Brandon Williams

This process was dysfunctional and broken.

OPA did not work on the ground level, it did not work at the State level, and I think it failed the folks in our country.

It is a system that I think this group particularly in Congress has to look at.

Mr. Speaker, it was not 18 years but 35 years ago that the first proposal to reform the sport of boxing was introduced. It was done so by then Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. That legislation was aimed at trying to prevent what…

insignias are important. Uniforms are important. All of us who have served understand that. This amendment is important too. I believe, however, it is a politically inspired and arbitrary amendment. It is, if one thinks about it, it is at…

Mr. Chairman, I only wanted to make the point with regard to the very important matter which just preceded this, that of these 300 plus so-called foreign languages that we have heard about, almost half of them are native languages…

I do think the bill is disingenuous despite its importance. I do not accuse any of my colleagues of that, but I think the bringing of the bill to the floor at this time is, as the American people understand it, motherhood, apple pie, the…

Perhaps the most interesting element in this debate is how one-sided it is. As my colleagues here and I, similar viewers, know, the reason our good friend from Pennsylvania has to stand up and keep granting himself 15 seconds and half a…

Mr. Chairman, the charts and graphs and the square root of last year's budget are all interesting, but I think they miss an essential point. That is, that traditionally and without exception, appropriate funding and aggressive support for…

I am for salvage sale logging. I am for it done appropriately. It means a lot to the health of our forests and to our economy. So, I was intrigued when this Congress passed this fast track salvage sale bill, and I have watched it plan by…

31 years ago the Congress of the United States created the National Endowment for the Humanities for a grateful public. On behalf of that public the Congress said this: ``An advanced civilization must not limit its efforts to science and…

let us close this debate by recalling that America is at its best when it does its best by its workers. After half a century of progress, America's standard of high wages is now in decline. In the 30 years from Harry Truman through Jack…

the gentleman from Indiana who just spoke, if he decides to vote for anything, it would probably be the Goodling amendment. If that passes and becomes law, 315,000 people in the State of the gentleman who just spoke, Indiana, would be…

I commend them, because I know their leadership is 100 percent against their position. I encourage all Republicans to join this small band of courageous and correct Republicans. I encourage all Republicans to join the Democrats that are in…

My colleagues, minimum wage first came into law in 1938, and congressional Republicans were against it back then, those almost 60 years ago. Since that time, under the insistence of the American people, the Congress of the United States…

Because, Mr. Speaker, we had an agreement with the Republican side that while health care reform was on the table and we may be burdening business with that cost, we would not raise the minimum wage.

the Republican men and women in this Chamber who are opposed to an increase in the minimum wage earn more salary from the taxpayer every 15 days than people on the minimum wage earn all year long. Yet they still do not want to provide an…

during the years I have been in Congress, in fact for 50 years, without exception the majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives have been opposed to the minimum wage. Even back when economists said it did work, Republicans…

I am for this repeal. I have for 18 years been against gun control because I think it is feel-good that does not work. So after 18 years, I have 100 percent voting record with the NRA. Now let me say something about the NRA: The NRA, in my…

To put it crudely, my colleagues, this is indeed a lousy way to do the people's business. These weekly CR's are Government by political hiccup. It is atrocious that ideology, and stubbornness, and extremists, and extremism and…

It seems to me it is inherently wrong and the majority of the American people would not want to kick any kid out of school, including the child of parents who have illegally come to this country. But let us all understand something. The…

the farm bill before the House today represents an abandonment of the economic security that has assisted farmers in Montana and the Nation in times of low prices for farm commodities. The bill undermines long-standing, traditional…

I really did not hear anything they said with which I disagreed. It is just that almost everything they said, in my judgment, was somewhat meaningless and mostly cliches. One has to, it seems to me, in difficult times like this get past…

I say to the President: Mr. President, this bill is probably going to get to your desk. On behalf of the West, sir, veto it and send it back. This bill is bad for the West. This bill is bad for the public's land, because it has in it a…

my colleagues, I was chairman of this subcommittee for a number of years in the House, so I recall with some precision the history of ETI's, economically targeted investments. I remember that former President Ronald Reagan advocated the…