Jim Sensenbrenner

Madam Speaker, since September 11, we have learned how deeply vulnerable our immigration system is to exploitation by aliens who wish to harm Americans. H.R. 3525 makes needed changes to our immigration laws to fight terrorism and to…

Mr. Speaker, I cannot believe what I just heard. We are told that we should not put a death penalty in this bill that relates to implementing a convention against terrorist bombings where a death or serious injury occur because the French…

Mr. Speaker, we have now heard the proposition that passing this bill as it is with the death penalty provisions contained in it is somehow going to render ineffective the foreign policy of the United States. I would draw the attention of…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 3209 would impose civil and criminal penalties to deter and punish a person or persons for perpetrating a hoax that others could reasonably believe is or may be a biological, chemical, nuclear attack, or an attack using…

Mr. Speaker, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 made it unlawful for employers to knowingly hire or employ aliens not eligible to work and required employers to check the identity and work eligibility documents of all new…

let me blow away the smoke screen from the litigation management provisions of this bill. Number one, it does not take away anybody's right to sue or anybody's right to get compensation. If there is a cause of action and the Secretary…

Mr. Speaker, let it be clear that this exemption expired on October 1, and if the exemption is not reinstated and continued, well-endowed private colleges and universities, the gentleman from Massachusetts has several in his State, and I…

I am a bit puzzled hearing my colleague on the Committee on the Judiciary, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott), say that this bill ought to be delayed so that the Committee on the Judiciary can consider contingent liability issues. We…

Mr. Speaker, of the thousands of people killed on September 11, over 400 were public safety officers. These brave men and women dedicated their lives to the protection of life and property, and in so doing made the ultimate sacrifice…

I rise today to explain that I will be voting in favor of the Patriot Act of 2001. Previously, I was one of three Republicans to cast a ``no'' vote on the bill, but I believe that the addition of the money laundering provisions of this…

Mr. Speaker, this is the latest step in a long process to attempt to pass a bill and send to the President a bill that is vitally needed. It is vitally needed by our law enforcement officials who are fighting the battle at home. We do not…

it would be my hope that because this is the result of a preconference, the body would pass this bill unamended and send it to the Senate. The issues that would have been debated in the conference were debated in the preconference with the…

I rise in support of H.R. 1552, the Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act. Over the last several years, the Internet has revolutionized commerce in a manner few could have imagined. The Internet has expanded consumer choices, enhanced…

the motion to recommit should be rejected for the following reason: In many cases, what begins as an ordinary criminal investigation will end up leading into material relating to how terrorists finance themselves or how terrorists act and…

If the Senate disagrees with the House amendment, I assume it will go to conference. I would hope that for once the Senate would think that we got it right and pass the bill unamended and let the President then do his thing.

Madam Speaker, today is a historic day for the House, as we are about to consider, and likely pass, what Jack White at Time Magazine called ``the first new civil rights law of the 21st century.'' I, along with the gentlewoman from Texas…

as President Bush has said, Tuesday's attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are nothing short of acts of war. No less than the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, they were a premeditated, secret, and carefully orchestrated…

Mr. Speaker, I am not a New Yorker, but what happened at the World Trade Center in New York could have happened anyplace in the country, because terrorism knows no boundaries. It could have happened in Milwaukee or San Francisco or Atlanta…

Congress established the patent reexamination system in 1980. The 1980 reexamination statute was enacted with the intent reexamination of patents by the Patent and Trademark Office would achieve three principal benefits, first, to settle…

This bill also attempts to improve the patent reexamination system. It aims at closing an unfortunate administrative loophole and bridging a legal gap in the working of our patent system. The reform also comes out of two hearings that the…

I am not sure that the definition of commercial fishing operation contained in section 1007 in the Senate bill is sufficiently tightly worded to prevent someone who uses a yacht for sport fishing and derives income therefrom from being…

On one hand, we hear support for the Greenwood bill, which really allows the FDA to license an industry for profit and clone human embryos. On the other hand, we hear those in favor of the Weldon bill, myself included, who say that we…

This issue is not about what the other side called a group of cells or insoulment or a leap of faith; it is about human life at its very beginning. This amendment is not a cloning ban. It has a 10-year moratorium in it; but, in fact, for…

I am certain that the study of the gentleman from Michigan is a very valuable one. The fact is that it is not in point to this debate. This bill does not prevent research on embryonic stem cells. What it does do is it prevents research on…

During the last half of the 20th century, Congress has expanded the criminal code almost exponentially. According to a study conducted by the Task Force on Federalization of Criminal Law of the Criminal Section of the American Bar…