Jerry Nadler

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

We have the right, but I do not believe we have the right, given the fact that the Bill of Rights postdates the grant of the jurisdiction-setting authority in the Constitution, I do not think we have the right to take away from the Supreme…

The gentleman is commenting and his entire speech was about the desirability or the worth of the words ``under God,'' which I think almost everybody agrees with. The issue in this bill is court-stripping. Do we take away from the courts…

I will yield to Ms. Jackson-Lee for a unanimous consent request, and then you have your speaker, and I will close for my side and you close for yours. Let me ask how much time we have left at this point. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr…

Mr. Speaker I yield 3\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Delahunt).

Since the committee had the same language in last year's report, do we have any reason to expect the FBI will, in fact, change the fee structure this year?

I observe the gentleman tells us that President Bush assures us of the problem of frivolous lawsuits. President Bush assured us there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and a lot of other nonsense. So I do not give that too much…

I must say the gentleman's logic is impeccable, and I think the gentleman has convinced me to vote for the resolution despite what I said before. My question is this: According to principles of this resolution and of the draft legislation…

I just want to make sure before I start that we have the amended amendment that says $5 million, not $10 million. The ACTING Chairman. Without objection, the Clerk will report the amendment. There was no objection. The Clerk read the…

Reclaiming my time, I was going to add that I want to thank the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Knollenberg) and the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Olver) for their cooperation, and the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Shays) and the…

A NSL, unlike an administrative subpoena, is not the target of the inquiry and has no interest in contesting or refusing it.

There are no abuses we know of because they are all secret and they cannot tell us about abuses. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Kucinich).

I seek recognition on a question of personal privilege pursuant to rule IX of the rules of the House. I have placed at the desk the documentation on which this question is based. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaTourette). On the basis of…

Not seeing the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson-Lee), I thank the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary for filing the corrected report, and I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________

I would like to ask if the distinguished chairman wishes to repeat his tactic of last week of waiting until everybody else has spoken and then mischaracterize what we have said so that we cannot reply to him. Is that his intent today? Is…

Is it his intent to let anybody on this side speak after he has spoken even if he closes?

I never said that. I said it did not come up with respect to my amendments. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Simpson). The gentleman from Georgia controls the time.