Jerry Nadler

Well, I can't be certain but I know we can try.

Slowly doesn't work. I mean, slowly but surely means that tens of thousands of people do not get their constitutional rights protected.

I think that Mr. Terry and others who work on this issue should agree that it should be not up to third-party organizations to have to go into communities that are not served otherwise to make sure they are registered to vote.

It cannot necessarily be overcome when students or young people or anyone for that matter are standing in line for 9, 10, 11 hours to vote.

I think it is essential. I have said that the campaign financing system is a metastasized cancer in American democracy.

Having said that, my preference would always be for elections.

It is important that we consider whether there should be a uniform national rule to fill such vacancies as there is with vacancies in the House, or whether it would be better to allow the people of each State to decide for them how it…

This is a timely hearing, and the issues we are going to examine are of the utmost importance.

But nothing can match electrification. I don't care what you are doing with locomotive.

I will say two things. Number one, the RESTORE Act, the bill that was pulled from the floor, number one takes care of that technological problem, just as the bill that was passed in August does, by updating and making clear that…

I just want to say that I associate myself with the sentiments expressed by Mr. Weiner and Mr. Crowley. The Asian Longhorned Beetle is a serious problem, and we have to devote as much resources as possible to deal with it. I hope the…

Is your amendment limited to saying you can't use funds to enforce criminal penalties against what the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional, or does it have broader effect against other provisions of the McCain-Feingold bill?

I will respond again. It proves nothing because the fact is that if you are just looking at etymology, it may make sense. But if you look at usage in the Middle East, the Arab and Iranian people who wish the State of Israel eliminated…

Is the gentleman aware that it is standard usage in the Government of Iran and in many of the Arab regimes that since they will not say the word ``Israel,'' they refer to Israel as the Zionist entity or the Zionist regime so that when they…

There are a couple of lessons that really should be learned here. One, Abraham Lincoln said, at the end of the Civil War, that you have to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan. We are failing in…

So the first thing we saw at those hearings were these people testifying about how they selflessly worked, and we know that they did, and how they had been betrayed by every level of government in treating them, by the workers' comp and…

A few moments ago, the former chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Mr. Young of Alaska, was excoriating this side of the aisle and saying that our provisions in this bill for 100 percent scanning of containers were…

It is supposed to be done by a tribunal under article V, but the President claims the power. We have never held such a tribunal.

I will concede that when we passed last week my bill to recognize Congress's support for a memorial at the World Trade Center site, after it had been held in committee for 2 years, that was not radical and dangerous.

This law also says that if someone is asked to perform, if a doctor is asked to perform an abortion on a young woman, on a minor from another State, he must notify the parents in that State whether or not that State requires parental…

Then why are we passing a bill again that we already passed earlier this year if the Senate bill is not the same and is not satisfactory?

I have two questions about this bill that are completely aside from the merits. One is, why are we doing this bill? We passed the bill earlier. We passed essentially this bill earlier this session, the Senate passed a bill, and now we are…

Let me say this. There are lots of reasons why law enforcement may be going by: to check on the safety of people, to look into a house to see if anybody is there lying wounded or whatever. They see guns lying around. No one is there, thank…

Reclaiming my time, I am not talking about after arresting looters. Law enforcement people see guns lying around in a house. They don't know who they belong to.

I will yield the gentleman 30 seconds, and yield for an answer to how he would have prevented, under this bill, all the States from negating the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling. {time} 1300