particular statistic does really talks to what we are about, which was fair trade. We ought to have probably a picture of the car that was produced here, produced in Atlanta…

I think a fact that I shall never forget upon visiting that Ford factory was that the cost of the car that they produced, which was the Sable, a fine car, in the United States cost approximately $20,000. When that car was exported to…

On September 18, 1998, the House Judiciary Committee voted to release to the public several volumes of supporting material received from the Independent Counsel nine days ago, including grand jury transcripts and the President's videotaped…

Again, for the record, I think it is important Page H11914 to note in terms of the constitutionality of censure that no less a figure in our history than Abraham Lincoln, the father of the Republican Party, supported a House resolution…

I was stunned this afternoon to hear the primary sponsor of this bill could not even confirm that his own State of Florida could comply with the mandates of his proposal which would, coming from Washington, again tell the States that do…