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…

to all who are within the sound of our voice this morning, I want to express my appreciation to a number of people for the moment that we are about to embrace here on the floor of the House. Very shortly now we will be considering a…

Today we consider a truly significant piece of legislation within the world of the courts, and particularly the bankruptcy courts. This bill, the one before us now, has been jointly cosponsored by the gentleman from Virginia (Mr…

This is an amendment that simply states that when a political party, for instance, discovers all of a sudden that it has in its hands let us say $100,000 which it knows has an illegal source, my amendment would compel that organization to…

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.

I thank the gentlewoman not just for yielding this time to me, but for the continuous effort that she has expended in promoting the final moments which we are enjoying of the passage of this bill. As the gentlewoman knows, some 7 million…

Mr. Speaker, I urge support for this piece of legislation. Everyone in the world knows that the Internet is a magic system that impacts upon every life on the planet in one way or another. The simple transfer of information in so many…

Mr. Chairman, the fullest expectation we have for H.R. 3150 is that in the long run, the provisions that we are going to put into the law will reduce the increase for sure of filings for bankruptcy, and with great luck, with the economy…

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 have been amused by listening to the litany of criticisms about how we rushed through it. Comparisons were made about what happened with the 1978 bill that finally became law. Prior to 1978, the opposition is pleased to say, they had 5…

H.R. 3150 is one of the most comprehensive legislative efforts to reform bankruptcy law and practice in the 20 years since the enactment of the Bankruptcy Code in 1978. The guiding principle of these reforms has been to restore personal…

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…

Mr. Chairman, in this particular case the gentleman from New York (Mr. Nadler) full well knows that the recommendations of the bankruptcy commission, which worked 2 years on just this kind of provision, made certain recommendations in…

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.

Mr. Chairman, I rise in friendly opposition to the amendment because down deep I agree with the gentleman's contentions about the tax structure and the relevant priorities that we have for too long imposed upon the American public with…

Let me reiterate, the intent and purpose of the Shaw amendment is of the highest import, because we have attempted in different ways to parallel that intent in language that we have already incorporated either in the basic bill or in…

I repeat my request to Members to reject the Nadler substitute and to later support the bill. When the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Delahunt) was speaking, he was decrying the fact that there was no data available on which we could…

very soon now the Chamber will be witnessing the great debate possibly of this year, namely, that which will be conducted on proposals for bankruptcy reform. Everyone in the country knows that a strange thing is occurring out in the…

this special order is centered around our effort to double the appropriations, to double the funding, as it were, of the National Institutes of Health over the next 5 years. I have for a long time appreciated the special efforts made by…

Mr. Speaker, the target of all this and the absolute goal of this special order is to convince the Committee on the Budget that it ought to respond to the resolution that we offered about doubling the funding for the National Institutes of…

when I served in the Armed Forces, I was stationed for a while in Puerto Rico. I was eager to learn Spanish so that I could communicate with the people of Puerto Rico. So I walked into a restaurant, after studying my Spanish to an n'th…

This is the time that is now set for a full debate on the merits of the legislation that is before us which would for the first time make it a part of our law that administrative agencies who have established policies and who establish…

very shortly now we will be engaged in one of the most serious debates of the forthcoming remainder of the session, and that is on bankruptcy reform. I see that the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Moran) is in the well here with me. He is one…