Steve Pearce

This concurrent resolution directs the Clerk of the Senate to make a simple enrollment correction to S. 203, passed by the House of Representatives on Monday by an overwhelming vote of 323-39. I urge adoption of the resolution. Mr…

You have heard the gentleman from Massachusetts speak against this amendment. He highlights his interest in preserving a phase-in period included in the underlying bill. I have the utmost respect for him, but I must disagree. At a time…

I agree also with the gentleman from New York that the Circle Line contract set to expire on March 2007 should not be extended. I look forward to working with the gentleman from New York and the chairman and ranking member of the…

The Service did indeed extend the Circle Line contract from March 31, 2004, to March 2007 due to a number of factors stemming from the events of September 11, including the fact, as my colleague knows, that the statue was closed to the…

Yes, I would be happy to do public hearings. Since I have been chairman, just almost a year, I suspect we have done oversights or hearings on business plans and the numbers of visitors coming into parks. We have done two field hearings. We…

Pursuant to House Resolution 422, I move that the House do now adjourn in memory of the late Hon. William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 11 o'clock and 44 minutes p.m.), pursuant…

Marriage is about children and it is about the best institution for raising children, and that is the issue. Kids are better off with a mother and father. The issue is not whether gays can be good parents or not; no one is talking about…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 2663, introduced by my colleague on the Committee on Resources, the gentlewoman from the Virgin Islands (Mrs. Christensen), would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of…

I can say that our traveling public is much safer because of the professional training that is being received by people who are flying our aircraft. They are screened psychologically, they are screened in many other ways, so that after…

To my internal shame, I was invited to mainland China in the late sixties because of my campus radicalism. I went there with the greatest hope to help fight the war for communism and to spread it. I was not in China more than 30 minutes…

Wrapping up my comments for this part of the debate, I again rise to support the rule and the underlying bill. This bill does not favor or disfavor any particular result or any group of people. It is motivated by the desire to preserve for…

Mr. Speaker, there are two things that our standard of living in America is based upon. Our standard of living is very high in this country because of two basic, essential facts. First, we have affordable food and, second, we have…

Again, I want to talk in one sense if possible to say thanks to those people who work in our education establishment, those who are out there on the front lines of the education war, especially those success stories like Roswell High…

I will tell you, those comments are so demeaning to the people who served in our National Guard that I was offended and asked for an apology.

As the assembled body can hear, this bipartisan bill has great importance, and especially throughout the West. I have areas in my district which typically get around 16 inches of rainfall a year. In the last several years, we have gotten…

I would remind this body that when we discuss such things as a budget, we should discuss, first of all, principles, that is, values. We should remember... that economic freedoms, that our constitutionally given private property rights, are…