what we have seen here in the House of Representatives today is truly remarkable. With the Federal fiscal year drawing to a close, the Republican leadership had a responsibility to put on President Clinton's desk 13 appropriations bills…

with September drawing to a close, troubling ethical questions concerning the process of ethics in this House linger on. As a recent supreme court justice, I am concerned about the rule of law, about ethical standards, about the precedents…

Well, the gentlewoman from Ohio [Ms. Pryce] can call it broccoli if she wants to, but it is still a cut and the Republicans are still unwilling to level with the American people on these cuts. Now they come forward and tell us they will…

well, the big day is finally here and all of America is happy. The time is here. After months of being Medi- scared to level with the American people and tell them how much their pockets are going to be picked to provide the same level of…

Silence is what we have gotten when it comes to the covert Republican plan to hike the costs of Medicare for all of America's seniors. Mr. Speaker, for months Speaker Gingrich and cohorts have been going around behind closed doors saying…

to resolve so many of the problems of this country, it is essential that Republicans and Democrats come together in a bipartisan fashion. We have seen in this session how this can work. We have seen a 50-year-old lobbying law adjusted. We…

I will yield on your time as long as you want to talk about this act of intimidation right here on the floor of the Congress.

I am pleased to accept the challenge of the last speaker, the gentleman from California. If he does not see enough lobbyists on the floor of this Congress or at the edges of this Congress, it is because in too many cases this new…

with the House resuming its work today, the time is now for action on lobby and gift reform. There are Members, both Democrat and Republican, who are eager to obtain immediate reform on this subject. But unfortunately, we have been stymied…

we have seen all this before. You have seen it on late night television, and ad, the fellow with the Ginzu knives. He brandishes them. He swings them over his head, and whack, an onion is in two. Before you know it, a radish lies in…

Lu Ann Nye and her daughter are the kind of folks that are going to be impacted by what is happening here today. She is a courageous woman who had the courage to leave welfare, and go back to Austin Community College, and get a degree to…

if this bill really deserves a full and open debate, as the gentleman from Georgia has suggested, then why are we taking it up at midnight? Mr. Speaker, this is a bill that affects the telephone in every house and every workplace in this…

this is a debate about Elizabeth. Elizabeth, a young woman in Austin, TX, who makes use of the services of Planned Parenthood of Austin. It is a debate about Elizabeth and about thousands of other women across this country who should have…

I do come from Texas, and believe in energy independence. But I do not think this measure is about energy independence. It is about pork futures. I took a shot at NIPER, which is what this is all about, it is the National Institute for…

My colleagues, I want to focus now on all of the details that the Republicans have given to us today and every other day in the course of this debate about the future of Medicare. Here it is. Here is the plan as they have described it here…

Mr. Speaker, I think there are many Americans who are out there saying when they watch the proceedings in this House that there ought to be a law against what is happening up there. There ought to be a law against some of the things that…

I am troubled to hear of even the possibility that this budget might get as little as 4 hours of time. It has been described as a revolutionary budget, and I know as one of I guess what would be the chief revolutionaries you would have…

with Mother's Day on Sunday, we are reminded of the commandment to ``honor thy father and thy mother.'' And, my, how our fathers and our mothers and our seniors all over this country have been honored this week. They have been honored with…

It is the product of secrecy, of task forces meeting, working as a shadow government in this Capitol, to design a budget resolution. And if you had sat there from 10 in the morning until a little after 1 in the morning the next day as I…

risk assessment is a good concept if, and only if, risk assessment means good science. If risk assessment is only good politics, if risk assessment is only gumming up the regulatory process so that you cannot regulate and assure clean…

It does that. This is a question of whether you go even further than that bad old amendment that we passed back then.

when it comes to attempts to cut Medicare for our Nation's seniors, our Republican colleagues are trying to perform one huge magical illusion. I like magic tricks just about as much as the next person, but I prefer to see them in the…

the Gingrichites took a poll, and now they are scurrying here, there, and everywhere searching for a way to dress up their plan to slash Medicare. The Gingrichites are understandably scared silly that the American public recognizes that…

on the path to approve the Deficit Explosion Act last night, otherwise known as the campaign tax cut bill, the Gingrichites hit a roadblock. How they dealt with that roadblock was significant implications for the future of this Congress…

I do not believe we will ever get the budget in balance without a true bipartisan effort. I thought we were headed in that direction because I have a letter here that was signed by 105 Republican Members who said that they recognized there…