this amendment would take $950,000 from the Treasury Inspector General's account for tax administration and would move that sum over to the Customs Service to provide the Customs Service with funding to monitor the radioactivity in scrap…

I would ask those that are in support of PNTR, what are they willing to sacrifice on the altar of free trade. 22,000 Pennsylvania workers sacrificed their jobs. They laid their sacrifice on the altar of free trade. How much worse will it…

I really want to say that we are seeing the best of Congress here; Republicans in the House and Democrats in the House and the administration coming together to do what is correct. We need to help people like Clara Harding and Al Matusick…

I rise today to welcome Reverend Dr. John White, the President of Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, who we had the honor of having with us to say the prayer to begin this session. Dr. White is a constituent of mine, and…

first of all, I want my friend and colleague, the gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. Mollohan), to know that his courage and dedication tonight are the greatest tribute he could pay to his father, and I am honored to be on the floor with…

I grew up in a small town called Summit Mills in southwestern Pennsylvania. That town is mostly Amish. And so as I grew up in that community as a young man, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 years of age, I worked in Amish farms, I worked in Amish…

Mr. Speaker, I have heard Member after Member get up on the other side and say this is not about sex. Let us make one thing very perfectly clear, the roots of this impeachment action are in fact in a sexual deed. I was reading Andre…

while I applaud what this budget bill does for education and the environment. I am appalled at what the appropriators have done to destroy the organ transplant allocation policy. This is a matter of life and death, and as one who believes…

I think this bill is a solution in search of a problem. In 1995, the Commerce Committee developed and Congress approved, over a Presidential veto, the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, which put strict limits on Federal investor…

I rise tonight for a little lighter of an item. I think sometimes we have to talk about these lighter things to give ourselves a perspective on the serious matters that we occasionally talk about. Mr. Speaker, I stand tonight to really pay…

Chairman Goodling, and Mr. Clay, Chairman McKeon and Mr. Kildee and the rest of my former colleagues on the committee are to be congratulated for your good work on this legislation. In the larger scheme of things, H.R. 6 is good for the…

I think that we all know, or should all know, that if it was not for excess Social Security taxes from the hard-earned paychecks of Americans, there would be no surplus. We can play semantical games with the term ``trust fund,'' but if it…

For those who may not have been here back in 1993 when we were negotiating with each other as to whether or not we should pass the NAFTA agreement which was negotiated under fast track authority, I would remind my colleagues that in that…

we have not seen the specific language. That is my problem. I understand those things are in there. We have not had a chance to debate them.

Mr. Speaker, let me speak for those workers out there. We have no definitive evidence that there is a shortage. And if those 208,000 people have been laid off, can they not be retrained? I want to talk about a research faculty member from…

I always find it very interesting, the names of the bills that come before us during this Congress. I would venture, if we did not have the kind of protections we have in speech on the floor of the House, that we would be able to sue our…

I find myself here in the Chamber transfixed and moved by the statements of all of my colleagues today, and very proud that I have an opportunity to pay tribute to our two fallen friends. In my previous career as a journalist, I was so…

I am a pro-life Democrat, and that means, quite often, that the Democrats get mad at me because I am pro life, and the pro-life people get mad at me because I am a Democrat. But I can handle that. I say that because whether someone gets to…

I have to support this legislation, H.R. 121, and I must oppose normal trade relations for China. I wish I could come here and say that I wanted to promote normal trade relations with China, that I felt that that would solve all of our…

Mr. Chairman, I was not planning on coming here to speak on this, but I have to. Simply sitting back in my office and listening to this discussion, my feelings, and the time that I worked with the gentleman from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), my…

back in 1995 the Committee on Commerce developed and this Congress passed and approved over a presidential veto the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act which put strict limits on Federal investor class action lawsuits. At the time we…

I thank our friend and would also wish to focus on that, but you know, as you were talking, I am also thinking, you know, we have got a very shameful situation in our own country right now. This is, you know, we kind of call ourselves the…

But there has been a rumbling on the floor during this last week that somehow Members are being told that they are voting against their veterans in order to get bridges and highways. And that is not the intentions of Members on either side…

Mr. Speaker, let me take us back in our mind's eye to a tiny town called Saxonburg, Pennsylvania. Settled by hardworking German immigrants, it is the kind of picturesque farm town, an affluent community, a safe community, that all of us…