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the base bill, the McCollum bill, is a joke. Anybody in juvenile corrections knows it is a joke. It ignores the facts. The facts are these: When we put kids in adult prison, guess what? They do not serve as much time because the judges do…
I would like to also add from the outset that my State is among those 38 States that cannot even begin to access any of the funds under this bill. I might add it just shows how this bill is not a serious bill, because if it was serious in…
We should know what is going on here. It is nothing different from the welfare bashing that we saw in the last Congress. They are playing upon a perception here. They are bashing poor people just as they bashed immigrants. Make no mistake…
Today we in Congress are solemnly observing the tragedy of the Armenian genocide. We honor the bravery and courage of those who survived and we honor the memory of those who perished. We speak out so that future generations of Americans…
Today is a great day in Greece's history for we are once again celebrating the independence of Greece, one of our Nation's closest allies. I want to commend the gentleman from Florida, for assembling this special order and for organizing…
I love all the concern on this side of the aisle today for the divisiveness of this issue when it was just yesterday that this side of the aisle was not willing to make the distinction between legal residents and illegal aliens, such that…
just hearing my colleague, the gentleman from Georgia, John Lewis, speak so passionately, I think should move anyone who listened to his speech. Over 30 years ago it was John Lewis who was fighting against States rights, States rights…
it seems as though in the heat of the campaign season, some people just do not like to face the truth. The Republicans right now are running away from their record in the 104th Congress, a report where they are going after Medicare to fund…
do you not love all this talk about how we are going to get money from these poor people to give money to other constituents who are more deserving? Yet this same Republican majority who is talking about cutting $53 billion from welfare…
this debate really is about a simple question, a question of equal rights. Marriage is a basic right. It is a basic human right. Love and commitment are essential pillars of marriage. They are qualities that do not discriminate on account…
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…
you do not really need a lot of empirical information to understand that insurance companies only make money off of healthy people, and that if they had a choice in this world of profit making, sick people cost them money. It is a given…
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…
one of the most profound calls to action ever written emerged from the Holocaust. Martin Niemuller expressed so well the guilty anguish of silence: First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist…
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…
I would like to concur with my colleague from Massachusetts in that this bill should not be on the Suspension Calendar as it relates to the inclusion of an enhancement for Indonesia for the same reasons my colleagues just spoke. Indonesia…
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.
this notion that we cannot make a difference because if we ban so many, we are not banning all of them, or if you cannot save all crime, you are not going to try to save any at all, is just bogus. Our responsibility in this House is to do…
this debate can more appropriate be called debate over discrimination, not a debate over immigration. What we are seeing in collecting both legal and illegal immigrants is that we are going to treat legal immigrants as if they are illegal…
this bill is better than nothing, but for the 2,000 Almacs employees who just got their pink slips on September 15, this bill means nothing to them. There was a glimmer of hope, because the President and the Department of Labor promised…
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…
Frank DiPalo will be testifying later this afternoon about the impact of the cuts on Medicare and Medicaid. Frank remembers the days when his parents could not retire because they could not afford to. Frank DiPalo remembers the days when…
I rise today in favor of the Gilchrest amendment. Let me just state from the outset that we have seen the devolution of authority go back to the States with respect to a number of programs, one of the most critical of which is protecting…
Mr. Chairman, I was just struck in listening to the gentleman who just spoke about his moral outrage at the cut of basic science. Now, I share his concern that basic science can be a producer of jobs in the future, but to come on this…
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…
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