Jerry Nadler

I think the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Cannon) misunderstands the question of the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott). The question as I understand it was not if someone owes $2 million and can pay $10,000 should be then forced to pay…

For 30 years the pharmaceutical companies have opposed proposals for the government to help senior citizens buy their products. Why? Because they are afraid that the government, as a bulk purchaser, would exercise market power to do what a…

Those who have opposed this resolution have opposed it for what it does not say, not for what it does. The United States can be an honest broker and should be between Palestinians who want peace such as perhaps Abu Mazen, whose sincerity…

If one is quoting from Moses, one might note that in the same five books of Moses that contain the Ten Commandments there is a passage that says if a man smites a woman and she die, he shall surely die, and if he smites her and her fetus…

I want to join in the tribute to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Gekas) tonight. The gentleman from Pennsylvania served for 4 years as chairman of the Subcommittee on Administrative and Commercial Law; I served for those 4 years as…

Mr. Speaker, this amendment, if passed, would contravene the fundamental principle of American democracy which is that majority rules. The gentleman from Ohio pointed out earlier that the principle supermajorities, meaning a minority can…

Yes, essentially I do. I do believe it is a waste of time and that it is a ridiculous proposal. We have rejected it six times in 6 years. We are going to reject it again. The gentleman knows that, and we ought to be debating the…

So, in other words, the person, if a 17-year-old minor who wants to get an abortion asks her grandfather or her uncle or her brother or her friend who is 18 to accompany her across the State line to get the abortion, but she is driving…

Forget the knowledge question. Let us assume he has the knowledge. Transport. If the young 17-year-old woman who has a driver's license who wants to get an abortion asks her friend or her uncle or her aunt or her grandparent to accompany…

What does the bill mean by the word ``transport''? Whoever knowingly transports an individual under 18, et cetera.

September 11 is a day that will never be forgotten. Over 5,000 of our friends, neighbors, family members, heroes died while doing nothing but going to work in what may be the greatest one-day tragedy in the history of the United States…

I take no pride in introducing this legislation, and if ever there were a bill I drafted I wish were not needed, this would be it. Like so many Americans, I wait to hear from friends and colleagues who were in lower Manhattan when tragedy…

Some of us believe that a clump of cells not implanted in a woman's uterus, and Senator Hatch agrees, do not have the same moral right and value as a person who is suffering from a disease; that it is our right and our duty to cure human…

Mr. Speaker, churches have a role to play in the provision of social services, but Members should vote for the substitute to make sure that this bill does not establish employment discrimination with public funds, with preemption of State…

The gentleman has not provided us with 4 days. That is a misstatement of fact. The inadvertence of someone who made a mistake against the will of the gentleman has provided us and the American people with that opportunity. All I am saying…

This bill is not about violence against women. That is why all the violence against women groups are opposed to the bill. This bill is simply to undermine Roe v. Wade, and it will not succeed.

Is causing a miscarriage murder of a two-celled zygote or not under this bill? Yes or no.

Reclaiming my time, the bill by its terms says that the lockbox ends whenever Congress includes in a bill the words ``we are saving Social Security,'' whether we have or not.

With all due respect, we did not get any commitment that this will be adhered to. I will predict right now, and I will say it on the floor, and, in fact, let me pose a challenge to the Republican leadership. I do not believe they are going…

Mr. Speaker, with all due deference, the best way, I do not know if it is the best way, but the easiest way to expedite the process of the bill is to walk out with a bill, have the majority members of the conference committee sign it, and…

I simply want to ask the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Gekas), chairman of the subcommittee, since he assured us a moment ago that this House has voted on this bill, can he assure us that the bill that we are going to see is the same…

I believe the only real purpose of this bill is to trap the pro-choice Members into voting against it so that they can slander us and slander the pro-choice movement as being in favor of infanticide.

I believe two things: one, that this is a situation that begs our immediate attention. This amendment is in the form of a nonbinding resolution calling on the United States government to begin to address this issue with world leaders and…

I must correct the statement made a moment ago. This bill does not grant any privilege to one group. I presume the gentleman meant doctors. The bill refers to 'all health care professionals,' doctors, nurses, physical therapists, everybody…

Reclaiming my time, I am not here to defend the Administration, whatever it uses or does not use recaptured funds for. I am simply saying, 60,000 new Section 8 units, even if we could recapture some and get 10,000 more, that is little…