I come this evening to condemn the senseless and cowardly bombing of the Federal building in Oklahoma City. I join with my colleagues and all of us here in America in expressing our condolences and sympathies to the families of the…

I am a little confused. As I said earlier this morning, I thought we were in the business of cutting taxes with this bill only to find out that we are actually increasing taxes on 2 million Americans. I am disturbed because those 2 million…

the debate this week is not about whether we ought to have a tax cut for the average American or for the seniors or for the hard-working folks back home. This debate is about whether we ought to give most of the tax break to the wealthiest…

Mr. Speaker, we in the suburbs do recognize the importance of the District of Columbia to the Nation's vitality. That is why I am here to support the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Act. I hope my…

Mr. Chairman, this a good amendment that makes a bad bill better. I am appalled at these cuts. I understand we have tough decisions to make, but I find it ironic that the people that say we need more people working and people need to pull…

now that the first 50 days are past, I think we are beginning to see the true colors of the Republican Party. Once again they are playing Robin Hood in reverse, taking from the poor to give to the rich. When I thought about some of the…

Reclaiming my time, that is bad. But what he just said may be even worse if he is in fact correct, because the attorney would just reject a settlement offer, therefore putting into effect a contingency fee. I want to make a couple of other…

That is fine, Mr. Chairman. Reclaiming my time, that is the point I wanted to make, that in one instance, according to the answer provided by the sponsor, nothing would occur because if the offer is rejected the attorney would simply…

Mr. Chairman, it is time we accept the reality. We are a world power. We defeated communism, and no, we cannot expect Nepal and Bangladesh to pay the same amount of money that we do. Yes, we are going to have to take the leadership, and…

I rise today to oppose H.R. 7. I believe it is penny-wise and pound-foolish and also very shortsighted, specifically on the U.N. peacekeeping. It seems to me the issue has evolved into a question of whether we have legitimate U.S…

I rise because I have to point out that just yesterday, after the gentleman tells us today that this money is for prisons and should only be used for prisons, just yesterday, when we were debating the question of unallocated funds, the…

I want to really heighten the contradiction that has taken place here today. In point of fact, the gentleman from Florida did allocate money to Federal courthouses and Federal prosecutors, and, by his own statement, INS, another Federal…

We are dealing with a question of prevention programs versus prisons. We are dealing with two different things here. Yesterday we were dealing with a question of the unallocated funds if we do not use them all up. Today we are stripping…

I feel a chill in the air this afternoon. I think we are about to see a very dark day in history of the United States of America, the beginning of the police state. I submit that historians looking back will write that America's liberty…

good morning, I rise today to object to people playing God in the marketplace. It is amazing to me that some of the economists who claim to be such free traders and such believers in the free marketplace would intervene in our economy a…

I rise today to clarify for the American people what this balanced budget debate is all about. Make no mistake about it, the Democrats want a balanced budget. The difference is, we want to do it right. I am from the State of Maryland, 10…

it appears that the Republicans are already reversing their own reforms. First they say that committees should not meet on the floor during debates under the 5-minute rule because Members cannot effectively be in two places at the same…

I rise this afternoon to comment on the sad situation affecting the House Historian's Office. In December, around Christmas-time, I read with dismay that the House Historian would be disbanded as another so-called cost-saving measure. But…

I would hope that no one would leave this debate thinking that, first, eligible students are being denied Pell Grants because of prisoners. That is not true. The administration has stated unequivocally that all Pell-eligible students…

Mr. Speaker, I am here today to support the conference committee. We know several things. We know we want to cut 252,000 positions from the Federal work force. We know we need to do it in the most efficient way, and we need to do it in the…

Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of that budget, because I think it offers to those of us in Congress some real options, some real choices, as to how we want to spend the money of the American taxpayer. In the first instance, we say…