John Joseph Moakley

But the reason for this mandate is to stop this spending to take place, stop penalizing small companies. But if we say, we are going to tax them and then someone says, well, a point of order, and then someone says, we will give it back as…

The mandate is the same, whether they get taxed to build roads or they give it back as a tax break, that company we are trying to protect is still getting the same tax.

If the gentleman would stop right there, that is what I am talking about. If there was some money there and they decided, the majority party decided to give that back in a tax break, rather than educate smokers, there would be no violation…

We can have the fight on taxes in another bill. But this amendment specifically says a point of order will lie against a bill if monies raised from tobacco, the sale of tobacco or cigarettes, if that money is spent to educate youth or to…

As I said before, I have no problem with the bill. It is the amendment that will not allow monies derived from gas taxes to be spent on improving roads, the point of order lies against it; improving safety in the roads, a point of order…

This amendment was dropped in at the last minute. I am ready to vote for the unfunded mandate bill, I think it is a good idea. But I cannot see why, if the money from the taxes is given back as tax rebates to the very rich, no point of…

I concur, Mr. Speaker. That is all I am here for, is to make sure that unions and collective bargaining agents and employers have all the same rights.

This African trade bill is designed to stimulate growth and reduce poverty in eligible sub-Saharan countries. It encourages investment in some African countries which are already turning out to be rich markets for American technologies and…

I am afraid the gentleman has watched too closely. But also he may remember the most-favored-nation status China trade bill that I opened the rule because there were some very-much-needed amendments, and it is very reminiscent of what we…

I am not insinuating in any way that former President Ronald Reagan is for this bill. All I want to do was to read a statement he put out in a press release. Once a President speaks, use of that language is never unauthorized because that…

I do not know what script it was the gentleman was reading from, but this is not about violating law. This is a sense of the House resolution that has no power. If the gentleman really felt as strong as he says, why does he not get the…

I just had a thought. I was thinking maybe 10 or 15 years into the future, when there is a beautiful edifice in New York named after the gentleman from New York (Mr. Solomon), then maybe 20 years later than that someone says, take that…

Mr. Speaker, I do not know if my chairman was on the floor when I spoke, and I know he was not, he was attending to his duties, but this debate this morning right now is not about the spending bill. It is about the process. I just feel…

I would like to say I have just been handed an item from the Citizens For Tax Justice, which is a nonpartisan Washington-based research group, saying that 897,000 Massachusetts children would be ineligible under the House plan, and 850,000…

I am urging my colleagues to defeat this resolution and not to grant special investigative powers to the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. My colleagues say they want to clean up campaign practices. We should certainly do that…

Mr. Speaker, I was very proud to serve in World War II, and I did serve to defend our flag, but more importantly I served to defend what our flag stands for. Still I cannot believe that people should be allowed to desecrate the flag. I…

As the chairman knows, we offered to postpone or to limit debate, if the gentleman wants to postpone it until a later time, so we are not trying to run the clock out. But I feel that our side has to know what is in those bills, even at…

Mr. Speaker, the word ``family friendly'' has been used here, but unless you are a DuPont or Rockefeller or Ford, this is not friendly to your family. Also, comp time and paid leave have been used interchangeably. They are not synonymous…

Mr. Speaker, it is deeply disturbing that this Congress would choose to leave town with a dark ethical cloud hanging over the U.S. House of Representatives. That cloud, the ethical charges against the Speaker, grows bigger and darker…

I am sure that the gentleman is aware that Reebok has ceased buying soccer balls from anybody that hires children.

I would say also the employer would tend to give the extra time to the fellow who takes comp time rather than the overtime, so if you say, ``I want overtime,'' they probably will not be designated as the fellow who is going to work.

We all hear stories about abuse of welfare, but all I want is for everybody in this Chamber to realize that 2 out of every 3 people on welfare are children. I think that is a fact that we overlook too often. We hear all the stories about…

I feel strongly that the CDC should actively pursue a public information campaign to meet the rapid growth in public inquiries about liver disease.

I understand from the private organizations which are trying to respond to the public's need for information about liver disease that they have experienced a fourfold increase in public inquiries about liver disease from patients, family…

Mr. Speaker, I just cannot think why we could not be talking about getting the water cleaned up in this country right now, why we could not be getting the Kennedy-Kassebaum health bill before us right now, why we could not get the minimum…