I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this misguided attempt to amend our constitution. It is both bad economic policy and bad constitutional policy. Let's start with the basics. While balancing your…

I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 822, what the Brady Campaign correctly calls the ``Packing Heat on Your Street'' bill. America is in dire economic straits. Millions of people are out of work. Our growth rate is anemic. People are…

I would point out that the lawsuit that the gentleman from California referred to lost at the Supreme Court, and that was a number of years ago, which adds to the point that, of course, ``In God We Trust,'' our national motto, is not under…

Reclaiming my time, the gentleman may be correct. I'm not familiar with that case. But cases making these challenges occur all the time. They lose 100 percent of the time, and there's no reason to expect that that will change. So, again…

Although the American people are concerned about restoring our economy and creating jobs, today we are returning to irrelevant issues that do nothing to promote economic growth and put Americans back to work. We have seen this before. In…

Nobody said that the national motto ``In God We Trust'' is just words. Nobody said any such thing. What I said is that this resolution is just words because no one is threatening the national motto. It's there. It's on our currency, and…

This bill seeks to undo women's constitutional rights under the guise of being about government funding for abortion. The law, unfortunately, already forbids Federal funds from paying for abortions except in the case of rape, incest, or…

This country is in the middle of a great crisis, entirely an artificial crisis created by an attempt by one political party to blackmail the entire country into adopting its program of destroying Medicare and Social Security and food…

The real problem is that tax revenues have declined from 20\1/2\ percent of GDP in 2000 to 14\1/2\ percent of GDP because we no longer tax the millionaires, the billionaires and the large corporations the way we used to. Let's start doing…

Many of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle would not be here today if President Jefferson had not borrowed to finance the Louisiana Purchase. Mr. Speaker, this bill promises all the fun of a constitutional amendment without actually…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 127, line 18, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $15,000,000) (increased by $15,000,000)''. The Acting…

Reclaiming my time, to sum up, this helps the Israelis; it helps the United States; it helps the general security; and it sends the message to the European allies they should start looking into maybe putting some real effort into NATO…