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…

Prior to the adoption of the Stenholm amendment, the Barton amendment in the nature of a substitute was narrowly rejected by the Committee of the Whole, 213 to 215. But because the votes of the Delegates were decisive, the amendment was…

I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time. In the explanation just given by the gentlewoman from Hawaii, you have heard precisely, precisely the difference between the two budgets you have before you today. The gentlewoman from…

One of those budgets, the Democrat budget, expands Government. It does so in their claim to do the country good. We believe that there is another way of doing the country good, and that is to offer a plan for reform and a plan that helps…

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?

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…

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.

Mr. Chairman, this has been a very emotional debate. I am sorry for some of what has been said, because a few minutes ago, as I was watching the debate, I heard one of our colleagues come to the floor and utter some despicable racial slurs…

Mr. Chairman, this has been a very emotional debate. I am sorry for some of what has been said, because a few minutes ago, as I was watching the debate, I heard one of our colleagues come to the floor and utter some despicable racial slurs…

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.

I want to commend him for the courage he has shown in coming to the House floor with this resolution. He has had lined up against him committee chairmen, majority leaders, all kinds of folks who do not want him to proceed ahead. I think…

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…

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.

when the President outlines the priorities for the country, you would think that his administration might follow them in the budget, and yet that did not happen. When you look at the administration's budget, it somehow missed the…

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…

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…