Benjamin Gilman

as a member of Congress it has been one of my greatest privileges to serve as a member of the Commission on the Ukraine Famine that the Congress established back in December of 1985. Now that the Cold War has ended we may not always…

H.R. 4660 sends the following message to terrorists and war criminals: ``You can run, but you cannot hide.'' Following the bombings of our embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, we must review the State rewards program. To date, the program is…

Mr. Speaker, H. Res. 557 is sponsored by our committee colleague, the gentleman from California (Mr. Lantos), the only Holocaust survivor serving in this body. We commend the gentleman from California (Mr. Lantos) for his long abiding…

As senior Republican of the New York Congressional Delegation, I express my regrets on behalf of our entire delegation that our dear colleague, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Solomon) has chosen to step down after 20 years of…

I introduced H.R. 4655, the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, in late September in order to give our President additional tools with which to confront the continuing threat to international peace and security posed by Saddam Hussein. For almost…

H.R. 633 amends the Foreign Service Act to provide that the annuities of diplomatic security special agents of the Department of State who are participating in the Foreign Service retirement and disability system be computed in the same…

Whereas the Colombian National Police is led by the legendary and incorruptible General Jose Serrano, who has dedicated his life to fighting drugs, and whereas the elite anti-narcotics union of the Colombian National Police, the Danti, is…

the most telling moment of the visit by His Holiness Pope John Paul II to Cuba occurred at the beginning of his public mass at Havana. The Pope successively greeted Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega, the Church hierarchy, and the priests and…

I rise in support of H.R. 4083, a bill to provide copies of the television program ``Window on America'' a Ukrainian language program produced by the U.S. Information Agency to the Ukrainian Museum and the Indiana University Libraries…

it is the time to send a unequivocal signal to Fidel Castro that the United States Congress finds his regime's harboring of terrorists, murderers and other hardened criminals wanted in the United States shameful and unacceptable. H. Con…

for most of this year we have witnessed a repeat of the carnage and havoc that the world experienced during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia at the beginning of this decade. We took some pride when we believed that conflict to have…

this important measure addresses a critical area of our efforts to combat human rights abuses and treatment of those individuals who have suffered the effects of torture at the hands of governments as a means of destroying dissent and…

H.R. 2508 is a bill to provide for the conveyance of Federal land in San Joaquin County, California, to the City of Tracy, California. This piece of legislation transfers a 200 acre parcel of real estate currently administered by the…

The conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea is a tragic one. Although there is no fighting at this time, hundreds of lives have already been lost and there is expectation that the fighting will resume soon. These two nations, which are…

I am proud to have been able to introduce this resolution commemorating 50 years of relations between our Nation and the Republic of Korea. It is only fitting that the House makes note of this special relationship that the United States…

S.J. Res. 54 is the Senate companion of H.J. Res. 125 which Speaker Gingrich and I introduced on June 25, 1998. We introduced our resolution in response to the mounting evidence that Iraq continues to defy the decisions of the United…

I commend the gentleman from Florida, Mr. Bilirakis, who has over the years taken care that this House does not fail to observe the events of July 1974 whose tragic consequences still persist today nearly a quarter of a century later. The…

recently, raging fires engulfed over 1 million acres of land in Mexico. Our border states, in particular Texas, were overwhelmed by a pall of smoke that created an acute pollution problem and raised serious health concerns. The…

Mr. Speaker, I consider it an honor and a privilege to be able to join my colleagues in support of this resolution, H. Con. Res. 311, honoring two American heroes, our slain U.S. Capitol Police Officer Jacob ``J.J.'' Chestnut and U.S…

Beijing even refuses to renounce the use of force against Taiwan. Our Nation should base our foreign policy, including trade, on the values that have made our Nation an indispensable Nation in the world community for democracy, for…

Mr. Speaker, tropical forests are home to roughly half of all known species of plants and animals. Under pressure from man, these forests are disappearing at rate of almost 1 percent per year, roughly 1 football field lost every second, or…

Mr. Speaker, it has been long-standing American policy to penalize nuclear proliferators. In fact, the so-called ``Glenn amendment,'' which we are modifying today, was supported by the Clinton administration and was adopted by the 103d…

I appeared before the Committee on Rules yesterday to oppose making in order section 8102 of this bill. Section 8102 authorizes the transfer of naval vessels to certain foreign nations. It directly concerns the Foreign Assistance Act and…

the bill before us, H.R. 2709, the Iran Missile Proliferation Sanctions Act, will make the world a safer place. It closes loopholes in our counterproliferation laws to address a matter of critical concern to our national security, the risk…

Mr. Speaker, George Washington, our Nation's greatest military commander, said the most effective means of preserving peace is to prepare for war. Now, unfortunately, that is exactly what we must do today. There are those who say, let us…