Jerry Nadler

This amendment, rather this section which we are trying to eliminate, is not focused on terrorism. It does not focus on terrorism. It does not focus on terrorists. All it does is put up additional bars to all asylum seekers, legitimate…

I agree with the gentleman. To quote Joseph Cirincione, the Director for Nonproliferation of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the author of the book ``Deadly Arsenals & Tracking Weapons of Mass Destruction,'' we should be…

The only justification for going to war against another country, with the possible exception if it is committing genocide, is self-protection: to protect the United States, to protect our own people, to protect our friends and allies…

Well, I do not remember the exact date, but people were talking about this commission not long after 9/11. And, in fact, in early 2002 they were doing it. In July 2002, I quoted this before, the administration issued a statement of policy…

Yes, indeed. The Chairman, Governor Kean, and the vice chairman, former ranking member Hamilton, stressed that we are in a war; we are in a very serious war with terrorists, and speed is of the essence, and we should do this now. We should…

That is correct. It was President Bush, Vice President Cheney and the Republican leadership in both Houses of Congress who steadfastly opposed the creation of that Commission and eventually bowed to pressure coming from Democratic leaders…

Well, I do not know because President Bush flip-flops. So maybe he is referring to President Bush after he decided to support it. The gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay) flip-flops, and maybe he is referring to himself. Maybe he is referring…

Mr. Speaker, reference was made before to the Daschle court-stripping bill. There was no such thing. His bill did not court-strip. In fact, in the case of Biodiversity Associates v. Cables, his bill was judged constitutional. If the courts…

Mr. Speaker, over 60 years ago, at a time of panic and insecurity, this country committed a great wrong against people of Japanese, Italian and German background. Several years ago, the United States apologized for this, voted monetary…

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.