Jim Sensenbrenner

I want to thank both of them for bringing to our attention an unintended quirk in the Immigration and Nationality Act that needlessly keeps families separated. I want to thank them for developing this bill, which brings families back…

I am willing to stipulate that everybody who has debated this question today, on either side of the issue, is just as patriotic as everybody else. There is a legitimate difference of opinion on whether or not we should propose a…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1209, the Child Status Protection Act of 2001, was introduced by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Gekas), the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, and the ranking member, the gentlewoman from Texas…

This bill attempts to take a middle course. What is so wrong with 4 months? The provision in the omnibus appropriation bill which was signed by former President Clinton on December 21, 2000, established a period of 4 months and 10 days for…

Section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act has been a controversial part of our immigration law since its inception in 1994. 245(i) allows illegal immigrants who are eligible for immigrant visas but who are illegally in the…

I agree we ought to talk about abortion when an abortion bill comes up. The other side of the aisle is bringing up the issue of abortion. This has become an abortion debate because the other side of the aisle has made it such. They are so…

Mr. Speaker, we have heard people opposed to this bill say time and time again that this bill takes away the right to choose, and they are so so wrong. This bill respects the right of those who have chosen to carry their baby to term…

Mr. Speaker, very plainly, on page 3, lines 4 and 5 of the constitutional amendment, it says that Congress defines by law what a de minimis amount is. So this does not require litigation. But having said that, listening to the argument of…

I would submit that the American people think that it should be hard to raise taxes, and I would also submit that the American people historically have not trusted Congress very much when the time comes to deal with bills that raise taxes…

I recall one of the compromises that got the Constitution through the convention in the States was one that permitted slaves to be imported for the first 20 years of the Constitution and did not specifically omit slavery. Now, was Madison…

Mr. Speaker, it is the same old story. When all else fails, drop the Social Security red herring. This constitutional amendment will not cut Social Security. If there is a revenue pinch, it will force Congress and the Nation to set…

reclaiming my time, that is really not true, because if we cut out other wasteful spending in other parts of the government, we can put more money into prescription drugs, and it is a matter of priority.

is the gentlewoman from Texas aware that the Constitution written by the Founding Fathers prohibited Congress from levying direct taxes on the American people, and it required an amendment about 100 years ago in order to allow Congress to…

Mr. Speaker, in response to the comment that I made, the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson-Lee) said that since the income tax amendment was ratified in 1913, we have done very well. I would agree with her 100 percent. We have done too…

I rise today disappointed by the news that NASA has again acquiesced to inappropriate Russian demands to the Space Station program. Russia will be sending Dennis Tito, a 60-year-old American millionaire, as one of its contributions to this…

As the author of H.R. 860, I am grateful for the opportunity to consider it on the floor today. The bill before us has had a long legislative life, having been considered in one form or another since the 101st Congress in 1991. This…

Senate bill 320 consists of noncontroversial, technical amendments to the patent, trademark, and copyright laws. This bill corrects clerical and other technical drafting errors, and makes important clarifications in the American Inventors…

I rise in support of H.R. 809, the Antitrust Technical Corrections Act of 2001, which I have introduced along with the committee's ranking member, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers) and the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde). This…

I disagree with the arguments made by my friend, the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Watt), because I think that the purpose of this bill is to make the process of adjudicating a common disaster lawsuit, such as one arising from a plane…

Mr. Chairman, the problem is that it ended up not being technical in nature and it ended up changing substantive rights in the bill, which is something that we had decided to keep out of the technical amendment. I would further point out…

Mr. Chairman, this bill has been percolated through the Congress for the last 4 years. It has probably been one of the most debated, amended and negotiated bills that have come before the Congress of the United States in the last 25 years…

this provision was struck because it was determined to be substantive in nature and potentially controversial. It is the intention of me as the author of this amendment to have the amendment to be completely technical and nonsubstantive in…

Mr. Speaker, I think this precedent has already been set, and I would like to read from the National Science Foundation fact sheet that outlines the awards that the President of the United States offers every year. It says, the…

Mr. Speaker, I respectfully disagree with the assertions that have been made that the section in question is unconstitutional. The gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson) cites a 1971 U.S. Supreme Court case. There have been two…

Mr. Speaker, small and medium-sized manufacturers contribute greatly to our Nation's economic growth, creating thousands of new jobs each year and providing all Americans with quality manufactured goods. The emergence of electronic…