AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. NADLER
Mr. NADLER. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
The Acting CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
The text of the amendment is as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Nadler:
Page 76, line 24, after the dollar amount, insert the following: ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.
Page 95, line 2, after the dollar amount, insert… Read more »
Mr. Chairman, this bill is a backdoor attempt to shut down Amtrak, to guarantee an Amtrak bankruptcy. We simply cannot allow it to happen.
Amtrak is one of our most efficient modes of transportation. It provides a vital alternative to our clogged highways. We need to finally start investing adequate resources in Amtrak to allow the railroad to provide stable, reliable service.
We… Read more »
AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. NADLER Mr. NADLER. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
The Clerk read as follows:
Amendment offered by Mr. Nadler:
Page 63, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert the following: ``(increased by $100,000,000)''.
Page 63, line 21, after the dollar amount, insert the following: ``(increased by $100,000,000)''.
Page 63, line 25, after the dollar amount,… Read more »
AMENDMENT NO. 24 OFFERED BY MR. NADLER
Mr. NADLER. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
The text of the amendment is as follows:
Amendment No. 24 offered by Mr. Nadler:
In title III in the item relating to ``School Improvement Programs'', after the aggregate dollar amount, insert ``(increased by… Read more »
Mr. Chairman, the World Trade Center was in my district. I have dealt with hundreds of first responders who responded. The majority of all the first responders have now come down with respiratory ailments, and yet the State has betrayed them and we are betraying them because the insurance company that handles workers' comp has contested the worker comp claims at a rate of 10 times the… Read more »
Congressman Jerrold Nadler and more than 50 Democratic House colleagues today called on White House advisor Karl Rove to retract remarks he made about Democrats’ response to 9/11. According to a report in today’s New York Times, Rove alleged that after the attacks Democrats: “wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our… Read more »
Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
So, in other words, if one desecrates a flag to make a nice point, that is a good context. If they desecrate it to make an unpopular point, that should be jailable. I thank the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Sodrel) for making my point.
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Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, I want to begin by reading excerpts of an article written in the ``Retired Officer,'' a veterans magazine, by a Major James Warner, who was a POW in Vietnam for 6 years. He writes as follows: ``In March of 1973, when we were released from a prisoner-of-war camp in North Vietnam, we were flown to Clark Air Base… Read more »
Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is, there have been thousands of amendments introduced, thousands of proposed amendments introduced to the Constitution of the United States. Only 17 have been adopted since 1791 after the Bill of Rights.
Amendments were proposed after most unpopular Supreme Court decisions. After the… Read more »
Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, today we are enduring the Republican rite of spring: A proposed amendment to the Bill of Rights to restrict what it calls flag desecration. Why spring? Because Members need to send out a press release extolling the need to protect the flag, as if the flag somehow needed Congress to protect it. It is easier than… Read more »