Robert Walker

I thank the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Emerson]. He helps make my point, because it is extremely important to recognize that if someone out in the country would have a complaint of regulatory problems, the Administrator under this…

The fact is the Department of Agriculture and NIH opted out of the licensing procedure at NTIS. The technologies available are still at NTIS. You can still find out what the technologies are that can be transferred to you through NTIS…

The problem is, there is some concern about the process here, because there was an attempt to assure that the minority, I think, was included, but when my objections arose on my behalf, and I think the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr…

The gentleman makes an important point. It is my understanding, for instance, that the chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce sent a letter to the Committee on Rules specifically asking that the germaneness waiver not be granted…

I must say, Ms. Norton, it looks like we have agreement that welfare has done harm, more harm than good, listening to the opponents to the proposition. Maybe we ought to get down into the details. I do not know where you all get your…

So the gentleman is telling me that the newspaper story here is wrong, that the Speaker was not saying when he said, ``a concession, that he was not making, a concession that hearings are going to take place.'' He is saying that that is a…

No, we were going to have those hearings, and then he also promised comprehensive hearings on Whitewater would be held.

I know of a number of our colleagues who have literally hung around for days waiting for their amendments to come up. It seems to me that by placing a limitation on five amendments, we could reach a time where a couple of those amendments…

So middle-income America is actually going to get some tax relief that they do not now have, and they are going to get these reforms. And they are going to get lower budget deficits out of our budget, and the Democrats do not have any of…

So if I understand this, we have lower deficits than the President. We have more in the way of reform than the President's budget, and we do not raise taxes at all.

So the Republican budget has health care reform that the President does not have. It has crime reform that the President does not have. It has welfare reform that the President does not have. It has tax relief that the President does not…

I assume what we do then in our budget is we probably have to raise taxes in order to do this.

But the President came up here and told us about that. What about crime? The President has said that the crime bill is a major priority. Surely they have included the crime bill?

This is the year you would think they would come back with that. You mean that the President has reneged on the promise to the American people on tax relief for middle income families in this budget as well?

What about welfare reform? Surely that is in the budget. The President has talked so much about welfare reform.

But it is somewhat surprising that the Democrats who have always been willing to investigate scandal are now unwilling to investigate scandal in the House committees. It seems to me the Democratic leadership is developing what I would call…

Well, you asked the question, and I am giving you the answer. That was a Republican who sponsored it. It was a Republican who brought it on the floor.

The Republican Party has on the table a welfare reform plan. The Democrats, after 40 years of controlling the Congress, do not even have plans to develop a welfare reform plan. Only the Republicans have put forward a real welfare reform…

I want to reflect on the fact that the one amendment that they did make in order changes the date in the bill from 1993 to 1994. They made that amendment in order. They found ways to do that. But they could not allow legitimate amendments…

I mean if the documents are not being shredded at the Rose law firm, where are they and why can they not be made public? Of course, they cannot be made public because the President refuses to allow them to be made public. Mr. Speaker, one…

And so this is a matter that a ``no'' vote really means that you are willing to allow this matter to be buried, never to come before the House, and that you are willing to accept the fact that a guilty plea with regard to embezzlement and…

If this resolution is brought to a vote, those who vote ``yes'' will be voting to investigate and to report. I suspect that there are going to be a lot of ``no'' votes on the resolution. I wonder if the gentleman would care to speculate…

I think that is useful. But, you know, really what we are doing with this resolution if it would pass would be to ask as a House for our ethics committee to investigate these charges.

And the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Gonzalez] has never hesitated to hold hearings despite the fact that his leadership did not particularly agree with him. So, I mean I can take him at his word that, if he says there are going to be…