John Hope Bryant

Mr. Chairman, we have a pilot program working in this area already. The result is that employers who have been in the pilot program like it, and the other result is that there have been no claims of discrimination come out of the pilot…

every American, every American, should despair of our ability as a Congress to act in any significant way in a bipartisan fashion after that speech by Mr. Gingrich, the Speaker of the House. We have tried to bring a bill out here that…

The harm is simply this. The diversity program, in my opinion, is a bad program anyway, because it is really a scheme to let a lot of white folks into the country, because some folks do not like it if there are a lot of people coming in…

I want to also respond briefly to a comment made early by the gentlewoman from Idaho. I think she misheard me. I said that the pilot program now working to test this system that the Chabot amendment would eliminate has not yielded any…

I have, I think, as consistent and as tough a record in trying to deal with the problem of illegal immigration as any Member of this House of either party. But there have been two exceptions that we have always made with regard to this…

Reclaiming my time, I think everybody agrees with that. That is kind of a platitude. We are talking about the difference of a 10-year ban and lifetime ban. Why would you stick anybody with a lifetime ban, for goodness sake?

Reclaiming my time, let us talk about immigration. So a Canadian wanders across the border at a young age and wants to get a job and goes back again and finds out 20 years later, when he goes to apply to come here legally, maybe he has got…

This is a press release, OK? This is not an amendment. This is a press release. So you folks can write letters home and say, ``Oh, boy, I got tough on illegal immigration.'' This bill gets tough on illegal immigration. Unfortunately, I…

Suppose a person gets married. You mean, they cannot come in the country with their new wife because at a young age they crossed the border illegally, for the rest of their life they cannot come across and live with their spouse.

Reclaiming my time, let us get this pinned down. Is it or is it not the case that your amendment would say that a person who crossed the border at an early age and later in life married an American citizen, could not come in the country to…

All I am saying to the gentleman from California is that I cannot say what happened with regard to the gentleman's initiatives. I know of the initiatives that were made in the past; I think they were good ones. Some things happened that I…

Of course, I would dispute that it is significantly less, even if those figures are accurate. We are working with figures that we have worked with throughout this debate that were brought to us by the Commission on Immigration that Barbara…

In the 1986 Immigration Reform Control Act, I put an amendment in there that required 100-percent reimbursement to all border States and border communities for any immigration cost. The Reagan administration, year after year after year…

Mr. Chairman, at the beginning of last year the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Smith], the chairman of the subcommittee, and I, in my capacity as ranking Democrat on the subcommittee, set about to write a commonsense immigration bill designated…

I am the ranking minority member on the Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration. I am an original cosponsor of H.R. 2202, the Immigration in the National Interest Act. I have supported the bill and worked to improve it throughout…

last Wednesday on this floor the distinguished gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Hyde] made the following statement, that he had overhead a Republican Member of this House say this, and I quote: ``I trust Hamas more than I trust my own…

Mr. Chairman, the amendment is a situation in which the majority giveth and the majority taketh away, to some extent. Three of the provisions in the amendment are in our view good, and helpful; in particular, the one that does not…

The gentleman will vote for a bill that says a lobbyist cannot pay for a Member's golf green fees?

The gentleman had political action committee contributions when most of us voted to limit those and the gentleman did not. Let me ask a second question. Has the gentleman played golf at any time in the last year at the expense of a…

Is the gentleman going to tell Members of the House that you have not played golf this year at the expense of a lobbyist?

It is a simple question for Members. Do you think that we should be able to continue to play golf for free, play tennis for free, go skiing for free, fly around the country on these recreational outings that are thinly disguised vacations…

I will say one more time. Mr. Burton protests against circumstances against which he had a chance to change and he refused to vote to change it.

Today the House will be given the opportunity to move forward on the most dramatic reform of this institution in the way it does business that will be considered this year. Unfortunately it has not been allowed to be considered prior to…

The gentleman's answer was no, I think. And what I am saying is, I am not even talking about these sham vacations that come in the guise of some fundraising scheme for some charity. I am talking about just taking you out on the golf course…

The process by which we have arrived at this early hour, after having quit so late last night, is not one that, in my view, reflects well upon this institution. I am disappointed both in the leadership of the Republican Party and the…