Willie Hefner

I came here with Chairman Hyde, and we came here 24 years ago. I was hoping that I would get more than 20 seconds on this, the most important vote I have cast since I have been here. But the thing that bothers me in this whole process, and…

I will try to be as honest as I can in my statement. I would urge people to refrain from calling people liars and what have you. And referring to people in their sincerity in standing before the whole world and saying I have sinned seems…

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 get the feeling that this is, ``Give him a fair trial and then hang him.'' Now, what is the difference in the courtesy that we extended Richard Nixon and our distinguished Speaker, and that extended to the President of the United States…

as I look around this room I see only a couple of people that are older than I am, and I want to talk about discrimination. I know discrimination when I see discrimination. When I was a small boy, growing up in rural Alabama, we used to go…

without going into the technical part of broadcasting, I have some experience with broadcasting. I own radio stations, and sponsors that buy spots on one's radio station or television station, they have to justify that they are reaching so…

The Federal Government pays Federal employees' salaries, as well as provides the opportunity for a benefit package. They pay our salary, they pay benefit packages. That is all taxpayer dollars. We often get into that in debate, about…

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…

last evening we had a very contentious debate on the previous question and on the rule on this legislation. It was pretty much of a stretch, but we had something that was passed out to Members from the National Republican Congressional…

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…

Unfortunately, we have got an excellent defense bill. Our chairman, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young), and the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Murtha), has done a tremendous job. But the chairman of the Committee on Rules made a…

Serving in this body has been something that I could never have dreamed about when I was a kid growing up in rural Alabama. I had never been to the capital of Alabama, Montgomery, let alone to think someday I would be able to come to the…

this is a troubling time for me. We were before the Committee on Rules on Military Construction, and I think it is a very good bill that we put together with limited funds. But there is an old saying that goes, ``Oh what a tangled web we…

I have an awful lot of respect for the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Shays) and the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Meehan) and the folks that have worked so hard for campaign reform. We are awfully selective around here. I have been…

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…

It is like going to a car dealership and, frankly, you people want to sell us a car. You say, all right, tell me about the car. It is a great car. What happens once I buy the car and I get out, what if a key part of the car, the motor does…

I yield to nobody on my support for the military. On military construction, we have had hundreds of calls for add-ons to the military construction budget, but our allocation is so low we are not able to do it. There were calls from…

He said we can cut one penny, but they do not cut 1 percent. We have two-thirds of the budget that is untouchable. Members know that. We have been around here a long while. The Speaker asked this morning if Members cannot find 1 percent…

I had signed on to support this amendment, and I started calling some of my friends that I had known for years. For some 16 years I traveled all over this country and into Canada and places, singing gospel music, and I have been in every…

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?

let us get right to the crux of this thing. This has nothing to do with crop insurance. It has to do with politics, and it may be good politics, because you can make food stamps for aliens seem so vicious and so ugly. I would imagine the…

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?