I close on this: the addiction to soft money, all of us will be okay without it. We can find ways to pay for our golf tournaments, to pay for our resort visits. We can find ways to pay for all of those things we pay for with soft money now.

we are addicted to this money, Democrats, Republicans, and I daresay the Independent, but I know the gentleman from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is not. We love the golf tournaments, the concerts, the traveling, all the wonderful things that this…

I know the gentleman made the point about the Democratic Party, but was not the gentleman quoted in the front page of one of our local newspapers here on the Hill urging us not to consider a telecom bill because it would hurt campaign…

under the Ney bill, how much money could Ken Lay have contributed, the former chairman of Enron, to the NRC, the DNC, and all the other parties?

I come from a State with a good football team, but I am delighted that the greatest mind, at least in my era of following college sports, would see fit to allow a young Member like me to partner with him to do something that in the long…

the picture is clear: our airlines and airports simply lack the capacity and funding to fulfill this vital police function. We have heard it from all of our colleagues at Louis Armstrong Airport where a man boarded a plane with a gun…

I was a part of a group of many Members on both sides of the aisle some few weeks ago who believed the argument put forward by many in the airline industry that if we did not pass an immediate industry stabilization package, I think…

the September 11 attacks were the evil work of a well-financed global network of terror. It has been reported that the 19 terrorists, while living in America, received at least $500,000 from Al Qaeda sources overseas. Their coordinated…

what happened last night, if the President is watching or the White House is watching, y'all did one heck of a job on my friend, the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Norwood), who has been a champion, a stalwart on behalf of patients and…

I will add that I am a little disturbed and concerned about three issues...there is an enormous gap between what we said we want to spend and what we actually intend to spend.

I would hope that we can deal with what some of the realities are here. There is going to be a closing statement where some of these matters will be discussed, but we cannot reach a compromise nor can we advance government if leaders on…

I have heard all my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, particularly the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Goodling), the chairman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, tout some of the successes of the committee. I serve…

so much has been said about the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Clay). Not enough can be said. I have happened to have the chance to know him or he has known me all of my life. My dad was his colleague in Congress for more than 22 years…

Like those who supported the resolution, I am profoundly saddened by the loss of life precipitated by the recent outbreak of violence in Gaza and the West Bank. My support for the State of Israel and Israeli people as my voting record has…

to all of my colleagues, it is interesting when I hear and all of us in this debate about Federal versus local. Let us just deal with the facts for one moment. Ninety-four cents of every dollar raised and spent for public education is…

Pardon my passion on this issue, Mr. Chairman, and I ask the House's forgiveness for violating our rules, but it is just hard for many of us to comprehend, and the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Porter) is a good man as many on the other…

we have heard a lot of speakers talk about tax cuts and perhaps using a little bit of their tax cut to pay for some of these initiatives. The gentleman from New Hampshire (Mr. Bass) is a good man, but for the life of me I cannot understand…

Mr. Chairman, we get called back here every week to name post offices and to even fund unwanted aircraft carriers, but when it comes time for us to confront education head on we begin to fiddle, Mr. Chairman. We send money from the Federal…

I am an exception to that. I had a summer jobs program, and I graduated from law school and my voters elected me to Congress. I would just submit to the gentleman that there are those of us who never attended the job core program, but had…

I come from a city that in many ways exemplifies this transition to a global economy, for Memphis is the distribution capital of the United States. Every conceivable product from soybeans to microprocessors lands in our airports, docks at…

Thank you very much for this award. I am honored and delighted to be here. My family are here too. There are some who say that I get this award as an attempt to keep me quiet and not write my book, which I of course will never do. I follow…

I often have those who have paid their dues and served time calling the congressional office back in Tennessee asking for assistance in trying to get a job to support their family. They have a hard time getting a job. Yet they can go right…

next month, very soon, we will unfortunately mark the 1-year anniversary of the tragedy at Columbine High School. Unfortunately, sensible gun control or legislation still languishes here in the Congress. Forty-three percent of households…

Ed Levi, with his outstanding academic and administrative record at the University of Chicago, was a perfect choice.

just to respond briefly to my dear friend, the gentleman from California (Mr. Thomas), all we want on this side are for meetings to be scheduled, for an opportunity for a consensus to be reached to actually be realized. Sure I would like…