In the spirit of such words, dedicated community leaders such as Rabbi Jacobs actively participate in delivering tremendous support, selflessly dedicating their time and energy to enriching our community.

Service to the Jewish community and the greater community have been central to Judy's life as well.

Most recently, Rabbi Jacobs was invited by the Rev. Jesse Jackson to join a 20-member delegation on a mission to free the three soldiers who were captured along the Macedonia-Kosovo border.

Shirley has enjoyed a long and prosperous teaching career.

water supplies for California cities are extremely limited.

The city of Vallejo simply desires to 'wheel' some of its drinking water through part of the canal.

Allowing Vallejo to use the Solano Project should be a simple matter, but it is not.

Today I am introducing the 'Tribal Self-Governance Amendments of 1999' and am pleased that 22 of our colleagues have cosponsored the legislation.

Today forty seven of our colleagues join Mr. Spratt and myself in introducing the Insular Fair Wage and Human Rights Act of 1999 which will permit the U.S. territory of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (U.S./ CNMI) to be…

The U.S./CNMI has morphed into an offshore sweatshop, wrapping itself in the American flag to circumvent quota restrictions and escape payment of hundreds of millions of dollars in duties on imported garments.

The bill I introduce today will crack down on the enormous, mostly foreign-owned garment industry that employ thousands of foreign workers to sew foreign fabric into garments bearing the 'Made in USA' label which is then shipped to the…

The Congress cannot continue to irresponsibly ignore the worsening crisis or the exploitation of tens of thousands of foreign workers on American soil.

Numerous reports by journalists and the media, human rights workers, Federal agencies, religious organizations, and the administrations of Presidents Reagan, Bush and Clinton have documented widespread human rights abuses suffered by…

We owe it to the taxpayers of the United States, to the textile workers of this country who are enduring unfair competition, and to the garment workers and other foreign workers in Saipan who are being forced to experience a distasteful…

Water quality in California's San Joaquin Valley has been degraded by unregulated discharges of waste from dairy farms.

Today I introduced legislation to address the most important source of water pollution facing our country--polluted runoff.

This legislation will restore confidence that we can swim and fish in our streams and rivers without getting sick.

Farm SAFE will require large livestock operations to do their part to reduce water pollution.