Sylvester Turner

for over 15 months this Congress has spent thousand of hours and billions of dollars investigating campaign finance abuses, and this is what it has all come down to: a package of four partisan bills brought to this floor on a calendar that…

the effort in the House of Representatives to reform campaign finance laws in this country has died today without a single word of debate being spoken. It died by a procedural move on the part of the Republican leadership to place this…

I rise in support of the Forest Recovery Protection Act, and I thank the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Smith), chairman, and the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Stenholm) for their leadership on this issue. I represent a district in east Texas that…

each us who began service in this Congress with Walter are left with fond memories of our friendship with him. It is a tribute tonight to hear the statements of our colleagues who each in their own unique way saw the true value of Walter's…

I rise in support of H.R. 2183, the bipartisan freshman campaign finance reform bill. Abraham Lincoln once wrote that with public trust, everything is possible. And without it, nothing is impossible. He recognized that a democracy cannot…

as we approach this Father's Day, many of us are fortunate to reflect upon the positive influence of our own fathers and to feel the sense of joy that comes from being a father. We understand that the experience of having a father is…

I rise to urge a no vote on the previous question because of my strong belief that it is time for this Congress to act and to act quickly on campaign finance reform. Recently the New York Times quoted a woman by the name of Pam Elliott in…

I rise in support of H.R. 647, the STEP 21 proposal, and I join my colleagues in thanking the gentleman from Texas [Mr. DeLay] and the gentleman from California [Mr. Condit] for the leadership that they have given on this very important…

I come forward today as a former member of the State senate in Texas where we passed one of the toughest juvenile justice laws in the country just last session, a bipartisan bill supported by a Republican Governor and our then-Democratic…

I came to Congress after having served in the Texas Senate where last session we passed what I believed to be one of the toughest juvenile justice reforms in the Nation. Now I come to Congress and find that this Congress, in H.R. 3, is…