Katie Porter

we mark the 81st anniversary of the Armenian genocide, which did not occur in 1 year, 1915, but lasted over an 8-year period from 1915 to 1923, during which time the Turks of the Ottoman Empire carried out a systematic policy of…

oh, nonsense. Strong law enforcement and stiff penalties and reasonable gun control measures are not alternatives. We can and we should do both of them. The NRA began losing the American people when it failed to follow most law enforcement…

I feel like I have walked into the middle of the same movie I was in a week ago. Why are we debating this matter? This is the same thing we did last week. Mr. Speaker, we might as well just play the tapes of last week's debate. All the…

Mr. Speaker, what we are having here in Washington lately is about 70 percent politics and about 30 percent substance. While politics are always going to be a part of it, I think what the American people expect of us is 30 percent politics…

Mr. Speaker, there can be no question but that the majority is just as committed to quality public education for the children of America as anyone in the minority. To suggest otherwise is nonsense. But let us face it, there are many, many…

I want to tell the House how much we are all going to miss Mike Stephens. Mike served on the Labor-HHS Appropriations Subcommittee for over 20 years, 5 as clerk, and was enormously helpful to all members of the subcommittee, including…

I support the funding of the regional head injury centers, subject, of course, to full competition to ensure that the most qualified centers are funded.

5 cents out of every $1 spent on education is spent by the Federal Government. Reductions in Federal education spending in this House bill, H.R. 2127, amount to less than 1 percent of the total money spent on primary and secondary…

I understand that the level of funding in our bill would perhaps create financial difficulties for many of the institutions that have relied on this funding in the past and I will work with the members of the conference in the other body…

I received a call from Gov. Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin, the State neighboring my State of Illinois, and had a discussion about the panel. I will do the best I possibly can to restore funds for the National Education Goals Panel in the…

Mr. Chairman, the bill contains the largest single year increase in Pell grants ever and raises the maximum grant to the highest level in history, $2,440. This is the program that provides access to the most financially needy students in…

the total discretionary funding for the Departments of Health and Human Services declines by $1 billion from $29.2 billion to $28.2 billion, or 3.5 percent. Mandatory spending, on the other hand, increases from $152 billion to $170…

I say that sounds wonderful, but with the cuts in this section of the bill, in education, they amount to exactly three-quarters of 1 percent of the money spent in education in our country this year, three-quarters of 1 percent is what…

I am very well acquainted with the work of the American Printing House for the Blind, both through the Hadley School and through my work on the subcommittee. I do share the gentleman from Kentucky's interest in providing for the…

let me say to the gentlewoman that someone said it is not something they can quantify. I would say that this means 798,000 unintended pregnancies to unmarried women.

Mr. Chairman, the gentleman has raised the value of job training programs generally, and I would agree that there are some that do some good. There are others that do not at all. For example, if we look at adult job training and we look at…

I would tell the gentlewoman that our subcommittee is fully aware of the important work performed by the men and women of the Office of Emergency Preparedness. The subcommittee's action is in no way a devaluing of their efforts and of the…

Mr. Chairman, total discretionary funding for the Department of Labor is $8.4 billion. This is a reduction of $1.1 billion below fiscal year 1995's revised amount and a reduction of $3 billion below the President's budget request. In…

Mr. Chairman, the first amendment I intend to offer would do four things. The first would be to increase funding for Runaway Youth-- Transitional Living in the Administration for Children and Families, in the Department of Health and Human…

Mr. Chairman, if I may say so, I, as the gentleman from Colorado and the gentleman from Wisconsin know, opposed the inclusion of this entire title in our bill. This I think would, however, improve the intent of what the gentleman from…

yes, it is our intention to fund the continuation costs of the DOD research project. I agree it is an important research and treatment program and should be continued.

Reclaiming my time, it is important to note that one of the major goals of this bill is to provide for maximum flexibility within the National Institutes of Health as a whole and, in this particular case, within the National Institute of…

All during the 1980s, never was title X a target. On a bipartisan basis, even though from 1985 on the program was unauthorized, people on both sides of the aisle supported funding for family planning. There was an issue on the gag rule…

the cold war is over and the United States is struggling to reshape its foreign policy. I believe there is a clear principle we should use as our guiding light in this effort--shared values. We are the only remaining superpower, and we…

I commend him for his leadership this evening in bringing the question of Armenian genocide again before the American people, who must know its history, who must understand its meaning, as he has done so very forcefully this evening. We do…