Chris Ward

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

I rise today to pay recognition to a program initiated by the Philip Morris Corp. to help prevent access to cigarettes by young people. I applaud their efforts. The program, action against access, will involve placing minimum age signs and…

If you're going to give up this kind of revenue to the Federal Government, what are you going to cut to make up for that revenue, and that is what we have seen, especially in the student loan program.

We were sent here to change things, but, as it stands, nothing is being changed. These people are going too far, the Gingrich revolution has gone too far in the special interests category, benefiting one person, and I cannot believe that…

Mr. Chairman, we need to support this. We need always to remember that we are not talking about some people whom we will never meet. These are our sons, our daughters, our uncles, our aunts, our uncles, sisters, our brothers. It will cost…

To say that they are not going to cut these child nutrition programs is the big lie, ladies and gentlemen, because if you make a block grant, you take last year's figure which may be higher than the year before's but say, ``We are not…

I join Common Cause in calling for an outside ethics adviser to help the Ethics Committee. As Speaker Gingrich said in 1988: "I think there is a different standard for being Speaker." I agree. As the Speaker himself said, we need an…