James Rogan

we Republicans find ourselves in a strange position. On the one hand, we benefit politically when the defenders of the status quo oppose choice in public schools. We benefit politically because school choice is something their own…

the Republican-led House voted overwhelmingly for Education Savings Accounts to give every American family the power to improve the educational choices for their children. Not every family today can afford a home computer or the SAT prep…

children living in the District of Columbia deserve something they are not getting today: a quality education. The District of Columbia Control Board found ``that the longer students stay in the District's public school system, the less…

last week Congress passed legislation making it easier for parents to save for their children's education. With this in mind, I would like to pose a few questions to the defenders of the education status quo. Given that most of you have…

As we work to strengthen education, I wish to spotlight a few schools in my district that have made great strides for our children. Every year the California Department of Education recognizes schools from across the State that have…

the defenders of the education status quo are on the wrong side of history. Each year these people ask for more money for the same failed programs that gave us such poor education results in the first place. Parents are fed up with broken…

even the hard-core liberals generally do not think people are better served by monopolies when it comes to making computers, televisions, or automobiles. Yet they prefer a government monopoly over parental choice when it comes to education…

recent nuclear tests abroad serve as a stark reminder to those who need reminding that the world is still a very dangerous place. Although some are tempted to think that free trade and diplomacy alone will remove the threat of war, all of…

India and then Pakistan conducted nuclear tests. China transferred nuclear technology to Pakistan and Iran. Now we learn the United States Government may have given missile technology to communist China, the same country that transferred…

why would the United States share some of its most sensitive missile technology with Communist China? Did America really fight a Cold War and reduce the nuclear threat only to have the threat return from a Communist regime that recently…

no sane individual, if asked to start from scratch, would come up with the current tax code in a million years. A tax code that is baffling even to the experts is indefensible. One of the aspects of the tax code that is particularly…

I know that story well, Madam Speaker, because that young boy was me. There are many children who are going into buildings just like Gompers Continuation School. These buildings have the word ``school'' on top of them, but they are not…

first I want to thank my distinguished colleague, the subcommittee chairman, for his comments. And I think that the chairman has hit the nail on the head: there are some procedural defects in what is currently on the books. I agree that…

this amendment would involve deleting section 6 from the bill that is before us. Section 6 as proposed would allow parties as a matter of right in a civil case to peremptorily challenge a judge, without any showing of cause, for bias or…

Haig Baronian of Glendale, California in my district can recite history like few historians can. He has lived it. Last year he told the Daily News of Los Angeles that he had seen his mother pulled away, never to be seen again. The story he…

I hear from my liberal friends that labels do not mean much anymore. If that is true, then why do liberals believe that Americans are undertaxed, and conservatives know that Americans are overtaxed? Why do liberals attack Republican…

when Congress cuts taxes, people have more freedom. Freedom to decide how to spend the money they earn as they see fit. Freedom to save and invest for their own home, for a new car or a family vacation. Freedom to prepare for their…

I wish to make a few statements of principle. I consider tax increases to be a step in the wrong direction. I consider tax cuts to be a step in the right direction. I consider increased spending and bigger government a step in the wrong…

I was among hundreds of Republicans last month who stood and applauded President Clinton when he spoke in this Chamber I applauded because I thought he said that we should use any budget surplus to save ``Social Security first.'' That is…

200 years ago George Washington, in his farewell address, said that the love of liberty was interwoven into the ligament of every American heart. Our country has changed much over the last two centuries. But one thing that has not changed…

there are those who still turn a blind eye to the legacy of President Ronald Reagan. Although he left office in 1989 as one of the most beloved presidents of this century, there are some academicians and members of the political left who…

I join with the gentleman from Wisconsin in rising to a point of order and also noting the dichotomy in this particular proposal of censure; that if this were to pass, we would go on record as stating that the President deserves censure…

first, in entering this debate, I consider it a great personal privilege to be allowed to follow two men for whom I have such profound respect, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr

a few minutes ago my dear friend from California made commentary in her argument as to why she would vote against articles of impeachment

we Republicans believe that one of the greatest family values we can promote in Congress is to allow hard-working people to keep more of the money they have earned, and have the right to spend it on their families. How I wish the President…