I am very pleased to return this week to continue my work in the House. I am rejoining my family, friends, colleagues and supporters in good health and I feel better physically and mentally. I am ready to resume my duties, including my…

Mr. Speaker, S. Con. Res. 71 is a noncontroversial resolution which would express the sense of the Congress that the USTR should use all available means to make Miami, Florida, the permanent site of the Secretariat for the Free Trade Area…

I speak out today in strong opposition to the conference report on the Aviation Investment and Reform Act, better known as AIR21. While there is much to be said for certain portions of that measure, the negative aspects of it are far more…

Mr. Speaker, we stand on this floor, representatives of a country that is basking in a time of great economic prosperity. The United States is at full employment and business is expanding with new jobs being created at a rate rarely…

Mr. Speaker, I will be celebrating my 41st wedding anniversary on Valentine's Day, and am looking forward to that occasion, and my wife is too, and our seven remaining children are going to be there to celebrate it with us. It is something…

I was pointing out the gentleman has only 30,000 couples in his district that are adversely negatively affected by this marriage penalty. There are 70,000 in mine.

I think we all, on a bipartisan basis, we all have an opportunity here to provide much-needed relief to continue to foster the growth of an institution that is in our national interest and our community interest. Our families are dependent…

Mr. Speaker, I will take just a moment, and it is just to reinforce the importance of preserving the process for a post-census local review on the part of local governments. I have a community in my district that sent a letter out. It was…

Caterpillar urges you to vote against the Visclosky-Quinn Quota Bill (H.R. 975). The company strongly opposes the legislation because it not only would hurt our competitiveness in overseas markets, but would lead to direct retaliation…

Mr. Speaker, I respectfully rise today to voice my opposition to this steel quota bill. The choice facing us is clear. Either we want protectionism or we want free markets. Protectionism not only stunts this country's growth but also hurts…

Mr. Speaker, today I join my colleagues in reintroducing the Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 1999. This legislation is a package of miscellaneous trade provisions and other technical and clerical corrections to the…

I rise to support the Senate amendments to the International Religious Freedom Act, H.R. 2431. I abhor the persecution of anyone because of their faith, whether they are Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, fellow Christians, or people of other…

I rise with my many colleagues on both sides of the aisle to offer a many-gun salute to one of the clearly most vigorous, admired, and truly respected leaders ever to come to these Halls of Congress. My colleagues, this courageous and…

I am especially pleased to join with my colleagues in honoring our long-time fellow member and comrade-in-arms, Joe McDade. It was with genuine regret that we heard Joe had decided to call a halt to his long and distinguished career in…

I salute my good friend and long-time colleague and political neighbor, Sid Yates, as he comes to the end of a most remarkable career in the House of Representatives. It was an incredible fifty years ago that Sid first won his seat in…

Mr. Speaker, in response to our distinguished minority leader on the Subcommittee on Trade, I would remind him that there are important contents in the Archer amendment to H.R. 2621. They deal not just with agriculture. There is one, for…

I would simply remind my distinguished colleague the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Traficant) that I have seven daughters, and so these are issues of concern I think to any father. But let me remind my distinguished colleague also of the…

today, this House has an opportunity to improve the health care system for millions of Americans. Like everyone, I want a health care system that is more accessible, more affordable and more accountable. With that goal in mind, I will cast…

The current debate about renewing China's `Most Favored Nation' trading status no doubt raises many complex and difficult questions. . . However, I am in favor of doing all we can to strengthen our relationship with the Chinese people…

A truly moral position would do two things. First, it would honor those who have fallen by pursuing their lost dreams and helping China reform from within. Second, it would open, not shut, the door to the message of freedom and God's love…

It's critically important to have a broad range of contacts with China. The West should not try to isolate the communist regime . . . Economic change does influence political change. China's economic development will be good for the West…

Vigorous economic development leads to independent thinking. People hope to be able to fully satisfy their free will and see their rights fully protected. And then demand ensues for political reform * * * The model of our quiet revolution…

Mr. Chairman, this is a little repetitious. We have been through this so many times. But I want to take advantage of an opportunity to pay tribute to a very distinguished colleague who was first elected to Congress when I graduated from…

three years ago, when the Contract with America was being debated, had somebody told me that this Congress would seriously consider, much less adopt, legislation calling for a 40% increase in highway spending, I would have said ``only on…

I think the points that my colleague has just made are valid and will be under consideration. Under the GSP program and under the bill, the President must consider whether a country is taking steps to afford its workers internationally…