Jerry Nadler

I would like to explain that. First of all, I offered the amendment for the first time 3 years ago, and we have adopted it 3 years running. These organizations have supported my amendment. They recognize the wisdom of it. I appreciate…

I would again implore the gentleman to accept the amendment because it will not affect the space station, 21 million, it is so tiny a percentage of it, but it will really affect HOPWA.

The fact is we have great unmet needs for housing for people with AIDS. The committee made an intelligent decision, and now to cut the budget by $21 million, by almost 10 percent for veterans needs which are also there, I do not understand…

Let me just suggest if the gentleman would accept the amendment, I would support his amendment. If he does not, I have to oppose his amendment. I think the space station, regardless of how colleagues voted on the Roemer amendment, $20…

I just want to say, I do not doubt for a moment the integrity and the word of the gentleman from Illinois, the chairman of the committee. I am sure that he did exactly what he committed to do and asked the Committee on Rules for an open…

I have always feared that this might lead to some witnesses not coming forward. The gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Chabot) suggested a way out of this dilemma, and I am delighted to join him in offering this amendment.

I rise today to oppose the removal of the name of the father of our country from Washington National Airport. While there are many people in American history deserving of recognition in their role in the development of our country, I do…

It is a very simple bill. It does something we certainly should do, to enable those American veterans who served in the Armed Forces after February 28, 1961, when the first American troops accompanied South Vietnamese troops on patrol, but…

Mr. Speaker, this bill will impose stiffer penalties for thefts and acts of vandalism that involve a national cemetery. When someone desecrates a gravesite or steals a headstone, that is an especially vile crime, especially vile when it is…

Like the last measure that we just debated a few moments ago, this measure, which passed the Committee on the Judiciary unanimously, has the support of all the Members on both sides of the aisle on that committee. Again, the chairman has…

I am glad we defeated the attempt to eliminate that last week. The people, in dealing with 245(i), are not criminal aliens, but this bill that does deal with criminal aliens and people who are here illegally, I simply want to commend the…

Which is considered the safest investment, aside from putting it under the mattress or investing it in private stocks or bonds which are less safe; you must buy government bonds, and that is what has been done with it. What would you do…

Okay. My question is what would you do with--my understanding of the trust fund has always been that since 1935, when Social Security was enacted, the law has always provided that all money that comes into Social Security that is not paid…

Call it what you will. We have been taking the money out of the Social Security trust fund and using it to fund the deficit. And what you are proposing----

These decisions ought to be made on the basis of the health and scientific evidence. That is why the Clean Air Act asks the EPA to update this data every 5 years. They have done that. We should not interpose a political judgment. If we…

It is one piece of property, first of all. This only applies to one piece of property, by its terms. A particular address is set in the bill. This particular piece of property has already been declared not usable for McKinney Act purposes…

I do think this bill should contain a specific amount. I would be willing to withdraw this amendment if we have the agreement that we will try to work out by Tuesday a specific amount which we would then put into the bill and, if we do not…

This bill is seriously deficient because it reneges on our national commitment to create decent affordable housing. This bill provides absolutely no specific funding to make any new housing available to low income or moderate income…

Let me simply submit that this whole dialogue or colloquy is a good argument why in this instance on the basic policy question, not the details which we can leave to the locals but on the basic policy that senior citizens and disabled…

As I understand what the gentleman is saying, if you have a functional housing authority, they will make the decision. But with respect to my question where you do not have a functioning housing authority, HUD will decide on who is…

So in other words, in those areas where there are dysfunctional or incompetent housing authorities, no public agency would make the decision. It would be left up to some private agency. There would not be any public policy body in either…

I am asking a question you are not answering. In those districts where you are defunding the local housing authority, where there are bad and dysfunctional and horrible housing authorities, if a senior citizen, a disabled person in a…

Let us not hear as an argument that Washington should not try to dictate to the local governments; because sometimes we do in this very bill. Sometimes we do not. The question is, is it appropriate, and why is it appropriate or not…

What I am proposing is that the gentleman would amend the amendment to read as follows: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds may be expended from the land and water conservation fund established by Public Law 88-578 for the…

I am not going to debate the habeas corpus provisions. The fact of the matter is, as I recall, we already passed that bill on the floor of this House. I disapproved of it, but it is a separate debate, a separate question. What is involved…