My point was that contrary to the argument that the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) made that the purpose of this research is strictly for the exploitation and destruction of human life is wrong, this is about hope. This is about…

The gentleman proposes in his response to my question that women of America are going to line up for dollars so they can be superovulated, and it is the most ridiculous and disrespectful attitude towards women I can imagine. To think that…

Reclaiming my time once again, I am not sure, with all due respect, that my friend from New Jersey understands this process. You cannot, you cannot, you cannot take one cloned entity and multiply it. You have to go back and get another…

I want to quickly make observations about two contradictions that I think my friend from Florida made. Number one, he said that our substitute cannot be enforced. That does not make any sense. If we can enforce the Weldon law, we can…

Mr. Chairman, it has been a good debate so far. It was a good debate last year. This is about ethical and moral issues. The proponents of the gentleman from Florida's (Mr. Weldon) bill have argued the ethical and moral issues against…

more than 200 years ago, the first President of the United States addressed the Nation's first Congress with these prophetic words, ``the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the Republican model of government are…

Today, we consider in the House under suspension H.R. 3580, a bill that I originally introduced with Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, but has become so much more. Thanks to a cooperative and bi-partisan approach, this bill has now become a…

the previous speaker and most of the opponents of this bill have acknowledged that we have a crisis, a crisis that has to be resolved, and unfortunately, they have not articulated an alternative to our proposal, only their criticisms of…

this motion to recommit is, I fear, a wolf in sheep's clothing. The fact of the matter is while it purports to be a small carve-out for the Patient Bill of Rights as they apply to HMOs, the fact of the matter is it would insulate and take…

America's place in the world, our leadership place in the world, is derived in many respects from the character of our people. It is derived in large measure from the nature and the beauty of our Constitution; but it is also derived in no…

it is fitting that this new hour follows that last 5-minute presentation which was a perfectly classic example of partisan rhetoric aimed more to gain political favor than to shed light on an issue. What we are going to do for the next…

We cannot, we cannot get the reforms that are required to protect the investor in this country until we lance the boil. We have to pick the scab. We have to open the wound, look at it, allow it to be seen by the American people, to show…

Today, children are born all over this country to mothers who have substance abuse problems. Their mothers are alcoholic or their mothers are drug addicts. These babies are born in hospitals, they are frequently underweight, they are…

I oppose the Ney substitute because I believe it and the amendment thereto to follow will kill our crusade against soft money, and our crusade against soft money has to win if our democracy is to prevail. There are those who say that soft…

Mr. Speaker, this bill, as has been mentioned by the chairman, passed just about a month ago by the overwhelming margin of 338 to 86 in this House and, in fact, it passed in the Senate unanimously. So today we pass the Senate version of…

I represent Bucks County in Pennsylvania, and we lost far more than our share of citizens on September 11. We lost at least 12, and I want to talk about a couple of them, if I have time. It was a rain-soaked day not too long ago when we…

It is about children. That is why it is called the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act. In the history of medicine in America, we could never figure out a way to get the drug companies to do studies on children, delicate children…

I wanted to just briefly reflect on what the advances that we have made in breast cancer have meant to our family. My older sister, Alice, has just been through all of this. She went through the screening. She learned she had a lump. She…

on September 11 when America was attacked, nearly every American had the same response and that was that we needed to immediately defend our people and defend our Nation against this evil, and the Congress, including this House…

Mr. Speaker, we are at a time of national crisis; and, ultimately, our success will depend partly upon our superiority when it comes to technology and to our military equipment. Ultimately, our success over the coming months and years and…

Mr. Speaker, President Kennedy once observed that there were two moments that the children of his generation would never forget, the day Pearl Harbor was attacked and the day that Franklin Roosevelt died. Now it can be said that the two…

In my State of Pennsylvania, it was not very long ago that when I looked at the medical community I saw a group of folks doing pretty well. They seemed to have a nice income. They seemed to be enjoying their profession. They seemed to be…

This is not a question about who has values and who stands for human life and who does not. It is a very legitimate and important and historic debate about how it is that we are able to use the DNA that God put into our own bodies, use the…

We all, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Weldon) and I, and all of the speakers we will hear from today, all believe that it is not safe and it is not ethical to create a new human being through cloning. We need to ban that. What we do not…

Dr. Okarma, who testified at our hearings, spoke of how they have taken mice who had damaged hearts, they used somatic cell nuclear transfer to take the cells of the mice, turn them into pluripotent stem cells, and then into heart cells…