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Mr. Chairman, I know that we are anxious to conclude the debate, but I simply could not allow, in good conscience, the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Hyde] and the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Paul] to mischaracterize this bill. Let me preface…
I just felt compelled to come down to the well one more time and clarify for our listeners, and especially, of course, for our colleagues who will be making a decision on the rule here momentarily, just, again, the background behind my…
I wanted to take the floor just to explain for a moment that through the years the WIC Program, as it is known, has received strong bipartisan support from both Republicans and Democrats because of its effectiveness in reducing low weight…
today is truly a remarkable and historic day. It is, I guess, a real tribute to the hard work of our staffs on a bipartisan basis that we could bring this bill, reforming and improving the landmark Federal civil rights and special…
I actually despair listening to the debate that sometimes I think there are those Republicans, my Republican colleagues, who would be inclined obviously to vote for a punishment bill but against a prevention bill, and perhaps it is the…
Mr. Speaker, obviously there are many things that we can do to at least reduce the tide, the flow of illegal immigration into California and our other border States, but the best way to control our border is by demagnetizing it. That was…
I want to clarify one I think fundamental issue in this whole debate, and that is that we are talking about legislation which is prospective; that is to say, the Gallegly amendment would only apply to children who are not yet illegal…
Should a State want to commit its educational resources in this area, and I think the gentleman is correct, that is the course his home State of Texas would like to take, it would be free to do so under the Gallegly amendment, because the…
I had to come down and speak during special orders tonight after watching the partisan discord on the floor earlier tonight and listening to the comments coming from the other side of the political aisle, and that is what it is, from the…
I think we should remember 3 weeks ago the Clinton administration released a startling report on drug abuse. It showed increases in drug use of almost unbelievable proportions. In just 1 year cocaine use among 12- to 17-year-olds has…
I do not think you call them anything but, the new round of attack ads being aired on television stations around the country and paid for by the AFL-CIO. These are television ads orchestrated by the big labor bosses of the AFL-CIO in…
The conveyance of the Gasquet Mountain School property will help a very small rural and remote community in Del Norte County, the most northern county in my congressional district. It will help a financially strapped school district by…
I just want to again make a couple of points. One is that there are adequate employee protections built into the Working Families Flexibility Act and that explicit language in the bill prohibits an employer from compelling an employee to…
As our committee's report points out, the goal of the vernal pools task force, which has been in existence and continued their work since the 102d Congress, is to develop a general permit application that will identify a finite area of…
I just want to join with all of our colleagues in the accolades that have preceded me in thanking the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Myers] and the distinguished former chairman and now ranking member, the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. Bevill]…
this Congress, the 104th Congress, has made reform a priority. In fact the reforms that we have enacted to date... have been enacted through this House of Representatives on an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis: The Congressional…
I think he makes a very, very important point regarding the unbelievably misleading tactics that are being used by the big labor bosses back here in Washington, DC, in what I think is a desperate and transparent attempt to help the…
I call again on the minority to tell us and the American people how much per pupil funding has increased for public education over the same time period, as used by their charts.
Mr. Chairman, to hear all this compassionate discussion about public education makes me harken back to last year and our efforts to offer educational choice to the poor people of the District of Columbia. If we have a direct responsibility…
I believe that the amendment offered by my good friend, the gentleman from California [Mr. Campbell], is an important amendment. It does have the effect of perfecting or refining the language that I incorporated into the committee bill…
It is unfortunate that just when I thought we were hopefully going to have a constructive debate on welfare reform, the gentleman from Wisconsin marches off the floor. He has taken his ball and apparently he is going home. If he was still…
I rise during special orders to point out that today the countdown is up. Today marks the day that President Clinton should have signed the Wisconsin welfare reform waiver. Why is this important to me as a Californian? Because our Governor…
Mr. Chairman, I submit for the Record two news items reflecting the problems that commercial fisherman are facing, and which I discussed in this colloquy with the distinguished subcommittee chairman this evening: [From the Times Standard…
Mr. Chairman, I seek this time to bring to the attention of the distinguished subcommittee chairman a matter of great concern to many of my constituents. First of all, I would like to say I am a supporter of the mission of the Coast Guard…
This is in response to a letter to the editor (The Reporter, June 1) in which the writer states he is not one of Kelli Eberle's veterans and that Congressman Frank Riggs was not effective in obtaining funding for the Department of Veterans…
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