Lloyd Bentsen: “What is so different about preparing a regulatory budget from preparing a fiscal budget?”

after 6 years on the Committee on the Budget, I am amazed at the debate I have heard tonight. I did not realize just how powerful that committee is. In the 6 years I have been on that committee, I have seen Members of the other party in…

I rise in support of H.R. 2500, legislation to fund the Departments of Commerce, Justice and State Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2002. Though the measure calls for a reduction to the highly successful COPS community policing program, I…

Regrettably I rise today in opposition to H.R. 3210, the Terrorism Risk Protection Act. I am very concerned about tort provisions that were added to the bill by the House Rules Committee. As an original cosponsor of H.R. 3210, I am…

I am not sure why we are debating this amendment in the first place; but the fact that we are, I think there is one flawed argument that has been made. If one cannot use the money for hard purposes in the first place, I do not think one…