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Karen Bass is an American politician currently serving as the Mayor of Los Angeles, a position she has held since December 2022. She is a member of the Democratic Party and previously served as the U.S. Representative for California's 37th congressional district from January 2011 to December 2022. Bass has focused on issues such as public safety, accessibility, and community engagement throughout her political career.
I greatly appreciate his accommodation of this piece of legislation, which is, interestingly enough, identical word for word to a similar bill that was introduced on July 16, 1957, by my father when he was serving in the same capacity I am…
I certainly support NASA in such respects, but this Project Prometheus is still going to receive a 30 percent increase after the money is removed for Superfund clean-up. And what the project basically is is an effort to study 3 moons of…
as a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, I am extremely pleased to have had the opportunity to develop a strong Medicare modernization package that will significantly improve this critical government program. The seniors of New…
by most measures the United States is the most technologically advanced country in the world. One measure, however, where the U.S. is sorely lacking behind other industrialized nations is high-speed Internet access for citizens and small…
4 days ago New Hampshire lost an old friend. It went unnoticed probably between 2 a.m. in the morning on Saturday. The Old Man of the Mountain collapsed and fell a thousand feet off the face of Canon Mountain, and I know New Hampshire…
I have to say in the 8 years I have been here, at no time has it been more painful for me to listen to partisan rhetoric associated with an issue than has been the case in this debate. The issue of corporate governance is not a Republican…
I would like to talk for a minute or two about an issue that may not be the most pressing issue before the Nation today, but it is one that is, nonetheless, important for the historical nature of the U.S. Capitol and its grounds. The…
Mr. Speaker, a little more than 2 months ago, America was visited by an unspeakable horror. For the first time in more than a century and a half, this Nation was attacked viciously on its own home territory. In the weeks since September…
It is important because Americans demand, expect and will get aviation safety with the passage of the bill we are going to consider tomorrow. My good friend from Arizona has talked at some length about the differences between the Senate…
Mr. Chairman, I do have an amendment to offer. I had planned to offer a couple of amendments having to do with funding for IDEA, special education. But I have to say that within the constraints of the budget, the distinguished subcommittee…
I rise in support of the Bono Amendment to H.R. 4. Today we have an opportunity to advance the use of renewable and alternative energy products. The Energy Sun program has significant environmental and energy security benefits. I support…
H.R. 724 makes a technical correction to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act that is necessary for Congress to authorize future appropriations for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It contains a date correction that was incorrectly…
I want to commend this Congress for paying special attention to this significant disease, celebrating the progress that we have made in the last 20 years but understanding that there is enormous work yet to go, and we all must put our…
Mr. Speaker, I rise as a supporter and cosponsor of the Violence Against Women Act. I cannot go further without thanking my colleague the gentlewoman from Maryland (Mrs. Morella) for the enormous energy and persistence that she has…
I believe that funding of special education provides broader funding for more people. I certainly agree that it might be a good idea in some school districts for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders to receive counseling preparatory to…
Now, the bill before my colleagues, as we have previously discussed, raises special ed funding by $500 million from $5 billion to $5.5 billion a year. This amendment that I offer here now will increase that funding further by $1 billion…
I respect the gentleman's concern about this, and I would only point out that we have time and time again in this body said that special education is, if not our very highest priority, it is certainly at the very top of the list. And I…
as a member of both the Budget and Intelligence committees, I have been especially sensitive to what we call top line issues--how much money is available overall, and whether it is generally adequate. Pressures to keep down the allocations…
I, too, join him in expressing the fact that I am proud of this Congress for what we have done today and what we have done for the last 10 months of this year. As a member of the Committee on the Budget, we began the year seriously…
I will conclude my observations about where we stand today by making an observation about the debate that occurred recently in my home State of New Hampshire between the two candidates running for the nomination for president on the…
I would suggest that every State in the Nation on occasion is forced to find far more than 1 cent on every dollar because, unlike the Federal Government, they have to balance their budgets every single year. I would also point out that you…
I am standing here today on this side of the aisle to demonstrate that full funding of special education is not a Republican issue, it is not a liberal issue or a conservative issue. It is not a Democratic issue. It is an issue that every…
25 years ago the Congress passed the Individuals with Disability Education Act, and contained therein was a mandate that the Federal Government should supply 40 percent of the funding to teach disabled children. To date we have broken the…
I rise here tonight in the 5 minutes allocated to me to urge negotiators, both Republicans and Democrats, to use this as an opportunity to put money into special education, to fully fund or to move toward fully funding the Individuals with…
how is the U.S. doing economically compared to Europe and Japan, given the fact that these governments are providing so much money for economic research and development?
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