Steve Cohen

I also think it is appropriate for the Supreme Court in Kelo v. City of New London to leave it to States and localities to make that call for themselves.

Given the central role of cities as the engines of commerce and fonts of culture and ideas, it is important that we bring cities back.

Cities are where civilization happens. It is in cities that we have vibrant hubs of commerce, finance, and trade.

I appreciate the time, and I appreciate all of the work that Mr. Rohrabacher and Mr. Farr have done, and I am happy to join with them. Mr. Chairman, Justice Brandeis said the States are the laboratories of democracy. That is what they are…

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 have an amendment at the desk. 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 $12,000,000)''. Page 72, line 7, after the first dollar…

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…

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…

All they have to do is give up the right to money from Vanderbilt University and the right to use Vanderbilt University as a title group.

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.

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 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.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Normally, it is only when I am at the doctor's office that I have to watch Fox, but it is free speech.

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.

I would have to say, with great respect for Mr. Gowdy, there is a big difference. One is a private tragedy; the other is a public tragedy, because it is under color of law.

I would like to make note that we have the American College of Nurse- Midwives; the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; the American Medical Student Association; the American Medical Women's Association; the American…

Disproportionately victims are from the ranks of the poor, from people of color, and others who are in the worst position, in some ways, to protect themselves.

I would ask the Chair to consider having a hearing on these victims that are in the papers and the news.

I don't think they should be enshrined in the Constitution.

Somehow or another, Mr. Chairman, we have got to put our priorities in order, and we have got to look after human life and civil rights.

This bill will effectively wipe out Rule 23.

We are concerned about destroying what we have had for years, a system of class actions to protect the little guy.

African-American lives count, too, and they are being killed on a regular basis and seen in this country, and nobody in this Congress seems to care that has authority to have a hearing or to bring a bill to a vote.