Bob Barr
Bob Barr
Robert Laurence "Bob" Barr, Jr.is a former federal prosecutor and a former Congressman. He represented Georgia's 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1995 to 2003. Barr attained national prominence as one of the leaders of the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. Barr joined the Libertarian Party in 2006 and served on its National Committee. He was the Libertarian Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 election...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 November 1948
CountryUnited States of America
That is true, I do object to the level of your memory, it's apparently pretty low,
Sir, you seem to be objecting to the level of my memory.
If in fact the U.N. through this effort ... moves in that direction, then I think it will make it more difficult perhaps for the U.N. to achieve the level of support that it would like to in Congress to further its legitimate goals,
What prompted me was we finally have two governors (Napolitano and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson ) finally doing what the federal government should have been doing all along. That is, that we truly have an emergency on our southern border. She actually did something.
Far too many people have been swept into the post-9/11 system of fear that is the basis of all public policy these days.
Think hard down the road to a future administration not occupied by the people we have now. We have to keep that precedent in mind: That gauntlet, if we throw it down, will be taken up by someone in the future that we really don't like and be used against us.
The work in which that committee engages is clearly the most sensitive of any committee of the Congress, and for a member to be embroiled in these sorts of problems even as he gets access to our nation's most sensitive secrets, I think, raises a very immediate concern that ought to be addressed,
(The ruling is) certainly not going to have any effect on the inquiry of impeachment.
that's not a decision that has been conveyed to us with any finality by the chairman ... I'm confident there will be additional very important witnesses.
Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.
The solution's going to have to come from our schools,
Privacy is the most fundamental of all freedoms. In fact, it is the foundation for all of our freedoms.
Mortgage interest rates aren't dropping because of the interest rate cuts, but because of the anticipated economic slowdown and the lack of inflation,
I can tell you as a United States attorney, serving under two presidents, that I would prosecute these cases because I did prosecute such cases,