James T. Callahan

I do not rise tonight in defense of guilt or innocence of our colleague, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Traficant). I rise tonight in a sense of what I think is fairness. I have a tremendous respect for this body and an overwhelming respect…

The fact is it costs $44,000 a minute to run this House. It would appear to me that every time they talk about reducing a bill by $10,000, if they are going to spend $44,000 of Social Security money, it looks to me like we are losing…

primarily, we are talking about the assistance to Arafat, the very person that we both despise because of the atrocities he has placed upon the citizens of Israel. How in the world anybody in this House could support giving money to a…

at the same time, we do not want to leave the President of Colombia out on a limb. He has come back to us. He has told us what the problem is and we are having to fill in a void, but the void has been caused by the failure of the other…

I wish we could, Mr. Chairman, get to a position where we could move on to discuss some of the issues we in this bill; and particularly I would like to get to the amendment process so we can start debating them. In particular, I have…

When I bring my amendment up, I will ask some of you that have been coming up to me telling me all day long, ``Sonny, you are doing exactly the right thing,'' I am going to have some handouts, and I want some of you to take these handouts…

what my amendment would do would prohibit money from going to a terrorist that has been blowing up all of the people in Israel. It denies him the money to use for other things so he can have his money to blow up the people of Israel, and…

Mr. Chairman, I do not profess to be an expert on Colombia or any other country. In fact, I do not profess to be an expert on anything, but I have been involved in some of these issues because I chaired the committee that my good friend…

Mr. Chairman, I see that a great many Members are not in the Chamber tonight. I do not know where they are but they ought to be here listening to this debate. But just in case any Members do have a sufficient interest in these issues we…

I do it out of principle and I do it in all good faith, not to be critical of the Committee on Rules, not to be critical of their goals, but to express some concerns that I have that I think are very important, and that is aid to Israel…

I just want to tell my colleagues that today is a classic example of how great this institution is. In America and in every democracy, a majority rules. Just a few minutes ago I was in the well of this House arguing against something on a…

Let me say that he is absolutely right. We did not appropriate one dime, we appropriated $541 million just a few weeks ago. What is the nonproliferation program? When we decided and reached an agreement with the Russians that we would…

I am a free trader I do not deny, and I am quite proud of it, and I have voted for each and every bill they have brought to the floor. But sometimes we have to talk to our own administration and the only chance we have to talk to them…

I do know that the government of Vietnam is offering interest-free loans for people, which I think is in violation of all of our agreements, is offering interest-free loans to people to start catfish farms, and if they want to do that and…

I rise, Mr. Chairman, to enter into a colloquy with the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Kolbe), the chairman of the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations of the Committee on Appropriations. Specifically, I would like to discuss with him the…

reclaiming my time, we must decide on whether or not that is going to definitely be the site. Once that determination is made, there will be ample time to provide ample resources to the review board to make certain that the public is fully…

the gentleman mentioned the word ``hypocrisy,'' and the gentleman knows how opposed I am to any form of hypocrisy. If indeed it is as the gentleman says that this could imperil the drinking water of the gentleman's constituents, we will…

No, that is not why we are here. This has nothing to do with the drilling. It has to do with the fact that there is not going to be any natural gas and if there is not going to be, why build a pipeline. That is why we are here. It has only…

The issue is the pipeline, and the issue is what is going to be put in the pipeline. The gentleman from Florida has already said that they already have pipelines going into Florida; they want to build more pipelines because they need more…

I might point out that they are already drilling now within 1 mile of the district of the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Scarborough). That is not an argument. These waters are primarily the waters within 17 miles of the beaches or offshore…

let me explain my position. This problem is not limited to just one county in Texas, it also is applicable to some portions of Alabama and other States where the same type of incident is taking place. My agreement with the gentleman from…

I appreciate where the gentleman is coming from, but this appropriations process is long and involved. We invited every Member of Congress to submit their suggestions to us as to how we could best formulate this bill. The sponsor of this…

we will be glad to work with the gentleman and the victims of Tropical Storm Allison. We are happy to work with the gentleman in that capacity to provide funding if funds become available. I have talked to the gentleman from Texas (Mr…

Mr. Chairman, I cannot believe amendments like this. It is the height of irresponsibility. I think Members should oppose this amendment because it establishes a horribly irresponsible precedent for our energy security in this country. The…