Edolphus Towns

I ask my colleagues to honor the brave men and women working as explosive ordnance disposal technicians by supporting this resolution.

I think this is a very honorable thing to do, and I think we all should applaud Mr. Smith and the Smith family for his outstanding service.

I think that when you work together, you can come up with strong legislation that can truly make a difference. I also would like to thank the staff who worked on this legislation as well. I think that when we look at electronic records…

The use of plain language is a commonsense approach to saving the Federal Government money, and small business owners time, effort, and money. This legislation makes good sense, it is good government, and I encourage my colleagues to…

I cannot believe that we're sitting here in the United States House of Representatives when we can do something about a problem that has existed for many, many years, and we are still telling people to wait. I don't think that you can…

Martin Luther King said that I cannot be what I ought to be until the world is what it should be. And I think that this legislation really addresses that issue to say that we have to be concerned about others, those who are disabled. And…

Madam Speaker, I rise today as a proud New Yorker to call upon this resolution honoring the New York Yankees.

This is unwise and unacceptable and must be stopped.

We need to link bank executive compensation to performance.

The American people are angry. They are angry that while millions of hardworking Americans are losing their homes, their life savings, that bank executives are rewarding themselves for failure.

The file sharing software industry has shown that it is unwilling or unable to ensure user safety.

I am planning to introduce a bill to ban this type of insecure open network peer-to-peer software from all Government and contractor computers and networks.