Lloyd Bentsen

If I could, I would like to engage the chairman of the subcommittee in a colloquy with respect to sections 126 and 127 of the conference report. First, if I might, in understanding, does the 2-year residency requirement mean that once…

As we understand, current law does not allow for any institution which switches a charter from Federal to State or State to Federal to retain the previous name of origin, if you will, in their name, that they were a State bank or Federal…

In the spirit of Hamilton, Madison and Mason, I rise in opposition to all four articles of impeachment

In Texas today, the Immigration and Naturalization Service estimates that there are a minimum of about 4,000 undocumented aliens in the State prison system. But that is a minimum. They really do not exactly know, and they think the number…

I just want to echo the gentleman's comments. This is very important. I am sorry that the gentleman was not able to offer his amendment. But we are talking about the fourth largest city in the Nation, the third largest county in the…

The provision also states, Mr. Chairman, that any holdback or exposure requirement should be applied uniformly to both banks and nonbanks alike, thereby ending the prohibition on banks for selling the nonguaranteed portion of certain SBA…

Fortunately, Meredith is OK, and we need not worry about how we pay. That's not the case for the young woman I recently met in my district who could not purchase health insurance because her daughter had a heart condition. Her husband…

We can pass legislation that does away with insurance discrimination for preexisting conditions, that says, If someone loses their job, or they get sick, they can still retain their right to buy insurance that has common sense market…

If you do not pay your debt when it is due, if you do not pay the interest and principal when it is due, that is a default. And once you do that, that is when you have things like Moody's Investor Service, who say that the creditworthiness…

Of course, today is not February 29. Today is March 7, and the fact is that the Republican leadership has once again failed to stand up to the test of leadership and address what needs to be addressed. What we are talking about here is the…

I join my colleague from Texas, Mr. Doggett, in introducing this privileged resolution and in urging its approval so that the U.S. Government can keep paying its bills and not default for the first time in its history. There is no question…

Absolutely not. This is no way to run a country. This is certainly a revolution, but it is the wrong kind of revolution.

A week ago, the chairman of the Committee on the Budget, Mr. Kasich, said that the Republicans had abandoned the idea of shutting down the Government and defaulting on the national debt. But yesterday, my colleague from Texas, the majority…

Just so I understand what the gentleman is saying, this rule will effectively knock out the Berman language as it relates to reimbursement to the States?

Because there will be States like California and my State of Florida that are in the process of qualifying for the truth in sentencing this year, and within a year will be qualified, because I spoke to our State Senate president today. I…

Last week I introduced a bill, H.R. 567, which would require the President to submit and the Congress to act on a balanced budget beginning in fiscal year 1997. If we are truly serious, and many Members last night said they were serious…

I applaud the House for undertaking these proposals, many of which I campaigned for and many of which I support and will support today. But I have to agree with my colleague from Indiana that I think we should include his legislation to…