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…

Mr. Speaker, I think what we need to do is remember and remind the folks at home who are watching, at least in Louisville, KY, it is just after dinnertime and they may have surfed and ended on C-SPAN, or they may be watching it on purpose…

Mr. speaker, I must rise today to speak out against the proposed reductions in Medicare spending which I feel will devastate our Nation's elderly. Under the guise of protecting and strengthening the Medicare trust fund, Republicans have…

earlier today I heard a supporter of this unfair tax bill say that, no, they were not really cutting school loan programs. Why he said with a straight face, a straight face, that a person could take their $500 tax break that is being…

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.

I was just elected in 1994. I am a freshman, and I was in the Kentucky Legislature for 5 years before that. And, Mr. Speaker, we had a rule in the Kentucky Legislature, a hard-and-fast rule, that if language was changed in a bill when it…

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…

Mr. Speaker, as a freshman Democrat I rise today in strong support of House Resolution 107, which is a bold first step in making this institution and Government as a whole more efficient, more effective, and in fact more truly…

hearing about salt, I can only think of child nutrition. I can only think of our School Lunch Programs. I can only think about what we have heard from the people who are supporting and who are committed to one thing and one thing only…

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…

as we learned yesterday, the Federal Reserve has raised short-term interest rates for the seventh time in 1 year. I feel that this move was a drastic error in fiscal management. While this move may aid the wealthiest investors on Wall…