Parents have always retained the right to have meaningful conversation with their children and play a crucial role in their development.

Making the epinephrine bronchodilators, Primatene Mist or others, available over-the-counter may give patients a false sense of security.

Again, Mr. Speaker, what I was talking about was my frustration as a Member of this House in having to vote on a matter which gives the Speaker martial law, at a time when I am deeply frustrated by watching the television and seeing the…

I must say, I am moved. The gentleman from New York quotes a pundit, saying this is the most significant Congress. It reminds me of going to visit friends who have had new babies and saying, that is some baby. This is a significant…

I am appalled at how my colleagues across the aisle are misusing the powers of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. They have stalled the review process on a complaint about Speaker Gingrich to such an extent that now they may…

Mr. Speaker, after the Clinton administration has worked so hard to reduce the deficit by over 50 percent, this budget actually raises the deficit a billion dollars. Instead of being fiscally responsible and reducing the deficit, the…

the secret is out. This may not be England, but there is dissension in the family, and the Queen is not happy. The House Republicans are divided, and the gentleman from Texas cannot as easily as usual whip them into shape. Yesterday the…

I rise today because I am not surprised that what we are hearing about from the other side of the aisle is what we are hearing about. Anything, anything to avoid the subjects that we have been talking about on this side. Those subjects are…

the entire Gingrich-Dole Congress that we have seen for the last year and a half has been about one thing: rolling back the clock. Whether it is on Medicare, the environment, educational assistance that we give from the Federal Government…

I want to point something out to my colleagues here and anyone who may be paying attention to this debate; that is, what we are having to do in order to discuss the issue of the minimum wage on the floor the this House. What we are having…

But I rise in support of our women in uniform serving overseas. This amendment allows women stationed overseas to obtain safe health care at military hospitals with their own money. If enacted, this amendment would reinstate Department of…

today I want to alert the House to a call I have made, along with eight of my fellow freshmen Democrats this morning, to ask the Speaker, we have asked Speaker Gingrich to rescind and repudiate a request that was made in the name of the…

let me say first for the record that the buying power of the minimum wage is the lowest it has been in 40 years. To deny an increase in the minimum wage is reprehensible. Mr. Speaker, today I have risen to speak as we approach Earth Day, a…

I appreciate the nonpartisanship of getting the time from the Republican side because I want to remind the House of the tragedy that took place in Louisville, KY, at the Standard Gravure plant. People were working when a disgruntled former…

I rise today to remind everyone who is listening what is being discussed when we discuss this budget impasse. Mr. Speaker, what is being discussed is not whether we have a balanced budget in 7 years; it is how we balance the budget. Can we…

I want to share some newspaper quotations from the Hartford Courant, the newspaper in Hartford, CT. In an article in Wednesday's edition, the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct chairman, Nancy Johnson, was asked why she was…

I am a fellow who would not be here but for student loans. It was a situation when I was in college that I worked full time. My parents were able to help but just some. In order to get the tuition paid, I had to take out loans. If I had to…

I rise today once again to address an issue that this Congress has yet to face, that is the issue of billionaire expatriates. Mr. Speaker, on numerous occasions the majority has refused permanently to close a tax loophole which enables…

Mr. Chairman, we need to be clear about a number of matters with regard to this amendment. The first and most important is no Federal funds will be used to provide these services. The substitute that is being offered by the gentlewoman…

I accept that challenge that we have just heard from the other side of the aisle, but I will tell my colleagues what I have run into in my series of meetings in my district in Louisville, KY, over the last 2 weeks. Mr. Speaker, in 10…

I greatly appreciate your taking the time to talk with me about my concerns over the 40-percent cut made in the budget of the American Printing House for the Blind. As you know, the American Printing House is located in my district, in…

I want to tell this House about someone who took off work to travel all the way to Washington to argue against this bill. His name is Donnie McDonald. Donnie worked at the Canny Creek mine in Muhlenberg County, KY, from 1963 to 1989. In…

I found that the minute I said I was a Peace Corps volunteer, a Peace Corps, the ``s'' was pronounced, although I was pronouncing the ``s'' before I got in it, the minute I said that though I found that barriers fell, just as the gentleman…

Of course, as I would remind the gentleman, I was in high school that year. Sorry. But that is the kind of reaction that you got. When I was up country one time to go to a little tiny store, literally 200 miles in the interior of Africa…