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I am just wondering whether we have the right manager's amendment, because I do not for the life of me see any of what the gentleman just described as being in the manager's amendment, or in the amendment that I have. Perhaps I have the…
This final amendment, and I do think it is the final amendment, would strike section 3(b) of the bill. Section 3(b) provides that a qualified civil liability action that is pending on the date of the enactment of this act shall be…
I could not quite figure out what it was that the argument was that this bill was about job creation. Is the gentleman now saying that the production of hamburgers is a manufacturing job?
Number two, it quite often puts us in a position of thinking, well, this legislation is not serious and it is not going anywhere anyway, and as happened with the legislation that has been referred to on several occasions here, well, the…
I think they would be a lot more distressed that we were here in this body today saying that State legislators are incompetent to handle these issues in our Federalist form of government than they would likely be incensed with us dealing…
89 percent of the public support does not support these kinds of lawsuits, but that does not mean that we need a Federal statute to deal with this issue. In fact, it probably means exactly the opposite of that. Second, there have been a…
I will be anxious to see how he plans to vote on this amendment because this is the clear way to make the provisions that protect family farmers permanent in the law, to keep it away from all of this abortion clinic politics, to keep it…
I did not vote for the original war resolution. I thought it was ill-advised to delegate to the President authority that the Congress had, and I thought it was ill-advised for the President to proceed to war without world support and…
We are supportive of anything that does decent and affordable housing for people in this country. Mr. Speaker, it is for that reason that we are so perplexed by the President's decision not to go forward with the Hope VI project by zeroing…
Mr. Chairman, I have followed my colleagues' debate about this, particularly my colleague on the Democratic side, the gentleman from Virginia, who says that there are no substantive changes in this bill, there are only procedural changes…
I rise today to honor the residents of Rowan County, North Carolina, part of which is located in my congressional district, as they celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founding of their county. Rowan County was founded in 1753, more…
the section that the motion to recommit would strike is section 3(b) of the bill, which reads as follows: ``A qualified civil liability action that is pending on the date of the enactment of this act shall be dismissed immediately by the…
I do not need the gentlewoman to apologize for my sensibilities. She needs to be apologizing for using words that are insulting to the entire African American race. And if that is what she is doing, then I gracefully accept her apology…
Mr. Chairman, the bill, because it has not been properly considered through the committee process, leaves a lot to be desired in terms of drafting. This amendment is an effort to correct a real problem with the bill, because the bill…
Mr. Chairman, I think, regarding the people who have made statements in support of and against this amendment, I think the problem is that we have left a substantial ambiguity in the law because we have not taken the time to deal with this…
I would just encourage my colleagues to make their own judgment. If we add up all of the debate time about this bill, there will be about 3 hours. We are talking about undoing a system of law that has existed throughout our history, and we…
I rise to ask my colleague from Virginia a question. Suppose there is a conviction in a case and then a civil lawsuit is filed which would be allowed, and then the conviction is reversed on appeal. What would happen under this bill under…
I will be dropping a bill to rename the United States Post Office at 2127 Beatties Ford Road in Charlotte, North Carolina, in honor of Jim Richardson, one of my constituents. James Franklin Richardson, Sr., known by most people simply as…
I hate to disappoint my good friend, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Upton), to advise him that our fear is that by burdening this bill down with various provisions, other than the AMBER Alert provisions, it will follow the same route…
Throughout the time that I have been a Member of Congress, it is always the Congressional Black Caucus that has come forward with a budget that has priorities in it that describe the aspirations that I have for this Nation: the aspirations…
I was among the people who was the first to concede that there was a problem in the bankruptcy system. Unfortunately, 2 or 3 months into the process, we started to see that some concessions were starting to be made that made this bill…
I do not argue with the right of California to do tort reform or North Carolina or New York or any of the States. There are crises in some States, situations vary from State to State, and State legislators have the prerogative to set…
I think if there were a bill on the floor that prohibited human cloning, it would pass 435 to 0. To me, it is somewhat distressing that this bill has been postured in much the same political context as the abortion debate around the…
I rise in support of the Lee amendment and encourage my colleagues to support the amendment. I have been very disappointed with a number of my colleagues who have suggested to me that the Lee amendment is not viable. I submit to them that…
Article I of the United States Constitution states that the Congress shall have power to declare war. Article II of the Constitution provides that the President shall be the Commander-in-Chief. Over the years, these provisions of the…
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