Jeff Flake

I wanted to briefly speak about an amendment that I had planned to offer. My amendment would have removed language added by the Committee on Armed Services regarding the B-1 bomber fleet. It is my understanding that an agreement has been…

I firmly believe that unrestricted travel by Americans to Cuba would be one of the best actions the United States could take to open political space for all Cubans. Most importantly, however, I support this amendment because I firmly…

It is not often that one gets to go to the House floor and actually vote on substantive legislation that will roll back regulation. It is equally a rare opportunity to stand and commend the Senate for doing the right thing before we get…

I cannot accept them because this program is for a different income class, but I will build another school.

We must accept the fact that there is a lower tier in the system, and in that lower tier, genocide is being practiced every day, and when they cannot manage these children, they put them in special ed. It is the first track toward…

If the gentleman remembers me as a person who has spent a lifetime building schools and preparing young people for the future, then I think he will be able to remember me in that way. Children first, education first, and I will do what is…

Some individuals ask the question: Should governments be involved in the subsidy of exports? And the theoretical answer to that is well, no, they should not be. So if we lived in this theoretical world that we would like to, governments…

I leave the Congress because the Lord has blessed me to build a wonderful church community in Jamaica, Queens, NY, with over 9,000 members in that church now and a myriad of community development programs, over 800 employees. It is…

We are talking about bringing new businesses into the mainstream. We are talking about potential entrepreneurs who right now have the basic plans but do not have access to the same----

If we look at that very closely, what we find is that the resources that could be made available for the redevelopment of those commercial strips, the rebuilding of the small business sector in those communities, that is not where those…

Over the years I have argued that in order for us to really build a concept of holistic communities, we cannot merely talk about housing. And what happens, and the gentleman is absolutely right, there are funding mechanisms available…

I would not repeal the whole issue of community development block grants. What I would do though is set some specific mandates on how those funds are being used as is the case with the amendment that is before us right now where it says…

I oppose community development block grants that are given to those who are in power who do not do what those community block grants are designated to do, and in too many instances, there is a history that community block grants do not do…

I come today offering a solution to all of it. Let us give capital gains reductions, let us target it so we give minimum wage to the working poor, while at the same time as we move persons off of welfare give them an opportunity to work at…

America is not made up of, nor successful as a nation because of elitists or CEOs. America is successful because of those willing to put their heart and soul as well as their backs into the very creation of America. Passing bills, arguing…

If we could conglomerate those communities, give loan guarantees to create small businesses, then those persons we bring off of welfare would have job opportunities in the communities in which they live. When the loans are repaid, we take…