I am not going to support this bill. I do not believe it is right. I think court-stripping is wrong. I do not think it is sound; and frankly, I do not think it is going to work. How are we going to resolve the issue between States? I used…

Mr. Speaker, I urge the House to pass H.R. 4193. This measure will allow communities benefiting from economic development tax incentives to use those incentives to the maximum extent they possibly can. The purpose of H.R. 4193 is to…

in any situation where there is an argument at stake, there are two things that are important. First of all, it is to get the facts. Secondly, to face the fact, and I do not mean to oversimplify this, and a lot of people know much more of…

I am going to suggest a vote against his amendment. I have been around business many years, and I have been in and out of pension plans in many different corporations, and this is a dangerous amendment. The Cooper ruling threatens to drive…

I have been there. I have done business in Chile. I have manufactured, I have sold, and I have never had a situation where they have abused the trading privilege. There are two issues here: one is to protect the jobs, and we all do that…

The theme of this bill, and I, of course, support it, is to improve the IRS. ... The IRS then later realizes its mistake, but it is unable to restore the IRA balance.

This really is a follow-up to last year's bill. I will not give my colleagues the number, they know it, but this 1584 creates a system to monitor the blood diamonds coming from Africa. It is a very, very important bill for a variety of…

I would like to just make a few comments on H.R. 1307, and of course ask my colleagues to support it. Last summer I introduced a bill that contained two of the present provisions, very modest. The bill increased the tax-free death benefit…

this is an important--no, a critical debate. It is right that we have it. I stand here as one who enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1994, voted for Desert Storm, and has always believed that the first federal dollar spent each year should go…

I want to stand here, though, and say that in 1944 I enlisted in the Marine Corps. I voted for Desert Storm. I have always felt that the first dollar of Federal money should go into defense, to be able to protect our country. But I am…

Ben has had a distinguished career. He has been here for 30 years, been chairman of the Committee on International Relations, been on many CODELs, co-chairman of the New York State delegation, been absolutely wonderful, but, more…

This piece of legislation loses no jobs. As a matter of fact, it does not even gain jobs. But we all know that 96 percent of the world's population live outside of the United States. They are our market in the future. We can take a look in…

I happen to feel, and I have been around this pension business a long time, that the Sanders amendment is going to unfairly tie the hands of the Treasury Department. Now, that is not important to some people, but it is to the general…

I may be missing something here, but I do not know what we are talking about. The fact is the country is running out of money because the economy is down and the military and terrorist, antiterrorist expenditures are up. We have to have…

this is a bill that never should have happened. If it had not been for quirks in the Senate language, this all would have been put to bed when we settled the tax reduction issue last year. Now, look, this bill is not perfect. I have…

I would like to support the pension improvements in this legislation, and I want to talk briefly about three issues. First of all, payroll taxes on stock options: for over 30 years, since 1971, the IRS has taken the position that employee…

I think we have three issues. First of all, the economy is still in trouble. Secondly, people need unemployment insurance, an extension of that; and, thirdly, we have a hole right in the City of New York and we have got to fill it. Now…

there are many features of this bill. I would like to talk about one, which happens to do with New York City; and New York City, of course, was the focal point of the bombing. Many people were killed. Buildings were destroyed. This is a…

trade is a tricky business. What we are trying to do is go beyond the bounds of the United States and move into other areas, and this is very, very important. We are going to be talking about this later, because there are people who want…

This bill, H.R. 2722, gives the administration the authority to ban the import of these diamonds. This would go a long way to help end the international traffic of blood diamonds which are responsible for really three things: first of all…

But when I try to sort this all out, the basic conclusion is this bill is going to stimulate, and that is what we want. In other words, we want to put money into the hands of individuals and of job creators, to invest and to save and to…

Mr. Speaker, I am going to echo many of the sentiments and the feelings that other people have expressed today, but I would like to do this in this particular context of the bill. As we all know, last month we suffered a terrible blow and…

I have to admit I was against this legislation originally because the whole concept of victory bonds in World War II was to take money out of the economy so it would not be chasing consumer products which were no longer in existence…

tonight we talk patriotism, and we should. And we talk sacrifice, and we should. And we talk courage. We talk all those things about humanity and we should. But I do think it is important for the American people to realize that this is…