we say that we are happy with the crafting by the Committee on Rules of the procedure by which this debate will go forward. We should all be happy with it because it reflects in a grand way the bipartisan manner in which this entire issue…

I rise somberly to remember and commemorate the tragedy of the Armenian Genocide. During the final years of the Ottoman Empire, from 1915-1923, 1.5 million Armenians had been massacred and 500,000 more were forcibly removed from their…

I want the last two speakers to know that I am grateful for their emphasis on fiscal responsibility and to let them know how refreshing it is to hear Members of the other side of the aisle concentrate on reduction of debt, budget…

I rise today to applaud the passage of H.R. 221, legislation which will permit a unique culture to continue practicing traditions vital to its way of life. This bill changes current law so that Amish teenagers may continue work in…

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

a loud lament has been heard about some deprivation of the right to vote one's conscience. But that is exactly why we are here today. All of us in the ultimate must vote the ultimate sense of conscience. That is what this process is all…

I join my colleagues in full support of the resolution at hand. I not only support the troops in all of their endeavors but I support the decision of the President to take this action. There are those, some puzzling developments that I…

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…

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, this particular piece of legislation is mandated, actually, by the Constitution. The Constitution says that when two States arrive at some kind of arrangement between the two that arises to the level of a compact, a binding…

Mr. Speaker, last August 7, as everyone will recall, our Nation was shaken by the news that our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed and hundreds of natives and American diplomats as well were killed. As tragic as that is, and it…

do-nothing indeed. Members forget that just about a month ago the President of the United States signed into law a little recognized bill that we had been working on for about 2 or 3 years, the Bio Materials Access bill. This provides a…

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…

Throughout a full year now, as the Speaker knows, we have been considering bankruptcy reform. And as it turned out, the House, in a bipartisan vote, overwhelmingly approved bankruptcy reform twice, both in the original bill and in the…

Madam Speaker, this is an important time in the 3-year saga that has preceded the moment at hand. That is, for 3 years we have been attempting, in one way or another, to fine-tune the bankruptcy system, and, moreover, in the latter stages…

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.

Much of what was in the original McCollum-Boucher bill and then later the McCollum-Gekas-Boucher-whatever bill, 3150, is in this report. The most important portion of it is the needs-based test. Granted, we have adopted a certain…

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…

the simple gesture of raising one's hand accompanied by an oath to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, this gesture takes place hundreds of times a day in every courthouse in the land. It is preceded by an oath that…

It is obvious to me that the gentleman from New York, if I could have his attention, does not have much faith in the free enterprise system. He keeps insisting that, even with strong competition in the banking industry, that somehow they…

Because that has to do with the whole competitive system of banks and credit cards and nothing really to do with the debate that brought about bankruptcy reform which is contained in 3150. This was added at the last moment. But, in…

We maintain that if we do not reform the bankruptcy bill, every consumer in the United States is faced with higher consumer costs, higher interest rates, higher cost of goods at the supermarket, let alone at the credit market. Now, what…

Mr. Speaker, now we hear that the HMOs gouge and the banks gouge. I suppose lawyers and doctors and dentists gouge, and the mom-and-pop grocery store gouges and everybody else gouges. Maybe the gouges are in the free market so people can…

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.

the issue of hostile takeovers has risen in resonance over the last several years whereby one company seeks, by methods that are sometimes not clear to everyone, to take over another entity. In our own district in Pennsylvania, Amp…