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.

I thank my neighbor and colleague from Pennsylvania for yielding this time to me, and I congratulate him on bringing this issue to the floor. It is an important issue. And if we accomplish nothing more during this debate than to notify the…

The current bill, H.R. 764, the Bankruptcy Amendments of 1997, consists primarily of technical corrections which are intended to clarify original intent, correct drafting defects, and improve grammar and cross-references in the Bankruptcy…

Mr. Speaker, this is a momentous piece of legislation. I hope the Speaker pays close attention to the content of our presentation. This bill is sponsored by myself and the gentleman from New York [Mr. Nadler], and there is no controversy…

Yes, it does. It brings the Congress into full acknowledgment of what is happening in the local communities. If there is additional reporting required by the Burton amendment, which in fact there is additional reporting, then we are all…

Mr. Chairman, the thrust of this amendment is to bring more accountability, and I stress that word, accountability, to the Members of Congress, and therefore to the American people, of the workings of the Legal Services entities in the…

For a decade now, I have been proposing legislation that when such an event occurs, and it has occurred too often without new appropriations taking their place, a new budget in place, a Government shutdown is in the foreseeable future. The…

In 1986 many of us voted against the then tax reform bill because it swept away, with one bill, capital gains and some other attractive features of that code. One of them has been restored in this bill, and it makes my farmers and other…

everyone is pleased that the budget agreement has been reached between the White House and the Congress, and that does call for applause across the Nation, but there still looms the possibility of a shutdown in Government, I hasten to say…

it is no secret by now to most of the Members of the House that for some 8 years I have been introducing legislation on a regular basis, appearing in many different forums, presenting myself and the proposition in front of the Committee on…

Fort Indiantown Gap, in Pennsylvania, has an ongoing academic complex program whereby about 4,000 soldiers are trained and educated every year in every aspect of our military defense. There is an authorization that ends on September 30 for…

Had the President signed this bill, the aid which the gentleman who just appeared in the well wanted to see flow back to his region would have started. We would have had 3 days of moneys out of this bill flowing already into the distressed…

on the same weekend that four Presidents met in Philadelphia to call the country to voluntarism, on that same weekend, I attended three, I think it was four Little League opening games for the season. During those proceedings, there were…

if we were to take a poll of the American people on the question, should the Government of the United States ever be allowed to shut down, everyone knows that the overwhelming answer would be no, of course not. Perhaps a 98-percent return…

Before us now is legislation that would prevent a government shutdown during the current fiscal year. It is really a test of our wills as to whether or not we will be adopting this proposition. We know what a shutdown can do to our people…

I am astounded at the gentleman from Massachusetts. He deplores the fact that if we, in this continuing resolution, make sure that last year's programs would be funded at 100 percent, that the veterans, Head Start, and other programs will…

in the fall of 1990, while our fellow young Americans were being amassed in the deserts of Saudi Arabia, musket in hand, prepared to do battle when Desert Storm was about to erupt, the Government of the United States shut down. I ask the…

the support for the Gekas shutdown prevention amendment is growing every minute. It is a simple proposition, one that says that if at the end of a budget period no budget has been negotiated, then there will be an instant replay of last…

today I have introduced a special piece of legislation that goes to the heart of campaign finance reform about which we hear so much. How many will recall that during the election and immediately following there were revelations of moneys…

the budget negotiations, by some accounts, are not getting very close to agreement. This brings up again, and I say again advisedly, the prospect of a shutdown of Government. It is not too early to start thinking about that, even though we…

I simply want to state that with regard to the recent retreat at Hershey, two things: First, while my colleagues were enjoying a retreat, I was on a work weekend. That was my district, and my schedule called for me to meet a group of…

The most noteworthy part of the celebration in which Americans of Greek descent yearly participate has to do, in my judgment, with the historical partnership of the American democracy and the way our country, the United States, gained its…

I feel offended. There is certain blame being cast here that I wish we could rebut at this time. I am offended.

When I came to the Congress in 1983, I learned very quickly that this Congress, the Congress of the United States, then and now, is very faulty in meeting its budgetary deadlines. September 30 comes and the next fiscal year begins the next…

today I will be reintroducing a measure, which I have in every one of the last five sessions introduced at the very early part of the session. It has a simple premise, yet it is in the best interests of the search for better government…