let's decide here and now what we are going to teach the world. We have so much to say. For little more than two centuries, we have shown the world the way to true democracy and most of the world has followed. In Denver, last month, our…

I think if the gentleman reads the question, he will find that the Constitution calls upon the Congress to promote the general welfare of this Nation. I think by increasing trade and creating jobs, we are promoting the general welfare of…

Independence Park has been known to have been undergoing a significant utilities restoration project. Several years back I walked through the halls of Congress with a corroded pipe because the sprinkler system in Independence Hall was…

we look back over history and we see that the great civilizations are not remembered for the wars that they fought. They are not remembered for the people that they killed in those wars. The great civilizations of history are remembered…

people in the Midwest are making the tough and necessary choices to rebuild their own lives. Everything has been taken from them. They very much need our help right now, but they may not get that help. Why? Because Washington is playing…

why are we wasting time and resources on this duplicative, one-sided investigation? Fred Thompson and John Glenn are conducting a broad investigation in the Senate, but, for purely political purposes, we are insisting on this…

20 years ago a Republican President told the city of New York and, by extension, all American cities to drop dead. Now with Bob Dole, the Republicans are planning the funeral. It just takes simple arithmetic to know that his plan to cut…

I rise to say that I think that H.R. 123 might be a good bill. I would like to propose maybe that we should have a few other amendments to make this bill even better than it is. I propose that the bill be amended to require that all of our…

But we certainly do not anticipate a complete overhaul of this ship or this vessel. All we want to do is maintain it in its full capability it now has to continue doing its work as it is now doing until the Army Corps of Engineers issues…

I has happy that Bob Dole was in my district last night for the All Star game, but there are direct flights from Philadelphia to Charlotte, NC. I say this because America should know why Bob Dole has rejected the invitation of the NAACP to…

I join my colleagues to express my horror at the recent string of church fires across the South. More importantly, we join together to do something about it. There have been more than 37 suspicious fires in black and multiracial churches…

with this closed rule, we have run out of gas on gag rules. It was clear from day one that there would not be opportunity to be heard on this election year gimmick. There is no guarantee that the repeal of this tax will trickle down to our…

2 years ago I came to the floor to fight for a ban on assault weapons. At that time, I told the story of Michelle Cutner, a 7-year-old from Philadelphia. It was the next to the last day of school and Michelle's mother picked her up at the…

Mr. Speaker, not only is this an honor for Pennsylvania and for the city of Philadelphia, but the fact is that the gentleman from Kentucky, Jim Bunning, achieved his greatness in the First Congressional District of Pennsylvania, in…

is it any surprise how the Republicans would reach a balanced budget in 7 years? By breaking our contract with senior citizens, with veterans, with the most vulnerable people in our society, and with those of us who live in cities. I take…

I just want to emphasize, in the city of Philadelphia, before this program started, the infant mortality rate was 14.2 per thousand. After 1 year, 1 year of this program, it dropped from 14.2 per thousand to 11.7 per thousand. On behalf of…

Suppose you have not exercised due diligence but you are probably; probably an innocent person should go to jail, should be executed because they did not execute due diligence?

I think our objective here in passing this legislation is not to expeditiously execute people but to execute only those that we are sure are guilty of the capital crime.

I do not care how long it takes. We should not be executing innocent people because we want to do it expeditiously.

How in God's name he could start to compare Adolf Hitler with President Aristide, how could he possibly say that the choice of the people of Haiti is between a criminal-like Cedras and a man, a respected Catholic priest like Aristide who…

There is an old joke about a lawyer who is representing the owner of a dog that bit somebody. First, he says the dog did not bite the man. When that does not work, he says that the client did not own a dog. And when that does not work, he…

9 years ago the eyes of the world were on Sarajevo, celebrating the human spirit at its very best--young people from all over the world competing in sport. Today, the eyes of the world are again on Sarajevo, but not in celebration of the…

I rise today in strong opposition to the Nussle-Penny-Kasich amendment. Why are the majority of proposed offsets targeted at big-city America? Mass transit operating funds, transit capital grants, community development block grants…