as my colleagues know, at this time of year communities all over America are organizing their fall coat drives to help the less fortunate. Well, as my colleagues might imagine, here in the Gingrich Congress it takes a little different…

Certainly it is no wonder the Speaker Gingrich chose to elevate another anti-education proposal in these waning hours, precious hours, and to say he will place this above all the other issues that face the American working families today…

this debate has nothing to do with murdering babies; it has everything to do with murdering the truth. It is a deplorable and cynical move that the sponsors of this measure engage in to exploit the very deeply held and genuine religious…

Mr. Speaker, it is incredible, really, to listen to Members come here and talk about this very sensitive subject on which we need bipartisanship, and to have them talk about bipartisanship and inclusion, when what they have done through…

conveniently omitted from today's discussion of antiterrorism legislation is what occurred on this floor in March of this year, the last time antiterrorism legislation was up for our consideration. At that time, under pressure from special…

America takes justifiable pride in the strength and determination of our Olympic athletes. America respects the strength and determination of the criminal investigators who are seeking to determine who and how these incidences were caused…

America has asked for real reform of the way this Congress operates, an end to the money chase and more attention to the Nation's business, and a bipartisan effort has been made to accomplish real campaign finance reform, supported by a…

like other Members of this Congress, I have been successful under the current system. I will keep doing the things necessary. If we want to serve in Congress, we have no choice but to be out trying to raise hundreds of thousands of…

Well, Mr. Speaker, this is what it has come to. A year and a half is down, and a rout of the revolutionaries. They promised us a revolution in the way this Congress was operated, and today they delivered, defeating the one hope for…

we have a town down there in Texas called Wink and a number spread out across the State that are so small they could be called Blink because you would blink and miss them. That is the way it is with Reform Week here in this Congress. You…

while I share the concerns of the last speaker about terrorism, I am amazed by his comments defending Speaker Gingrich and his comments about Medicare and his challenge to my good friend, our colleague, the gentleman from New Jersey, Mr…

what a contrast in Speaker Gingrich's gardening abilities. When it comes to Medicare, he says, let it wither on the vine. But when it comes to the special interest money trees here in Washington, he says, water them, fertilize them. Give…

I think the first conclusion is even more important than Medicare, and that is the conclusion that, as you listen to this debate, and you listen to the way the Republican leadership has run away from Medicare, it is because the American…

last year these Republicans promised revolution, a reformed Congress. Indeed America witnessed a year of zealotry that culminated in a billion and a half dollars of squandered taxpayer resources on costly Government shutdowns. So this year…

Americans realize that the welfare system is working neither for the taxpayer nor for those it is designed to help. But the question is not whether to change the system but how to change it. The question is, will we provide the means to…

last January 1995, this House began its proceedings with great fanfare and with claims that this would be in fact a revolutionary reform Congress. In fact, things have changed quite a bit over the course of the last few months. The…

it seems to me that integrity begins at home. Or, more particularly, integrity begins in this House. Every Member of this House will have an opportunity to go on record concerning the integrity of the proceedings of this House and of its…

all of this, with all of those failures, all those attempts to wreck education, to wreck Medicare, what they call reconciliation, which was the right name for that bill that they did that it, all of that and then they have come, have they…

I am stunned genuinely to hear the last speaker refer to whining, to refer to crying. I find even more stunning the comments of the distinguished chair of the Rules Committee referring to crybabies. I had thought that would be an incident…

On your time I will yield for the full 30 minutes but on my time I want to talk about the way you are flouting the law, flouting the Congressional Budget Act. If you think that act is inappropriate, then change the law, but it is on the…

I commend and thank the gentlewoman from North Carolina [Mrs. Clayton] and all of those who have joined with her for her leadership in expressing our collective outrage at what has been occurring in communities across this country. Now is…

I join him today in offering this amendment, because it is time for our Government to stop subsidizing death. That is really what this is all about. A government subsidy to promote the growth of tobacco makes as little sense as a…

So even though tobacco is the No. 1 cause of preventable death in the United States, this Congress, this House under the Gingrich leadership, is not doing anything about it?

yesterday this failed Congress failed to act on the national budget resolution. Apparently the budget resolution advanced by the Gingrich leadership was so bad that even some of our Republican colleagues could not stomach it. In fact, I…

once again our Republican friends demonstrate they do not know up from down. Talk is not cheap in this body, Mr. Radanovich, because the gap between the reality and the rhetoric that has come out here tonight is several billion dollars…