We are not certain of that. Let me assure the gentleman that indeed this deletion of the judges does not in any way sway us away from our commitment to have these judges appointed and to assume their positions as bankruptcy judges. This…

the value of this resolution is cast in a way that its failure to be enacted by this Congress would make havoc reign in the House of Representatives. What do I mean by that? If we should fail to adopt this resolution and some new terror…

we have seen a bevy of cases in which corporate executives plunder their own business, work with insiders, and do dastardly things in their business world. We have seen them use every kind of device known to mankind to avoid their…

Mr. Speaker, it is true that from the very first moment that we began the movement for bankruptcy reform, farmers in Chapter 12 were always one of the priorities, and not a day passed in the formation of the new bankruptcy reform bill that…

I support this measure because, parochially speaking, it does a great deal for some of the projects in which we are so interested in Pennsylvania. For instance, at Fort Indiantown Gap, this calls for full funding of an…

As everyone knows, the Judiciary has, for almost 2 years now, been working on the expected division of labor in the Immigration and Naturalization Service. On the one hand, we want to streamline the enforcement part of Immigration and…

the Congress once again is facing the fiscal train wreck that seems to come about every October 1, the end of the fiscal year, when the Congress has not finished its appropriations cycle and we are left with a device, a tricky device…

I introduced H.R. 1209, the ``Child Status Protection Act'', in March of 2001 along with Sheila Jackson Lee. I was moved by stories of the children of U.S. citizens, constituents of my own and of other members, who were being punished…

I rise to pose some reflections on the VFW. Many people will recall historically that during the Truman years there was an act of terrorism right in this Chamber, when terrorists of a different era shot up the entire Chamber here, wounding…

1941 was a banner year for American baseball and baseball in the American League, as it were. In that year Joe DiMaggio hit in 56 games straight, and Ted Williams batted 406. These are not the important historical facts, although they are…

I want to speak about the AMVETS who, in Pennsylvania, throughout the time that I served in the legislature, continuously participated in legislative action that pertained to veterans. On the question of veterans preference in civil…

The point is that transfers being a way of life, it is possible that the capital gains tax relief that is granted to people otherwise would not be granted to a member of the armed services because of the rapid transferability of every…

There is an extra benefit that is being conferred by passage of this bill and that is to our veterans. Veterans are experiencing two phenomena that we can help remove here tonight. One is the higher cost of medications that they are…

The game is just beginning. We are in the first inning of what may turn out to be a long game in trying to overturn this decision by the Ninth Circuit. We must remember that this was only a three-judge panel, not representing necessarily…

I myself a few months ago was part of a scenario in which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued what it felt was a credible threat to Three Mile Island and reported the essence of that credible threat to the operators of Three Mile…

This legislation was not born of a whim or out of reason of trying to fill a day of litigation where other things could not have been accomplished. This came about as a result of a Federal judge who was shocked by the fact that on certain…

Mr. Speaker, the public demands that we do something about child pornography, and the type that now has beset us across the Internet world is even worse than some of the expected child pornography that we have contemplated over the years…

I rise today in preparation of my introducing a resolution honoring the Pennsylvania National Guard. All of us know the work of our National Guard components in our various States, but I did want to take extra time to point out some of the…

recently, back in my district in central Pennsylvania, I had occasion in connection with the armed services holidays and celebrations to appear with a group of women right in the center of the action of Harrisburg, at the capital area, who…

I believe it was in the first week in which I operated as an assistant district attorney in Dauphin County in Pennsylvania when I had the duty of supervising an investigation and a court setting for a case evolving from wiretapping; and it…

I think the gentleman would feel better if he recognizes, as I do, that in this bill there is a continued movement by the farm communities towards market orientation, and that should help the gentleman.

Mr. Chairman, everyone in the country knows that the status quo in the Immigration and Naturalization Service cannot be maintained. We must change it. We were taking a bold step today consistent with other studies and other precedents set…

I want to substantiate my support for the amendment and to urge that everyone consider the question of unaccompanied young children and the provision of legal assistance in their quest to remain in the United States.

April 14th is the day on which we remember the victims of the gruesome events of the Armenian Genocide. From 1915 to 1923 during the times of the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish government implemented a ruthless extermination of innocent…