Jim Sensenbrenner

I rise in support of H.R. 3036, the Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2004 through 2006. During the 107th Congress, I was pleased to secure bipartisan passage of the 21st century Department of Justice…

Let me say that this is a work in progress, as was the DOJ reauthorization bill that the Congress passed and the President signed last Congress, which was the first Department of Justice reauthorization that had been done since 1979. The…

H.R. 3095 simply clarifies title 4 of the United States Code to permit the chief elected officer of a city or locality to order the United States flag flown at half mast to honor the death of a present or former official of that locality…

H.R. 2391 will help spur the development of new technologies by making it easier for collaborative inventors who represent more than one organization to obtain the protection of the U.S. patent system for their inventions. The bill…

Mr. Speaker, Congress established the State Justice Institute as a private nonprofit corporation in 1984. Its purpose is to improve judicial administration in the State courts. SJI accomplishes this goal by providing funds to State courts…

Mr. Chairman, the food industry is our Nation's largest private sector employer, providing jobs to some 12 million Americans. Today, that industry is threatened by an array of legal claims alleging that it should be liable to pay damages…

my amendment does not alter the substance of the bill, it simply clarifies it further. First, to clarify and ensure consistency in interpretation, it simply amends one phrase in the bill's stay provisions in Sec. 3(c) to track language…

the Supreme Court in Healy v. Beer Institute, 1989, elaborated on these principles concerning the extraterritorial effects as follows: ``The critical inquiry is whether the practical effect of the regulation is to control conduct beyond…

I think that probably the key part of this resolution is that it gives Congressional recognition to the remembrances that occur on February 19 of each year, because we should not forget about the egregious error that President Roosevelt…

Mr. Speaker, on July 6, 1973, President Richard Nixon first created the Drug Enforcement Administration. The agency was created to address a growing drug problem in the United States. The DEA was the merger of separate law enforcement and…

Mr. Speaker, today I rise in favor of House Resolution 56. On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. Shortly afterwards, citizens of Japanese ancestry residing in the United States were prohibited from living…

If the gentlewoman from Ohio will refresh her recollection, the WTO treaty was ratified by Congress. It was urged upon us and signed by President Clinton. I joined the gentlewoman from Ohio in opposing the WTO treaty when it came up in…

Mr. Chairman, one of our jobs in Congress is to make the government work. We have heard ample data that has been presented on both sides of the aisle that the PTO is in crisis and unless we pass legislation, things will get worse rather…

Mr. Chairman, H.R. 1561 will help implement the Patent and Trademark Office's Strategic Business Plan to transform the agency's operations. The bill incorporates a revised fee schedule previously submitted by the PTO that will generate…

Mr. Speaker, let us get back to the Innocent Child Protection Act, which passed the House unanimously on July 25, 2000. The purpose of that bill, which is law today, was to prevent the killing of a child in utero because of the mother's…

I yield myself 2 minutes to make 3 points. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from New York seems to imply that this bill has to do with tax cuts and appropriation levels. It does not. It has to do with the criminal law, and as an aside, the…

Mr. Speaker, on January 7, 18-year-old Ashley Lyons and her unborn son, Landon, were murdered in Scott County, Kentucky. Current Kentucky law regards this crime as having only a single victim. But Carol Lyons, Ashley's mother and Landon's…

Mr. Speaker, the women who are the victims of the violence that has caused death or harm to their babies have already made their choice, and their choice was to carry their babies to term and to give birth and to raise those children in…

Mr. Chairman, the bill that is in the substitute made in order by the Committee on Rules, which is the version of the bill that passed the House last March by about a three to one margin, is better for family farmers than what the Senate…

Now, the current law, Bankruptcy Code section 523(a)(6) makes nondischargeable debts incurred by willful or malicious injury by the debtor to another entity or to the property of another entity. That law is not changed in this bill. So if…

let us be clear. The means-based test only applies to people with incomes above the State median income average. Anybody who is below the State median income does not qualify under the means-based test, and their bankruptcy petition cannot…

Mr. Speaker, section 414 does allow an investment banker that previously represented a business to continue to represent the business after it files for bankruptcy. Under current law, that investment banker would be prohibited from…

current law provides $267,494 to the survivors of public safety officers such as police officers, firefighters and rescue squad officers who die ``as the direct and proximate result of a personal injury sustained in the line of duty''. S…

Mr. Speaker, the only way we are going to get a handle on the illegal immigration problem of this country is by giving employers the means to verify whether an applicant for employment is legally able to work here and then to enforce the…

Today when I was driving in, I followed a car that had a big bumper sticker on it that said ``Don't Mess with Texas,'' and I came to the House today with great fear and trepidation that by messing with Texas and deciding where the Federal…