when I began my remarks, I mentioned that 1965 is when Medicare was begun, and as we look back 35 years, it is hard to imagine now a time when seniors did not have Medicare, when they did not have a guarantee of health care, just as it was…

Mr. Speaker, the issue of how we finance our campaigns overshadows and undermines every other issue we debate in this Capitol. It distorts our policy with regard to the national defense of our Nation, it distorts and skews our policy with…

I think it is constructive that earlier this afternoon the Pennsylvania delegation met with Governor Ridge, a former member here. The first question that our Governor asked is, When are you going to move this Ed-Flex bill? We absolutely…

let me begin by saying that it is the wisdom of the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Chairman Goodling) that has brought us to this point. I remember 2 years ago on the floor of the House I came up to the gentleman and said, if we could do one…

I made a commitment to myself and my colleagues, an unusual one, and that is to come to this debate with my mind still available to persuasion. I am one of the last few holdouts undecided in this debate, and it needs to be said that not…

Mr. Chairman, this is a virtual reality debate as we know. This bill is not going to go anywhere. This is a debate that should have occurred months ago, and the opponents of free debate on the floor held us up for months, but now we will…

I rise to oppose the bill, and I do so filled with regret, because the gentleman from Utah is a gentleman. He is a friend. He called me a couple of weeks ago and asked me if I would help him negotiate this bill, and the reason he called me…

I also rise to support the Child On-line Protection Act. In the Greenwood house, we have a small room. It is the playroom. And as my two little daughters, Laura and Katy, have grown up, it has been kind of fun to watch the transition of…

I rise today to support S. 2073, as amended. More than a year ago this House overwhelmingly passed H.R. 3 and H.R. 1818. H.R. 3, the Juvenile Crime Control Act of 1997, sponsored by Congressman Bill McCollum, focused on the punishment of…

Throughout this debate the opponents of Shays-Meehan have tried to argue that our limitation on soft money is breaking new ground. It is not. I believe it was in 1912 that Congress decided to eliminate corporate and labor union money from…

it may be the candidates do not know where the money came from, but it is certainly the case that when the XYZ Corporation gives a huge sum of money to the Democratic or the Republican Party, Members of Congress in the House and the Senate…

Mr. Chairman, it has been my experience in the 6 years that I have served in this House that there is not a Member of the House of Representatives who is more courteous, who is more respectful of his colleagues, who is more polite than the…

I learned an awful lot. One of the things that I learned is that we are approaching what I think will be a golden age of medicine. We are making such incredible breakthroughs right now in biotechnology and genetic engineering, in…

I have to begin by saying that my heart is with, in many ways, the makers of this amendment. My heart is with the gentleman from Oklahoma and the gentleman from Illinois, because I understand what they want to do. They want to protect our…

We have heard the rhetoric once again. Members of Congress sitting here, standing here in the Capitol of the United States talking about this issue. On the other side of this amendment, mostly men, but this is not the real world. What…

the juvenile judges of the juvenile courts in this country face a wide variety of young people. Sometimes brought before them are teenagers who already, because of the brutality of their upbringing, the deprivation of their upbringing, are…

I am suggesting that public policy can make us all hypocrites. The point is that without these funds, the consequences are real. The consequences are 1,600 women dying every day because their pregnancies are too closely spaced together…

if it seems we just had this debate, it is because we just had this debate. On February 13, this House by a vote of 220 to 209 decided to release these international family planning funds. We did so, 44 Republicans, 175 Democrats, and one…

Mr. Chairman, what is this all about? The base bill does the right thing. The base bill holds true to America's commitment to population control. This is the history of population growth on planet Earth. We can say that in the second half…

I oppose the Owens amendment, as I did when this amendment was raised in our committee, and I do it in all due respect to the gentleman who offers it. But I consider this proposal to be insulting, patronizing, and discriminating to young…

If the other Members of the body are like myself, they are receiving calls from their constituents who are regrettably very confused about this issue. They are calling and saying, do not vote for the President's resolution because it…

Mr. Chairman, the Rockefeller Foundation recently published this report. It is called High Stakes: The United States Global Population and Our Common Future. It is important that we consider what the stakes are in this debate because the…

H.R. 3863, the Student Debt Reduction Act of 1996, will allow students to receive lower-cost unsubsidized student loans by permitting lenders in the Federal Family Education Loan Program to waive or reduce origination fees. The savings to…

Mr. Chairman, imagine three children. The first child is the child we would all like to raise. The child abstains from sexual behavior long beyond their minority status. The second child makes a mistake and becomes involved sexually and…

I thank the gentleman. What I would like those Americans who are listening to us and watching us on C-Span tonight to think about is to imagine that their mother or father, their elderly parent, lies in a bed in a hospital, with a…