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John Porter, the former chairman of Labor-HHS, asked me to do a terrible thing once. He asked me to chair a committee with children with exotic diseases. I had to shut down the committee it hurt so much. One little girl said, Congressman…
this is an emotional issue for many of us. I have seen a lot of my friends die in Vietnam, as has my friend, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Sam Johnson), who was a POW for six and a half years. Even we have different feelings on this…
My real concern is, and in the other body we have many confirmations in defense, NTSB, those sorts of things, that have been held up. I think there ought to be a way to force those to be seen, because the administration is operating at a…
We are all concerned about electricity costs, but let me tell Members some of the things that the Vice President and the President are not doing. They are not holding 400 Lincoln Bedroom lavish dinners for campaign contributors every…
The gentleman thinks that both President Clinton and President Bush would have wanted to put people in office that they wanted, even though they were not voted upon?
I have no doubt that some citizens were disenfranchised, many of those in Florida. But I also know that I thought it was a travesty for the Gore and the Vice President candidate to try and disenfranchise our military vote in Florida as…
many of us were revolted when the Democratic leadership took $1 million from Bernard Schwartz from Loral that gave military secrets to the Chinese who in turn gave them to North Korea that can now hit us with a Taepo Dong II missile. We…
most of my life I have spent fighting against Communists and Socialists. You would think of anybody that did not want to support the Chinese, it would be Duke Cunningham. I am probably the only one in this room that has been shot at by the…
I do not think everybody in China is evil, but I do think there are evil people in the government, and I think there are atrocities going on which the gentleman is trying to get to, all the way from Germany with the experiments that went…
I do not believe that the primary threat to our country comes from a bomb, or hostile nation. I do believe that the threat to this Nation comes from within, from those that would taint the values of this country of religion and our beliefs…
let me reiterate one thing that the gentleman from Florida spoke about. There is a problem called ``hold harmless'' in title I education funds, to where the States that are losing population maintain a certain level, but those States that…
there are a few people in this Chamber that all of us respect and one is the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton). I love the gentleman. He is a descendent of Daniel Boone. I also agree with the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young) that…
we are asked to work in a bipartisan way. The gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lofgren) has a bill on fusion; my friend, the gentleman from California (Mr. Farr). The President spoke about Path 15 and the inability for us to get power…
let me give a little history. Price caps in the 1970s were disastrous. Canada controls a large percentage of the energy coming into California. If we put price caps on, there is nothing that controls Canada in resources for selling power…
I do not like closed rules myself, but I think in this case with the bipartisan support that we have on the bill, I doubt if there will be very many people opposed to it. I support the rule and am a cosponsor of the bill. I have a son. He…
I would say that I respect the right of the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lofgren) to take the position she does. But let me address it as a father myself of two beautiful daughters and an adopted son. If my wife was attacked and she…
In the Department of Defense, we have 480,000 bureaucrats that buy and sell. They charge 22 percent to the military. Should Congress eliminate a lot of that bureaucracy, and instead of having taxpayers cough up money for more defense…
I rise today, on the 86th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, to lend my voice to this important debate remembering the Armenian Genocide. While Turkey's brutal campaign against the Armenian people was initiated almost a century ago, its…
I would like to cover real quickly the EP-3 incident with China. Some of my colleagues had questions. From the time the aircraft was hit, the EP lost 8,000 feet. I am sure the crew inside thought that those were their last minutes. They…
as to the question on the budget, we have now got a President that will not only not embarrass the country but he will not hold the Congress hostage to spend money above the budget or shut down the government. President Bush will increase…
in California we have an energy crisis. We have several small businesses going out just because of the costs of energy. We have restaurants that are on a very narrow margin. Those people employ workers. My colleagues that are opposed to…
There is a very strong difference of opinion on who should control people's lives, either people or Washington, D.C. Many of us feel that it is wrong, absolutely wrong to have unlimited lawsuits which would drive up health care costs and…
I do not think our side was even going to talk on this. The partisan bickering, the rancoring that goes on here, I think that the American public can see what we are facing from our colleagues on the other side. They want to stay, all…
the Democrats controlled this House for 40 years, and what have we ended up with? This Nation, with all its resources, last in math and science of all the industrialized nations; last in literacy. Our schools are crumbling, and they need…
I would like to thank Joe Baca, a Member from the other side of the aisle, for giving tribute to someone that we cherish very, very much. You know, Ron Packard was a write-in, and what a rich legacy he gave the constituents of North…
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