I understand that, but the amendment offered by my good friend, the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. Tauzin], suffers from its own defects, which are also substantial. However, this is a most curious thing. It also says that where the Federal…

I am just curious. The gentleman is chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary. I am curious why he is in such a rush to get this bill on the floor before he has looked at the kind of misbehavior that I have described or the kind of…

The consequences of the behavior of the BATF in these kinds of cases is that they are not trusted. They are detested, and I have described them properly as jackbooted American fascists. They have shown no concern over the rights of…

for more than a decade I had the honor of chairing the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee. That subcommittee regularly exposed waste, fraud, and abuse committed at the taxpayer's expense. We found defense contractors charging $600…

This was not a struggle which was won easily. In England it cost the head of one king and the throne of another. And it caused a revolution which caused thousands of British subjects to die. It caused a war between the United States and…

Mr. Chairman, as the debate concludes, it is becoming painfully clear that this House is responding not to the needs of the country, but to the needs of doing a bunch of things in 100 days. I was a small boy when the Democrats dealt with…

This language of this says that the chairman, not the committee, may determine that there is good cause to begin the hearing sooner. The committee has no say whatsoever in this matter. Now, I have no problems with allowing the chairman to…

That has always been required to be done by the vote of the committee. It was done by the vote of the committee, not by the whim of the chairman, and that is the change that I find so difficult.

I would observe to you, there is no other way I could get the floor to discuss something which is going to happen on Monday next, on which there has been no notice, on which there has been no opportunity for hearings, which is…

this resolution has no more meaning and no more use than side pockets on a cow. This is a fraud. This is a sham. My Republican colleagues are suddenly concerned that the senior citizens have discovered that nowhere in this amendment to the…

since late in 1993, State and local government officials have trumpeted a call for Congress to enact legislation to curb the imposition of so-called unfunded mandates on State and local governments, and to ensure that Federal taxpayer…

this is a part of a pattern which is rapidly becoming clear to all. We are hearing now on the floor legislation which has not been properly considered in the committees, because of an extraordinary level of haste on the part of all who are…

as example of bad procedure, we are asked to consider a bill that nobody in this Chamber knows, those consequences cannot be prophesied, because no hearings have been held. What is this bill going to affect? It is going to affect the clean…

I came here to the House floor to discuss the unfunded mandates question. But a much more important question is before this body. This is not the Duma, this is not the Reichstag. This is the House of the people, and in the 40 years that I…

I am today introducing five pieces of legislation that received overwhelming bipartisan support in the last Congress. They cover a range of important issues the 104th Congress must address: telecommunications reform, Superfund reform, safe…