I went to the Rules Committee yesterday for the fourth time since January asking that my amendment be made in order to allow the House to discuss and vote on the recommendations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group as the way forward in…

I rise against the resolution, and I rise in support of the Iraq Study Group. Most Americans favor the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group. In fact, most Members of this body also favor the Iraq Study Group, but all would favor its…

Reclaiming my time, if Sharansky served in this Congress today, if Havel were serving here in this Congress today, if Yelena Bonner was serving in this Congress today, Yelena Bonner and Sharansky and Havel would be for this amendment.

The reason we did this, I will tell my friend from Illinois, is when the $458 million was cut, we asked the administration to come up and tell us what they really needed, because we said this is a very difficult issue. The gentlewoman put…

I rise in support of the Pitts amendment. First of all there is the flexibility; there is ability to waive. I hope Mr. Pitts will cover that. Let me read you what Ambassador Mark Dybul said. He said recent data from Kenya, Zimbabwe and…

Mr. Chairman, this restores $156 million of the $458 million that was cut. The amendment that we're going to offer today is in compliance with the Iraq Study Group. Now, about 226 Members of this body said they favor the Iraq Study Group…

reclaiming my time, just in closing, the gentlewoman has been very good, and I appreciate the work of Mrs. Lowey on a lot of the issues. As Mr. Shays said, there are a lot of good things in the bill. This, in closing, deals with the whole…

The gentleman's concern, and the gentleman is a very good Member, and I appreciate when he speaks a lot of times in committee. I agree with him, and not only do I agree in my conscience, I vote with him, and sometimes I even speak for him…

There are actually, I understand, CIA station chiefs, American CIA station chiefs who were station chiefs in Saudi Arabia that may be now working for the Saudis. The Saudis funded the madrassas up along the Pakistan-Afghan border. There…

I wouldn't question what his interpretation is, but in Luke it says ``To whom much is given, much is required.'' Some versions say ``expected,'' but it is actually a requirement, and we know a requirement in college, you have to do it to…

this is going to be the only vote that you're going to have on this issue. When the power lines are coming through your district, and this is coming through your district, how will you explain to your constituents, to your neighbors, your…

We don't have a vote on it, and it was not made in order. I can't bring it up. And the genocide continues.

I oppose the amendment. But let me ask your side. I had an amendment to say that CIA station chiefs and people who were ambassadors cannot go out and work for the Khartoum government. Many on your side talk about the genocide in Darfur. I…

I am pointing at the Rules Committee. I am pointing at everybody on this side who would not give me an amendment to stop the genocide in Darfur. Madam Chairman, I continue to grow more and more frustrated that my side of the aisle is not…

I rise today to mark the 23rd annual Public Service Recognition Week. I am proud to be a co-chair of the Congressional Public Service Caucus, proud to have been a federal employee, and proud to represent in Congress a large number of my…

I want Members to see an editorial that was in the Wall Street Journal by Ronan Farrow and Mia Farrow entitled ``The Genocide Olympics.'' It deals with the issue that there was a full page ad today in The Washington Post with regard to the…

This institution is frankly changing. It is changing before our eyes. This institution, on both sides of the aisle, almost doesn't seem to care anymore on these issues of fundamental human rights. This institution needs a little bit of…

there are legitimate and important emergency funding needs for the troops and our Federal civilian corps on the ground in Iraq and elsewhere. The President requested $93.4 billion in emergency supplemental appropriations to continue the…

as a nation, we are moving closer and closer to the edge of the financial cliff. A few steps forward and we will start the free fall into a canyon of debt which is bad for our country. The baby boomers start retiring at the end of this…

Madam Speaker, I was the author of the amendment to set up the Iraq Study Group. I felt that more should be done to look at what we were doing in Iraq, and so we put together a group and picked 10 people. It was chaired by former Secretary…

earlier today I was in my congressional district at a hearing held by the Virginia State Corporation Commission presenting testimony in opposition to a proposed major increase in tolls on the Dulles Greenway, a commuter route for many of…

last spring I took a trip to Antietam National Battlefield. As I walked along Bloody Lane, the site of one of the most vicious battles of the Civil War, I was struck by how many individuals made the ultimate sacrifice. September 18, 1862…

Why would you give the United Nations any impact when, in Rwanda, 700,000 people died, and the U.N. did nothing? In Srebrenica, the U.N. stood by as 700 Muslims were led to their death by the Serbs. In Darfur, where I have been, I led the…

they have been in discussion with the staff as to some ideas. But their priority was to get this legislation passed because there are going to be more evacuations taking place. So as of now I cannot tell you the exact places.

no, there are not. It would merely ensure that the State Department could use the existing funds to get American citizens out of harm's way and to pay the debts that they have obligated both for cruises, for ships and for other things…