We should not deny any eligible veteran that recognition simply because they may choose to help others by donating their remains to medical study.

I cannot accept that an entitled veteran can be denied appropriate recognition simply because he has donated his remains to further medical research.

Mr. Speaker, today, I reintroduce a bill to give the District of Columbia and the four insular areas a privilege the 50 states achieved last year: to choose a design for the reverse side of the quarter coin in order to commemorate our history as part of the United States.

Congress acted responsibly to reduce government waste last week, voting 419-1 to pass H.R. 436, the Government Waste, Fraud & Error Reduction Act.

Mr. Speaker, I am joining with Chairman Talent, Ranking Member Velazquez and the Small Business Committee in support of the Disaster Mitigation Coordination Act.

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.

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 community risk reduction.

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.

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.

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 that can be modeled and taken up nationally.

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.

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

John's art is displayed in the White House, in the Congress and in other prominent places around the world.

He was selected based on his community service, business and civic accomplishments, awareness of the needs of others, and achievements that have brought favorable attention to the Cincinnati area.

All of us in Cincinnati are proud of his accomplishments and are grateful for his service to others.

He is a modern day Audubon who is both an internationally known wildlife artist and a committed naturalist.