Since America's teachers are underpaid because they are overtaxed, the best way to raise teacher take-home pay is to reduce their taxes.

I rise to introduce the Teacher Tax Cut Act.

The question is, 'who should control the education dollar-- politicians and bureaucrats or the American people?'

I propose we go in a different direction by embracing true federalism by returning control over the education dollar to the American people.

The SAFE Act will prevent the Administration from placing roadblocks on the information superhighway by prohibiting the government from mandating a back door into the computer systems of private citizens and businesses.

If an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, then an ounce of encryption is worth a pound of subpoenas.

I am confident that this Congress will pass the American Land Sovereignty Protection Act.

Under the new program, EPA shall allocate a total of $750,000 per year over the next 4 fiscal years to implement the provisions of the Model Program.

This pilot program, to be administered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), will serve as a national model for the restoration of urban watersheds and community environments.

To achieve more focused and rapid action, the new program will integrate the various regulatory and non-regulatory programs of the EPA with other federal, state, and local programs to restore and protect the Anacostia River and promote…

Mr. Speaker, today, I reintroduce the National Urban Watershed Model Restoration Act, a bill to establish a new approach to restoring urban waters.

I am committed to whatever time and effort it takes to restore the river that runs through the neighborhoods of the nation's capital.

The Anacostia River has been my top environmental priority since coming to Congress in 1991.

The Anacostia River has been chosen as the pilot river because it is an especially polluted urban river located in the nation's capital that has drawn national attention and thus can lead the way for community-involved cleanup approaches…

It was essential that we act to help stop the escalation of the crisis in the Horn of Africa, and particularly the Ethiopia-Eritrean war, if the region was not to slide further into chaos.

The reason we should pay close attention to the mounting crisis and escalating war is the vital strategic importance of the Horn of Africa to the United States and its close allies.

Ultimately, it is imperative that long-term solutions are attained--nation building and economic revitalization under condition conducive for flow of private funds, not just hand outs of humanitarian assistance.

What makes the situation in the Horn of Africa so unique is that there is no need for a U.S. military intervention in order to establish such stability.