This is a Federal constitutional right we are dealing with and the Federal Government has the responsibility of making sure that right is vindicated either by funding indigent defense or making--or assuring that the states fund it adequately, one way or the other.

I want to go to this distinction that Congressman Hinchey is talking about where the difference in--kind of the example that the general brought up in his testimony...

I am always nervous about the slippery slope in a variety of areas.

I would like to see this Committee focus on the fraudulent votes that are there.

For anybody to say that we had concentration camps, and therefore equate what we did with what the Germans did, it is historically incorrect and casts a dispersion upon that generation.

To suggest that we engaged in war crimes or crimes against humanity, frankly, I think, is more than exaggeration.

My legislation would amend the United States Constitution to require a balanced federal budget each year.

We need a balanced budget amendment to our Constitution.

If Americans must exercise restraint with their own funds, then government officials must be required to exercise an even higher standard.

The Adam Walsh Child Safety Act is one of the best pieces of legislation to ever come out of Congress.

Congress should take additional steps to give law enforcement officials the tools they need to keep our children safe.