Part D amendment No. 39 offered by Mr. Taylor of Mississippi: At the end of subtitle C of title X (page 227, after line 14), insert the following new section: SEC. 1023. RANDOM DRUG TESTING OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE EMPLOYEES. (a) Expansion…

Mr. Chairman, we have a drug problem. As a State Senator of Mississippi, I am real proud of the fact that I helped pass the toughest drug law in America. In Mississippi, if you sell two ounces of cocaine, two ounces of heroin, 100 pills…

Mr. Chairman, as was pointed out in the recent dialogue with the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Traficant) and the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Reyes), there is a war on drugs going on, and our Nation is losing. Mr. Chairman, the point that would I…

Mr. Chairman, a tragic event has occurred in my congressional district, in my hometown; and I am requesting a leave of absence for Friday and the balance of the week, as the eyes of the country turn toward my hometown of Springfield where…

Mr. Chairman, I find myself betwixt and between two very, very good Members of this committee, two excellent Members of Congress. If I listen to both of the Members, I find them saying almost the same thing. They are both saying we do not…

our Nation this year is going to spend $18 billion on the war on drugs. As we speak, there are Americans flying counter drug missions in places like Colombia and Peru, and they are being shot at, and pretty often they get killed. Mr…

a while back I was visiting the honors class at Hattiesburg High School. One of my students asked me that in my capacity as a member of the Committee on National Security, ``What are you? Are you the cheerleaders or the critics for…

But, please, the American public needs to know we are not there yet. I agree with the gentleman that we have a huge surplus that we are spending on government spending. But if we take all the spending and all the tax revenues, then we are…

I am not going to argue with the gentleman on the tax increases, but it is misleading to the American people to say that this Congress has passed a balanced budget. They did not.

let me first apologize to the wonderful people who work for this House. I am sorry we are keeping you late, I am sorry I am contributing to that. As far as the American people, I want to apologize for the expense of this speech and the…

correct me, but my colleague's resolution says that they should withdraw within 60 days. It is not a question whether or not they should be there. He is mandating that they would withdraw. I am not going to do that. I am not going to pull…

as we debate this, there are 20,000 Puerto Ricans serving in the Armed Forces of the United States. In this century, 200,000 have taken the pledge to defend our country. As recently as the Vietnam war, almost as many Puerto Ricans as…

I am going to divert a little bit from the course. Everyone has spoken at great length of Ron's social commitment to our Nation, but I think very few realize how much he has done for the defense of our Nation, and I do not think he ever…

I would like to join the long list of people commending the gentlewoman from North Carolina [Mrs. Clayton] for bringing this to our attention. Over 4,200 reservists will be affected in their pocketbooks by this. They do not make much…

Mr. Speaker, we have a constitutional crisis in our country. In addition to everything that the gentleman from California [Mr. Hunter] said, which was on the mark, and everything that the gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. Pallone] said that…

let me begin by agreeing with everything the gentleman from California [Mr. Cox] just said. All of those things really did happen. The company that shipped that container-load of AK-47's into our country is the Chinese Ocean Shipping Co…

as much as any Member of this body lives and breathes, this amendment is very much germane. Mr. Solomon's bill does one thing. It directs the Secretary of the Treasury to kind of something, do something about the Chinese Communists. My…

as I said, every bill that we have voted on is trying to affect Chinese policy. This bill is asking the Secretary of the Treasury to take steps to affect Chinese policy. My amendment asks the Secretary of the Treasury to take substantial…

Mr. Speaker, this is the sixth bill before this body in the past 2 days that deals with the People's Republic of Communist China. The first would have the American people believe that it enforces a ban against products that were made with…

I am appealing to the House because I have heard on too many occasions from too many Members of this body that we are not given the chance to do what is right. At every town meeting we attend, when people ask, how do these unfair things…

For the past 6 years folks on this side of the aisle in particular have been saying that Bill Clinton could not be trusted, on a daily and almost hourly basis. Well, if they really feel that way, I hope they will stick to their guns…

earlier today I made an analogy between the measures that are going on tonight dealing with the People's Republic of China and a chapter of a book entitled 365 Days, written by Dr. Glasser, who was a surgeon in a burn ward dealing with…

Mr. Speaker, the efforts of the gentleman from California [Mr. Cox], though well-intentioned, are little more than giving a sweet talk to a dying man. It does not really change things. We spend a little bit more money to find out what we…

Again, this is our responsibility. We are not talking about a school district in Mississippi, we are not talking about a school district in your hometown, we are talking about those schools where over half of the students are the children…

Mr. Chairman, I regret that a lot of good people in this debate have chosen to question other people's motives. I am not going to do that. I will ask some people that I know to have good hearts to think for a second and let us try to set…