Melton Hancock: “It is a mixed bag for Republicans in Congress these days. On the one hand, we are thrilled so far with our legislative…”

I felt like when I was elected to the Congress I came up here with a good reputation. I plan on leaving the Congress at the end of this term with a good reputation. After all, that is really all you have to leave, is a good reputation.

Is it not great that we live in a country where we do not have to work 14 hours a day just to get enough to eat or 18 hours a day just to get enough to eat? You know we can spend a little time, and maybe quit watching so much television…

Were those recommendations made to promote--to encourage and support homosexuality as an alternative lifestyle? I do not think so.

The Unsoeld amendment does do the same thing the gentleman is asking me to do, and, no, I would agree because that opens up the door for them to say, ``Well, we didn't intend for this to be this way. We didn't intend.'' It opens up the…