I agreed to cosponsor this amendment with the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay) because I felt it was so important for us to send a message to the court system and to our judicial system that, when a person is sentenced, that person should…

Mr. Chairman, the fallacy I see in the argument that both gentlemen are making is that we have forced Saddam Hussein to back down. Our inspectors are doing their work, and at a critical stage in the inspection process where half of it is…

let me say what worries me about this whole procedure. We anticipated that this bill would come out of committee not offset. We expected to have some sort of a vote on the floor, where on the floor they could make a decision one way or the…

Mr. Chairman, let me stress the fact of why this supplemental is so important in the overall context of what we are talking about. The gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young), the chairman of the committee, said there is no amendment before the…

I do not mean to mislead the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations. I am not saying if they do not have the money. I am saying that they had no way of knowing what the supplemental was going to agree with. Until last week, all of us…

let me reiterate my concern about this piece of legislation. Normally, when we would come to the floor from the Committee on Appropriations, we would have pretty well fashioned legislation which we knew was very close to something that the…

here is the problem that I see as we go forward with this process. Normally, when we pass a bill, we have a good idea that we will be able to continue the process in the Senate. It is not so late in the year, and if it is, we will pass a…

it's been a great honor for me to work with Congressman Dellums over the past twenty three years since I came to Congress. By the time I arrived, in 1974, Congressman Dellums was already an experienced Member of Congress and a member of…

let me join the Members with their concern about what the Assistant Secretary said, but let me also say I just talked to her, and she says that she was taken completely out of context. I think we should give her an opportunity to appear…

She says that she was not the one that made the comment about the uniform. She says absolutely it was the woman who was on the panel, and she did not say one word about the uniform. That is what I am saying, there was some confusion. That…

the gentlewoman came to us with this amendment today. We talked to the staff and we know there has been an injustice here. If the gentlewoman will withdraw her amendment, we will do everything we can to work this thing out in conference.

we will work out something that will force the Defense Department to adhere to what we suggested last year and what the gentlewoman is suggesting here. They should come up with figures which are reasonable. We will certainly try to work…

let me just state to the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Stearns], President Bush did not ask for authorization. As a matter of fact, he did not think he needed authorization. The Congress forced that on the President.

as most Members know, I have been involved in this issue for the entire length of time that the United States became aware of what was going on in Bosnia, and I realize there is an amazing difference between all of us about when troops…

the House was wise to prohibit yesterday's recommendation of the Rules Committee which was to consider the Gilman amendment setting a date--certain for withdrawing United States ground troops from Bosnia. I sympathize with those who demand…

Joe McDade has been under investigation for 6 years; under indictment for 2 years; he has been hurt emotionally, physically, and they were challenging the rights of the House during all this period of time. Mr. Speaker, it really is a win…

I know the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Young] and I have looked at this. This is, I think, an important safeguard that is necessary. It may need to be cleaned up, but I certainly have no problem with it.

I have been in the forefront of health care all these years. I do not think anybody has done any more than I have for the military health care.

what I am doing here is trying to make sure that in extreme, rare circumstances the President could waive the rules or waive the law so that a journalist in acts of terrorism or something like that would be able to allow a journalist to be…

I will tell you the concern I have about this amendment. If you remember, the subcommittee on defense, as it was called then, is the one that funded this initially. This was not funded or authorized; they asked us to fund it in a…

I do think that we did the best we could do on this bill. Let me say to the pro-life people, I resisted tremendous pressure from the Democratic side several years ago to put language in the bill which would have allowed abortions overseas…

Mr. Speaker, let me make a couple of points that I think are important. The chairman of the Committee on Appropriations made the recommendation in the subcommittee that we eliminate the language on Bosnia. He felt it was very important…

the problem, as I see it, is, we had over 2000 suggestions and recommendations to the bill. Obviously, we had to make a judgment on each of those recommendations as we went through the bill. Certainly, it would be a problem because as it…

I think we have gotten the message across to the White House. I think the compromise we have made on this issue they recognize, and I think the Congress will have a very important role. The fact they are meeting right now to consult with…

Mr. Speaker, let me just compliment the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Young] for working his way through a very, very difficult bill. As the gentleman mentioned, we had 1,700 areas of disagreement. Some of the major areas of disagreement…