I think that this is a really good time for the FAA to review the safety needs at this airport.

we have had some discussion in this committee about the importance of thinking about our transportation in an intermodal way.

I hope that this will add to the discussion about having a national program, which I very much support.

You know it's not the way it happened.

Mr. Chairman, I wish to say to the gentleman from Oklahoma, I appreciate his efforts, but I must stand here and oppose this particular amendment for a number of reasons, which I think most people would find very important. First, while…

Today Members of the House of Representatives sadly commemorate the 79th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. I want to recognize the hard work of my good friend, the gentleman from California [Mr. Lehman], for calling this special order…

I have been here before, and what I am about to say I have said before, but I have said it about a different segment of the population. Normally when I take to this mike, it is to talk about immigrants, but if you were to just replace the…

I must say this is a crime bill that the House has proposed that has a number of different proposals in it, much different in many ways from the version of the other body. I would say it is a great improvement of what the other body has…

I must tell the gentleman in all sincerity that we somehow believe, or seem to believe, that people who live in the Virgin Islands or people who are living in Guam or people who live in Samoa or people who live in Puerto Rico somehow never…

In California we spend about $4,200 per year to keep a child in school. We spend $32,000 to keep a youth the same age locked up in a youth facility if he or she has committed a crime. When we consider that 80 percent of all the prisoners…

when I left California and my city of Los Angeles, as one of the representatives of Los Angeles I came here to try and get emergency relief and aid to all of the people who needed assistance as a result of this particular earthquake. I…