Mr. Speaker, today, upon enactment of this legislation, we will finally know with certainty that individuals who knowingly and intentionally issue a materially fraudulent or false statement to the legislative or judicial branch of the…

Mr. Speaker, the question facing the House of Representatives is whether or not individuals who knowingly and intentionally issue a materially fraudulent or false statement to the legislative or judicial branch of the Federal Government…

today I welcome to the House of Representatives a good friend of all of the people of the Eighth Congressional District of New Jersey, Monsignor Mark J. Giordani. Monsignor Giordani is not only a spiritual leader but also a renowned civic…

I rise today to honor Ron Brown, the United States Secretary of Commerce who was killed in a tragic accident on April 3, 1996. He and 35 other victims died when their plane went down on a stormy evening in Croatia. He was serving as a…

I rise today to honor Yom HaShoah and remember the 6 million Jewish people who were killed in the Holocaust. I also rise today to pledge my full support for House Resolution 316, a resolution deploring individuals in the United States and…

this is directed at anyone. It could be directed at terrorists, or also directed at anyone who in one incident were to execute more than one individual.

February has been celebrated as Black History Month since 1976, but the origins of this event date as far back as 1926 to Carter G. Woodson, a noted historian and author. Black History Month is a special month designed to recognize the…

I think in sum what I learned was that the process that we are undertaking right now is not simply downsizing, but it is really smart-sizing and right-sizing the Federal Government, because there is more to it than just reducing spending…

I think the important point is that the purpose of the hearing is not just to deal with the items that we here have been dealing with for 8 months. Obviously I think most of us know and most of the American people understand by now that…

I think if New Jersey's hearing was any indication, there is a strong support out there and commitment for us to do what we are doing, and that is to bring fiscal responsibility. And that is how I like to refer to it. We can call it…

First I have a little background about the field hearing itself. The field hearing that we in the Eighth Congressional District in New Jersey were honored to have and to bring to people in our district was a field hearing of the Committee…

If I may, if the gentleman would yield on that point of common sense, I think that was probably first and foremost the message that we heard on Saturday. Of all of the messages, I think if you boiled it down into one overwhelming message…

I rise today to urge opposition to the Chabot amendment that will eliminate all funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Unlike many Federal Government programs, NEH serves as one of America's sound investments. Only…

as we have kept our promises these first 100 days, we have made the democratic process work. This week it will continue to work with the passage of this rule and this bill. Mr. Speaker, as originally written I must confess that I was…

I am pleased to report that when H.R. 1215 comes to the floor, the tax relief bill this week, it will now contain language that clearly states that the tax cut provisions in the bill can only become law as part of legislation that will…

when my grandfather, Michael, came from Italy to America over 90 years ago, he came because of a promise. It was the promise that sets the United States apart from every other nation in the world. That promise is the American dream: the…

Americans are a generous, caring people. We also are realistic and result oriented. We want our private and public generosity to raise ladders of opportunity for those who have fallen behind. We intend our efforts to serve as a hand-up…

I rise today as a former Federal prosecutor to discuss a topic that this body will soon debate: crime reform. Crime in this country has reached epidemic proportions. It is time we as a body get serious about restoring the rule of law to…

most of us know how difficult it is to be a local official. Let us not make it any tougher. The burden of unfunded mandates had not gone away since last week. Local governments are still toiling under their yoke losing money in paperwork…

I rise today to throw my support behind this important measure, particularly the Barton amendment. For the last 25 years, this Chamber has accumulated deficits that defy logic. After a quarter century of living on borrowed money, today I…

tonight Gov. Christie Todd Whitman will give the response to the State of the Union Address. She was chosen because of her determination to work for a smaller, smarter, less costly government in New Jersey. It has been said ``for…

I rise today to revisit a topic that has been receiving a great deal of attention recently and to once again voice my strong support for the reforms endorsed by my colleagues in the Government Reform and Oversight Committee. I refer in…