I rise in support of H.R. 3056. This bill would allow a Health Insurance Organization to serve Medicaid beneficiaries residing in one or more counties. Current law, as interpreted by the Health Care Financing Administration, limits such…

I obviously do not have any choice one way or the other in the operation of the House, but this is a good measure. It is something that will do good for the country. I appreciate very much the gentleman from New Mexico's support for what…

I rise in support of H.R. 2297, which restates without substantive change, laws related to transportation and makes other technical improvements in the United States Code. The bill was prepared for the House Judiciary Committee by the…

I rise in support of S. 531. This act amends section 46(c) of title 28, to authorize a circuit judge who has taken part in an en banc hearing of a case to continue to participate in that case after taking senior status. There is an…

This is an unconscionable tax on innovation, a tax on American inventors for seeking to share with the American public the results of their creativity. This amendment offered by the gentleman from West Virginia proposes to take another $34…

I rise in support of H.R. 1861, the Copyright Clarifications Act of 1996. This important legislation will assist the U.S. Copyright Office in carrying out its duties, including giving the Office the ability to set reasonable fees for basic…

Activation may include getting the different parts of the operating system through the RAM. Because the entire operating system may not entirely fit into the RAM, activation may proceed through a series of steps until the entire operating…

I hate to see this bill, which I think is a fine bill, tied to a proposition which has gone its way. I know some people have felt emotionally involved because they have not agreed with the court on this particular proposition. But this…

all I wanted to say is our committee does have a major responsibility. The Judicial Act of 1789 set up the Federal courts. Our committee, our Subcommittee on Courts, does have the responsibility of providing the judicial procedure that is…

I rise in support of H.R. 1170, which provides for a three-judge court review of statewide referenda. H.R. 1170 provides that requests for injunctions in cases challenging the constitutionality of measures passed by State referendum must…

1995 marks the 80th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. Every year in Congress April 24 is remembered on the floor of the House, and I have participated in this occasion for a large number of years, a tribute to the Armenian martyrs who…

I rise in support of the Hyde amendment. The statute of repose currently in H.R. 956 has been threatened by language that has been added to the bill after it left the Committee on the Judiciary that has created a giant loophole in the…

Senior U.S. District Judge Milton Shadur of the northern district of Illinois said he generally would welcome the restoration of the old rule. "The most recent changes watered it down," he says, "by offering an out for lawyers who get…

I understand that, and I did comment on that in my comments, that you come to another argument when you go into that. You lead to further litigation and dispute as to whether the offer has been reasonable or unreasonable, many other things…

Possibility. I say to the gentleman, ``I think you're just defeating loser pays.''

But actually it applies to both the defendant and the plaintiff. The plaintiff is not the only one that could be caught paying the other person's fees. But I can tell the gentleman that you can limit the amount of money you may have to pay…

Latitude in every single case where they have not found that it will work an injustice. We have in our legislation that we have, we have provisions in those extreme cases where the judge does have a latitude.

I say to the gentleman, ``Primarily because, whey you cut from 100 percent to 25 percent, you're gutting the very issue we're talking about.''

I just think, if the gentleman is not in favor of loser pays, of course he is not going to like this at all. But under the amendments that we have put into the bill, a lot of the sting of loser pays has been taken out already----

I think a lot of argument here is based upon a misunderstanding of what the law is presently and what we are doing to it. Under sanctions in the present law it says if on a notice and a reasonable opportunity to respond the court…

the motion to recommit, unlike the loser pays language in H.R. 988, would take control out of the hands of the party and give it to the courts. Moreover, an award of attorneys' fees under this amendment is merely discretionary with the…

I share the concern of the gentleman from Maryland. It is our intention that rule XI(c) be applied equally to all litigants, and that the Federal judges exercise no special restraint when dealing with the Federal Government.

We do not discourage people who have a just claim from filing a lawsuit, and we even give them the opportunity up to 10 days before the case would come to trial to make a reasonable offer of settlement, so that if they have a claim, they…

One thing in this argument today, we have come up with the idea that plaintiffs are always poor and defendants are always rich. That is far from the truth. A plaintiff can pick a forum, he can file in the Federal court if there is…