Patrick Kennedy

I would like to add, Mr. Chairman, that by the whole tone of this debate, by declaring Portugal and Greece not eligible for the visa waiver program, it sends a very chilling effect between the United States and our two closest allies that…

I want to say with respect to Greece, my colleague said Greece's refusal rate is higher than Portugal; yet their overstay rate, according to his statistics, is lower. And the point is that it is arbitrary.

Let me just say that consistent with the Principles 6, 7, 8, and 9 of the Annex Resolution 1541 of the United Nations General Assembly, the U.N., statehood is the decolonizing status option for decolonization.

Mr. Chairman, ultimately this is a political football. The Solomon amendment is meant to kill this bill. To think that we are asking the Puerto Rican people to be forced to speak English. I would ask the gentleman from New York (Mr…

The reason why this is so awful to the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Velazquez) and people of Puerto Rican descent is the same reason it is awful for people who feel that we ought to have statehood for Puerto Rico. That is, without…

I am sure that recitation of all the facts regarding these meetings really did a lot for the American people, the 40 million Americans who are without health insurance today. I am sure the gentleman is really glad that he did point that…

I asked Larry Tribe, perhaps our Nation's most renowned constitutional scholar, to describe the upcoming vote to begin, just to begin, an impeachment inquiry; and his answer, my colleagues, captures everything that I want to say today.

I hate that label because you know what, we are having to tax in 1993 to pay for all the deficit spending. What the gentleman's party is all about is borrow and spend.

Is the gentleman saying that the top 5 percent get four times the tax cut as the bottom 60 percent?

This amendment treats native Americans as if they are criminals, and it is dead wrong. I ask my colleagues to join me in voting against the Visclosky-Istook amendment and upholding the Constitution of the United States, which we were sworn…

Would the gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr. Istook] like to put in an amendment, bill commissaries at our military bases? Because it seems to me they are unfair competition, too. Commissaries in my district are charging well under the market…

I want to thank both my colleagues from Massachusetts. Mr. Chairman, I realize the difficult choices the chairman and the members of the committee are faced with, but I want to discuss with the gentleman the fact that this bill provides no…

While the senior citizens do not get the necessary health insurance, as my colleague, the gentleman from Oregon, just mentioned; while children do not get the necessary health insurance they need, and while legal immigrants still go…

I would just like to say there are countless stories. Unfortunately the ICRC cannot tell them to us because it would abrogate their mandate to be an impartial, as my colleagues know, observer and support to human rights in the countries…

Reclaiming my time, their parents, their cousins, what is the gentleman from Florida saying; that their aunt, and let us say they are over in Bosnia, that their mother or father, or their uncle or aunt who is back in the United States is…

Now we have it, folks, now we have it. Remember we were just hearing a few moments ago about these particularly heinous crimes that we needed to lock these kids up for good, wave them into the adult system because the system needed to be…

This process is unfair. First of all, this legislation is authorizing legislation, and it is not going through the committee that authorizes this legislation. Second, what we are talking about here is a balanced approach between States…

The American Indian nations, to a nation, are opposed to this bill in its current form if we do not support the Young-Miller amendment to strike section 3. To a nation. This, to me, represents a shameful day if this Congress continues the…

The notion that the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Barr], as he was saying, represented the interests of law enforcement here in this bill, that they were adequately represented when it was his amendment and his work that has allowed for a…

You know the facts about this. You have guns in the home that are going to be used against your own family members. You know what the evidence is.

Would the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary tell this House whether in the Constitution it has shutdown as an alternative form of forcing a dialog between the executive branch and the legislative branch? Because I understood the…

Here in Congress when we debate Medicare we talk in terms of hundreds of billions of dollars. When my constituent Herb McCullough looks at Medicare cuts he thinks in terms of hundreds of dollars. Herb lives on $640 a month from Social…