Ed Royce

this resolution makes note of the ongoing crisis in Algeria and condemns the horrific wave of killings there. Throughout the Muslim holy month of Ramadan that begins on December 30 nearly 1,300 innocent Algerians, including women and…

since their establishment in the early 1990s, credit unions have played a critical role in our economy by providing their members with a source of affordable credit. The value of credit unions is evidenced by the millions of American…

1 week ago the administration issued a waiver of the Jackson-Vanik amendment, opening the way for OPIC and Exim funds to filter into Vietnam. I was expecting this decision to come from the administration; however, I had hoped that common…

President Clinton is scheduled to visit Botswana later this month. I am scheduled to accompany him on that trip. We have spoken with the administration about this resolution, and they strongly support this measure as a positive sign to our…

Mr. Chairman, I have spoken previously about my perception that this bill does allow flexibility. We do have concerns about equal access to U.S. firms. And, yes, there are guidelines in the bill regarding equal access to U.S. firms. But…

Let me close by noting that by earmarking a set level of spending for Africa aid, we would take away the ability of Congress to discuss and debate for the next decade what the level of aid spending should be. Earmarking a specific level of…

The bill does not now require compliance with each criteria, which represent at any rate general guidelines and are not specific in the sense of quantifiable percentages or levels of compliance. The criteria call for countries to make, as…

I will close and respond by saying that I guess partly it is a question of perspective. From the perspective that many of us who have worked on the bill have, the bill itself gives that flexibility. The bill itself says, as I said…

In closing, Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to support this resolution, which makes an important statement on U.S. concern about possible violence in a country that has been and remains vital to American interests. It is particularly…

Mr. Speaker, when the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Hastings] introduced this resolution last July, I felt it was timely and much needed, given the violence that prodemocracy demonstrators experienced at the hands of the Kenyan police. Since…

The Chinese people are yearning for information; not propaganda, but unbiased information, that is all. So I hope bolstering Radio Free Asia is something we can all support. This program has the opportunity to provide more than 1.4…

I have supported the initiatives that are part of that policy for freedom in China package, because together they contribute to a well-crafted China policy, a policy which positions the United States to stand up forcefully for our values…

In closing, let me commend the gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. Menendez], the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Africa, who has worked with us on this resolution. We have worked together on several measures throughout the year. I would…

on Monday the President called taxpayers selfish for wanting to keep more of what they earn. Recently the Democrat leader in the Senate, Tom Daschle, said that Americans were not overtaxed. The President's deputy press secretary said that…

according to the Cato Institute about one- half of the 10 million correction notices sent out each year by the Internal Revenue Service are wrong. They are wrong. Yet the IRS has a very unforgiving view when others make mistakes. For…

the private sector and deregulation are the principal engine of this country's $8 trillion economy. It is not Government handouts. Government cannot claim credit for the personal computer phenomenon, cannot claim credit for the Internet…

Mr. Chairman, the Royce-Andrews-Kasich amendment cuts the operating expenses of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. It puts it to a level that is more in keeping with the level of business this House has authorized for OPIC…

This resolution makes an important statement that the House of Representatives supports our troops on the Korean peninsula. We support our friends and allies in the Republic of Korea and we support the proposed North-South four-party talks…

I rise in support to eliminate this program which uses taxpayers' dollars to subsidize the overseas advertising budget of major corporations. Since 1986 this program has spent several billion dollars in this way and, incredibly, has even…

since violence in the Congo escalated several weeks ago, an estimated 3,000 lives have been lost. What started as an effort by Congo President Pascal Lissouba to safeguard the upcoming election by neutralizing the so-called cobra militia…

my amendment simply cuts funding appropriated above the administration's request for five fossil energy research and development programs, programs earmarked for coal, natural gas, and the oil industries, programs that have been discussed…

if we went back two generations ago, we would find that American families paid 5 percent of their income in income taxes; and if we went back one generation ago, we would find it was 10 percent. And now we find today that it is about 20…

I want to thank Speaker Gingrich for putting together this delegation. The Congress plays a key role in making our country's foreign policy and a trip like this gives us a much better understanding of the important issues we decide each…

in the United States today, the tax burden on families is at a record high. In 1948, tax rates equalled 3 percent of income for the average family of four, but today it is 24 percent. That is eight times more than it was 40 years ago, and…

There are no free lunches. As I said, this puts the American taxpayer on the hook. If we look at the countries that we are rating here, that we are insuring, some of them are rated as double F, double F by OPIC itself. There is no end in…