Dick Chrysler: “We are just trying to offer good legislation, trying to take the most vulnerable people in our society and protect them…”

Obviously, Mr. Speaker, when people borrow money they are expected to pay it back. Certainly when lawyers start lining their pockets based on technicalities to keep people from having to pay those funds back, then it is time for the…

I rise in support of this point of order. This is an unfunded mandate. One billion to municipalities cost $13 billion nationwide. We agreed to live under the same laws as what we passed. We must live under the laws that we have passed in…

We voted last year, I would say to my colleague, the gentleman from Michigan, just last year we voted on the Barton amendment that had a two-thirds provision in it in the balanced budget amendment. Then we did, in fact, vote to have this…

I think I need to reiterate what the gentleman from Florida said. We are certainly not against women. We certainly are for increasing penalties against repeat offenders that are committing rape in this country. I just believe that this is…