thanks to research done through the National Institutes of Health, the United States is the world leader in biomedical research. I wish to express my support for funding of the NIH in this Labor, Health & Human Services and Education…

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…

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…

I want to capsulize some of the arguments that have been made to the effect that this piece of legislation does not affect the rights of the States to impose or to deal with sales taxes. That is a truth that must be said, stated over and…

Mr. Chairman, in the 105th Congress, we passed a piece of legislation that led to this day. The purport of that Internet Tax Freedom legislation of that Congress denoted that a study would have to be performed in order to determine the…

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…

Every year the gentleman faithfully executes his special order for remembrance of March 25 and what it means to Americans of Greek descent. The recollections I have as a young person in attending the Greek Orthodox church in my community…

our Nation must again declare independence, this time from dependence on foreign oil, foreign energy. Why is this the case? Not just because our citizens are finding the prices increasing daily at the gas pump, not just because heating oil…

how long can we Americans tolerate the spectacle of our country groveling at the feet of OPEC countries and begging them to produce more oil, pleading with them to send us more oil, pleading with them to reduce the cost of gasoline at the…

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…

we ought to begin this presentation with proposing a toast, and perhaps we can raise our glasses to propose a toast to the health of the American people, because that is what this special order is all about, the health of the American…

Doubling funding for the National Institutes of Health over the next five years. Is this a reasonable goal? Can we and should we obtain this goal? What is the current budget situation for the NIH? The Congress has a history of doubling the…

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…

Every single investigation that the NIH conducts into a known disease, or an unknown disease for that matter, results in improvement in our body politic as far as the health of our citizens is concerned and helps preserve and protect our…

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 current state of bankruptcy is in a chaotic mess. One of the reasons is that an individual who wishes to file bankruptcy finds it very easy to do so. Very few standards are applied. The system needed tightening up. Everybody in the…

Mr. Chairman, we share, all of us, the reverence for the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) and the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers), two of the statesmen of our organization and to whom we look for decision-making on a broad spate of…

I ask the Members to vote no on the Nadler substitute. What it does in its provisions one by one is erase the progress that we have made already indicated by the votes taken in this Chamber. For instance, one of the main objects, targets…

It is amazing to me that we can be criticized for trying to bring into the bankruptcy world a sense of accountability, of discipline. What is wrong with asking an individual who approaches the bankruptcy court and says, I am in terrible…

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…

Mr. Chairman, the record should indicate right at the outset that the provisions that we have built into the current legislation having to do with small business have reached the highest possible approval by the advocate of the Small…

I wanted to add to the gentleman's sentiments, that who can be opposed to the idea that an individual who is contemplating bankruptcy should be given full disclosure on what entities or others out there who are ready to assist him or prod…

One thing that has rankled me in this whole debate from the beginning was the blitheness with which people who are opposed to the bankruptcy reform measure that we have produced criticize and bash and ridicule and attack the credit…

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…

Mr. Chairman, the lines of debate are fairly clear now. We have insisted all along that our bill is a balanced approach, contrary to what the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers) has implied, or is the implication or the inference gained…