Ed Royce

I am firmly committed to protecting Social Security for current recipients and for those who will be retiring in the near future. So, I want to thank the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Social Security, Mr. Shaw for his efforts to…

Mr. Speaker, this is a well-crafted bill that helps the North American Development Bank to accomplish its stated goal of improving the wastewater treatment, solid waste management and potable water supply in America's Mexico border region…

I understand that Saddam Hussein was very effective in maneuvering our inspectors out of Iraq and has not allowed in our inspectors or any other inspectors for 4 years; and I also understand that during that 4-year time frame he has been…

Mr. Speaker, let me respond to the gentlewoman and to the argument in terms of what has not been found regarding weapons of mass destruction. The Committee on International Relations had a hearing on this very recently. During that hearing…

one of the points I was going to make was that prior to the passage of our CAARTA bill, during a Committee on Financial Services meeting, I asked the SEC chairman if the SEC had all of the tools that it needed to return the ill-gotten…

I want to thank him for his rather extraordinary work along the North Korean-Chinese border. To my knowledge, he is one of the few non-North Koreans who has managed to travel into North Korea and because of his extensive interviews of…

prior to 1996 Deborah from California was a single mother caring for her two daughters, a disabled son and a niece. She had no high school diploma. She had no prior work experience. But in 1996 we passed a Republican welfare reform bill…

I think we did see that the Kennedy tax reduction spurred an economic growth rate of between 4 and 5 percent. When President Reagan reduced the effective tax rate and when Congress reduced that rate in response to his plan, the economic…

I did want to take a few minutes in order to explain to the Members of this body and to the people of the Nation that the attacks on September 11 were also an attack on our economy. It hit our economy hard. According to the Bureau of…

the gentleman is saying in those economies overseas where the government actually focused on expanding the private sector, rather than expanding government, the public sector, that in those economies, unlike France where socialism was…

I think the gentleman is probably right, history does record when there are incentives for job creation in the private sector, that is when real jobs are created. One of the provisions in the House bill that we passed over to the Senate…

I would just like to quote President Bush on that issue. He was asked last week, and he said, ``You know, the terrorists attacked us, but they did not diminish our spirit, nor did they undermine the fundamentals of our economy, and we…

if I could ask the gentlewoman, how successful have those welfare to work programs that this Congress passed, how successful have they been?

as Members of Congress, we all receive numerous honors every year. But having someone named after you is truly a special honor. There is a young boy named Eric Royce Bates out in California. What makes it so special is that his grandmother…

I think that it is indeed proper that the many achievements of George P. Shultz be recognized by the naming of this new National Foreign Affairs Training Center after Mr. Shultz. I also commend the ranking member, the gentleman from…

With elections approaching in Zimbabwe, and the conditions on the ground deteriorating, it is important that we pass the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001 before this Congress adjourns. In Zimbabwe we are sadly seeing a…

Mr. Speaker, in closing, what a depressing contrast between Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and South Africa's Nelson Mandela. President Mandela prized democracy. He prized the rule of law. He stepped down from power when people were telling him…

As a co-sponsor I rise in strong support. Throughout Africa we are seeing natural resources being misused and fueling conflict; and this is the case with diamonds in Sierra Leone, timber in Liberia, cobalt in the Democratic Republic of…

this legislation will promote economic growth in Latin America and in Africa. It is going to promote American national security. Last year, the African Growth and Opportunity Act was signed into law. It was bipartisan legislation. For the…

Today we had a luncheon where we heard from Prime Minister Vajpayee. It is always good to see the Prime Minister consulting with the Congress and the administration to strengthen the ties between India and the United States. We all know…

Mr. Speaker, the primary source of current news and information for the people of Afghanistan is the radio. Eighty-five percent of Afghans get their information from the radio. They do not have television there. That was banned under the…

I must again thank the gentlewoman for her efforts around the country to get the information out, the truth out about what has happened and this gross violation of the rights of women in Afghanistan. I do believe that there are more and…

What is astounding here is the fact that, as the gentlewoman says, you had a culture in which women played such a pivotal role, especially in education, in the professions, in governance; and suddenly, because of the civil war, first the…

the subject I was going to speak on tonight is the treatment of women in Afghanistan. In 1996, I had the opportunity with Senator Brown on the Senate side to co-chair a hearing on what was underway in Afghanistan and that same year I…

We want the people of Afghanistan to understand why the United States is involved in this military action against the Taliban and against bin Laden. We want them to understand so that they will be our allies in this effort. And my belief…