under rule of law, the House Banking Committee is required to hold an oversight hearing on the Resolution Trust Corporation 30 days after the release of the Thrift Depositor Protection Oversight Board's report on the activities of the RTC…

yet again the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee is insistent on the need to raise taxes. This time, the Democrats' reason du jour is health care reform. In order to fund the President's massive new 98,000 person health…

Mr. Speaker, as we prepare to vote on final passage of next year's budget, I keep looking over my shoulder for Rod Serling and listening for the Twilight Zone's theme song, because what I am hearing and seeing is simply unreal. We have got…

Mr. Speaker, is the President paying enough attention to what is happening overseas? He had better, or our involvement in Bosnia will become both more dangerous and more embarrassing. The lesson of Vietnam proven by its observance in…

the gentlewoman from Arkansas is exactly right, and for that reason we ought to look at the substance of this bill. That is what is really going on. Will this legislation put more criminals in prison, lock up more criminals for life, stop…

yesterday in a speech in Milwaukee the President said that his health care plan will ``cause a shift of jobs.'' Just exactly what does a shift of jobs mean? It means if a person is a small business owner, their job will be shifted right…

I agree there is a lot of fog and panic, and we need to bring some common sense to this debate. It does strike me as being a little bit disingenuous that we are arguing over a $10.95 meal, when in fact the average Member of Congress takes…

Dear Mr. Speaker: It is time for Democrats to use the truth. I recommend that the House leadership draft and endorse a resolution calling for full hearings on the Whitewater affair. I note that the Senate has already committed itself to…

I look in the paper this morning and read the Washington Post, only to find out that in fact the chairman of the House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs has indefinitely postponed those hearings. One can only ask why. Well…

Mr. Speaker, last summer I was privileged to gain an extraordinary exposure to Ireland's expansive landscape of political views and opinions during a visit to Belfast, and with the assistance of the U.S. State Department and Cleveland City…

Congress is back in session, and it is business as usual. Today we begin where we left off last year. We face another gag rule put together by the esteemed Committee on Rules. Once again, we witness the blatant rigging of the legislative…