I am frustrated because when I talk to people in my district, in particular, young people, I find a tremendous amount of distrust in our democratic process. People have tuned out of the system because they do not think that it is…

this is a doozie of an amendment. Please listen to the debate on this amendment. Supporters of this bill have said over and over again that the bankruptcy code should not be used as a financial planning tool. Yet the very people who are…

What I felt was necessary was for the body to hear the other side of the story here so that individuals know that this is a very, very, very important concern for the people of southeastern Wisconsin. I wanted to make sure that the people…

2 years ago this Chamber was filled with people, people fighting over whether we should be using Congressional Budget Office numbers or GAO numbers. And the people on the majority side of the aisle said we cannot trust those numbers. We…

That is fine. It is over. For me, it is over in the committee. When you have a committee chair that uses a term, calls the President a term that I think both of you gentlemen would wash out your kids' mouth with soap and says he is out to…

Yes, I did. In fact, I was a cosponsor of that bill to have the laws that apply to the private sector also apply to Congress.

I think, as this editorial from my hometown newspaper points out, this is from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Saturday May 9th, ``Our opinion: Burton unfit to lead Clinton probe. It is no wonder that even some Republicans want Burton…

I am one of those 19 that did not vote for it. And I will not vote for immunity tomorrow because I do not believe this is an attempt to find truth. I do not think this is a fair investigation.

Would the gentleman yield? Assuming what you say is true, and I do not know that it is, and that you are bothered by it, I think you heard us talk about every single editorial has said this committee basically has lost its credibility.

Okay. If I wanted to be a partisan hack on this issue, the smartest thing in the world for me to do would be to say, keep the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Burton) in that chairmanship, because I have seen these editorials, and I mentioned…

My colleague stated that every witness who has come before this committee has talked to this gentleman. I cannot recall a single witness who has testified before this committee who has made that statement. I am on the committee. Not a…

If the Department of Justice had given him immunity, there would be no need for our committee to give him immunity.

For me, the issue is credibility and fairness. So you can paint these pictures. I am standing here with no documents; you have got some documents that obviously have been prepared as a tactical point.

Mr. Speaker, this misses the entire point. It is not the Republicans that deserve an apology, it is the American people; because the American people are the ones that have paid the million-dollar bill for this circus. The American people…

the hour is late. There has been much fanfare this week in Washington over the Burton committee, and the actions that were taken by the chairman of that committee. I just want to reflect on those actions and reflect on that committee which…

when I saw this bill came up today, I thought I read the calendar wrong; I thought it was April Fool's Day. Because this is an April Fool's joke. This bill should be up Wednesday, not today, because this bill is nothing more than a joke…

I think all of us felt the same way, all of us who were on this weekend. It was probably one of the most, if not the most, amazing weekend I have spent in my 5 years in Congress. We all fashion ourselves as busy people, sometimes we are…

one of his deputies, and it was almost a humbling experience watching this little exchange between this young man, who was a very small man, and he looked very, very young. And as I was watching it, I was, first of all, struck by how he…

he said, I do not think your prayers even get above your head. That is one of the things that the deputy sheriff said. I was struck by how calm this young man was, and as I was watching this, I was thinking, I wonder whatever happened to…

All of us represent districts where we have people who want to heal and get together, but I think the challenge we have is, how do we open up peoples' hearts? How do we get them to understand each other?

it starts as we were riding the bus from Montgomery to Selma, during the hour-and-a-half bus ride, or whatever the time period was, we were shown one of the PBS series, Eye on the Prize, and in the segment that dealt with Selma, it was a…

Today I honor the accomplishments and advancements of African Americans, and I join the celebration of Black History Month. It is fitting that we honor African-American business pioneers this year, as we are in the midst of record economic…

last month we witnessed one of the most amazing events in recent memory, one that we thought that we would never see: Communist dictator Fidel Castro welcoming Pope John Paul to Cuba. The sight of thousands of Cubans turning out to see the…

I rise in support of S. 1228 and urge all of my colleagues to support this bill which authorizes three worthy coin programs. First we will commemorate Kitty Hawk in 2002. All Americans recognize the importance of flight and the importance…

several weeks ago this House took the extraordinary action of banning Bob Dornan from the floor because of the embarrassing display he put on for the Members of this House and the American people. What is unfortunate is that even though he…