Walter B. Jones

I will not take the full hour, but as we are talking about our men and women in uniform, and I want to join with the gentlewoman from Texas, that we are very fortunate to have the men and women who serve this Nation, and God bless them…

Let me tell just briefly the history of this issue as it relates to legislation dealing with the rent-to-own business. This goes back to a bill that was introduced 10 years ago by Congressman LoRocco from the West. That was 10 years ago…

the one thing about the farm bill is it was consistent with the budget resolution. This is not.

I came in 1995 to my first year in the United States Congress, and I am proud to be a foot soldier here in the United States House, and I consider myself a foot soldier. There are a number of us on both sides of the aisle who are foot…

I resent very much the corporate leadership and how they have misled and manipulated the investors, and I hope that there will be a severe price to pay for this action. However, Mr. Speaker, I wanted to come back to the floor tonight to…

I actually got involved with H.R. 3973 2 or 3 months ago when I learned that the tax was on the death gratuity of our military; and I worked both sides of the political aisle. We had over 110 sponsors for that legislation, because all of…

I was just really outraged at the time. I took my car phone and called my office and I said, ``Please check this New York Post article. Let's verify what Mr. Agar was saying.'' Sure enough, what we found out, the New York Post, and not…

during the Memorial Day break, I happened to be listening to a talk show out of Raleigh, North Carolina called WPTF and the host is Jerry Agar. When Mr. Agar said that the New York Post had reported that the national government, the…

there is a saying that only in America can an individual be given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death. Americans should not have to visit the undertaker and the IRS on the same day. Unfortunately, small…

tonight I would like to take just a few moments simply because on November 13 this House debated a concurrent resolution, House Concurrent Resolution 239, and the House actually passed the resolution on November 15 by a vote of 297 to 125…

Mr. Speaker, prior to 1962, we had prayer in this Nation. I think the children of this country, and since September 11, I think there have been more adults in the churches, the synagogues, the mosques, than there have been in a long, long…

America's strength is its people; and the gentleman, Reverend Delaney that the gentleman just mentioned, obviously is a caring, compassionate man that understands the Bible, to help the brother who is in trouble. If anything, over the last…

I really agree with the gentleman. I came to the Congress with Mr. Newt Gingrich in the 1994 election, sworn in in 1995, and we have believed ever since we have been in the majority that the people that worked hard in this country, awfully…

Well, I certainly want to be careful, because of the ruling of the Chair, but I often think about the gentleman from Georgia and other of my colleagues, especially those that live much further than that, particularly our colleagues on both…

Our farmers in eastern North Carolina are like farmers across this Nation. Many of them have been in trouble. The foreign markets have not been what they had hoped they would be, and for a number of reasons the farmers really need this…

Mr. Speaker, sometimes I do not want to just make my comments about Reverend Barry Lynn or the lady with the PTA, but the children are America's future, and the children have to be given every opportunity. That is the reason I read the…

If the gentleman will yield another time, Mr. Speaker, that is what is really somewhat discouraging, when they have that entrepreneurial spirit they have down there with that business in the gentleman's district, or in Georgia, and there…

I came here in 1995 with Mr. Gingrich. We became the first majority House and Senate in 40-some years. We came here to reduce the size of government, and as the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey) has said and as the gentleman from…

In the days and weeks since September 11 it has become evident that the United States has a long way to go in order to improve aviation security. There is a critical need to develop a security system that far surpasses anything that exists…

We need for the American people to understand that this is absolutely critical that we reform the immigration laws of this country if we want to protect the national security of the American people.

Certainly those of us in the Congress, whether they be on the Committee on Armed Services, which I am on, or it could be on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and other committees, we have known for a number of years that the…

I am proud and pleased to welcome Pastor Pete Williams and his family and friends to the United States House of Representatives. Pastor Williams and his family live in Goldsboro, North Carolina, in Wayne County, home of Seymour Johnson Air…

in December of 1941, following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Admiral Yamamoto reportedly said, ``I fear that all we have done is awakened a sleeping giant.'' Yesterday, nameless, faceless cowards took aim on the people of the…

I want to start my brief comments with a quote by Patrick Henry: The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people. It is an instrument for the people to restrain the government, lest it come to dominate our…

I want to take a different perspective. Not talking about the environmental issues, I must say to the gentleman from Oregon, I have great respect for you also, though I disagree, but Dr. Pilkey is an extremist. I do not have the time to…