William F. Smith

This section should not be implemented if it would significantly disrupt legitimate border traffic. I will support going forward with this section only if it will not impede that cross-border travel and trade that I understand the…

Mr. Speaker, S. 1759, the bill we are considering today would grant a Federal charter to the American GI Forum of the United States. This Senate bill is the companion measure to H.R. 3843, introduced and championed by my colleagues, the…

I rise in support of H.R. 4276. This bill, Mr. Chairman, takes important steps to deal with illegal immigration and related crimes, such as alien smuggling and drug smuggling. As in previous years, the bill provides for 1,000 new border…

I will work with the gentleman, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Paul), and others who might be interested, to draft and enact legislation this Congress that will prevent the Department of Transportation, or any other agency or department of…

the legislation we passed was designed only to address necessary steps to deal with a specific problem, such as illegal immigration in the United States. It was not the intention of the bill or the Congress to establish a national ID, or…

I rise in support of the Gekas- McCollum-Smith amendment that preserves the rights of the states to set their own individual homestead exemptions. H.R. 3150, the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1998, is a necessary reform of our Nation's…

I support the religious freedom amendment... I urge my colleagues to support the religious freedom amendment.

Mr. Chairman, I want to also commend the gentleman from Hawaii (Mr. Abercrombie) for his bringing this issue to our attention, and for his constructive proposals for reforming the program to allow South Korea entry into it. This bill…

I was not talking process. I was talking real people, real children who might be smuggled, real illegal aliens.

Let me conclude by saying once again that today our colleagues are seeing a rare alignment of orbits here where we have the Department of Justice, the State Department, and the White House itself joining many of us in Congress who are…

The problem with Portugal and Greece is not the fact that they are not great countries. The problem, as recognized by the State Department and the Department of Justice and the White House, is that we should not lower our standards just to…

I would simply ask the gentleman, I think he is referring to legal immigrants because I assume he is not endorsing illegal immigration in America.

I think the gentleman did understand the point of my metaphor there, but if the countries have not met the standard that currently exists, we are not asking for special treatment.

the reason that I will not budge from that argument is that the gentleman keeps using that phrase, that they deserve to get the visa waiver status because they are members of the European Union. If the gentleman will refrain from using…

Mr. Chairman, H.R. 2578 extends the visa waiver pilot program. The visa waiver program allows business visitors and tourists to enter the United States without obtaining a visa. Currently, 26 nations have qualified as visa waiver…

Let me reiterate and say that the Visa Waiver Program does not discriminate against anyone, it applies the same standards to every country in the world. And again I say, as I mentioned a while ago, to reward a couple of countries that have…

Once again, I want to say to my colleagues and reassure them that H.R. 992 is a fair, straightforward, common-sense way to give every property owner across America their right to choose the court that they think is best for their claim…

However, I want to point out that this is the same Justice Department in 1995 that admitted that under current law, "The government presumably would have the right to transfer the cases and consolidate them in one forum." Also, all appeals…

The issues we discuss today are those of equity and fairness. Every homeowner and every property owner across America deserves to have their day in court, and not just in court but in the right court. Many legislative initiatives are…

The language in this bill is mandatory and says that the entry-exit system shall not significantly disrupt trade, tourism or other legitimate cross border traffic. I believe the bill will do exactly what the gentleman would like to see…

Mr. Speaker, Congress has required the Immigration and Naturalization Service to develop and implement a system to track the entry and exits of those crossing our borders. The purpose of this bill is to make sure that such a system will…

I was pleased to support the efforts of the gentleman from Florida last year to include a vaccination requirement for all new immigrants in the Illegal Immigration Reform Act of 1996. This revision, section 341 of the 1996 act, is an…

the tax bill before the House, the first in 16 years to cut taxes, is one small step for America's families, one historic leap for freedom. It reverses the Nation's direction and points us down a path toward restoring individual…

My conclusion is that the penalty that has been assessed by the Ethics Committee is way too severe when you look at the actual findings of the committee and when you look at the precedent that has been established by this House. Let us…

I thank the Chair again for yielding me the time. There has been much discussion this afternoon about the tax issues in this case. There has been an assertion made that the Speaker supposedly intended to violate tax laws or that he was…