I begin by thanking Mr. Frelinghuysen and Mr. Visclosky in conducting the amendments around these important considerations. This amendment that I propose this evening limits arms, training, and other assistance to the neo-Nazi Ukrainian…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 9, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $15,000,000)''. Page 74, line 8, after the dollar amount…

I thank the gentleman from New Jersey. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers). The amendment was agreed to. Amendment…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), add the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

This Committee should first focus on establishing without further delay a national framework that will empower the states to enforce collection by remote sellers.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I, too, welcome the witnesses and appreciate the importance of this hearing entitled 'First Amendment Protections on Public College and University Campuses.'

We owe it to our local communities, our local retailers, and state and local governments to act this Congress.

Lost tax revenues mean that state and local governments will have fewer resources to provide their residents essential services.

The unfair advantage that remote sellers have by not collecting sales taxes hurts us all.

free speech is supposed to protect unpopular speech, speech that some people consider hateful.

if there is gridlock in the system, no matter how bad the consequences, it must never permit the President... to override the clear force of law.

I believe that any Administration will fill the vacuum, the void, left by congressional inaction when it comes to what needs to be done for the benefit of this country.

Some of us come from an anti-regulatory philosophical bent of mind like Charles and David Koch.

But the fact of the matter is, how do we change this culture? This goes back a long ways.

I appreciate the different contributions from each of the five panelists, and I think we are off to a good discussion.

As a Member of Congress, I have stood on the streets of Detroit with a bullhorn and appealed for calm while my city burned around me in 1967.

I think both have evidenced a desire to work with Congress.

What I criticize is not their pursuit of politics but their pursuit of policies that they believe in and believe are deeply needed.

The American people speak through those elections.

I worked with Attorney General John Ashcroft at the invitation of President George Bush to craft Federal legislation intended to end use of racial profiling in police practices.

I have proposed numerous bills to both help protect the safety of police officers and to provide a system of accountability for law enforcement.

I didn't vote for the bailout because I didn't think that it was--the $700 billion was adequately restricted or conditioned.

And if not filled, then woe be unto the entire Nation.

we have for too long ignored the fact that there ought to have been a much more vigorous antitrust action.

we are very cautious and wary of efforts of some in our legislature to undermine some of the important authority that we have.