Katie Porter

I am simply saying that is not true in every school district, and particularly history tells us in many of the big city school districts across America this money does not get to the kids.

Mr. Chairman, I want the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. McIntosh] to understand what we have done in the bill with respect to the salary and expense accounts. That is, generally, we have provided about a 2-percent increase in S&E accounts…

by my calculations we are going to need $11 billion of new spending in this one line item alone. Is the gentleman telling me he favors doing that?

I would again suggest to the gentleman that the assumption behind his statement is simply not accurate. For years, a portion of this money went to support bureaucrats in local school districts that were part of a political patronage…

I think it is appropriate now, because the gentleman has covered so much of this, that we read into the Record exactly what we have done on the ergonomics standards. The gentleman from Texas [Mr. Bonilla] of our subcommittee, along with…

OK, Mr. Chairman, the gentleman is against all Federal involvement in education, and that is fine philosophically, and I can understand. I assume the gentleman is against special education for handicapped students.

Mr. Chairman, the Gilman-Pelosi amendment will allow family planning services in the Third World to continue, while safeguarding the fungibility of funds for abortion services. This amendment will allow U.S. funds to be used only by…

reclaiming my time, what I hear this gentleman saying and what the gentleman from Indiana seemed to say earlier was that what you want the Federal Government to do is through taxation to raise the funds and then simply pass it to the local…

From this Republican's perspective, this is exactly the kind of thing that we need to have in the public schools that I see problems in, where we have entrenched bureaucracies, often teachers unions, I have to say, sometimes entrenched…

We went through that debate earlier with revenue sharing, and pretty much I think the country decided that it was the most irresponsible thing you could possibly ever do, to raise tax moneys at one level of government and have another…

It is my understanding, and the gentleman from Wisconsin can correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that the States can structure this in any way they want to restrict the schools in their States to apply only in certain ways or in any…

My understanding of the assistance made available in section 571 is that no less than half the funds are made available for democracy building and other activities by nongovernmental organizations.

The Economic Support Fund helps provide economic assistance for countries that, given special circumstances, may require U.S. aid. In addition, the ESF funds made available as a cash transfer to the government of Turkey will be no more…

Tonight I have requested some time to bring to the attention of my colleagues an important visit to Washington which is taking place right now. Tomorrow President Heydar Aliyev of Azerbaijan will meet with President Clinton at the White…

we come to the floor today, as we have many times before, to commemorate the sad anniversary of the division of Cyprus. I want to commend my friend and colleague from Florida for initiating this annual special order, and express my deep…

China is one of the world's major human rights abusers. It ranks right up there with Nigeria, Burma, Turkey, and the Sudan. There is no doubt whatsoever about this. Each year we debate MFN, we vent our anger and frustration with China and…

Mr. Speaker, the first amendment to the Constitution, the supreme law of our land, proclaims that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press. The principle of free speech in our Constitution is an absolute…

Mr. Chairman, I have the highest respect for the gentleman from New Jersey. He has been and is one of the great leaders in this Congress in supporting human rights and the rule of law across the world. Yesterday, he stood up and ensured…

We are very pleased with the success of these new drugs, and I can assure the gentlewoman that the AIDS Drug Assistance Program, which is part of the Ryan White program, has broad bipartisan support. As an indication of this support, I…

On April 24, 1915, 200 American political and intellectual leaders from Istanbul were arrested and exiled. This action had the effect of silencing the leading voices of the American community in the Ottoman capital, and it is considered…

Mr. Speaker, our section of the omnibus bill continues Congress' initiative to terminate duplicative and ineffective programs. There are 13 new terminations in addition to the 100 that we achieved last year. We have frozen or reduced many…

I strongly support H.R. 4011, the Congressional Pension Forfeiture Act. Under current law, a Member of Congress who is convicted of a felony is eligible for a full Federal pension. This pension is partially subsidized by the American…

the Kurdish people are an ancient people. There are 30 million of them. They live in Turkey, in Iraq, in Iran, in Syria, and they are an oppressed people within each of those societies. None of those countries wants the Kurdish people to…

Mr. Chairman, we are a diverse nation. We should celebrate and be proud of our diversity. But to be a nation we must have one common language with which we can communicate with one another. That common language is American English…

I rise with my colleagues to commemorate the passing of one of my good friends, Hamilton Fish, Jr. Together with my family, I want to extend my deepest sympathies to Ham's family and urge them to be strong in this time of loss. Ham was a…