I would like to add to the list of people who have contributed so much to this effort Paul Lieberman, who is a member of the General Accounting Office, who has been on loan to my office. He has not only devoted long hours, but his…

Mr. Speaker, I am opposed to this rule, as my friend, the gentleman from California, is, but I am also opposed to the bill on its merits or demerits. The reason I say that is despite all of the hoopla on reforming foreign aid, this bill is…

I support today's bill to reform our Social Security System. Under this bill, Social Security will become a separate agency, walled off from political mischief, to protect the hard-earned benefits of Social Security recipients. We will…

as we come to final passage, I urge my colleagues to vote for the bill. While some excellent amendments were rejected, other amendments have strengthened and improved this legislation. I especially commend to my colleagues the amendment…

Let me pose my question. As I read your amendment, if I interpret your amendment correctly, in other words, what I am saying, I say to the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Walker], is that when our people come, it is one-stop shopping for…

I am going to ask my friends and colleagues to vote against this Walker amendment because I do feel it would gut this provision of the clearinghouse and it would hurt small business and entrepreneurs. That is precisely what I am trying to…

I am trying to get at the substance or the truth of exactly what this amendment would do because I want to cast an informed vote here. This is very important.

as chairman of the Social Security Task Force, which was set up to watch over Social Security and protect our senior citizens, I want to tell the Members how outraged I am that the Social Security Administration paid $32 million in bonuses…

the position of the Clinton administration on child pornography is an outrage! This administration has weakened the accepted interpretation of the Federal child pornography law to the extent that much, if not most, of the child pornography…

Yesterday the chairman of the Banking Committee ducked his responsibility to this House and to the American people. Required by law to hold RTC oversight hearings twice a year, the chairman said no. The cancer of the Whitewater/Madison…

we Americans are people from every corner of the globe, every cultural, every religious, every linguistic, every ethnic background. We are the most diverse nation in the world. Yet we are one Nation, one people. Why? One of the main…