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with all due respect, our opportunity was by voting down the rule and coming back with a new rule. That is the way the House is supposed to operate under regular order. If the gentleman was not satisfied with the rule, he should have voted…
Mr. Chairman, evidently the Congress is into the business of naming things after people who have nothing whatsoever to do with the facilities that are being named after them. I would say that while I had great personal affection for…
Again under my reservation of objection, Mr. Speaker, let me simply explain to the Members what I understand is happening with respect to one of the appropriation bills. The State-Justice bill has a number of contentious items. Frankly…
If I can just, under my reservation of objection again, note that I am informed that so far staff has found at least 50 mistakes in the Senate version of the State-Justice-Commerce bill as it was sent over here. I am not saying that by way…
Again under any reservation let me simply say I, too, hope that we can finish in 24 hours, but, frankly, I do not approach this like I am a permanent president of an optimist club, and it just seems to me that we have massive confusion…
I do not want to arbitrarily cut this off, but at the same time I do not want the House to engage in needless conversation when this proposition is going to be objected to, and I am going to object. The fact is that we have been told by a…
no Member of this House in the last 2 years has offered more amendments to cut military spending than I have. I think that we spend an obscene amount on military spending. I think it ought to be cut back deeply. Last year I offered an…
if we can cut through the partisan bloviating we have just heard for a few minutes, I would like to note something else. I have voted against every farm bill that has been in front of this House for the last 10 years because those bills…
Before I get into the bill, I would simply like to take a moment to also, from the minority side of the aisle, extend our best wishes to Sue Quantius as she leaves to pursue other opportunities in life. As the subcommittee chairman…
Mr. Speaker, I frankly have misgivings and mixed feelings about this continuing resolution. People who know me know that I have a black Irish soul and that I often worry about the downside of life, but even I, until 2 days ago, was very…
I would suggest that if Mr. Clinton, or the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Goodling] or Mr. Emanuel or the gentleman from Arizona [Mr. Shadegg] or anyone else thinks that it is so easy to put together a compromise, they sit down and talk…
I am supporting this rule, and I am going to support this bill. If the administration vetoes it, I will speak to override the veto. I do not want to do so because I think that this bill is perfect. It is not. There are many items in this…
I have seen the Congress for many years treat the District of Columbia almost as its private plantation. The very first fight I ever had in this House was when the Congress tried to hold up money for construction of the D.C. subway until…
I would simply note that I certainly do not agree with everything in this bill. In fact, there are items that I have fairly strong disagreement with. But it is a reasonable approach to transportation problems in this country, and I think…
this debate has nothing whatsoever to do with the District of Columbia. As was evidenced by the last speech on that side of the aisle, what we have here is an attempt by a number of Members of the majority party to use the District of…
let me make clear that I think that this bill is very much short of what we need in a variety of areas, including environmental protection, housing and veterans' care. The problem, however, is that this committee was constrained in its…
I support it because if this amendment is to be attached anywhere, it should be attached to an authorization legislation and not an appropriation bill. My favorite philosopher, as I have said many times on this floor, is Archie, the…
what is happening here tonight is enough to give abuse of power a bad name. This act brings only one question into my mind: Does this body still believe in the biblical admonition, ``Thou shalt not steal?'' All I have to say about what you…
The real live consequences for people if this is not done is that persons have to leave the country and they cannot return for 2 years. That would create an unacceptable disruption of human beings' lives if in fact the Congress were to…
I simply want to make certain that Members on both sides of the aisle understand that if they are interested in either party's position on the census question and on sampling, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to vote against this…
Even Babe Ruth struck out 1,300 times, and no sane manager would have benched Babe Ruth. I do not think we should bench the National Endowment for the Arts. I would say that for every occasional grant that any Member of this body can find…
This amendment simply would raise by $4.1 million above the House figure the amount that we would support for congregate meals for the elderly. The Senate is $4 million higher than the House bill is. This would simply instruct the…
let me say that I think every thoughtful Member of this House understands what happened on the tax bill was an outrageous sneak play which delivered an illegitimate benefit to an industry that is not entitled to it. I would insist on its…
I still think in the end, regardless of the outcome of this amendment, that is what we are going to need to do. So when this amendment passes today, I hope people on all sides recognize that in the end, evaluation of student performance is…
that means that authority over all policy guidelines for this testing is being moved to that board; it will not be under the Department of Education. In addition, that board is being expanded to include a higher number of local officials…
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