this week, Newsweek magazine, which is the country's premier news magazine, focused on Hong Kong and its return to China later this summer. The world is waiting to see if what has become the status quo in the People's Republic of China…

President Ronald Reagan was a champion for human rights in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. He spoke up in defense of freedom and democracy. He raised the cases of dissidents during the high-level meetings with Soviet officials. He…

Today's appointments to the National Gambling Impact Study Commission by President Clinton, in my opinion, tilt the balance of the commission in favor of the gambling industry. The purpose of the commission is to conduct a study of…

I urge Members to take a look at a recent poll done by the Weekly Standard which I will put in the Record. This is what Public Opinion Strategies said: By an overwhelming margin of 61 to 29 percent, the American people oppose MFN for…

we will be addressing for the next couple of months in this body whether or not to grant the most-favored-nation trading status to China. I just had a series of town meetings. This issue came up in every town meeting. Clearly the American…

I was pleased today to see the editorial, which I will submit for the Record, in the Washington Post about East Timor. Like many issues in Washington, one minute it is hot and the next minute it is not. The editorial writer cautions, ``The…

last week the House Subcommittee on Transportation of the Committee on Appropriations and Related Agencies kicked off its hearings on the fiscal year 1998 transportation appropriation legislation. For 2 days the subcommittee received…

It has recently been reported that the President of the United States and the minority leader of the House are planning to appoint gambling advocates to the National Gambling Impact Study Commission. Should this come to pass, it would…

2 weeks ago I returned from visiting Bishop Carlos Belo in the island of East Timor, which is under the military oppression of the governor of Indonesia. As our colleagues know, the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Hall] nominated Bishop Belo, the…

I am here to pay tribute to Jim Lightfoot. Jim is an honest, decent, ethical person. He is a great storyteller. He is a good family man. I just say God bless you, we wish you well, we know you are going to be elected to the Senate, but…

I would like to focus on the soft landing provisions of the bill. Budget reductions, reinventing government, downsizing, rightsizing, streamlining, and restructuring--whatever it's called, the result could be the same--reductions-in-force…

as lead sponsor of this resolution, I rise in strong support of House Resolution 515, a resolution condemning the persecution of Christians around the world. First, I want to thank Representative Bill Gilman, chairman of the House…

I want to put this at the outset of the statement. There are two issues that I have concerns about, one the gentleman from Colorado [Mr. Hefley] just raised, and that is the first provision, section 411, which states that even if the…

I am not involving myself in West Virginia, as you know, but I am concerned about the statements that the West Virginia Highway Department is now saying we are going to bring it up to the edge and dump it into Virginia; that will show the…

I am concerned about a statement President Clinton made yesterday that he would not support legislation which would reimburse Billy Dale and the other White House travel office employees' legal bills. His statement is contrary to other…

I keep hearing the West Virginia officials talking about dumping traffic in my area. We have decided in Virginia we do not want corridor H. I would ask the gentleman to deal with the West Virginia highway officials to resolve this matter…

CAPT. John William (Jack) Kennedy is coming home. Next Friday, August 2, a nearly 25-year saga surrounding the fate of Captain Kennedy, a missing-in-action Air Force pilot in Vietnam, will end at Arlington National Cemetery. On August 16…

I want to express some reservations. I commend the leadership on both sides for what they are trying to do. Eventually these countries ought to be part of NATO, no matter what Russia thinks. However, I have some reservations. First…

shortly we will be bringing up a very important piece of legislation that will be setting up a national commission to study the impact of gambling which is running rampant in the country. Quite frankly the country is turning into one…

yesterday's headline was ``Russia pounds Chechens as election truce unravels.'' Today's headline tells us the ``Chechen war escalates once more.'' Report after report details a growing number of casualties. Many people, both military and…

If this bill said to raise the age to 60 or 61, I would not be for it. All it says is the National Transportation Safety Board should look at the issue. Fifteen other countries do it. We know what has happened. There has been some…

One study showed that when asked, in one area there were 34 percent of the children using drugs, and their parents were asked did they think drug use was around, and only 14 percent thought drug use was around. So it is coming back big…

I share the interest of the gentleman from California. However, I am concerned that streamlining these reports could jeopardize or change the current levels of safety. As the gentleman knows, safety has been personally my number one and…

we are going to lose the vote, but to those Members who are going to give MFN to China, do what our colleagues say: Be engaged. Be engaged. When the Christians are arrested next week and all this next year, be engaged. When they come into…

Mr. DeLAY. Mr. Chairman, I thank the chairman and ranking member for the hard work they have done on this bill. While I have the deepest respect for my friend from Georgia, I have to rise in opposition to his amendment. Clearly great…