Willie Hefner

First, they mentioned ``the two gentlemen from North Carolina,'' and I am one of them. I do not know if I am a gentleman, but as far as the decorum of the House, I certainly, if I offended anybody, I apologize. I am so sorry if I hurt…

I will not talk about the merits of it, but earlier today we talked about a pay raise, and it gets so political. If you think that it is political for the pay raise and demagoguery, this amendment is tailor-made for demagoguery. The…

I have heard a lot about free speech, but I have not heard anything that talked about, when you send mailers or what have you, truthfulness. When you talk about somebody's voting record, you take just partial voting records or amendments…

I would tell him that he is running a travesty, and he is running a dictatorial type of Committee on Rules, and he is writing the legislation of what comes before this House, and he is doing it with an overriding hand. Nobody has any…

What I am getting at, a Muslim child or their parents are Buddhist, they could not say the prayer, could they?

I am a little bit confused. The Istook amendment I would like if only the Baptists were protected and we can set the prayer and whatever. But that is not what we are talking about. But the way I understand it, and I hope the gentleman from…

Could I ask some of the proponents of the highway bill, which I tend to support, but I do not like explaining a Lawrence Welk type boondoggle, if that is what it is, what is the rationale for it?

Why are we building, for my own information, why are we building a highway in Canada? Are we going to take Canada in, or what is the story?

Truly, this has been a time when people thought back to the things that Terry Sanford stood for, and we will always remember that Terry Sanford was a real remarkable man, and he will be a legend, as he should be, in North Carolina and in…

When we think about Terry Sanford, we think about the influence, I would dare say, from another angle of an educator, knowing that his influence was, indeed, infinite; that a great educator knows how to pass on his ideals from generation…

As one that is going to leave this place shortly, I certainly hope that we find some way to shore up Social Security. But I would like to not correct one thing but make a comment about what my colleague from California said, about in 1993…

I do not know the procedures too well. I have only been here 20 some years. I am a slow learner. In the case this did pass, would it to go conference with the Senate, and would the President sign this, or is this just about making us feel…

I have been listening to the gentleman's speech, and it is good to see him really get excited for a change here, and I agree with what the gentleman is saying. The gentleman is probably going to get a move to call this not in order, ruled…

But this is a right for any Member in this House. And I have been here longer than all the leadership in this House, both Republican and Democrat, and I represent 500 people in my district. I have not offered a privileged resolution, but I…

Let me just say this to you, I was here when the Indiana situation came about. It might have been wrong. During the last campaign Republicans campaigned all over this country and they said, the Democrats have been in charge for 40 years…

We are not talking about posh offices, showers and all of these sorts of things. We are talking about impact aid. The impact aid, if the gentleman is opposed to NLRB, maybe he should have an amendment to do away with any funding for NLRB…

I think what we should do is pursue active funding for impact aid for our military bases for quality of life programs which the gentleman from California [Mr. Packard] and I have worked very hard to do, to see that we can have retention…

OK, Mr. Chairman, I stand corrected. And I apologize. But the gentleman said this is pitting poor children against bureaucrats and lawyers. That is not really what we are doing here. All the Members that I know here, the gentleman from…

The way I figured it up, each school district across the United States would get $700. Am I wrong?

I would like to know, I have not heard what is in these amendments. This is like we are marking a bill here and somebody has offered an amendment nobody has seen. It has not been printed. I would just like to know what it entails. I am…

Living in rural North Carolina, my kids were in grade school, and nothing pleased them any more than when the symphony or a portion of the symphony from Charlotte or someplace came and performed at their school. It was the highlight of…

They say what goes around comes around. In 1981 we heard the same arguments. We passed a package that was unfair in 1981, and we have a package today that repeats it. It is not fair. If the people want to complain about us engaging in…

It seems to me we are giving extraordinary power to one individual to make decisions, to call bills to this floor, that this House will be called upon to vote on, that one individual to make decisions that affects over 250 million…

Could I make a point? I do not want to get involved in specifics, but we are considering a piece of legislation that we are going to grant to an individual, the Speaker of the House, to arbitrarily call bills to this House at his…