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Mr. Speaker, Amtrak is one of the foundations of our national transportation system and it is a crucial part of our economic infrastructure. But this bill will hurt Amtrak. It will hurt Amtrak workers far more than it will help Amtrak. For…
Mr. Speaker, we are doing the second continuing resolution because, despite the late date, despite the President's very clear decisions, my Republican colleagues still have not done their job and they still insist on playing politics. The…
Mr. Speaker, the majority argues that our attempt to defeat the previous question is futile because our proposed amendment is not germane. The fact of the matter is that the Chair has not made a ruling nor heard our arguments as to the…
it's been 4 years since NAFTA was signed. And for those 4 years it's been nothing but bad news: NAFTA has been bad news for American workers; NAFTA's been bad news for Mexican workers; and NAFTA's been bad news for the environment…
What began as a sincere bipartisan effort to improve the House ethics process has disintegrated into one more political sham. On February 12 Democrats and Republicans agreed to a moratorium on ethics complaints and they stuck to it…
Mr. Speaker, again I want to begin by registering my frustration at being expected to vote on this very enormous bill that was dropped outside my door at 3:30 this morning. It came the same time as the milkman. But I am not exactly sure if…
Mr. Speaker, let us make no mistake on what we are about here today; the cuts we are about to adopt today, with precious little debate, are to finance the tax cuts of tomorrow. There is a direct and irrefutable relationship. So the cuts in…
Mr. Speaker, despite what we heard at the microphone from my very dear friend, if one calls up the Speaker's line, you will get a summary. This bill is not in print anywhere except the copies that I have and the gentleman from New York…
Mr. Speaker, anyone who thought the bipartisanship on the budget was too good to be true was right. Despite agreements with the White House, despite compromises on the part of my Republican colleagues, despite some very hard work by…
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…
This is not just an esoteric procedural debate. I was insulted when the gentleman on the other said, ``Well, so what if we're bringing up this bill delivered, one copy, to the Democratic side at 3:30 in the morning. They wouldn't have read…
Mr. Speaker, I have five sites in my district, which are in the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program, and that is why I am very concerned about the transfer of FUSRAP from the Department of Energy to the Corps of Engineers…
Mr. Speaker, today I am very proud to rise in support of this resolution to recognize El Salvador for its fair and free elections. The people and the leaders of that nation have made a commitment toward peace and justice that just a few…
2 years ago, 2 years and 2 months ago today, I was told that I had 2 months to live. Fortunately on July 10, 1995, 2 years ago today, I underwent a successful liver transplant that saved my life. I was extremely lucky and fortunate that…
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, exactly 1 year ago today I stood on the House floor in this very same spot and spoke out against a nearly identical rule and joint resolution. At that time I said my Republican colleagues should be ashamed of that rule and…
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, my erstwhile colleague said that this was a family friendly bill. It is, if you are talking about the Ford family and the Rockefeller family and the du Pont family. But, for all other families, it is not a friendly bill. I…
I oppose the rule because I believe that the American voters, and nobody else, should decide who represents them. For anyone who thinks that we do not have term limits, I would remind everybody that every 2 years, the entire House of…
Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``no'' vote on the previous question. If the previous question is defeated, I will offer an amendment to the rule. This provision would require that the 104th Congress be reconvened on the first Monday after the…
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 do not know how anybody could say that something that affects 130,000 working people, that has not had one minute of hearing in the House committees or the Senate committees, that was put into the conference committee, is a technical…
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