Walter B. Jones

I have introduced H.R. 34, which would expand the name of the Department of the Navy to be Navy and Marine Corps. Mr. Speaker, we have four services that stand alone that represent the greatness of our men and women in uniform, the Army…

I believe sincerely all violent crimes are hate crimes regardless of race or any other classification. My concern is, today, that as we begin to move down this road, what will happen to freedom of speech in this country? Some people might…

I have been on the floor for the last 3 or 4 years from time to time to talk about the need, the importance of having our spiritual leaders in America to have freedom of speech, to speak on a Sunday or Saturday and talk about the moral and…

I am back on the floor today, as I was prior to the August break, to talk about freedom of speech in our churches and synagogues and mosques of this country. Many people do not realize that from the beginning of this great Nation, until…

I want to read a couple of statements from Bishop Smith of Trenton, New Jersey. The title of his little writing is called Bishop Smith calls for Freedom of Political Speech for the Catholic Church, and I would like to say that not only the…

I was, like everybody else in the Congress, home during July 4 and enjoyed being back in my district and meeting the people and listening to the people. I could not help but think that July 4 has different meanings for all of us: Freedom…

I am back on the floor tonight, because when I think about the sacrifice of our many men and women in uniform from the beginning of America through and including today, I think about the fact that many have fought and died and been injured…

I am again on the floor tonight because in this country, the greatest Nation in the world, our ministers, priests, rabbis, and clerics cannot have the freedom of speech to talk about the policies and political issues of the day. The…

there are rumors that were coming out of the Pentagon, rumors that I believe are extremely troubling. Outsourcing our military chaplains is a very bad idea. This is not a new organization, Mr. Speaker. The Navy Chaplain Corps traces its…

I believe that we all, in a bipartisan way, support our men and women in uniform, we support their families, and we want to make sure that those who have given their lives for this country that the families are adequately compensated; not…

I have a bill in, and it is my second year of introducing legislation to eliminate that tax. It was put on by mistake in the early 1990s; but since that time, everyone in uniform that has died for this country, whether peacetime or…

I come to the floor about once a week to talk about a bill, H.R. 693, to repeal the tax on the death gratuity. The death gratuity is a payment to the families who have lost a loved one in uniform, whether they be training or they be in…

I am back on the floor today to talk about the repeal of the death gratuity tax on the families who have given their loved ones to die for freedom in America. Mr. Speaker, behind me are the faces of just a few of those who have died in…

tonight I am on the floor again. I am asking the House leadership and also the Democratic leadership to please bring to the floor H.R. 693, the Military Death Gratuity Tax Repeal. Mr. Speaker, let me explain to my colleagues on both sides…

I think many times that we all, no matter which side we are on, Democrat or Republican, we want to do what we think is right for the people of this country, as well as the environment. And as the gentleman from New Jersey said, my friend…

we know it is a very difficult budget year and lots of decisions have to be made. I have 61,000 retired veterans and military retirees, combined, that live in the Third District of North Carolina, the home of Camp Lejeune, Cherry Point…

Members can see beside me and behind me are photographs of men and women who have died in Operation Freedom; and the reason I come to the floor with these photographs, I do not want us as Members of Congress to ever forget, not that we…

to my left are photographs of just a few of the men and women that were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the last year and a half. And the reason I came to the floor is because we passed the House in a very bipartisan way legislation to…

Free markets are more powerful than armies, and I think my colleague's quote from former President Ronald Reagan, and everything else that has been said tonight by my friend, is so true. The whole thing is that this is a critical issue to…

I just returned from Camp Lejeune, went down with the President and the gentlemen from North Carolina (Mr. McIntyre) and (Mr. Ballance), my colleagues, to say thank you to the families of those who have lost loved ones fighting this war in…

I am offended on behalf of our men and women in uniform by the way that the POWs have been treated. It is unacceptable. I want to take my limited time by making a point on a part of this resolution that joins the President in warning all…

A bill that I introduced, H.R. 693, the Military Death Gratuity Improvement Act, I want to thank the chairman and the ranking member for including that bill, or the language from that bill, into this major bill that I think is of great…

on October 23, 1983, the war on terrorism began when a truck filled with explosives detonated outside of the United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 241 of our servicemen. Between 1982 and 1984, 270 soldiers…

If this was 1953, we would not be debating this issue because it would not be an issue. The churches in this country had the freedom to talk about the issues of the day, whether they be political issues or nonpolitical issues. There was no…

I want to report to the staff that I will not take the full hour. That I am sure is good news because they work awfully hard, and many times the staff is here at 11:00 at night. I will keep my word to be not much longer than 20 minutes…