this tax credit proposal is on top of the existing Federal funding for education. It is more dollars without the control. So I thought the gentleman did such a good job of making that point, that these are extra dollars and they go without…

I emphasize the fact that my wife, both of my sisters, and my niece are all public school teachers. You made the point in your remarks that these dollars can go by a donor to a public school. That is, I think, one of the points that people…

I come at this from the perspective of someone who my entire education was in the public school system, but more recent experience than that is my wife is a public school teacher in Phoenix, Arizona. She teaches kindergarten. I have two…

And, Mr. Speaker, of critical importance, for those who say we are underfunding education at the Federal level already, we should not be doing any of these schemes, we should not be diverting dollars, we should not be reducing the amount…

the ``leave no child behind'' phrase is such a great one, because every American believes in that. No American wants to leave a child behind, and it is a great way to point out what we want to do as a country for our children. But I just…

So just to make clear, Mr. Speaker, a taxpayer decides, once this bill is in place, I am going to give $500 to help low-income children in my neighborhood or in my State. They give that $500 check. Come the end of the year, they get either…

I rise to address the inclusion of my amendment in the Manager's Amendment to H.R. 3994, the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002. The gentleman from Illinois, Mr. Hyde, has drafted an important piece of legislation that will help…

secondly, a company may continue to make contributions to such an employee stock ownership plan, an ESOP, for purposes of meeting the safe harbor provisions of the nondiscrimination test established by section 401(k), and that such…

first I would like to clarify that the diversification requirements in the legislation do not apply to privately owned corporations, but only to those corporations whose securities are tradeable or traded on an established securities…

I spent almost a decade of my life doing campaign finance law before being elected to the United States Congress, and in that tenure I never advised a Republican Secretary of State, but I did advise two different Democrat Secretaries of…

No. Well, read it right now, and read these words, Chris. Would you read these words? It says ``retire outstanding debts.''

I rise to support H.R. 3323, the Administrative Simplification Compliance Act. Mr. Speaker, earlier this year, I introduced legislation, H.R. 1975, that would have greatly assisted health care providers, physicians, health plans, and the…

I rise today to support the Medicare Regulatory and Contracting Reform Act. Since I have been in Congress, I have constantly heard from hospitals and physicians about the guessing game they must play in order to be compliant with Medicare…

For those of you who have been here a little less time than I have, I came in the 104th Congress and joined this body in 1995, and for years after that we grew the economy at three and four times the rate of inflation, grew the size of…

If I could just briefly as we summarize here kind of reiterate an important point in this debate, because too often things get politicized and we miss the issue, some people have pointed out that we have already agreed in the House bill…

They not only do nothing, but what they are demanding is pieces of this bill, large portions of it, their latest demand is that half of it not go to stimulus at all and the other half go to stuff that will not actually stimulate the…

President Bush's economic stimulus proposal would, according to a study by the Heritage Foundation, create 211,000 new jobs next year. It seems to me that is what a stimulus package ought to be about. The key elements of that are…

I would like to put the lie to that by history and talk about it in terms that the average American can understand. I would just ask the gentleman a question. Was it not President Kennedy, a Democrat President, who cut taxes in 1960? And…

we owe the American people the most safe and secure air system in the world. We owe them a fair debate. This debate has been focused on the current system, but the Young-Mica bill rejects the current system. Under the current system…

I know he has thoughtfully studied this legislation and cares very much, as we all do, about airline security, about making sure we have the safest system, and not about doing a quick and easy fix of just saying well, if we make them…

So the notion that we have never delegated this kind of authority to anyone other than a Federal employee is simply wrong?

the Senate bill is very confusing on that issue. It says that overall transportation safety goes to a Deputy Secretary of Transportation, but says that airline safety or airline security goes to the Attorney General, and it fails to sort…

the topic I want to talk about tonight, and I am pleased very much to be joined by several of my colleagues, including the gentleman from New Hampshire (Mr. Bass), the gentleman from South Dakota (Mr. Thune), the gentleman from Illinois…

This is the private-public partnership that is in place in Europe. If we look at this chart, we will see that it shows the countries that have switched to, instead of a 100 percent government employee operation, to a mix of government…

The reality, as the gentlewoman said, is that at the end of the day this is not a partisan debate. This is not Republican and it is not Democrat. There is not a Republican or Democrat way to make our skies safe. But it is a very, very…