i think you and hubert humphrey -- i think mr. ing a great time debating himself. >> are prejudiced, mr. nixon. if you do not want to debate with the third-party candidate whose name shall not be mentioned, why don't you get your friends in the house of representatives to pass a special law permitting u.s. and mr. hubert humphrey to debate. >> if you ever looked at the membership on that committee? it is always amusing to be when people said, why don't i get the republicans to do something of a debate. let's remember that the senate is 2-1 democratic. the house is 3-2 democratic. anytime that hubert humphrey with his influence on his side wants a debate, i would think he would be able to get the democrats to pass it. i think that my power in terms of what i can get the republican members in the house to do is greatly overestimated. that is the problem as you know it. they are not opposing the debate. they are sitting with wallace getting 21% of the poll -- i am sorry. i should not have mentioned his name. with wallace getting 21% o

hubert humphrey. >> i'm of the opinion we need a debate in this country. i think that you and mr. humphrey should get at vietnam and some other questions. >> i think mr. humphrey is having a great time debating himself. >> you're prejudiced, mr. nixon. if you don't want to debate with the third party candidate, whose name shall not be mentioned, why don't you get your friends in the house of representatives to pass a special law permitting you and mr. humphrey to debate? >> have you ever looked at the membership on that committee? you know, it's always amusing when people say why don't i get the republicans to do something on the debate ort rest? let's remember the senate is 2-1 democratic. let's remember that the house is 3-2 democratic, and anytime that hubert humphrey with his great influence on his side wants a debate, i would think that he could get the democrats to pass. i think that my power in terms of what i can get the republican members in the house to do is greatly overestimated. democrats as well as republicans are insisting on the three-man debate. that's the problem

mr. speaker, what does it cost a great nation to nation does it profit a conquer the world and lose its soul. abandonment of morality. i agree with hubert humphrey colleague. what we're doing here today is wrong. i say to you, you have the capacity. you have the power to stop this. >> the gentleman's time is expired. >> raise is your voice for the children. do what you think in your heart to be right. >> the gentleman will suspend. the gentleman from florida. >> mr. speaker, i come over here to do something i have never done before, and that is to trespass on the democrats side. i hope that you will give me your understanding in my doing so. i don't do this out of smartness or arrogance. i do it out of coming together. we have heard a lot of name-calling. a lot of soundbites that we have heard all through this debate. we have come down a long road together. it was inevitable that the present welfare system was going to be put behind us. today we need to put behind us an era of a failed welfare system. i know the democrats agree with the republicans. this is not a republican bill that we are shoving down your throats. we are going to get a lot of

mr. speaker, what does it cost a great nation to cover the world, only to lose its soul? this is an abandonment of morality. it is wrong. it was hubert humphrey who said -- now children, those in the sickght of life, and those and feeble, what we are doing here today is wrong. i say to all of you my colleagues, you have the ability, you have the capacity, you have the power. -- >> theustments gentleman's time is expired. >> raise your voice for the poor and the disabled. vote no. >> the gentleman will suspend. >> mr. speaker i come over here to do something i have never done before, and that is to trespass on the democrats side. meope that you will give your understanding in my doing so because i don't do out of smugness or arrogance, i do out of coming together. we have heard a lot of names calling. a lot of soundbites we have heard. we have come down a long road together. that theevitable present welfare system was going to be put behind us. need to bring to closure an era of a failed welfare system. i know that the democrats agree with the republicans. this is not a republican bill we are shutting down your throats. we are going to get a l