It seems to me that what Congress ought to be pushing the administration to focus on in our efforts to create liberty is to create the institutions of liberty first. We cannot have a democratic system in Iraq if they do not have the…

due to the bravery and the magnificent performance of American troops, our Armed Forces will soon win a resounding victory over Saddam Hussein, disarming him and eliminating the threat of his regime. Now that we are on the verge of winning…

I offer an amendment today, and I will not ask for a vote, that will increase the amount of money that we are providing to peacekeeping in this supplemental bill to an additional $68 million, and we would take that money from the Colombia…

I have the sad task of informing my colleagues that my predecessor, Gus Yatron, passed away unexpectedly early this morning. Gus Yatron dedicated his entire life to public service, first serving as a school director for the Reading School…

I rise this evening to state that unilateral military action by the United States against Iraq at this time is not in our best national interest. Certainly Saddam Hussein must be disarmed and Iraq must be rid of weapons of mass…

Mr. Speaker, we face a toxic mix in Iraq: dangerous weapons controlled by a dangerous tyrant. From the beginning of this national debate, I have felt strongly that we must act through the United Nations, in concert with our allies, and…

The doctors in my district in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and all in the Philadelphia area, face a financial crisis, the same as many doctors around the country, as we have heard here today. This bill will not solve their crisis. This…

this amendment would add $5 million to the grazing management account of the forest service from the general account of the forest service. Mr. Chairman, the bill before us would allow the forest service to automatically renew expiring…

I simply want to say, what kind of advice is that? How can anybody say, ``avoid wearing visible signs of your faith,'' as if that is the way to deal with the hatred that is being directed against Jews in Germany and across Europe? The way…

I would like to first off rise in support of the Oberstar amendment, which I think is a very wise legislative proposal to protect these dollars against being used retroactively; and after an agreement has been reached and a deal struck, a…

once again the GOP leadership in the House has taken a necessary bipartisan effort to fund our war on terror and bolster our homeland security, and riddled it with partisan budgetary maneuvers including a thinly veiled provision that would…

the original bill, the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act, urged the creation of a coordinator at the Department of State for aid to Afghanistan and mandated that this coordinator be appointed with the advice and consent of the Senate. I am…

The violation of law and the agreement represented by these weapons really goes a long way towards showing the attitude of the Palestinians toward the agreement that they made and their intention for their future use in the Middle East…

if I could give the gentleman an individual example of that spirit of the Israelis, that willingness to remain positive and to maintain their humanity in the face of this horror, let me tell my colleagues about Gila Weiss, a former…

We face the reality of what to do now. There can be little doubt regarding the complicity of Arafat in the terror. He is continuing to call for martyrdom for the Palestinians, and in the lexicon of the Palestinians, one who is a martyr is…

What struck me as off-target with that statement was the notion that there is some kind of equivalence here between the behavior of the Palestinians and the behavior of the Israelis. Our colleague who said that, who is a fine Member of…

the gentleman is entirely correct, and it seems to me that we need to make clear that both the United States and the government of Israel need to have someone to talk to representing the Palestinians that clearly renounces violence, that…

the documents do indeed speak for themselves and leave one just no choice but to conclude that Yasser Arafat has directed terror, that he has in the past and he presently is, and the question is for this House, for this country what needs…

Can there be any question about what those payments are authorized for, what the purpose behind them is?

Well, the enormity of this, it is hard to appreciate unless you see the weapons. And the great variety, from brand-new modern weapons never used before seized from the Karin-A with an attempt to smuggle them in from Iran, to old battered…

Exactly right. That is a very good picture illustrating the point. What the Israelis seized were anti-tank missiles, rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, rockets, all in complete violation of the Oslo Accord. All there, as our friend, the…

I must say that I have never seen a more evil thing than the suicide bombing vest that we inspected as part of the seized weapons and munitions that the Palestinians have stored illegally in the West Bank. The vest that we inspected from a…

The people we met in Israel on the trip this past weekend all knew about the resolution that the House had passed the day before. It was a remarkable demonstration to me of how much our actions here in the House are followed by the…

Mr. Chairman, President Bush started with a balanced budget and budget surpluses as far as the eye could see, but today the GOP budget plan has squandered that surplus, and we will have to borrow $1 trillion from Social Security over the…

I rise in opposition to the Ney substitute, because it is clearly designed to send campaign reform to conference where it will die. I rise in full support of the Shays-Meehan underlying bill. It is time that we get soft money out of…