Jay Dickey

in 1995, when I was fortunate enough to get on this committee, I asked what subcommittees I would be on and one was called the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education. I asked people about that committee, and they…

Now what we have is one last plea on my part on behalf of the black farmers. My statement of January 8 was we cannot proceed any further without my colleagues in Congress being supportive of this effort. If we vote this concurrent…

I want to say quickly that I agree with what the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Thompson) says to a very large degree. I have been involved in this, as I said, since 1993. I have heard the complaints straight on. I have not known how to…

despite objections raised from many corners, the FCC has charged ahead with plans to immediately implement low-power FM. In the process it has ignored legitimate concerns about interference and the continued viability of small and…

understanding the immediate need for assistance that our farmers have, I have signed the conference report, and I am supporting this bill. However, there were several issues that were left undecided, and I want to discuss one of them, that…

In many ways it seems that the only people who benefit from guaranteed minimum wage are those high school dropouts with lost ambition. We should not promote a permanent minimum wage mentality in anyone by convincing them that they can only…

the thing that I wanted to point out has a lot to do with the age of the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Upton) at the time and my age at the time. He was in the fourth grade. I was 17 years of age when in Arkansas we had the tragedy of…

I would like to bring to my colleagues' attention the celebration of National TRIO Day this past Saturday, February 27. National TRIO Day was designated by concurrent resolution on February 24, 1986, by the 99th Congress. It is celebrated…

they are not all liberals, but the Democrats have a position on education that I think needs to be addressed. That is, they keep asking the question, do Democrats represent the best for education, or do Republicans represent the best for…

I want to show my concern about a provision in the chairman's bill that allows an increase of $18.5 million for the EEOC. I want to do so by drawing attention to a circumstance in Miami, Florida, that I think is worthy of the gentleman's…

I come here as a former small business owner and as a lawyer. When I first looked at this situation, I looked at it from the doctor's standpoint and I saw a tremendous need, dire circumstances that doctors are facing, even to the extent…

I would like to say I am on this subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, and this issue did not come up for discussion. We have in our laws the provision that no Federal funding will be made available for abortions, time and time…

there is a story that comes from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, that explains why I am for this amendment and want to speak for it at this time. Some 8, 10 years ago, there was an organization called the Fellowship of Christian Athletes at Pine…

Let me show my support for what you all are talking about by telling a little story that occurred in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, my hometown. We had a Fellowship of Christian Athletes there, it was trying to get started, and a minister was…

I grew up in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and during this time was a graduate of law school, practicing law in my hometown; and we thought we were a long way away, but we were not. But as things have occurred and I am now in public office, it is…

I represent the Fourth District of Arkansas, the district that includes Hope and Hot Springs, the birthplace and the boyhood of President Bill Clinton

I would like to state that he is to be commended for the work that he has done, the outstanding efforts and hard work in bringing this bill to the floor, and during that time, for being such a shock absorber for the media criticism that he…

in September 1957, I was a 17-year-old freshman living in Pine Bluff, AR, and I was traveling through Little Rock to get to my school in Conway. I had no idea what was actually going on. I am here to tell my colleagues that I also went…

I have four children. All of them are boys, except for two. It is ``except for two'' that bothers me now, even though they are of age. They are grown. Laura and Rachel are very fine, well-adjusted kids, and I am thankful for this. Their…

I thank the gentlewoman, but the gentlewoman knows what is going to happen, and this is what is happening in these programs. Everybody takes what the figures are for this year. They know they have to spend them whether they are there or…

I think I have about got this thing figured out, but I have not gone over it yet with the sharp eye of opposition, but this is the way I see it. We have had, since the start of the great society, this compassion in our country that we must…

I am going to vote for H.R. Bill 1122, and these are the reasons: At day 22 of a pregnancy a baby's heart begins to beat with blood often a different type than the mother's. At week 5, eyes, hands, and feet begin to develop. At week 6…

Mr. Chairman, as long as I have been here, I have supported term limits. I have never once voted against term limits at any time. Today I have to rise in support of the Hutchinson term limits substitute and tell my constituents and this…

I want to confine my remarks to the Tate-Riggs bill. It has to do with the pensions that are available to Members of Congress who have been convicted of felonies. I had someone in Arkansas come up to me and say, let me get this thing…