the response I would make to that is that it is my understanding that because the funding has been zeroed out for HOPE VI, we are entitled to raise the amendment and that we can, in effect, either reach forward or reach backward as far as…

I yield myself 4 minutes, and let me begin by thanking the chair of this committee and the ranking member of the committee for their diligence. We have obviously had a difficult task this budget year, given the constraints that we have…

I am a little ashamed to confess my mother is around the age of the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Watt). My mother used to tell me stories when she was a young woman in the segregated South that she would drive through parts of rural…

let me begin by joining the various Members of this institution who will speak today and who will urge the passage of both of these bills. I certainly cannot speak with the particular passion of the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Matsui)…

let me follow up on the comment that the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spratt) just made, because a lot of very reasonable people, as you know, believe that this scenario you described is not accidental. It is not just a by-product of…

let me join other colleagues of mine in standing today in commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day. We celebrate this year, 2005, the 60-year anniversary of the end of World War II. We also look back at the enormous human loss that…

a minute is not a long time, but I want to spend it for thanking the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spratt) for building unanimity on this side of the House. I make that observation because, frankly, this is only the second time on a…

What a testament to the Tuskegee Airmen that today a white Alabamian and a black Alabamian stand here to pay tribute to their remarkable work. So much has been said about their remarkable accomplishments, and I will not repeat any of that…

Mr. Chairman, if I can purport to get into the heads of the majority and answer that question for myself for a minute, I think it is fairly basic. I would guess, Mr. Chairman, the reason is about 5, 6 years ago there was an overwhelming…

I should begin by saying that those of us who were born in the late 1960s, we are not only the legatees of what was done here 40 years ago; we are very much the hope of what was done here 40 years ago. It was somehow imagined by the people…

I did not want this debate to end without adding my voice to it and my strong endorsement of this resolution. It follows a very long, very enduring bipartisan tradition, one that says that we are two lonely defenders of freedom, the United…

And the difference is, if the gentleman will continue to yield, Mr. Speaker, it strikes me that in the 1930s and the 1940s the leaders of the world had a fair amount of confidence in the people that they served. Winston Churchill and…

I was in rural Alabama, in my home district, about close to exactly a year ago now. It was mid-June of 2003. And I had the honor of being the commencement Speaker at Judson College in Perry County, Alabama. I remember a woman walked up to…

There was another principle that those leaders had, and it was the principle of sacrifice. They had the moral authority and the willingness to say to this country this cause is so mighty, we have to sacrifice. Contrast that with about a…

there is another historical point worth making. None of us were here, we were all too young, but we have all read about the Bay of Pigs in 1961 in Cuba. For some of the younger people listening that do not know what the Bay of Pigs was, it…

I am normally one who tends to be resistant to too many political analyses that rest on generation. I am one of these people who thinks that people try to load a whole lot of analytical content into that term when it should not always be…

Most American families, I think, realize that people spend money on the things they value. They do that in their homes and they do that in the United States Congress. We are steadily walking away from commitments that are decades-long…

36 percent of small business owners in this country will get virtually no tax relief under this bill. The overwhelming majority of sole proprietors will only get very small relief under this bill. We can talk all we want to about the tax…

a lot of us on the Congressional Black Caucus and a lot of us who sit on this side of the aisle are used to being called ``tax and spend liberals.'' It is a mantra that our friends on the other side throw around a lot. I do not know about…

sometimes I know a lot of the people listening to these debates hear us talking about a lot of sound and fury, and you would almost have the impression, when we hear the words ``tax cuts'' over and over again, you would almost have the…

2 months ago, I had an occasion to give a commencement speech in the rural part of my District. And after the speech, a woman walked up to me; she had tears in her eyes, and I assumed that she was crying about the graduation of her child…

Mr. Speaker, we do have these debates every few days; and nothing new, frankly, has been said over the course of the last 4 months. That is depressing, in some sense; but I think, again, it speaks to the very fundamental difference between…

Mr. Speaker, periodically when I go back to my district, one of the questions I get most frequently asked is, why do we keep turning on our C-SPAN television in the afternoon and hearing this debate on the child tax credit? Why do we keep…

let me compliment my colleague, the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Harris) as the primary sponsor of this bill and let me compliment the chairman of the subcommittee, the gentleman from Ohio (Chairman Ney) for his leadership on this issue…

I come from the Seventh District of Alabama where a significant number of our seniors live in a world very different from a lot of the people who sit in this body. A lot of the seniors in my district live in a space where they are…