Spencer Cox

this is the 150th anniversary year of the Republican Party. Over a century and a half, from the abolition of slavery to the establishment of women's suffrage, to the freeing of millions in the Soviet Empire and Afghanistan and in Iraq, the…

what we are fighting for in Iraq is what we have always fought for here in America. We are fighting for freedom. This year is the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Republican Party. Over a century and a half, from the abolition of…

we are playing a dangerous game here. If the gentleman from California (Mr. Sherman) had written an amendment that dealt with how U.S. citizens are treated, whether they can be found to be enemy combatants and detained, we might have had…

the House voted today to recognize and commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a law that was approved with broad bipartisan support and that has proven its worth in enforcing the principles of freedom and…

Today, we celebrate the anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was the subject of debate in this very body 40 years ago and which was enacted into law almost on this very day, on July 2. This anniversary is important because…

Mr. Speaker, when President Reagan took office on that cold day in 1981, the world needed a hero, and on that day President Reagan sent a message to every American and to every human being enslaved by the Soviet empire. Confronting not the…

The first time I met Ronald Reagan was the day I began work for him in the White House. We shook hands and exchanged pleasantries in the Oval Office. Of course, it is difficult to forget one's first meeting with the President of the United…

I rise to offer a long delayed thank you to President Reagan for his help with a personal matter of mine. By the time I turned 15 in 1980, I had grown acutely aware of a quadrennial rift between my parents. My father was a Truman Democrat…

thanks to the gentleman from Georgia, Mr. Burns, for sponsoring this outstanding and much-needed reform of our tax system. This bill will direct the IRS to create a simpler, shorter, less time-consuming tax return for America's senior…

this is Cover the Uninsured Week, organized by patients, physicians and hospitals to promote access to care to all Americans. They are calling on Congress to act. We are here to answer that call. We are here today because patients are…

Mr. Speaker, we are here on the floor to demand of the communist government of Vietnam that Father Ly immediately be released, unconditionally. Father Ly's only offense is that he is a Catholic priest who sought to minister to the…

This is a disgrace. This country led an international effort to end the regime of a cruel dictator who abused his people. Now men and women wearing the American uniform have abused Iraqis. The injury they have caused does not end with the…

It is true that there are a handful of brave students at Harvard that are ROTC scholars, and it is true that Harvard is happy to cash their scholarship checks; but Harvard refuses to permit the ROTC program on campus and, therefore, the…

I will just say simply that we have students who are going to graduate. This has been going on for some years. 9/11 was a few years ago. At Yale where the school is happy to cash the ROTC scholarship checks, the Yale students have to…

I thank the author of the bill for yielding me this time. Just to respond to the preceding speaker, the gentleman from Hawaii, this is not about telling people what to think or what to say. It is about giving students freedom of choice…

Today, in San Francisco, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is going to honor one of its most distinguished judges by hanging his portrait in historic Courtroom One in the courthouse on 7th Street in San Francisco. That jurist is Herbert…

The Irvine Basin Surface and Groundwater Improvement Act is a bill that, as its author, of course, I am very pleased to see on the floor, but one also that I am very very grateful to the committee for producing. This is going to make a…

I hope that our Nation never sees the kind of bioterror attack that we have been discussing on the floor here today. It is our job to be prepared against that eventuality. The legislative steps that we are taking today, the resources that…

I want to return the thanks and congratulations to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Turner), the ranking member, for his leadership and work on this important legislation. The bill that we are bringing before the House today represents the…

the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Rogers) and the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young) have done an extraordinary job in bringing to the floor a bill that has as its object the most important function of the Federal Government, protecting…

First, notwithstanding much of what is in the air here, it does not raise any material amount of money for the Federal Government. Nominally, about 1 percent. But, in fact, when we take into account the 65 cents on the dollar in compliance…

I can say that I feel there is no issue more integral to homeland security than the preservation and proper functioning of our democratic institutions in time of national emergency. I am very pleased that the next step that this body, and…

I am very, very pleased that we are here commending America's businesses and, more specifically, American business men and women for what they have done in their places of work to help support our war effort in the war in Iraq, the war in…

I have suggested, and there is included in this amendment, a 120-day period during which these regulations can be implemented by the Bush administration... I am concerned that while we are repealing the provisions concerning MTOPS, we are…

we are here in extraordinary circumstances, rushing this legislation to the floor as we must, because we are facing an emergency. We have got to provide compensation to those workers who may be injured or killed by the smallpox vaccine…