James Barcia: “I would ask my pro-life colleagues in the House to oppose the Campbell substitute, which is not a compromise but in fact…”

I rise in support of H.R. 476, the Child Custody Protection Act... It will make it a Federal crime if an individual knowingly evades the laws of their State to seek an abortion for any mother 17 years of age or younger.

I think in some cases, I would say to the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Conyers], it was a condition where severe financial pressures at the State level allowed for overcrowding of the prison system without adequate facilities to house all…

I rise in support of H.R. 4965, the Partial-Birth Abortion Act of 2002, and I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this important legislation. Partial-birth abortions are most often performed in the second or third trimester, and I am…

I do not believe it totally eliminates parole. It says if you receive a determined number of years as your sentence, you shall serve 85 percent of that. In other words, if you receive a 10-year sentence, you should serve 8 rac{1}{2} years…