soon after the tragic attacks on our institutions on September 11, as everyone knows, our economy began to sink, to plummet to depths that we could not have foreseen. While we were struggling to right our ship, as it were, the OPEC nations…

I say to the Speaker and to the Members that the ghost of Mohamad Atta has attacked our Nation. Following the real Mohamad Atta and his crash into the World Trade Center, his ghost, like ashes left at Ground Zero, has arisen and entered…

Mr. Speaker, the one important feature of this legislation which I support and which makes it stand out from all of the other provisions is that which has to do with tightening up on those who have overstayed their visas. As we know, many…

the inclusion of the extension of unemployment compensation benefits in this bill, of course, is the core, and it is a pretty good outcome for our unemployed. I would have added one feature to it which I presented to the Committee on Rules…

Had we had an opportunity to try to amend this bill that this rule provides for, I would have offered an amendment to lift the income tax on the unemployment compensation that many people have been receiving and, nevertheless, have to pay…

Yesterday, I introduced a piece of legislation that would have the result of eliminating income taxes on unemployment compensation benefits. Since 1986 that had been a part of the tax structure of our country, that even those who have lost…

I rise today to enter into the Congressional Record remembrances of three individuals who passed away in the last few months. First, I want to recall the life of Ted Vollrath. Ted Vollrath was a Korean veteran who, because of the battles…

Hershey, Pennsylvania, of course, is known throughout the world as the chocolate capital of the world, but there is another institution in Hershey which also is well known and well accepted in the larger community. That is the Penn State…

I must place into the Record my concern that the entire process did not go far enough with respect to election reform, and that has to do with the rampant number of complaints that every Member has received about the failings of the motor…

I have a peculiar and unique interest in William Penn, in that after completion of junior high school, the high school I entered was aptly named for these proceedings, William Penn High School. It was then that I first learned of the life…

soon after the tragic events of September 11, I went down to the Pentagon so that I could witness firsthand the destruction that was visited upon that spectacular building. As I made my way through the security lines and came to the…

Mr. Speaker, this issue comes before us at a very appropriate time. It was about 2 days ago, maybe 3 days ago now considering the time is after midnight, authority ran out for our government, through the Attorney General, to be able to…

It unifies our soldiers in the midst of battle and provides the direction and morale they need to protect our freedom. It unifies our citizens in times of trouble and gives us reason to reflect on and celebrate our freedom. It is our…

The current bill contains a provision in which the result is a reallocation of certain funds that were appropriated for what is called Corridor One in central Pennsylvania, a very vital item in the revitalization of mass transit…

My biggest fear that it might not pass is that it makes sense. The bill makes adequate, perfect common sense. That has always been a drawback to final successful passage of legislation as we have noted over the years. Why does it make…

Today, April 24, 2001, we solemnly mark the 76th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. On this day in 1915, three hundred Armenian leaders, writers, thinkers and professionals in Constantinople (present day Istanbul) were rounded up…

Mr. Chairman, the point is that the substitute wrecks bankruptcy reform. What I am trying to get across, and what I hope is the message to all the Members is that any amendments practically that would harm the basic reforms that we put…

to the Members we state and restate the two principal themes that, from the very beginning of this crusade to bring about bankruptcy reform, have remained the truths of the entire debate. Number one, in bankruptcy those who become so…

what is missing from all of this discussion is the fact that all of us, every American, is interested in environmental quality. We do not want anything but clean air and clean water and a good area in which to live. But we are in a state…

we are not adverse to developing a plan of tax incentives to give our fellow Americans, the entrepreneurs, the incentive to go ahead and drill where they might fail; but we ought to give them that incentive to do so and to otherwise bring…

home heating oil prices are rising steadily. An immensely cold winter is predicted to come to us in the next several days. Natural gas is becoming scarce. And out in the West we learn that in California there are warnings out to not light…

I have not been able to predict exactly what would happen. It seems to me that we ought to start a course on energy independence and go to it without respect to what OPEC does. All I am saying is we will have an extra dividend to lower…

It is on the creditor, and that really conforms to the general state of the law in such cases. There has to be affirmative evidence of fraud having been committed so that the creditor must come forth.

No. After 2 years, the person under our provisions and under the intent and under the law generally, after 2 years that individual is a true Texan for all purposes of residency and lives under the homestead exemption laws of your State.

In the hypotheticals that the gentleman pronounced, it would come under State law. The only time that there is a look-back is the initial 2 years of residency in a homestead-exemption State. So 2 years, and thereafter the State laws would…