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politician (1931-2011)
They are not federally illegal. What you are telling me is if a local city body decides that there are not going to be any guns, as the gentleman has in Illinois, there are not going to be any guns in this community, none whatsoever, and I…
If the gentleman wants to put it in there, an exception for self-defense, then I would say yes. But the gentleman does not have that in here. He just says anybody who knowingly and with intent, with reckless disregard for the safety of…
Effectively, this amendment does the same thing as the amendment we just voted on. Effectively it is the same old thing.
But we Democrats are asking the leadership of the Republicans, Speaker Gingrich and the radical Republicans, to bring forward legislation that will help millions of people in this country now, and that is an increase in the minimum wage…
I am curious. Maybe the gentlewoman can tell me what the economic loss is for the ability to have a child. What is the economic loss of the inability to have a child? I do not think you can put a dollar figure as an economic loss on that…
What I am trying to get across is what you are going to end up with is there is no damages, really, for a woman's loss of the ability to have a baby.
I hope Members will really take a look at what is happened here. This is blatant politics and blatant hypocrisy. The bill's title speaks of laudatory goals, while the provisions of the bill for medical savings accounts will ultimately have…
I agree 100 percent with the gentleman that it has been a misstatement all along that these are assault weapons. I do not believe that even the opponents of the legislation, the proponents of the ban, would ever think about sending our…
I just heard the most idiotic statement I have ever heard here. I really have. None of us had anything to do with this list. It was the proponents. There, the gentleman from New York [Mr. Schumer] and the gentlewoman in the Senate, the…
The gentleman makes a very strong argument for the bill, and I will have to continue to consider it as a result of his statement and elucidation about all the good things in the bill.
As I have reviewed this legislation, I have some serious misgivings about it. I am desirous that we continue to have the provision in the bill that is sponsored by the gentleman from Illinois on habeas corpus. I am sorry I have to disagree…
It is an attempt to say that the criminal, the individual who commits the crime with this new technology, bears the burden of doing it and that the penalty would be increased on the individual. It is specifically what a lot of my…
And there is no Gunderson proposal or anything else in this recommittal motion that can go to conference because there is not anything like that in here. The provision in here just lets it expire at the end of this year. Now it is going to…
The upper 2 percent of big farmowners, OK, 2 percent will get 22 percent of the money. It sounds a lot like their tax bill, where 2 percent got 50 percent of the money. This one, 2 percent get 22 percent of the money.
The gentleman from Texas brought up an interesting point, and I listened to the gentleman from Kansas for an answer. I did not exactly hear that exact answer; that is, if an owner of farmland who in the past has leased it out or…
Except in the current farm program, you have to crop the land in order to participate in the program.
That is true. He can get the payment. He does not have to crop the land at all even if he has rented it in the past. He does not have to rent it this year if he has not already done so.
Well, I object strongly that you blame the President for something that needs to be solved right here in this body and with the chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and with the Committee on Agriculture in the Senate, because that is…
Well, there is a great deal of uncertainty out there among all of the farmers. We have not done a farm bill. There was a welfare bill for big farmers put in the so-called Debt Ceiling Reduction Act that the President vetoed. It is my…
I would like to discuss, if the gentleman from Texas would be so kind to do so, the statement in here about the farm bill and emergency legislation. What emergency legislation would that be? I am on the Committee on Agriculture, and I…
I want the people to know that this bill really is one that I am going to vote for because I see the need for it, but I am going to hold my nose real good when I vote for it, because it smells, it stinks for what it does to education. It…
They were due to be done by September 30. We all know that. The American public does not know. They think that we as Democrats have had something to do with the closing of the Federal Government. We do not have anything to do with it. We…
Mr. Speaker, the courts have decided, under the 1995 law, the States are required to fund the Medicaid abortions for those provisions. That is the status of it right now. In the 1996 law that we passed in this House, we said that the…
As one who has prided himself for all my 19 years here of having what I consider a 100-percent pro-life record, I am dismayed and amazed that the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. Livingston] would bring to this floor a bill that will permit…
I was listening to the latest discussion by the gentleman from Ohio and the gentleman from Kansas. Sitting here, it just struck me, if we are really talking about saving money, and I am not taking up with the Secretary of Energy, Secretary…
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