Lynn C. Woolsey

I too am a proud member of the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training and Life-Long Learning, which crafted this reauthorization. And I can assure my colleagues that the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 make higher education…

I am amazed that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle support the Dollars to the Classroom Act. And I am amazed that we hear that the majority of districts will receive more money when the Congressional Research Service has…

H.R. 3248 continues to be a bad bill. It is not that I do not trust the schools and the school districts, as my good chairman would make us think. I do not trust the Congress and our funding priorities. Claiming that Dollars to the…

when we are talking about AIDS, we are talking about an epidemic. This should not be a discussion that is an opportunity to play politics. Banning needle exchange will not help save our children, or anyone else. In fact, a ban on needle…

5 years ago, as a new Member of the House of Representatives, I was so proud to support the motor voter bill, a bill which made it easier for people to vote. It made it easier by allowing more convenient access to voter registration for…

it is truly a sad time for the United States Congress and for the American people. Today we mourn the tragic loss of Jacob Chestnut and John Gibson. We mourn for their families and the children they leave behind. And as we look back on…

last week a very good friend of mine went to the hospital to have a malignant tumor removed from his bladder. It was extensive surgery. It was outpatient surgery. He was sent home 5 hours after the surgery with a catheter and a bag at his…

when are we going to address campaign finance reform? When are we going to talk about the way campaign finance works? Particularly when are we going to talk seriously about taking soft money out of campaigning? Soft money disenfranchises…

What our health care system needs, Mr. Speaker, is the Dingell-Daschle bill, a patient protection bill that ensures doctors and patients are able to make the decisions about the patient's health care, not insurance company bureaucrats and…

I knew the American workers were in trouble when one of the first changes that the Republicans made as the new majority was to completely eliminate, to remove the word "labor" from the committee that I served on. It was called the House…

But since OSHA was passed in 1970, the job fatality rate has been cut in half and injury rates have also declined significantly. That ought to be example enough that we do not weaken it. If anything, we strengthen and learn from mistakes…

today is the third anniversary of President Clinton's handshake agreeing with Speaker Gingrich to have real campaign finance reform here in the House of Representatives. Last night, the majority whip actually said when he was talking about…

I was over in my office preparing for the next issue we are going to be debating and listening to this charade that is supposed to be a debate on campaign finance reform, finding myself extremely embarrassed, embarrassed for the majority…

am I a church member? Yes, I am. Is my church important to me? Absolutely. Do I go to church as often as possible and get the good community that is there for me? Absolutely. Do I want the Federal Government to be involved in my church…

In last year's balanced budget, we had a bipartisan agreement to protect the environment. But this year the Republicans in their budget proposal throw away that commitment, out the window. The Democratic alternative, however, does restore…

I say to all my colleagues that public education is the backbone of our country. Let us not forget that. It is why we are a great Nation. Public education is available to all. It does not discriminate, and it must be strengthened, not…

Today marks the 83rd anniversary of the Armenian genocide, the first genocide of the 20th Century. I have come to the floor of the House to acknowledge the atrocities suffered by the Armenian people at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. On…

for years the American people have told us loud and clear what they want with campaign finance reform. They want a system that encourages every American to participate, they want a system to close special interest loopholes, and they want…

Mr. Speaker, I come to the House this evening to honor the story behind the creation of National Women's History Month. In doing so, I salute the National Women's History Project from the 6th Congressional District of California, the…

I am sorry to see this resolution on the floor today because I think that it would have benefited from the Committee on Education and Workforce markup that was scheduled and then canceled. Since other members of the committee and myself…

last fall, Members of Congress from both parties worked with the administration and drafted a bipartisan agreement on what we could and what we could not do regarding national testing. Since then, there has been no evidence that the…

And, Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for letting us do this. I promise I would have been here earlier, but I was on an airplane coming from a very rainy, rainy California. I tell Ron this story because it made such an impact on me. Ron…

several months ago I visited a charter school in Santa Rosa CA. I spend the morning with students in their small classes, saw the individual attention they got from their teachers, and met many of their parents. And when I left that…

a sound public school system is how we prepare all of our children for the high skilled, high wage jobs that ensure America's leadership in this world marketplace and ensures that these children will earn a livable wage and not be on…

over 200 years ago John Hancock and dozens of other patriots signed the Declaration of Independence to proclaim their independence from England. Well, today, Mr. Speaker, my colleagues from both sides of the aisle and I are putting our…