Lloyd Bentsen

as a co-sponsor, I rise in strong support of this resolution, which commends the people of Israel for conducting a free and fair election, and reaffirms the important bonds between the United States and Israel. On February 6, 2001, the…

The other question is after you have exceeded the 2-year period and you increase the value of your home through addition or property values rise, are you under a new 2-year period?

And to the extent that one after the 2 years changes residence within the State, the equity they roll over, as I understand it, would be an exempt item under the State homestead law. Would it be additional equity rolled into the new…

Mr. Speaker, to follow up where we were, a question that I think is extremely important is the question of homeowners today in Texas and other States which have a broader homestead exemption. Are these provisions prospective in nature in…

The question is raised on the roll-over period and the prospective nature talks about interest acquired. The bill reads the homestead as interest acquired by the debtor, and this is getting somewhat technical or minute, I guess, during…

The House also adopted language that allowed States to opt out of the cap on the exemption of homestead. This is something that the Federal Government has allowed the States to determine since the founding of the country. What I would ask…

I rise in support of H.R. 5173 and want to commend the Republican Leadership for abandoning their fiscally irresponsible budget and trying to salvage, albeit with less than a month left until the 106th Congress ends, something from the…

I rise in opposition to the veto override of H.R. 4810. With just under fourteen legislative days remaining, we are poised to vote on a measure that will only provide tax relief to a small segment of Americans, at a cost of $292.5 billion…

I rise in support of H.R. 1775, the Estuary Restoration Act of 2000. As an original cosponsor, I believe this bill will be tremendously instrumental for the restoration of our nation's major estuaries, including Galveston Bay which borders…

I rise today to honor the Bellaire Texas Little League All-Stars for winning the United States Championship and advancing to the title game of the 54th Little League World Series. Along the way, the team inspired not only our community of…

we are not legislating today, we are choreographing for the upcoming Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. If we were legislating today, we would be doing as my colleague, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Rangel) just said, we…

It is significant because yesterday, Democrats were told and, in fact, a number of Republicans as it turned out, were told that we could not offer a broad-based, voluntary, universal prescription drug program under Medicare because the…

this is a particularly sad day for the House. My colleagues talked about this walk-out. The reason this man's portrait is on the wall right here is because they walked out on the British 224 years ago because they would not allow free and…

I rise in support of H.R. 4733, the FY 2001 Energy and Water Appropriations bill. I strongly support the decision of the Subcommittee on Energy & Water to ensure the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers receives adequate funding to continue their…

later this week, the Republican leadership will bring to the floor a bill purporting to be a new prescription drug benefit for America's senior citizens. Yesterday, I gave a number of reasons why the Republican prescription drug bill is…

later this week the Republican leadership will bring to the floor a bill purporting to be a new prescription drug benefit for America's senior citizens. In reality, it is a bill which is fatally flawed, providing a political fig leaf for…

It is interesting, Mr. Speaker, that one of our candidates for President is running under the theory that it is time to change the old concept that if it feels good, do it. But the bill that we have before us today fits into that. Now, I…

I offered this same amendment when the House Committee on the Budget marked up the budget resolution, and I was told at the time that we had put enough money into NIH, that this year we just could not do it. It is ironic that a few weeks…

I represent the largest medical center in the world, has the largest children's hospital, Texas Children's Hospital, in my district. They have an emergency room that was built I think for something along the lines of 20,000 emergency room…

as a member of the House Banking Committee, I rise in strong support of H.R. 3637, legislation that will make technical corrections and clarifications to the Homeowners Protection Act. This law ensures that homeowners have the right to…

the question though is this: The Members on the floor of the House would be voting to cut a specific program that they think is going in a lockbox, and the members of the other body would be voting to cut a specific program. But then the…

But they are going to have projections that they are going to get for, say, fiscal year 2001 and then they are going to pass the capital gains tax cut. I do not think they want to pass the capital gains tax cut and do it on an annual…

I strongly support H.R. 1291, the Internet Access Charge Prohibition Act. This legislation will ensure that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are not required to pay access charges to connect to the Internet. As a result, consumers will…

However, this is just a bad amendment. It is well-intentioned, but I consider this amendment to be the dumbing down of American government. It means well that we do not want government shutdowns, but what this amendment does is it puts the…

reclaiming my time, my only concern is it would be something people would say we are going to vote against a program we do not like, but we will take it out of a program we like.