(PTM authored and/or directed legislative processes)
“CBS This Morning with Kathleen Sullivan,” Tuesday, February 6, 1990, Extension Of Remarks, (WED).
“Dornan to Announce Presidential Bid,” Thursday, April 6, 1995, Special Order, (RKD). (Note: More than half of RKD’s remarks were extemporaneous; difficult to keep him on a script.)
“A Real Conservative Position on the Persian Gulf,” Saturday, January 12, 1991, Extension of Remarks, (Mero) (Note: WED graciously submitted my remarks, in my name.)
“House Resolution 442,” Thursday, July 26, 1990, the expulsion proceedings of Congressman Barney Frank, floor vote (WED).
“The Expulsion of Barney Frank and ‘Buz’ Lukens,” Friday, November 3, 1989, Special Order, (WED).
“Homosexuality,” Thursday, June 29, 1989, Extension of Remarks, (WED). (Note: Infamous speech including “What Homosexuals Do”; issue claimed to have been the most read CR in congressional history to date.)
“Motion for Adjournment,” Monday, February 6, 1989, floor vote (WED). (Note: After weeks of campaigning to defeat a congressional pay raise and promising that the vote to reject a motion to adjourn was a rejection of the pay raise, Congressman Tony Coelho offered the motion to adjourn, and WED called for the yeas and nays – the motion to adjourn was defeated 238-88.)
“Disapproving Increases in Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries Recommended by the President,” H.J. Res 129, Tuesday, February 7, 1989, floor remarks and vote to reject the pay raise (WED). (Note: WED outsmarted Speaker Jim Wright and the congressional pay raise was defeated.)
“Motion to Instruct Conferees on H.R. 2686 (i.e., agree to Senate amendment to defund the National Endowment of the Arts),” Thursday, October 17, 1991, floor vote (WED). (Note: After two successful votes to agree to the Senate amendment, a tabling motion was agreed to.)
“National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) debate on passage of Interior Department funding,” Tuesday, September 24, 1991, floor vote (WED). (Note: Called the “Corn for Porn” tradeoff, a few Midwest Republicans switched votes to protect agriculture subsidies Democratic leadership had threatened to take away, and the final vote passed 213-204, a switch of 5 votes is all we needed. It was the closest the NEA ever has come to losing its funding for producing obscenity.)
“National Institutes of Health (NIH) Amendments (i.e., the teen sex studies), Thursday, July 25, 1991, floor remarks/vote (WED).
“Family Privacy Protection, H.R. 1271,” Tuesday, April 4, 1995, rejected an amendment to ban teen sex surveys, (RKD).
“Introduction of the Community Life Amendment (i.e., legalizing school prayer), Wednesday, May 1, 1991, Extension of Remarks (WED).
“Juris Without Prudence, Wednesday, May 1, 1991, Extension of Remarks (WED).
“Emergency Supplemental Appropriations,” rejected an amendment by Congressman Cliff Stearns to defund the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), floor vote (RKD). (Note: I assisted Congressman Stearns and staff.)
“The Haunting Future of America’s Moral Wasteland,” Thursday, September 10, 1987, Extension of Remarks (WED).
“America Deserves an Open Debate on the Subject of Divided Loyalties,” Thursday, September 10, 1987, Extension of Remarks (WED).
“A Tribute to the Christian Emergency Relief Team,” September 10, 1987, Extension of Remarks (WED).
“The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA),” Thursday, July 11, 1996 (general debate) and Friday, July 12, 1996 (votes), passed easily 342-67, (RKD).
“Should a Federal Building Be Used for Illegal Purposes?” Thursday, May 9, 1996, Extension of Remarks, (RKD). (Note: This presentation set off an all-out war between RKD and Congressman Steve Gunderson, who had recently announced he was gay and subsequently sponsored a homosexual bacchanalian party inside a federal building.)
“Tribute to the Honorable Robert K. Dornan,” presented by Congressman Sam Johnson and Duncan Hunter, Sr., Tuesday, October 31, 1995. (RKD). (Note: Followed by a second tribute to RKD immediately after the first tribute; 10 minutes in total length.)
“Integrity in Government Act, H.R. 1130,” March 3, 1995, a bill to prohibit 501c4 lobbying organizations from receiving federal funds, among other related items; incorporated into Public Law 104-65, 104th Congress, the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995, Section 18. Exempt Organizations, “An organization described in section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 which engages in lobbying activities shall not be eligible for the receipt of Federal funds constituting an award, grant, contract, loan, or any other form.” (Note: I worked this from conception to conclusion.)
