This comes back to the point the gentleman from Connecticut made so well several minutes ago, that the easiest thing in the world any of us can do is say, well, we are going to create a program. Sure, we will give you more money, even…

I stand here as a past opponent of lifting the embargo, but not necessarily as a supporter of the administration's policies in that part of the world. I think we have been vacillating and indecisive, and I think we have invested far more…

I know that he, probably more than any Member of this Chamber, knows the price that is paid in our Nation's defense. However, Mr. Chairman, I am reminded, and I think we all ought to be reminded, by the fact that it is now February of…

in 1992, when this administration took office, they commissioned a study of the military and our defense needs from the bottom up. The Bottom-Up Review sought to identify specifically the objectives that the administration wanted to…

This is precisely the point. What if that system of barrage balloons as ill-advised as it might have been had precluded the development of radio electronic detection? That is what I am saying, is that I think we are ill-advised to preclude…

as I was saying a minute ago, violence of any sort is and should be condemned, but I think we are making a grave mistake if we take one form of violence and attempt to exalt it over other forms. We need to deal with all forms of violence…

I think that violence is terrible. And to the best of my knowledge any time it is invoked unlawfully, it involves a violation of constitutional rights. I am concerned about this amendment, and I speak in opposition to it. I think it is…

I want to talk about the minimum wage. In the last year I have been talking about the fact that in my State of Maine if I go out to a store to buy a pack of cigarettes, I will pay three taxes. If I go out and buy a can of beer, I will pay…

I am advised now that this fiscal 1995 budget is the tenth consecutive year of real cuts in defense spending and that we are approximately 35, as much as 40 percent below the level of spending in real dollars than we were in the 1986…

Could the gentleman address the issue of what the underfunding does to the leadership in terms of the types of decisions that they need to make, the day-to-day decisions based on the financial necessities of maintaining the forces…

I think that the strong note that is important that the public understands and the Members of this House understand is the very strong bipartisan commitment, not only in the other pieces of legislation that have been proceeding through…

I think that we do not need, we do not have anything that we need to reinvent. We have a system of government that is the finest in the world, that has stood the test of 200 years of American history. We need to get back to the basics. It…

Yesterday was a great day for this country. We instituted nine historic reforms in our congressional revolution, and we have begun a journey of restoring trust and confidence in the American Government. I am especially pleased with our…