Jim Sensenbrenner

I rise today in fervent support of the brave men and women of our Armed Forces currently serving in Iraq. While American soldiers and Marines courageously risk their lives to confront a determined enemy in Iraq, the Democrat leadership in…

during this past campaign, Democrats pledged to move legislation through the regular committee process and to allow Republicans more latitude to offer amendments on the House floor. They broke this promise last week, again today, and they…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 4997, the Physicians for Underserved Areas Act, reauthorizes for 2 years the program under which physicians on J-1 visas can work in underserved areas. The program expired on June 1 of this year. Each year numerous…

I keep on telling the high school classes that I talk to about what really goes on here that 95 percent of the bills that we pass are worked out in committee, and the debate and votes on the floor merely ratify decisions that have been…

I rise in support of H.R. 1176, the Nonprofit Athletic Organization Protection Act of 2006. This bill is narrowly tailored to correct specific liability exposure problems for nonprofit sports rulemaking bodies, such as the National…

I think both of these letters have reached the wrong conclusion. And again, I will quote from the section that does make the nonapplicability to certain claims. That says the limitation on liability provided by subsection (a) does not…

I think this is an example about the way this place does business. On a bipartisan basis we passed the Adam Walsh Bill and that was signed into law by the President at the end of July. And that was the single greatest protection of…

I rise in support of H.R. 6338, the Geneva Distinctive Emblems Protection Act of 2006. This legislation will assist in the implementation of important humanitarian programs. The Geneva Convention has long provided for the use of the Red…

I rise in support of H.R. 4742, to amend title 35, United States Code, to allow the Director of the Patent and Trademark Office to waive statutory provisions governing patents and trademarks in certain emergencies. The devastation caused…

The reason the bill is before us is that the current statute is drafted too narrowly and does not deal with threats by animal rights extremists in inflicting bodily harm, for example, against the publisher of Vogue magazine, because they…

Mr. Speaker, I am afraid that my distinguished colleague from Ohio hasn't read the bill, so I will read it for him. At the end of page 7 in the Senate-passed bill, there is a subsection (e) called ``rules of construction,'' which says, in…

I agree it is important to recognize that paragraph 1(a) requires that the Secretary of Homeland Security develop and implement a plan for appropriate passports or other documents as expeditiously as possible. It then instructs the…

I rise in support of H.R. 4772, the Private Property Rights Implementation Act. The vast majority of Americans were outraged by a recent Supreme Court decision that severely undermined constitutionally protected property rights. The case…

Mr. Speaker, in 1972, Justice Thurgood Marshall wrote the following in the case of United States v. Topco Associates, Inc.: ``Antitrust laws in general, and the Sherman Act in particular, are the Magna Carta of free enterprise. They are as…

Mr. Speaker, we have got a problem in this country: We are under attack. There are almost 3,000 people that died on 9/11, and we have had to change our entire philosophy on how to deal with this threat. Before 9/11, we treated terrorist…

I just want to quote one of the coordinating counsels for the detainees, a gentleman named Michael Ratner, who boasted about what they are planning on doing in public. "The litigation is brutal for the United States. It is huge. We have…

The Senate bill has loopholes wide enough to drive a 18-wheeler through. If we are doing something, we might as well do something that means a bit rather than simply passing a piece of paper.

I rise in support of H.R. 5323, the Proud to Be an American Citizen Act, which enables U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services or nonprofit entities to conduct naturalization ceremonies on or near Independence Day each year. The…

I yield myself \1/2\ minute. Madam Speaker, we hear complaints all the time about the fact that Republicans are not acting. We are acting today. We acted in December. We acted last week on the fence. We see the Democrat actions. All they…

H.R. 6094 restores the Secretary of Homeland Security's authority to detain certain dangerous aliens, to ensure the removal of the deportable criminal aliens and to combat alien gang crime. The legislation provides DHS authority to detain…

this motion to recommit guts the bill. There is no question about the fact. My friends on the other side of the aisle do not want to have cooperative agreements between the Federal Government and State and local law enforcement to help…

the gentleman's comments are not addressing the point of order which I have raised. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Illinois must confine his remarks to the point of order.

It is the intention of the gentleman from Wisconsin to yield for the closing statement to the gentleman from Michigan, but I would ask the gentleman from Virginia to use up his time and then Mr. Conyers can close.

this amendment is a bad one because it would authorize the FPI to sell inmate-furnished services in the commercial market, which it first initiated in August of 1998. In February of that year, FPI obtained a legal memorandum from the…

I yield 5 minutes to the author of the bill, the gentlewoman from Virginia (Mrs. Drake).