Walter B. Jones

the debate about granting most-favored-nation status to China is not just about trade, it is about human rights. We in the United States place great value on our freedoms. The freedom of speech and the freedom to practice religion are…

many Americans mistakenly associate April 15 with the end of their financial obligation to the Government. Some believe Tax Freedom Day is a day which marks the end of our financial obligation to pay for the cost of government…

I rise tonight to share with my colleagues an important editorial from a newspaper in my district, the Carteret County News-Times. The editorial, titled ``Listen Up, National Park Service,'' I submit for the Record demonstrates the…

I find it ironic that today the U.S. Congress is honoring Mother Teresa for her devotion to protecting the lives of the world's children, born and unborn, and yet the American government is contradicting itself by sending money to pay for…

bad habits are hard to break. In fact, the longer one engages in a bad habit, the harder it is to break. Deficit spending is an excellent example of a bad habit. Deficit spending means spending more money than we have. This is what the…

For 60 years this country has essentially run its public housing program the same way year after year. For 60 years public housing has gotten worse and worse. People living in public housing should have a right to live in clean and safe…

last week I introduced the Expanded War Crimes Act of 1997. It is a bill which expands the jurisdiction of my original bill, the War Crimes Act of 1996. Last year I came before this House and told a story of a Navy pilot named Mike Cronin…

the most distinguished jurist in American history, Oliver Wendell Holmes, understood perfectly the dangers of an oppressive tax system. In a famous 1928 case Justice Holmes wrote, and I quote, ``The power to tax is not the power to destroy…

on February 13, 1913, a day that will live in infamy, the 16th amendment to the Constitution was ratified. Twelve words, Mr. Speaker, just 12 words was all it took to give the politicians in Washington a permanent hand in the pocket of…

Red McDaniel, a returned Vietnam POW told Congress: ``We were prepared to be captured; we were prepared to die for our country. But we were never prepared to be abandoned!'' I thank Bob Dornan for his leadership, and for introducing the…

a few years ago I served in the North Carolina General Assembly and as a member of the assembly I had a very deep concern about political ads, and in particular those ads that were intentionally developed to mislead and to distort factual…

this week Congress has taken bold steps toward enacting genuine welfare reform. The next step will be President Clinton's. We will send him real work requirements, real time limits. We will end welfare for noncitizens. Our bill will lift…

Today is the day. Thirty days have passed since Bill Clinton placed a self-imposed deadline to take action on Wisconsin's welfare waiver request. Mr. Speaker, the Wisconsin welfare plan has bipartisan support in Wisconsin, and here in our…

The points have been well made. What we are trying to do is to give a program to the States with a financial support because we believe the States throughout America, the 50 States, as has been proven in Michigan and Wisconsin, that the…

How could Mr. Livingston have such an important job and nobody knows who hired him? That is the point he is making.

As you know, both you gentlemen know, and I am on the bill and maybe you both are, I am on the bill introduced by the gentleman from Oklahoma, Ernest Istook, called the Religious Liberties Amendments, and I had this discussed many times…

Is it not true also, according to the General Accounting Office, known as the GAO, that in 17 years without a balanced budget, which the Republican Party is committed to achieving, without a balanced budget in 17 years, according to the…

Is it not true in America today that the average working family will spend more on paying taxes than that same average working family will spend on clothing, housing or food?

In my district, as a candidate for Congress and now as an elected Member of Congress, and going back in my district every weekend since I have been here 17, 18 months, except for about four, the people keep telling me, Congressman, we are…

Is it not true that since the mid-1960's, when the Great Society program was established under the leadership of Lyndon Johnson, that it has cost the American people $5 trillion? This Nation today is about $5.3 trillion in debt. So welfare…

my fellow colleagues and I are well aware of the danger and tremendous problems that drugs pose on our society. What America needs is a sound and tough drug policy to fight this threat to society. Mr. Speaker, what America doesn't need is…

here we go again. Just as this Congress is set to debate the funding of the National Endowment for the Arts, NEA Chairwoman, Jane Alexander, has again shown us that both she and the taxpayer funded NEA, must go. Last Sunday, at the New…

when Republicans kept their promise and delivered to the President a strong welfare reform bill, he vetoed it. Now Bill Clinton, realizing it is an election year, is trying to take some sort of credit for being pro-welfare reform. Let's…

while the cold war may be over, U.S. security interests endure. Unfortunately, many Americans do not fully appreciate this new dynamic. Indeed it is difficult to understand how emerging threats, may challenge future U.S. global interests…

$10 million is not a big deal to most liberal Democrats. But to Bill Clinton it's just enough to pay for a seat on the Federal appeals court. That's right, Mr. Speaker. Ten million dollars. Just think what you could buy with that much…