Toby Roth

first let me thank the distinguished Senator from Michigan and also congratulate him for his very significant contributions to what is truly a bipartisan effort to bring some sense out of this mishmash that now regulates and controls…

Let me assure my colleague from Missouri, Senator Bond, that it is my understanding of the provisions of S. 1587 that the Senator describes will most certainly apply to the Veterans Affairs Department and its subordinate elements including…

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 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.

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…

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…

the gentleman is obfuscating the amendment again and what is behind the amendment. These kids are not out in 3 years. Sometimes they are in until the seventh or eighth grade and they are nonproficient in either language. That is why the…

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…

Of most serious concern to me was that the HEW bilingual education program had become captive of professional Hispanic and other ethnic groups with their understandable emotional, but often exaggerated, political rhetoric and…

Mr. Chairman, we have a historic opportunity before us today. We can start to make a lot of things right again by casting a vote for the balanced budget amendment. No family or household in America can spend more than it has, yet we allow…

members of the Clinton administration and high officials in the Democratic National Committee all insist that there is no scandal. I beg to differ. The scandal is that 80 percent, 80 percent of the State chartered S&L's in Arkansas…

Mr. Chairman, we have been told here this afternoon by our friend, for example, from New Jersey that we are all a nation of immigrants, and of course no one would deny that, because we all are a nation of immigrants. But that is not the…

I want to thank the gentleman from Mississippi for all he is doing for the American veteran. Mr. Speaker, last year more than a quarter of a million drug addicts in America received $1.5 billion in cash payments from the Social Security…

I want to thank the gentleman from Mississippi for all he is doing for the American veteran. Last year more than a quarter of a million drug addicts in America received $1.5 billion in cash payments from the Social Security fund. Much of…

our society is rapidly becoming a world of instant communications, of masses of information available through countless databanks. Last fall, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal reported a major incident--a broad scale…

Yes. But other than that, they are not going to give those documents. How is Congress ever gong to exercise sufficient oversight? How are the American people ever going to know? I do not want to----

Or the majority. You know, you are gong to be surprised because I asked him, ``Did you give those documents to----'', and the chairman of our subcommittee interrupted and said, ``Mr. Fiechter, you don't have to answer those questions. That…

I mean we have a right to know not only as a Congress but as the American people why this savings and loan was kept open for 3 years after everyone knew that it was totally insolvent. Now, this morning we had a hearing in the Banking…

I respond to the gentleman from Michigan by saying the White House has agreed to a special prosecutor, yes, but they were dragged in kicking and screaming, and, as far as the House not having hearings, why every newspaper in the country…