The time has come for Congress to pass an amendment to the Constitution that would require all Senate vacancies to be filled by special election.

Currently, the Constitution's Seventeenth Amendment provides for the popular election of Senators, but it provides an exception in which States can allow Governors to appoint Senators to fill vacancies until a special election is held.

I may be wrong on that, but I think that most of the Members of the Committee have that impression.

I'm going to aim my cannon right between your eyes, Mr. Newberry.

What's going on now, in calling it a pathway to citizenship or earned legalization, is not honest, because it is amnesty.

Terri Schiavo, a person whose humanity is as undeniable as her emotional responses to her family's tender care-giving, has committed no crime and has done nothing wrong. Yet, the Florida courts have brought Terri and the nation to an ugly…

I find myself wondering, why is there so much focus on this life, when we ignore the countless lives throughout the world who die minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day from hunger and disease that this Congress could address and this…

Remember that the 9/11 hijackers had multiple validly issued state driver's licenses among them, and that's how they got on the airplanes. That is what we were trying to stop by changing the provisions in the conference report, and I…

I am pleased to introduce, H.R. 2413, the Computer Security Enhancement Act of 1999, a bipartisan bill to address our government's computer security needs.

Failure to permanently extend the credit has created uncertainty in the research community.

A permanent extension of the R&D Tax Credit is necessary to assuring those who conduct long-term research and development that the federal government values their efforts and will continue to provide support for the type of research that…