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Madam Speaker, we have to admit that marriage is universal. People ask me when I make the comment that nature has defined what marriage is first, law simply tries to capture it in language: What does it matter that nature describes what…
Again, I would reiterate this question is about children. To those who would ask what about the gays and lesbians who are affected, no one would choose for them the lifestyle that they have chosen. But we do contend earnestly to defend the…
this weekend I attended the dedication of a new sanctuary service at Church on the Move in Roswell, New Mexico. As I sat there watching the efforts of Pastor Troy Smotherman come to a culmination of just building his congregation and…
H.R. 3734 would designate the Federal building located at Fifth and Richardson Avenues in Roswell, New Mexico, as the Joe Skeen Federal Building. On December 7, 2003, the Nation lost a leader, but New Mexico lost a friend. As others have…
Mr. Speaker, H.R. 2966, introduced by the gentleman from California (Mr. Radanovich), will preserve the use and access of pack and saddle stock animals on our public lands where there is a historical tradition of such use. I would argue…
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…
Mr. Speaker, H.R. 3257 sponsored by the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Ryan) and amended by the Committee on Resources would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the suitability and feasibility of establishing…
Mr. Speaker, H.R. 3334 sponsored by the gentleman from California (Mr. Calvert) is another step towards drought-proofing southern California. It also reduces the region's dependence on imported water supplies. This important legislation…
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…
I addressed this House last evening about the policies in our Forest Service which are causing jobs to go overseas, which are killing industries, which are causing infrastructure to be abandoned. After I made that presentation, we received…
I would like to speak about tort reform, but before I do that I would like to use some of the comments of my colleague and friend who has just spoken about scientific integrity and maybe the creation of a climate that self-selects facts…
I do not doubt that my colleagues who believe differently feel as sincerely as I do about the possible courses of action that they suggest. But, Mr. Speaker, we do come to different conclusions. We heard just a moment ago from one of our…
one of the constant comments and questions that I have had regarding our education policy on the Federal level is that local teachers have constantly said, we think that the No Child Left Behind provisions are underfunded; we think that it…
I thank you for your tolerance in allowing us to speak tonight about this very important subject, that of understanding the tie between Iraq, al Qaeda and the international war on terror. It is the most significant thing that this…
I would note that during this week we were allowed and privileged to hear the Deputy National Security Adviser. He commented that much of Iraq is still very stable. Always when the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. McCotter) and I were in Iraq…
It seems to me, and I can only speak for myself on this, if a terrorist kills me, it is not really going to matter to me whether he was al Qaeda or whether he was some other group that was housed in Iraq or anything else. It is going to…
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…
The comments about conservative-leaning courts just fly in the face of actual fact. This court in Lawrence v. Texas was not exactly right-leaning, and that is a fairly recent decision. In fact, the case of the Congress over being willing…
I traveled to Iraq at the end of October and the first part of November with the gentleman from Michigan, and we saw the same things each day at noon for 3 days. Each day at noon and in the evening meal we were in chow halls with 6 and 7…
Mr. Speaker, as we conclude our time, I would like to mention that not only do we have the 9/11 Commission that has contradicted both Richard Clarke and former Vice President Al Gore, but also the Butler Report and the Senate Intelligence…
Mr. Speaker, before I start into the text of my discussion tonight, I would like to commend the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson-Lee) for her comment that the U.N. Security Council must pass a resolution that has teeth. That was exactly…
Liberating Iraq was the right thing to do, and these women had the courage to come here to the United States Congress and to testify about the evils that have occurred under terrorism, under Saddam Hussein. I think the compelling question…
the Oil-for-Food fraud is possibly the largest scandal in the history of the United Nations and one of the greatest financial scandals of modern times. Set up in the mid-1990s as a means of providing humanitarian aid to the Iraqi people…
tonight we are going to begin to look at one of the most far-reaching scandals that our generation has seen. The Oil-for-Food fraud is possibly the largest scandal in the history of the United Nations. We have got several speakers who are…
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