I have an amendment at the desk concerning rape kits. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 33, line 5, after the first dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $4,000,000)''. Page 49, line 9…

I just want to thank the chairman, particularly, and the ranking member as well, for their help and their hard work on getting the moneys passed and for helping on this amendment. These rapists don't know State lines, and they cross State…

We just had an amendment on the floor and the amendment took $25 million from Legal Services. I had several amendments to file, and they went from $5 million for legal services up to $35 million. So what I thought might be the equitable…

Let me be clear. This does not cut the DEA. It only reduces the amount of money it was increased by in the budget, and it was increased by something like $40 million in a $2 billion budget. It would take $10 million, which would make a big…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Tennessee will be postponed. The Clerk will read. The Clerk read as follows: Bureau of…

I am doing something I would rather not do. But the gentleman from Texas was so nice on my rape kit amendment, and we did save Texas and have Davy Crockett, a predecessor of mine, in Congress. I ask unanimous consent that my request for a…

It would be difficult for anybody to think back upon the 1960's and 1970's when so much happened in our country that was revolutionary concerning Vietnam and civil rights where free speech wasn't a part of the discourse by college and…

The Smith-Cohen bill achieves the objective we seek while embodying basic principles of fairness for consumers.

It has always been the practice of groups that deal with social or political or philosophical or religious ideas, groups that form around ideas have constitutions that say our leaders have to agree with our ideas.

I don't know if they do or don't, but I would say this, first what you said about the Democrats, that they would make Republicans be a member, if the Republicans outvoted them, that happens.

I believe it may be, and I don't know it for a fact, the groups elect the leaders and the groups can elect anybody they want.

I have been a long supporter of the First Amendment and the ACLU, the First Amendment right to free speech, as well as its other rights.