Hon. George W. Gekas

I note that the gentleman from Pennsylvania, my colleague, is ready to give testimony to the special contribution that the individuals from his area made in this conflict... They are our citizen soldiers, our neighbors. We are all proud of…

I want to, by way of wrap-up, to pay tribute to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Lazio) for the expedited procedure... we are now well poised to proceed with enactment of this bill.

In 1992, the Bush Administration successfully negotiated with Syria to secure the release of persecuted Syrian Jews. To accommodate the Syrian Government, the U.S. was forced to admit the refugees on temporary visas and grant them asylum…

If we came to the end of a cycle, thinking about those expenditures that the gentleman is talking about for the Pentagon, and we did not have a budget for the military, would the gentleman vote for a temporary CR for 30 days or 45 days…

The answer is in two parts. First, when next the gentleman meets with the appropriators to sit down for the new budget he can do it but, secondly, I answer the question with a question. What does the gentleman do now if we come to the end…

I as an American citizen am totally embarrassed and humiliated at the thought of having to beg the OPEC countries to produce more, to send us more, to sell us more of their energy product. It is humiliating. I think our whole Nation is…

I always grew up with the notion that Chinese-Americans, the thousands upon thousands in our country, have always contributed to the culture and to the traditions and to the wealth of American traditions in their own right as we were…

By all means, and welcome the young people because part of what we are discussing here today right now has to do with maintaining healthy lives for the children of our country.

The more we are able to prevent disease or cure the existing diseases, the more beneficial will be our Treasury as well as the lives of our citizens. This chart that we have here shows heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's, mental disorder…

I want to indicate, for the record, and to urge the Members that we support this amendment and that it goes to some of the dependability and predictability that we are trying to build into the revised Bankruptcy Code. So the gentleman…

I want to indicate to the gentleman that the amendment is well thought out and is a necessary change to our original bill. It draws attention to our intent to treat everybody fairly, and the student loan quotient is one of the most…

Today I am introducing the Regulatory Fair Warning Act along with thirteen cosponsors.

I remember the first time that I was in the Oval Office was during the Reagan administration, at which time the President then was adamant about the voluntary restraints that foreign steel producers would be subjected to were we to…

Mr. Speaker, I could almost place ditto marks over the remarks that I made in the previous bill that we have considered, because this, too, is a compact of special arrangements between two States or more in matters of mutual interest which…

Mr. Speaker, I want to take some time to pay tribute here to another colleague, the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Doc Hastings), who, in his endeavors over the course of time in the last session and before, has come to us time and time…

Mr. Speaker, it should be made clear that the support priorities that we have built into this conference report are endorsed by the National Association of Attorneys General who supervise all of these matters and by every major support…

I have not thought that through, but it is my impression that that would be protected because, by then, the exemption has already been created.

But I must say to the gentlewoman that the homestead exemption in the House, which we believe is the strongest version of that issue that is possible, is one that we plan to defend staunchly at the conference.

I do not care to offer any more debate, but we do need to do an amendment process to conform the text to the sections that are outlined in Shays-Meehan.

Two interesting contentions that have been made throughout this debate from the very first moment we began the process in late 1997. One is the continuous lament from the other side of the aisle that it is not bipartisan in its offering…

I do not see how the gentlewoman can argue that to have 1,400,000 separate cases cannot increase or would not increase the cost of processing bankruptcy. That is a rhetorical question.

As I recall the negotiations that were taking place during the time of consideration by the full committee, I thought that the gentleman from Florida (Mr. McCollum) and the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott) had become on the verge of…

I thank the gentleman, Mr. Chairman, for bringing this issue to full debate here on the floor, and this colloquy. I agree that that is a correct interpretation of the law, and commend the gentleman for bringing the issue as far as it has…

I must reiterate something that the gentleman from Colorado had begun to articulate. The support enforcement communities around the Nation, New York, California, Virginia and others, have stated that they are in full support of what we are…

I was glad I served, and I am happy that I did my duty. But it paled in comparison to those sacrifices made by the likes of Sam Johnson and John McCain.