I want to rise now to add to their names one other hero who has been mentioned here today, John Heinz, after whom one of the facilities contained in this bill will be named. John Heinz at the very moment of his death was literally killed…

A watercraft is a buoyant craft operated by a person in the water--as an aircraft is an airborne craft operated by a person in the air or in the act of taking off or landing. As I have said, our intent is to protect the public from…

So my amendment, Mr. Chairman, which I understand both the minority and the majority have agreed to incorporate into the legislation, simply follows through with the Secretary of Commerce's recommendations to have a biagency task force…

I am wondering, too, whether or not we ought to be conducting a review of NEXRAD and how it has worked in its brief lifetime, because many of these problems were foreseen at the time that the reorganization was instituted, and now it is…

on the issue of the minimum wage, I stand with the President of the United States. I support his concept enunciated in 1996 and when this election cycle began to bring additional earning power, as he saw it, to the minimum wage community…

Mr. Speaker, for me this vote is one of keeping faith with the constituents and voters who sent me here to Washington in the first place. In 1993 I voted against the imposition of the increased gas tax. That was unconscionable then. It…

I rise to commend the coalition budget in one decent respect in which we must all agree at one point or another, and that is the increased funding for the health component of Government spending. As a stalwart supporter of the National…

Mr. Speaker, the budget resolution that is before us today does contain language that would preserve the funding for NIH. That is very important to every Member of the Congress and, really, to every citizen in our country because of the…

When the President vetoed this product liability bill, Mr. Speaker, he also vetoed heart transplants, brain shunts, medical devices for replacement of knees, of hips, of shoulders, 100 different types of medical devices that are lifesaving…

Whether or not the Brooke amendment of the past will obtain for the future depends on what we do here today. There is a resource that we have back at home that we ought to take advantage of in making up our minds as to how to finally vote…

We as a society, and the Congress as a microcosm of that society, have very few tools at our disposal with which to fight crime except the power of making laws which could be very significant. I believe that the current crime statistics…

I said I was going to search the Record to determine if any similar speeches were made by his colleagues on his side. Do you understand? To see whether or not eloquent speeches of that type were made in favor of a minimum wage. But they…

the gentleman from Texas, who just addressed the House most eloquently, showed his powerful advocacy for a minimum wage. This gentleman, I am sure if I search the Congressional Record, when he was in the majority just 2 years ago, along…

I am today introducing the Regulatory Fair Warning Act, which would require the agencies to provide reasonable notice ahead of time of the change of a regulation or how it is to be enforced so that the small businessman, the employer, can…

the debate has centered on the most important feature of this bill, in my judgment, and that is the habeas corpus provisions. It took us a generation to convince the people on the left that we ought to have a workable, reassurable…

Mr. Chairman, by passing this legislation, we will be moving smartly from fuel tax fudging to truth in budgeting. How many of the Members would dare to stand at their gas pump and to tell each one of your constituents after you shake his…

I stand here today to plead for a special interest... to release a little bit of the raw material suppliers from that type of massive liability that makes no sense, that keeps them from supplying these raw materials to the manufacturers of…

Does the gentleman consider a person who is waiting for a heart transplant a consumer that ought to be protected and should have the benefit of a heart transplant and should have laws in place that will facilitate the flow of materials to…

The American farmer and the owner of a small business will be, at the end of this day, applauding the action of the Congress of the United States. For too long they have suffered the indignity of the Federal regulator, the agency head, who…

Mr. Speaker, when I first ran for the Congress many years ago, I ran on a platform that included 10 separate items, much like the Contract With America. One of them, much like the Contract With America, was to advance the cause of…

the vicious, vindictive veto looms over the American people once again, this time threatening the lives and health of 8 million Americans who right at this moment, because of their health problems, have medical devices in their bodies…

This is a very dramatic moment in the history of Vermont and New Hampshire, and I am proud to take the floor to participate in this historic time. Mr. Speaker, as everyone knows or should know, the Constitution itself provides for…

I come to this debate with a tremendous prejudice which is born of the fact that I am a son of immigrants and the cousin of immigrants and the nephew of immigrants and distant relative to many immigrants. One would believe at the outset…

support of the Conyers-Nadler-Berman amendment is opposition to the imposition of the death penalty in cases of terrorism. The World Trade Center fiasco that took so many lives and cost so much money and created so much havoc would be…

I take it the gentleman believes the death penalty is a proper circumstance with which a jury should grapple in a terrorism case. Is that correct?