the administration's new rules would create a standard which is so broad and so vague that it would cripple employers in the high-technology industry, and both sides want to do something here. This is an opportunity for small businesses…

there will be no real human rights monitoring in China. The Russians were signatories of the Helsinki Final Accords and Helsinki worked. The Chinese will never sign or participate in the monitoring. If every Member would go back and search…

this will not expand gambling. I rise in strong support. I can stand here all day to categorize the number of hurt and pain and suffering and agony and even death of many young people who get involved in gambling. Gambling hits the poor…

there are good people on both sides. I know as a Member that sometimes we want to be with our party and sometimes we want to be with our President. For me, I want to be with my conscience. My conscience tells me, and I think the American…

a man does not live by bread alone, and if one listens to the debate, one would begin to wonder. It was 55 years ago last month that Dietrich Bonhoffer was marched from his prison cell in Flossenburg Prison in Nazi Germany and hung because…

I am astounded that today, this Congress is taking a vote on giving China permanent normal trade relations. I am amazed that this vote is about to take place because all of the evidence shows that China has done nothing to deserve America…

I am a free trader. I voted for NAFTA. I was one of the 30 Republicans that voted to bomb Kosovo, so I am kind of tired with the argument with regard to isolationists. What about the eight Catholic bishops, and now we know from the CIA…

I say to the gentleman that is really unfair to say, though. Metro, your system in Houston, has received over $500 million, any one of those localities would gladly trade places. Some of them are getting mere pittances. And I have been…

H.R. 4475 provides appropriations for the fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Transportation and related agencies appropriations. The bill that the committee presents to the House is a good and balanced bill. The committee has increased…

I contest the point of order. Mr. Chairman, I am very disappointed that the chairman of the authorizing committee has raised a point of order against section 333 of this bill. This provision deletes the non-Federal match for the section…

the fiscal year 2000 DOT Appropriation Act required the Secretary of Transportation to submit along with the 2001 budget request the capital investment plan for the FAA and the Coast Guard. It might surprise many Members to know that…

if I may speak further on the point of order, what we were trying to do, I would tell the chairman, is just have a 1- year period to flush it out. I commend the gentleman for all these safety things, but I think for 1 year, I would ask him…

because of the compelling arguments and also because every time this issue has come up, the gentleman has won overwhelmingly, we accept the amendment.

I believe the project should not move forward until there is regional consensus reached by all the affected parties. We had a similar situation in my region when we transferred National Airport and Dulles Airport from the Federal…

almost every day a new veterans group comes out against PNTR. The Military Order of the Purple Heart, chartered by Congress, said yesterday: ``Speaking as patriots and combat wounded veterans, we believe that granting PNTR status to China…

another veterans or military organization comes out against PNTR today for China. The Fleet Reserve Association, representing 10,000 members of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard opposes PNTR. The Naval Reserve Association…

I support H.R. 3709, a bill which extends the current moratorium on taxes on Internet access and taxes which apply only to e-commerce. It is no secret that the success of high technology and the rapid growth of electronic commerce are key…

I rise today to remember a truly great man-- John Cardinal O'Connor, Archbishop of New York. Cardinal O'Connor's death is a tremendous loss not only for the people of New York, but for the country and for the world. I have always admired…

I rise in support of H.R. 3879, the Sierra Leone Peace Act of 2000. Congressman Tony Hall and I were in Sierra Leone a few months ago. We witnessed the brutal atrocities carried out against the civilian population by the rebel forces in…

This bill creates a new entitlement, and what the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar) has said and others about trust funds are true. But what the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Sabo) said with regard to cancer research and others is…

Mr. Speaker, it is an honor and a privilege to speak in support of the legislation I introduced to designate the post office located at 3118 Washington Boulevard in Arlington, Virginia, as the ``Joseph L. Fisher Post Office.'' Born in…

yesterday in his comments about giving China MFN, the President said, ``I believe the choice between economic rights and human rights, between economic security and national security is a false one.'' If that is the case, Mr. President…

today I rise because of my concern about granting permanent normal trade relations to China. Mr. Speaker, there are good people on both sides of this issue and as we consider granting China MFN; we need to be honest in our debate…

Today I rise to speak about what has happened in the African country of Sierra Leone. The gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Hall) and I visited Sierra Leone this past December. We were horrified at the atrocities that we saw; men and women with…

I want to read a fax that I just received in my office about East Timor. The man said this is a deliberate, carefully planned operation. The militia are not out of control. They are, in fact, firmly under the control of the Indonesian…