The absence of viable options for working families to educate their children at the most important stage in life demands...
Mr. Speaker, I ask that all of my colleagues join me in saluting the District of Columbia State Council of the Knights o...
I rise to introduce the Universal Pre-Kindergarten and Early Childhood Education Act of 1999 (Universal Pre-K)
The new science shows that brain development determining lifelong learning begins much earlier in infants and children t...
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 Metr...
Today, the United States continues to possess around 7,300 operational nuclear warheads, and the other declared nuclear ...
The United States, as the sole remaining superpower and the leading power in the world, has an obligation to take bold s...
By eliminating our nuclear weapons arsenal, the United States can realize an additional, 'peace dividend' from which to ...
Senior citizens in my District want the 106th Congress to know that the Social Security and Medicare programs have done ...
I intend to assure the seniors of the District of Columbia that I will have no greater priority than preserving Medicare...
I rise today to ask my colleagues to join me in celebrating National Older Americans Month in the District of Columbia.
I want to focus my own constituents on the immediate problems of Medicare, which runs out of money in 2008.
Mr. Speaker, Senator Tom Harkin and I are introducing the Fair Pay Act of 1999, a bill that would require employers to p...
Mr. Speaker, today, I reintroduce a bill to give the District of Columbia and the four insular areas a privilege the 50 ...
The Anacostia River has been chosen as the pilot river because it is an especially polluted urban river located in the n...
I am committed to whatever time and effort it takes to restore the river that runs through the neighborhoods of the nati...
Mr. Speaker, today, I reintroduce the National Urban Watershed Model Restoration Act, a bill to establish a new approach...
