Katie Porter

I am surprised that the minority would offer this particular motion to recommit. When the House reported the bill, it exceeded the $23.5 billion cap in advanced appropriations, which is what the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) was…

Though I did this at the beginning, Mr. Chairman, I want to take just a minute to thank the Members of the subcommittee and the staff. Members of the House should realize that the hearings on this bill take longer perhaps than most other…

each House's report language has independent standing with the agencies. The gentleman is correct that, unless the statements made in report language are specifically rejected by the conferees, the language included in the report of the…

But a Federal 100,000-teacher mandate does cause problems in the local area. We set out last year in a bipartisan way to really find out how our committee could help do a better job of education across the country. We held hearings across…

Mr. Chairman, one of the matters that the other side has conveniently failed to address... is the fact that what we are attempting to do by increasing funding for Pell Grants is to get more access for more young people of modest means to…

We cannot know whether educational programs, including IDEA, work unless somebody evaluates how they work. The Federal Government is the primary source of funds for long-term investment in national education research and development. Much…

I would have to oppose the amendment of the gentleman from New Jersey. I know the gentleman is trying to make a point with this amendment and it is a valid point, but I do not think this is the right way to do it. If I understand the…

We just want to get the government into this business directly and provide for all those people, even though they do not need it.

First, I understand the point the gentleman is trying to make. I think the amendment misses the mark. First of all, let me say that we have this wonderful synergy in our country where a great deal of the basic research which provides the…

Let me say something that I know that they will not like to hear, but I personally do not believe that we should every hear in this Chamber the kind of language that divides us. It is wealthy against working people, over and over and over…

That would therefore provide a prescription drug benefit for these very wealthy people that the gentleman just described?

Mr. Chairman, for at least 212 years of our Republic the schools in our country, the public schools, have managed to handle their own construction. They have done a pretty good job of it. It has never ever been a Federal responsibility…

this is the money for bioterrorism; and it has historically for the last 3 years been designated an emergency. We have designated it as an emergency in this bill. But the point of order of the gentleman is correct, and we would have to…

We are trying to figure out exactly what the gentleman is referring to when he is talking about the disabled in the bill.

reclaiming my time, there is certainly no difference between us in terms of our intent to provide the best possible opportunities for people who are outside the workforce to be trained for jobs that can provide them a higher standard of…

I would say the rhetoric is soaring here. If this is that high a priority, what is wrong with offering an amendment to move some funds out of another account of lower priority to this priority? This amendment is out of order because the…

the job core program has proven over and over again a very effective program. Many of us think of our summer youth programs as the way they are in our cities, but there is clear evaluation that the summer youth program does nothing to…

I am pleased to support the LIFE bill, and I believe that the goals of the national campaign to change children's health behaviors will address the initiatives in the LIFE legislation.

I just wanted to say to my colleague that, obviously, part of our problem is the allocation that we had to work under. We do consider this to be an important priority; and, of course, we will do our best when we go to conference to try to…

Mr. Speaker, I would say to my friend and colleague, the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Slaughter), that the cuts she has described, are not cuts. They are cuts from the President's budget. And the President's budget, this President, has…

for 40 years the minority party controlled the House of Representatives, and most of that time the Senate as well. For all of those years, for 30 of those years, at least, they ran one deficit after another, some of them approaching $300…

as we enter into debate today on normalizing trade with China, there are certain realities which must be acknowledged. Reality one, the human rights abuses in Chinese today are abominable. China continues to deny its citizens the most…

I rise today as one of the many Members of Congress opposed to the Federal Railroad Administration's proposed rule for trains to sound their horns at public crossings. Let me first state that I do not oppose efforts by the FRA or any other…

Mr. Speaker, let me begin by saying that I want to commend the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young), the chairman of our committee, for the absolutely marvelous job that he has done in shepherding all 13 appropriations bills through this…

Mr. Speaker, we find ourselves at this moment in the middle of a very highly structured and organized disinformation campaign by our colleagues on the other side of the aisle, and yet some of the criticisms that have been leveled I want to…