Jack Brooks

This is the fourth attempt by the other side of the aisle to offer a motion to strike after the enacting clauses--all in an attempt to delay the progress of the crime bill. It takes about 25 minutes each time, 10 minutes for debate, 15…

It has been my position from the time the proviso was at the committee--at the Rules Committee--and it will be my position in the conference, that the Racial Justice Act should be prospective only in application.

We do not need any more amendments, Mr. Chairman. There are enough amendments now available on this bill, and I am trying to edit this to where it makes sense, to where it would be unbelievable that they would want to have any more.

To my friend I would say that he recalls the difficulties. The testimony reflected in the hearings was that in some areas, where there is controversy about this issue, sometimes the officials in that area were not as industrious as they…

I rise in opposition to this motion to recommit. The Members of this body have spoken loudly and clearly on the application of the independent-counsel statute through the Members of Congress. They have voted, we have voted, this afternoon…

The Attorney General said very clearly, and she uses English, American, you know, in her letters, said, `No such inherent conflict of interest exists in the investigation of Members of Congress.' In other words, you investigate the Members…

She makes all the judgments at this point, if you combine the adjudication with the administration, and we do not want to do that.

Now, what I was going to suggest is I believe that the first part of the amendment is a useful statement of what is in the bill now. It is the second part that we have trouble with. If the gentleman would get unanimous consent to drop that…

But I have never deterred from my route since then. It is these people that go back and forth that make you nervous.

This section is included in the Hyde amendment substitute, and I would hope that we could resolve it in that overall context and not in a long, separate vote in contention here on the floor. We have got three or four, at least, additional…

None of them that agreed to that, Republican or Democrat, have felt that it needed to be done?