The Republicans didn't support creating the 9/11 commission, didn't want there to be open hearings, didn't want to extend the deadline for their hearings, didn't want the president to testify.

Much has been mentioned on this floor about what has been left out of this report and things put in that were extraneous. Well, I do not know how those of us on the Committee on the Judiciary can support this bill when so much of the work…

it is remarkable that in DNA people see this issue through many different prisms, all of them positive. For those of us in this Chamber who are concerned about law enforcement, DNA is truly a miracle. It is better than a fingerprint. It is…

I guess what it comes down to is a person's view of where an individual who is in the minority on an issue, even an issue that is protected in the Constitution, where does that person go to have their rights protected? What if 435 of us…

the author of the base bill, the gentleman from Missouri, is a friend of mine, but apparently there is a second Congressman Akin around here somewhere. Perhaps he was the one who wrote the bill. The original version of the bill says, with…

I would love to know who the 20 percent are that like frivolous lawsuits so that we can have a focus group with them. They are probably lawyers of some sort, I would imagine. First, let me just say we rarely have an opportunity to take a…

Mr. Speaker, to vote in favor of H.R. 3313, I would say that the supporters of the bill have to reach four conclusions: One, they have to decide that Marbury v. Madison was wrongly decided. Some people on the Committee on the Judiciary…

as a nonlawyer and observing that there are many young people in the gallery today, this is actually an instructive debate that we are having for the second time in 2 weeks. Last week, with the sponsorship of Republicans and Democrats…

I rise to pay tribute to the over 100 students from around New York City who participated this year in the Constitution Education Engagement Project. The CEEP program, of which Carl Bonomo is the founder and Dorothy McCloskey is the…

Mr. Chairman, as I conclude, and the hour is getting late and there are no further speakers on my side, I just want to once again clarify the record of the Saudis. Every time we have this discussion in this Chamber, we hear about how the…

The Council on Foreign Relations issued a report recently that said that we are not getting that cooperation. The FBI has said that they are not getting cooperation in investigating crimes against U.S. citizens. Where does the gentleman…

I rise in support of the Otter amendment. The question should be should we have any aid going to the West Bank and Gaza. That should be the question. Is it buying us pro-American values? No. Is it buying us less violence? No. Is it buying…

The number that we chose to increase by would provide what APHIS says is the necessary full funding to eradicate this pest, which is something that has ravaged New York City, ravaged Queens and Brooklyn, also has been spotted most…

This Congress in the 2003 State Department Authorization Act said that once and for all, any documents like passports and the like that refer to Jerusalem have to say the country. It is the only instance in our Nation where it says a city…

We have had a dramatic, precipitous drop in crime in this country under Democratic Presidents, under Republican Presidents, under Democratic Congresses, under Republican Congresses. One thing that has been consistent is that, when that…

I just want to join the leaders of the communities in expressing strong opposition to this amendment. This is not an academic issue in New York City. We had a circumstance after September 11 where FBI agents fanned out into the…

Last year as we pursued the effort to step up the technology of DNA, we recognized that some fundamental things have been going on in the world for the last 10 years or so. As DNA has become an important crime-solving tool, States and…

I have yet to hear a single opponent of the amendment say the words ``with full funding we will have a statistical undercount adjustment.'' And the reason we cannot is that the Census Bureau is not committed to that. It is not a matter of…

Reclaiming my time, in homeland security funding? Actually, let us talk about how much is cut. The COPS program at one time funded 7,000 police officers in the City of New York; and by the way, I can check for a moment if the gentleman…

Look, the problem is not that there is an undercount. The problem is they discovered the undercount and steadfastly refused to do anything about it. By the way, in the data that we are going to be accumulating over the next 10 years, we…

First, I appreciate the gentleman's expertise on this issue. Should I take it from his concerns and comments about the undercount in New York that under his leadership he will commit to doing something the Census Bureau has refused to do…

First of all, the chairman as addressed many times the level to which we exceed the President's request for COPS. Yes, the President proposed zero for COPS. He proposed zeroing out the program. This is a bipartisan amendment because we…

Mr. Chairman, I also want to offer my thanks and gratitude to the chairman and ranking member of the subcommittee who, with great grace and dignity, often have to find ways to put 10 pounds' worth of things into a 5-pound bag. This…

What this amendment says is enough is enough, reopen the Statue of Liberty by July 31, 2004. It is not closed for lack of money. This House has allocated $19.6 million for security enhancements, and that is between fiscal year 2002 and…

Edward R. Murrow High School is known for a great many things, not the least of which is producing the only two truly talented members of the Weiner family, my brothers Jason and Seth; but this year they are also known as the 2004 national…