Jim Baird

I thank my dear friend from Oregon for yielding me this time, and commend her for her leadership on this, along with the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Souder) and the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Kennedy). My colleagues have defined for us…

I include for the Record the report from the Committee on the Budget hearing in which the majority denied our efforts to add the $1.3 billion back in March. The rule waives all points of order against consideration of the bill. The…

the gentleman from Florida and the gentleman from New York have repeatedly said that this will be a nearly unanimous passage. That may be true because the only thing we can unanimously agree on is the lower number. The Republicans will not…

my understanding is different. The gentleman may be right. My point is we have tried repeatedly on our side of the aisle to get additional funding for the veterans. We had hearings before the Committee on the Budget. The $1.3 billion…

I would like to point out two things: first of all, in response to my dear friend from Nebraska, when he mentioned that the majority, or that this body, had passed or fixed concurrent receipt, he neglected to mention that was following a…

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Okay. So we do not have that answer. Let me ask this question: under the bill, the section that is proposed, I have yet to figure out what happens to this body. The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Baird) has…

I do not have it on the top of my head, my friend; but I can say that it is much faster than 7 weeks. I would assert, furthermore, that if the gentleman's assertion is that we do not need the United States Congress post a catastrophic…

I would suggest that with these questions remaining, we should not be passing this legislation in the manner in which we are. We need a full and open and extensive debate on this.

I understand there is good intent behind the bill before us today and the amendment, but it is not enough. It simply is not. It leaves our country vulnerable for 45 days and that is too long. Nothing could be further from the truth. In…

I rise to make two fundamental points before we proceed to vote on this. The two points are these: This resolution does not solve the real problem and it may create more problems than it purports to solve, and we have to understand that…

But during that 45 days, what happens? The Chair of the Constitution Subcommittee says this is what happens: martial law. We do not know who would fill the vacancy of the Presidency, but we do know that the Succession Act most likely…

Yesterday President Bush submitted his $82 billion budget for the Iraq supplemental proposal, yet he did not request in that proposal a single dollar to pay for veterans services. Tens of thousands of our troops will be returning home this…

the resolution we are preparing to consider, the proposed rules for the 109th Congress, in my judgment violates the United States Constitution which we were just sworn to uphold and defend. It does so by allowing a very limited number of…

But as we do, we should not forget that thousands of miles from here, thousands of families are mourning the loss of their children, their husbands and wives in Russia to a brutal and horrible terrorist attack. I would ask this House to…

My friends, surrounding us here are profiles of the great law givers. There are two Americans up there, Jefferson and Mason. Mason did not sign the Constitution at the Convention. He did not, because it did not have a Bill of Rights in it…

I absolutely agree that the executive branch must not be given the authority or must not assume the authority to change our elections. On that I one hundred percent agree. That must be the purview and the prerogative of the United States…

This is a very exciting day. As we all know, 200 years ago today, as we speak, Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery were in the middle of their epic journey, actually in the early stages; and what a journey it was: thousands of…

I thank him for that, as this is an issue of great importance to fish processors and the economy of my region. Mr. Speaker, my concern is that small fishing ships are now required to transmit electronically information about the contents…

I wanted to rise today to discuss a program fraught with waste. It was created with noble intentions but is poorly constructed and implemented, and as a result has facilitated, I think, abuse of an otherwise well-intentioned program. I am…

I wonder why my friends on the other side of the aisle have not sent letters back to their constituents saying because of our inaction in 2000 and 2001, billions of dollars were taken from people's pockets, from their families, from their…

First of all I was told of one school district that had scheduled to purchase new textbooks for their kids. These were not because they just were whimsically buying unnecessary books. I saw the books that they were using. These were books…

I want to underscore exactly what you said and how prescient and remarkably so that the individual cited in the recording said, ``I'm betting on a $1,000 per megawatt cap'' because that is exactly the cap that was proposed. Let us put that…

In 1787, this month, the Constitutional Convention was at work in Philadelphia, some of the brightest minds in the history of this country. One of those great minds was Madison, and he has been quoted a lot today, but let me quote another…

On the one hand, the opponents of this legislation argue that we must have elected representatives. On the other hand, they suppress the rights of those elected representatives to speak to their own legislation. I want to take a little bit…