Thousands of Americans even at this moment are benefiting from medical devices that have saved their lives or improved their chances for good health, knee and hip joints and brain shunts and pacemakers, all sorts of ingenious devices that…

The World Trade Center bombing, which was a terrorist bombing of the first impression, killed dozens of people. New York State did not have a death penalty. The Federal establishment at that point did not have a Federal death penalty, so…

Mr. Speaker, the question recurs on the need for congressional action on a compact that has heretofore been entered into between two States. In this particular case, the instant legislation is one where a contract or compact had been…

last week the whole world was horrified by the spectacle of Ambassador Alan Keyes being handcuffed or otherwise restrained and forcibly prevented from entering into a television area for a debate among candidates. I feel personally…

Mr. Speaker, the cost of this venture into the inquiry on gambling is going to be about $4 million. It occurred to me that this Congress, and I approve of its measures to a large extent, is seeking ways to cut spending, so the $4 million…

it was 1 year ago today when during the flurry of activity that accompanied the floor action with respect to the Contract with America that this Chamber passed overwhelmingly several pieces of legislation, all combined to relax the…

As everyone in the world knows, the Congress of the United States has been living on a credit card for many, many years now, decades. As a result, we have a huge national debt, and annual deficits that impinge upon the standard of living…

just as Pennsylvania was emerging from a series of natural disasters that lasted over a period of 10 days, snow and then more snow and then rain, and then flood, the Governor of the Commonwealth, our former colleague, Tom Ridge, decried…

Mr. Speaker, it is no secret to the members of the Committee on Rules that for several terms now I have regularly appeared before it to urge consideration of my proposal which we have called the instant replay, meaning that if on September…

the result of this year's round of BRAC decisions adversely affected my own district in Indiantown Gap, heretofore a vital part of our national defense structure, which has been modified downward, downsized, as it were, by the decision…

the train wreck about which everyone is speaking these days is to occur if the Congress fails to pass the 13 appropriations bills, or having passed them, if the President of the United States vetoes them. Then we will have reached the…

in the next few weeks this House will be the site of a furious debate, as I predict, over the future of legal services. As everyone knows, the Legal Services Corporation, as the hub of a network across the country who provide, ostensibly…

Members of the House, I appreciate the opportunity to speak on the rule which I support and then to assert that my support for the bill itself is based on several propositions. No. 1, I am impressed by the fact that this is a bipartisan…

This was an act of mass murder, willful, deliberate, intended to kill people, and succeeded in that. Our job, as the American people and the law enforcement and Members of Congress, communities together, must focus to bring those culprits…

very soon now the Congress of the United States will be taking up the vexatious issue of the reauthorization of Legal Services. Over the years, the original purpose of this effort to help the poor has become warped and expanded, and…

I want to reinforce in my brief time the notion and the truth that this is truly a middle-class tax cut that we are undertaking here, not only the $500 portion up for families earning up to $200,000, because nobody knows where the middle…

to cut or not to cut, that is the taxing question. Whether it be nobler in the minds of the people who attack the Republican plan to sling an arrow into death, that remains for the Democrat opposition or all those who favor deficit…

I cannot believe it. We are here reporting to them through our deliberations on the floor that we actually fulfilled the promise that we made that day. And it was not just a wild political type of atmosphere in which we made promises as…

Recapturing my time, I understand the gentleman's division of thought as to the one who has bought insurance and paid premiums and taken care of his family by doing so and the one who for one reason or another has not done so. Let me give…

Recapturing my time, I would say notwithstanding the gentleman's own State policy and my own State policy of not having this collateral source, 20 other States do have it. So in those States which we have reviewed, and particularly that in…

the amendment does call for the plaintiff, for the jury, to have the right to take into account what the plaintiff has paid for this coverage.

Seizing back my time, Mr. Chairman, no, the gentleman is not correct. Here is the way I would paint that. The gentleman is looking at it from the standpoint of the defendant, as you call him, the wrongdoer, but our whole system of justice…

title III of H.R. 1075 essentially incorporates the provisions of H.R. 753, the Biomaterials Access Assurance Act, which I introduced to help assure adequate supplies of biomaterials for medical devices. Language has been added in H.R…

It still remains, under your definition, to determine whether or not it is frivolous, but you would favor loser pays in that situation?

And if it comes under $75,000, at $62,000, or $73,000, or whatever, then the plaintiff would have to pay the--because the median figure was not met. Now I know the gentleman agrees with me when I say to him and I say to the Members, ``This…