Mr. Speaker, in November 1899, The Reverend Theodore Williams, a recent graduate of the School of Theology at Howard University was inspired...
Mr. Speaker, I ask that the members of this body join me in congratulating the Mount Lebanon Baptist Church, and celebrating the spiritual u...
Mr. Speaker, through worship and community service, Mount Lebanon carries out its slogan, 'We serve a great God; we are a great people; and ...
Mr. Speaker, I ask that all of my colleagues join me in saluting the District of Columbia State Council of the Knights of Columbus for a cen...
The new science shows that brain development determining lifelong learning begins much earlier in infants and children than was previously b...
I rise to introduce the Universal Pre-Kindergarten and Early Childhood Education Act of 1999 (Universal Pre-K)
The absence of viable options for working families to educate their children at the most important stage in life demands our immediate atten...
I urge my colleagues to support this vital legislation.
Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in celebrating the twenty years of work of the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington.
By eliminating our nuclear weapons arsenal, the United States can realize an additional, 'peace dividend' from which to fund critical domest...
Today, the United States continues to possess around 7,300 operational nuclear warheads, and the other declared nuclear powers--Russia, Grea...
The United States, as the sole remaining superpower and the leading power in the world, has an obligation to take bold steps toward encourag...
I want to focus my own constituents on the immediate problems of Medicare, which runs out of money in 2008.
I intend to assure the seniors of the District of Columbia that I will have no greater priority than preserving Medicare.
Senior citizens in my District want the 106th Congress to know that the Social Security and Medicare programs have done more to make their s...
I rise today to ask my colleagues to join me in celebrating National Older Americans Month in the District of Columbia.
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 wo...
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...
