it is basically a triple taxation. We pay taxes on the 15th of April; then there is a user fee which is a tax of $65 on the American people in order to get the passport, so that will tax twice. Then they decide that that is not good…

The State Department decided that they were upset because we did not fully fund everything that they were asking for. So they decided to come up with their own tax on the American people and say, well, we do not have enough money to answer…

this amendment is very untimely and the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Burton] brings it up and recites time and time again, as if it were a mantra, things that he continuously mentions on the floor. Mr. Chairman, I want to yet again extend…

it is a mischaracterization. The people of India have selected as their President a person from the untouchable class. The gentleman from Indiana is misinformed. And I think it behooves us all, when we come to the floor to do things…

this week marks the 23d year since the brutal partition of Cyprus, yet the focus of the international community and the Congress on a resolution to this tragic separation has not lessened. If anything, attention on the plight of Cyprus has…

our Founding Fathers must be very puzzled looking down on us today; and instead of seeing us dealing with the very real challenges that face our Nation, they see us laboring under this great compulsion to amend the document that underpins…

I rise today, together with my colleagues, to commemorate the Armenian Genocide of 1915-23. On this day, in 1915, over 200 Armenian leaders were systematically massacred by the Turkish Government. Yet these horrific murders were only a…

It seems inconceivable that convicted felons, including those who have committed violent crimes using guns, could get out of prison and could, under the law, buy guns yet again. I raise the question, who is being protected by this law…

I rise today to join in recognition of the 176th anniversary of the independence of Greece. Greek Independence Day, which is celebrated in a variety of ways nationwide, commemorates the birth of modern Greece. Whether the festivities take…

I am pleased that, despite the hectic and trend-setting legislative pace, we have found the time today to take up House Concurrent Resolution 17 to congratulate the people of Guatemala on the establishment of the peace process for that…

last fall the people of Nicaragua again chose the path of democracy by electing Liberal Alliance candidate Arnoldo Aleman decisively. In the wake of their second free and fair election of the 1990's, Nicaraguans must move just as…

on May 9, 1996, 18 of my colleagues and I wrote to the SEC to express our strong concern about the SEC's order giving permanent approval to a preferencing program on the Cincinnati Stock Exchange, the CSE. Among the important issues raised…

Mr. Chairman, with this strong array of Members coming to the floor to oppose Mr. Burton's amendment, I have been trying to figure out what this is really all about. I think it was said during the opening minutes of this discussion by Mr…

An election that did not gain that much attention because there were no very serious violent abuses during the entire electoral process. Over 400 million people going to the polls democratically, even turning out the controlling government…

I rise today in utter amazement that we are even going to consider repealing the assault weapons ban. Here are provisions of law designed to keep weapons of war off of our streets and to prevent citizens from being slaughtered and our law…

today we are once again discussing the pros and cons of unilaterally lifting the U.N. arms embargo on Bosnia, and I rise in strong support of this measure, S. 21, that would lift the embargo. Although the arms embargo was deemed a viable…

it was a terrible joke to begin with. Izzi and Abie were rounded up and captured by the Nazi troops. They were marched to the end of the town and told to dig their own grave, which they did. And the Nazi storm trooper stood in front of…

I regrettably rise in strong opposition to the amendment offered by my good friend and colleague, the gentleman from Missouri. Simply put, this is an unhelpful amendment proffered at the wrong time. While I can understand the gentleman's…

Mr. Chairman, the committee has included money in H.R. 1905 to complete the reconnaissance portion of the coastal erosion study on the north shore of Long Island, but it does not contain money to begin the feasibility portion of that…

I can understand and appreciate the gentleman's strong aversion and opposition to study. But could the gentleman cite for me one penny's worth of savings in this bill that you do not want to study? Not a dollar, not a thousand, not a…

this amendment is modeled on principles that the majority has articulated in this chamber since January, and it is my hope that we will have strong bipartisan support for its adoption. Members on both sides of the aisle--whether they…

Amendment offered by Mr. Ackerman: Page 12, after line 7, add the following new paragraph: ``(10) Preference for former members of the armed forces.-- The unit of local government has established procedures to give members of the Armed…

The gentleman from Illinois is no doubt among the fairest Members that I have ever seen in this House, and certainly one of the most compassionate. It seems to me we are talking sort of at different levels over and each other on different…

The question, if I can phrase it, is: Why are we looking to put technicalities in the way of an innocent person coming before the court? That is just as wrong. That is even worse because you are taking away a life.

we are trying to work together to remedy some inequities in the system. I think that the frustration of the American people, as has been expressed here, goes to the point that so many technicalities are raised wherein guilty people are…