I rise for the third straight year during consideration of the Defense authorization legislation to address the issue of nuclear weapons testing. Today, the international community is negotiating earnestly a complete cessation of all…

Mr. Chairman, let me address a couple of the issues raised. It is the nonproliferation treaty and future agreements like the comprehensive test ban treaty that gives the United States and the international community the legal authority as…

in closing, we talk about being a civilized society in this debate and I think life is often full of ironies. This Nation has been debating whether the penalty in Singapore ought to be carried out on a young man because he is going to be…

Mr. Chairman, I want to reiterate one point for my colleagues: the death penalty is more expensive, not less, than life imprisonment. Again, estimates in California are that death penalty cases cost roughly $600,000, compared to $427,000…

Mr. Speaker, I visited refugee camps in Hong Kong, Thailand, India, and Turkey, and I heard the horror stories that people endured and learned how difficult it is to gain political asylum in the United States. However, an exception to our…

incredibly, there is a debate going on on whether to call the situation in health care today a crisis or just a problem. Get real. It is a crisis. The reason I think some people have a problem calling it a crisis is because there is not…