John Hope Bryant

They made this pledge not under political duress, not in response to protest, but we thought out of conscious and clean hands.

We're one America. America as a country is an idea. We can make it whatever we want. And that is not demonizing people. It's a dog whistle and it needs to stop.

I have over the years, though, become convinced that some adjustments are needed to our criminal law. Given the significantly greater ability of the criminal, particularly the terrorists, to freely operate worldwide, and given the…

It has been a long and difficult 36 hours since the first airplane crashed into the tower of the World Trade Center yesterday. I rise in support of this motion, as has practically every Member of this House today, to show the resolve of…

I do rise in support of the Children's Health Act and would like to alert my colleagues to two issues which specifically are addressed in this bill and which are of concern to me and interest to me: Duchenne muscular dystrophy and day care…

let me echo what the gentleman from Pennsylvania is saying. I was a late baby. My mother is actually 93 years old and will be 94 her next birthday. The medical technology is great. A couple of years ago, she had a pacemaker put in, I…

I too want to add my appreciation for all the hard work that the chairman has done in coming up with this very fine bill. As I sat here and listened to some of the debate, I realized that talk is cheap but prescription drugs are not cheap…

I do want to thank my other colleague, the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Jenkins), for sponsoring this bill, introducing this legislation, which, as has been said, does designate the Federal courthouse there in Greeneville, Tennessee, as…

As we discuss this addition of prescription drugs to senior citizens, we cannot talk about it in isolation. I think we have to place it in the context of Medicare as we talk about this. One of the first things that comes to my mind and I…

What prompted me to push for a life without parole sentence involved the case of Sgt. Michael Teeter. Sgt. Teeter was sentenced to life in prison on June 10, 1980, by a military court for the brutal rape and murder of Eva Hicks-Ransom. The…

I do want to emphasize what she said in her opening statement; that this is certainly a bill that, I believe regardless of whether we might be pro-choice or pro-life, we can support. Because what we are talking about here in the underlying…

I think it is one that we ought to pass, and I urge my colleagues to support it. It seems like we can agree on an awful lot of things today. We all want more education, better health care for our young people and we all want to make sure…

In order to have effective bankruptcy reform, we need to have in this bill a set of uniform standards as to whether or not someone should be allowed to file in Chapter 7 or in Chapter 13 bankruptcy. The reason I oppose this amendment is…

This amendment effectively undermines many of the most important provisions of this Bankruptcy Reform Act that have been part of the House approach to bankruptcy reform since the last Congress. This amendment should be opposed for many…

H.R. 833 is a necessary bill, and this is a good rule to support to move that bill forward. H.R. 833 restores fairness and common sense and personal responsibility to a bankruptcy code that, in many ways, is out of control. Current…

I might add that I want to again honor the Constitution by what we do today. I think we all share that. And while the polls seem to show one thing, they also seem to show that many people would like this President to resign, in fact a…

with over 60,000 documents, in the presentation of the White House lawyer, Mr. Ruff, he made no challenge to the testimony of Betty Currie, Monica Lewinsky or anyone else in the factual situation that we have had before us.

let me respond briefly that the Constitution itself talks about impeachment as well as election. The two processes are compatible, according to our forefathers, since they completely understood that you had first to be elected in order to…

the opposing side has made a point that Ms. Lewinsky said that the President never specifically told her to lie. Yet they had engaged in a very clear cover story for a number of months in terms of how she had access to the President when…

I want to remind our colleagues that we are not voting on impeachment today. We are here today simply to uphold our constitutional obligation to look further into the allegations of wrongdoing against this president, and not to look away…

It is a difficult task to stand up here and follow the fine gentleman from Pennsylvania... let us do the right thing and vote for this amendment.

I rise this afternoon as a cosponsor of this bill and in strong support of this legislation and urge my colleagues to vote in support of it. While there are fundamental differences between us regarding the prolife and prochoice debate, for…

this legislation before us was created after a number of judges across this country have began taking away rights and liberties in many of the cases before them, and the portion of this bill that I strongly support and actually authored…

Mr. Speaker, at the request, as has been said, of our former colleague and the very distinguished Governor of Tennessee, Don Sundquist, and also the very distinguished Governor of the State of Mississippi, Kirk Fordice, I, along with the…