To me, the greatest tragedy of all, Congressman Dickey, our young people in this country are watching what we are doing. ... Our kids do not want to be involved in politics.

Mr. Speaker, if we are mean and shallow and harsh, the country is mean and shallow and harsh. If we are kind and respectful and dignified, the country is kind and respectful and dignified. That is how important this is. This is a critical…

Amazingly, as a freshman, it shocked me when I got here how from the day you are here as a new Member they separate you, Republicans over here, Democrats over here. Republicans get this training, Democrats get this training. The freshman…

Another interesting dynamic, if my colleague would yield, please, is that many of the new Members feel that the seniority system in this institution that had grown out of touch over a period of time needed some reform, that the seniority…

to kind of cut through the heavy air here today, where we have had some pretty high drama and a great sense of emotion, let me say from the freshmen perspective that 44 out of 74 of the freshman Republicans, I would argue the most ardent…

I must say, as a freshman Member of this body, it disappoints me to see the kind of name-calling, shallow partisan rhetoric that seems to always seep its way into this debate, particularly by senior Members that have brought distinction to…

Mr. Chairman, I certainly commend our distinguished chairman of the full Committee on Science for this action. What has happened here is that at our Committee on Science earlier this year as we did our work, the gentleman from Virginia…

I wanted to come in my subcommittee chairman's absence and rise in support of the bill offered by the chairman, the gentleman from New Mexico [Mr. Schiff], H.R. 2142, which actually sets new priorities for our national Federal laboratory…

Mr. Chairman, we are having a healthy discussion this afternoon about the role of the national laboratories. We need to have this discussion, and actually I think this first amendment here is going to flesh out a lot of the feelings and…

I rise today to commend a man who has made unique and valuable contributions to his chosen calling, radio broadcast journalism, and to the community as a whole in Chattanooga in the Third District of Tennessee, which I have the honor to…

I came here knowing that I represented a part of this country where TVA and the Appalachian Regional Commission have provided quality service for a number of years, and that we would have to cut spending in the programs in my backyard. And…

I will tell you from firsthand experience, Mr. Chairman, while it might surprise you, that the Tennessee Valley Authority is not perfect. Neither is the Pentagon perfect, neither are the Centers for Disease Control perfect, neither is the…

in both my committees, I have heard from the EPA and specifically from EPA Administrator Carol Browner that they need our help in using sound scientific research to make policy decisions. Many of the complaints I have heard about the EPA…

several months ago dozens of us were sent to Washington, DC, to try to bring back to this institution balance and reason. The American people want the pendulum to come back to the middle. We have gone too far with regulation. We have gone…

I rise tonight to ask a series of questions and to make some statements, and the first question is: Can the Federal Government solve the problems of America? You know, I asked that question as I campaigned for the last 4 years. I really…

I have happily discovered that many of my colleagues, like I did campaigned with a copy of the U.S. Constitution in our pockets. As one who strongly believes in government strictly according to constitutional principles, I make our…

All of their equity, and most of the property in this country is leveraged at a very high level to begin with. So you are cutting into the equity, the savings, and the investment of the citizens of this country.

The little people are going to be hurt. That is why I drew the correlation of one acre of land, a little small property owner, who maybe they want to subdivide that property and sell a building lot off a piece of property they inherited…

They would not be able to sell that property, and it would just stymie the industry, and it would be a very inequitable situation we would be agreeing, and I wholeheartedly agree with your argument.

I am compelled to take to the well today to speak about private property rights and the pending legislation, H.R. 925, because I believe few issues touch closer to the hearts of most Americans than their right to own their property. It is…

I come today as a freshman Member of this body with a burden on my heart to speak to the American people about this crisis in Mexico. I think it points out that we have a crisis in Washington, because some people are still not listening to…

I rise in support of the Flanagan resolution and thank my colleague from Illinois for bringing this issue into the balanced budget amendment debate in a productive manner. The same special interests who have for years tied up the balanced…