Mr. Chairman, let me say most respectfully to my friend, the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. Callahan], that this bill which we have previously debated all night long contains many statements in policy, which we in Congress have seen fit to…

Mr. Chairman, for too long ethnic Albanian citizens of Kosova, who comprise 90 percent of the province's population, have been dominated and repressed by Serbia. Today I rise to offer an amendment which will demonstrate support for Kosova…

I just find it incongruous that we are being denied, for whatever reason; I am not blaming anyone, but the way it is working out, it seems that Mr. Hoyer will not be allowed to put forth his amendment which would call for an end to the…

much as been said this morning about the circus coming to town, and it is true. As we speak, the circus is out here on the Capitol Grounds, celebrating its 125th anniversary, complete with clowns and elephants performing tricks. While the…

our Republican friends are continuing their pattern. Now it is an assault on college student loans and financial aid in order to get money to finance tax breaks for the rich. Just the other week we saw them taking school lunches out of the…

I think that the conference report from my vantage point is a much better bill than the original bill but I still have some fears and some questions, particularly with regard to ecological concerns, clean water, clean air. For instance, in…

This is once again another instance of mean-spirited Republican budget cuts. It really never ceases to amaze me how mean-spirited and radical the Republican party has become. When I left this morning, my 16-month-old son was watching…

Do not kill Big Bird. Do not kill Big Bird by voting for mean-spirited Republican budget cuts on Public Broadcasting. Do not kill Big Bird in order to help finance tax breaks for the very wealthy in this country. Do not kill Big Bird in…

the opponents of the Davis-Bacon Act have mounted an attack to repeal a law that helps American workers. This is nothing more than an effort to pull the rug out from under working people. As the son of a dedicated ironworker, I resent this…

when I hear the attacks being made against the President's nominee fro Surgeon General, Dr. Henry Foster, I must say that I have never seen such a vicious and mean-spirited mood in this town. This really has to stop. We have to return some…

our Republican friends support a tax cut for wealthy Americans earning more than $200,000 a year, but they will not support a raise in the minimum wage for people who want to work and not collect welfare. If we truly want to move people…

I voted against the line-item veto. I must say, Mr. Speaker, that I believe we in this Congress are going to rue the day that we voted for the line-item veto, and as was said many times by many colleagues, this line-item veto, in my…

But, I think what this legislation also does is, if something is not fully funded, it makes it very, very hard to do. Frankly, I am not afraid of unfunded mandates. I am afraid that the ruse of unfunded mandates is going to be used to…

The options may be there, but the threshold is much more difficult than what the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Moran] is proposing. That is why I think what he is saying is to give us maximum flexibility. Frankly, I do not understand why we…

Can I ask the gentleman why then he does not embrace the Moran bill, because I think what the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Moran] is doing is frankly giving you everything that you feel needs to be done.

My colleagues, in the rush to pass a constitutional amendment and tamper with the Constitution to do something that we do not have the guts to do ourselves, let us tell the American people what we are really doing. Let us be honest with…

Mr. Chairman, it is said that Nero fiddled while Rome burned. For the past 2 years, we have been fiddling while the people of Bosnia have burned. I do not want to know about diplomatic niceties. I know 2 years ago we should have been doing…

I rise in opposition to the Solomon amendment to H.R. 4301 as reported out of the Armed Services Committee. This amendment prohibits funding from the Department of Defense to any educational institution which prevents military recruiting…

today the American people are waiting with bated breath to see if this Congress stands with the American people in an assault weapons ban or stands with the special interests that are desperately trying to prevent this body from doing the…

I rise today in support of H.R. 4269, the Assault Weapons Ban Act. As a cosponsor of this bill, I believe that it can only decrease our country's crime rate and ensure the safety of the American public. The violent incidents in the United…

Shame on all of us in the West to allow this genocide to continue. Shame on all of us in the West for our inaction. And I think the point was made very clearly by both my colleagues that we have encouraged the Serbian aggression by our…

I hope we will have the opportunity in the very near future to vote on it, and at least it is some small positive step. The frustration, of course, now is that we are dealing with small steps that at this stage of the carnage does not have…

Today we had a House-Senate conference on the State Department reauthorization, and the resolution was passed to call upon the President to lift the arms embargo so we finally have hopefully the weight of the House of Representatives and…

there is one point that he made, I think it is also very appropriate to say, that the Moslems of Bosnia are secular Moslems, and what this dose is it just proves the point, unfortunately, of madmen like Saddam Hussein and others who say…

And, you know, I know you would agree with me, because I know of the great work that you have done in this Congress with regard to the Western Hemisphere, with Central America; we do not believe that the United States can or should be the…