Whether it is from the Swiss or Spain or Canada or the U.S. Again, I am assuming many times that that product is going to be built in a factory perhaps even in the United States; or a single or a couple of factories are going to supply the…

The other thing that happens on this, there is a ripple effect, because when you go to Canada, and we are competing against Canada for automotive manufacturing, furniture manufacturing, when a Canadian worker needs to pay for health care…

What does she do that would get her thrown into jail? Going to Canada or going to Mexico or going to Europe is not illegal to buy these drugs, is it?

We pay the highest prices. We do the development, the testing, we do all the market research and all of that here in the United States. We are the largest market. These drugs are made here, and we pay the highest prices.

Let us run this by again. $100 in the U.S. and $5 in Germany. This may be one of the bigger differentials of the drugs that you bought.

Mr. Speaker, life, life is a precious gift. Life is a precious gift from God. Partial-birth abortion is a gruesome procedure that has no place in our society, has no place in a civilized society. Partial-birth abortions are performed in…

one of the fastest growing companies in America today is Federal Prison Industries. In the last 2 weeks they have unveiled a brand-new scheme to take jobs from the private sector and move them into Federal Prison Industries. Their new…

tonight I want to spend a few minutes talking about one of the fastest growing companies in America today. It pays its workers somewhere between 23 cents an hour and $1.15 an hour. It has a wide array of products. It pays no Federal taxes…

I rise in support of H.R. 1925, the Runaway, Homeless, and Missing Children Protection Act. This authorizes Federal assistance for programs that serve runaway and homeless youth and missing and exploited children. H.R. 1925 contains the…

This week Kris Eggle will not only be memorialized here on the floor of the House, he will also be memorialized at the memorial for slain police officers, officers who died in the line of duty. His family is in town this week, and his…

I think the amendment that is being proposed by my colleague is important. It is an important amendment to the underlying legislation. We have made significant progress in the IDEA legislation, and this amendment would take it one step…

I support the Federal investment in meeting the education needs of all of our Nation's children with disabilities. Support this amendment.

That is right. Exactly. The gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Collins), he has been just a yeoman on this for the last 5 years. But what really got him interested was a small company in his district which made a very specialize product, missile…

tonight I rise to set in context a bill that I introduced with my colleagues, the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Frank), the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Maloney), the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Collins), the gentleman from…

The problem that we have, I believe, is within the bureaucracy of Federal Prison Industries. I think you used the word ``inertia.'' They have got this momentum going. They are building new plants. They are employing all of these workers…

This is why Federal employees support us as well. What may happen is the Federal Government may decide to outsource and contract out certain things, and the winning contractor may be Federal Prison Industries.

Number one, I agree with you. I would like to go to the same place and say you are just not going to make stuff that competes with the private sector. The law called for minimal impact. But we have got to get the 218 votes. We need to pass…

No. There is a reason it is called mandatory sourcing. It is not preferential sourcing, where there is a scoring system and if you are within 5 or 10 percent of the private sector price you have to buy it from us. It is not preferential…

If Federal Prison Industries makes it, they can demand that that housing project... buy from them, no matter what else they get.

The interesting thing here is this is just not an office furniture industry issue. If you go through the numbers, they are selling $159 million worth of clothing and textiles. That is why if you go to the gentleman from Pennsylvania's (Mr…

You say, well, why do the Federal procurement officers not support your bill? You know what? They do. Because as this Congress asks different agencies to do more with less, the Federal procurement officers come back and say, hey, we can…

They are getting into services, into the telemarketing, into the processing and all of these kinds of things. Digitizing of photos and photo libraries. They are getting into an unbelievable number of things. Some are highly sensitive. What…

No. Actually what Federal Prison Industries does and what they did with office furniture was they took a growth industry in America and decided to piggyback on it. And now that that industry is facing some difficult times, the industry is…

It will be very difficult. Again, the folks in the Defense Department are very much in support of this type of reform because they want to go to the private sector, or at least they want to have the opportunity to go to the private sector…

That is what is coming down the road. It has been a growth industry. It is going to continue to be a growth industry. I am optimistic with the kind of support that we have for the bill on a bipartisan basis, we have had a coalition of the…