Students get a better education here. They are in a classroom with someone with a doctoral degree and 20 years of teaching experience, and there might be only 25 students in the class.

Mr. Speaker, Senator Tom Harkin and I are introducing the Fair Pay Act of 1999, a bill that would require employers to pay equal wages to women and men performing comparable jobs in an effort to remedy the pay inequities that women…

I ask my colleagues to join me in urging President Boris Yeltsin to veto this misguided and dangerous initiative.

It is important that we here in the Congress affirm our commitment to the principles of freedom of expression and freedom of the media.

water supplies for California cities are extremely limited.

Allowing Vallejo to use the Solano Project should be a simple matter, but it is not.

The city of Vallejo simply desires to 'wheel' some of its drinking water through part of the canal.

It would be imprudent for Congress to rush the technological development of a system, which remains unproven.

I rise in support of H.R. 4. This bill declares it to be the policy of the United States to deploy a national missile defense.

As we proceed with the development of the national missile defense we should not lose sight of the successes which the first two prongs of our strategy have had in the defense against weapons of mass destruction.

We cannot push a national missile defense system so as to undermine the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START II) or the potential to further reduce weapons of mass destruction in future treaties.

I will be monitoring the progress of the development of the national missile defense system to ensure that it does not become a reckless waste of the American taxpayer's money.

If we can develop a system that can prove itself, in rigorous testing, capable of protecting this country from a limited missile attack, then I think we should support this project.

The threat presented by these technologies, particularly from rogue states such as North Korea, Iraq, Libya and Iran, is growing more serious by the day.

While the growing threat is sobering, we should be realistic in our pursuit of a national missile defense.

Furthermore, more than 200 low-income families will have an opportunity to participate in Prologue's citywide welfare-to-work initiative.

Through its high school diploma program, Prologue, Inc. has assisted hundreds of out-of-school youths and older adults to receive their high school diplomas or their GED.

Prologue, Inc. has also established an intergenerational alternative education program, and has provided community-based educational, counseling, and referral services for low-income juvenile offenders.