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Edward R. Royce is a former U.S. Representative for California's 39th congressional district, serving from 1993 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Royce was known for his work on foreign affairs and trade issues during his tenure in Congress. He served as the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where he focused on international relations and security matters. Royce was also involved in legislation aimed at supporting religious institutions and community service initiatives.
Mr. Speaker, let me explain why this is important: although most Americans assume that a Federal budget surplus in any year is automatically used to reduce the national debt or at least the debt held by the public, this actually is not the…
In 1996, the President and the Congress agreed to provide no new money to the Clean Coal Technology Program. Taxpayers are footing the bill for technology to be used by private companies. In my view, government has no business favoring…
Mr. Speaker, let me say as chairman of the Subcommittee on Africa, I think we are on the verge of making a very significant achievement for this Congress and for the future of America's relationship with Africa. I think the African and…
the Social Security earnings limit is a very outdated provision in the Tax Code. In fact, it goes back to the Great Depression. It was designed at that time to open up more jobs for young people during the Great Depression. The idea was…
the bottom line is, couples should not be punished by the government for making that decision to get married. Yet the current Tax Code pushes those married couples filing jointly into higher tax brackets. The bottom line is, this is wrong…
currently employers and employees can set aside pre-tax money that can be used for out-of-pocket health care expenses and co-payments and deductibles, and these are called flexible spending accounts. There is a problem in the current law…
the reprehensible practice of slavery in Sudan entered American homes on Sunday evening. Touched By An Angel, a television series, performed an important service by broadcasting the ugly reality of slavery in that country to millions of…
President Clinton will not release documents detailing the decision to grant 16 members of the FALN terrorist group clemency. The Clinton administration has an obligation to explain why it has let these terrorists out of prison. They claim…
in the last Congress, this body at the urging of the administration approved $18 billion in new payments to the International Monetary Fund. At that time, some of us called for reforms to this flawed institution, reforms that would have…
I could not believe my eyes when I read the newspaper this morning that President Clinton had given clemency to 12 imprisoned members of the Puerto Rican terrorist organization, the FALN. U.S. policy to terrorists has always been very…
as the clocks move forward on December 31, there is a strong likelihood that some computers will fail to recognize the year 2000, instead rolling back to January 1, 1900. A Y2K-initiated computer crash could have disastrous impacts on many…
we can create a financial structure that provides lower costs, increased access, better services, and greater convenience to consumers. Every consumer in this country is connected in some way to the financial services industry. Nearly…
Enacting a substitute bill on which there has been no hearings or public comment is no way to approach a task as important as reforming the Nation's bankruptcy system. Our bankruptcy laws play an important and necessary role in protecting…
last week in the Committee on International Relations we listened to Secretary of State Albright explain the administration's policy. I expressed my concerns to the Secretary about the difficulty of our objectives, especially given the…
Unfortunately, as the system is set up now, as little as 65 cents on the dollar makes it to the classroom. That is wrong. Many children are being shortchanged. Congress must downsize bureaucracy to ensure students get the best possible…
we have no ballistic missile defense system. The administration opposed it; vetoed it. Before World War II, many people were stuck in a similar mindset. Leaders in England and elsewhere did not want to develop advanced weaponry. One leader…
today on this House floor we passed House Resolution 4 which states that the U.S. must deploy and not just develop a national missile defense system, and we must deploy now and not leisurely aim to deploy at some point in the future, and…
the time is now to save the Social Security Trust Fund. And I say that because it has been 30 years that the Federal Government has run chronic budget deficits, until last year. We were looking, 4 years ago, at budget deficits which were…
the 106th Congress started the day with a nationwide consensus that the health of social security is in jeopardy. Millions of American seniors have come to depend on social security, and it is our responsibility to see that a solution is…
Today radio broadcasting in much of Africa, as in other places in the world, is dominated by governments which operate national radio stations and all too often frustrate independent radio stations. African governments, those that are…
this is not a debate about trade or investment. American companies, I think we all know, are free to trade with and invest in Vietnam. We all wish them well in that. This resolution does nothing to change that. What this resolution does is…
the peanut program is nuts, just a shell game. It is a hidden tax. It is a hidden tax on American consumers, adding hundreds of millions of dollars to the cost of peanuts. We have not repealed the law of economics. A jar of peanut butter…
But there is one aspect of that Tax Code that in my view is the most unfair of all, and that is the marriage penalty. Under the current Tax Code, married couples usually pay more Federal taxes than single taxpayers, everyone knows this. We…
This is a balanced statement of the U.S. House of Representatives' views of the troubling situation in Algeria. It takes into consideration the democratic progress being made by the Algerian Government, but does not ignore human rights…
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