James M. Talent

I heard that statement many times in this debate, and it gives rise to the question naturally: ``Why isn't the bill broad enough to include all kinds of violence on the picket lines?'' Mr. Speaker, the gentleman is on the committee that…

the gentlewoman is saying that it indicates they are not able to handle it. It may indicate that they are able to handle it, and they are arresting a lot of people and that they are very interested and are enforcing these laws. We could…

It seems to me if it justifies involvement, federalizing this area for this kind of violence, it justifies federalizing it for labor laws. And we have not done that.

Mr. Speaker, there is a subject that interests me, the whole question of why we do not apply these kinds of remedies to other kinds of picket line violence. The gentlewoman from Colorado [Mrs. Schroeder] mentioned the Section 8 of the…

it just seems to me a matter of basic fairness that, if we are going to federalize the area of protecting people who are trying to cross protester lines, or picket lines, or something like that, after all it does not make any difference to…

Mr. Speaker, it is important to outline what has happened in the last few years. Many Members are not aware of it. Many members of the public are not aware of it. Defense spending has been reduced in this country by 35 percent in real…

I can do that best by defining what ``hollowing forces'' are. Here is a good analogy. Take a house that on the outside looks good. Maybe it has a nice coat of paint on the outside and it looks like it can do what a house is supposed to do…