I am joined here on the floor of the House of Representatives by my colleagues to simply bring to the attention of the President of the United States and to our Republican colleagues the mistakes they are making in the way they are…

the Republican budget is simply unfair and unrealistic. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle have sacrificed prudence for politics. Long-term planning for short-term gain. How else can we explain $1.3 trillion in tax cuts, most of…

some Members of this United States Congress support President Bush's preemptive strike against Iraq. Some Members have done their elected and patriotic duty and raised questions about the President's diplomatic failure and inability to…

I rise today to address a potential problem hidden deep in the President's budget. The budget says that the President is seeking to give States the opportunity to exercise more control over Head Start and that he would like to move…

I thank the Chairman because he knows and I know that we are going to be criticized. We are going to be criticized, and there will be those who even call us unpatriotic. We will be criticized. We will be called unpatriotic, and there will…

today we are here to debate a bill, H.R. 5, written for us by the insurance industry. Supporters of restricting jury awards and malpractice lawyers' fees say excessive billion-dollar damage awards in medical liability suits is the reason…

AIDS activists and interesting, caring legislators and others have been working on this AIDS issue for the past 20 years. President Bush did not get active on this issue over the past 2 years, but he has come to the table now to talk about…

I rise in support of our Democratic alternative. Unfortunately, the bill that has been offered by the other side of the aisle is a bill that is not really designed to get rid of poverty, and that is what we are trying to do. Our bill would…

I disagrees with the gentleman, also; and I appreciate the time that the gentleman is giving me to counter some of his points. In addition, would the gentleman agree that our inspectors decided to leave Iraq after it was discovered that…

when the gentleman from Hawaii (Mr. Abercrombie) said to me last week he was concerned about Patsy, that he thought she was at risk, I could not grasp what he was saying to me. I could not think about her being at the kind of risk that…

Mr. Chairman, I would like the Members of this House of Representatives and the public to pay special attention to H.R. 1701, the bill we are debating on the floor today. For those Members who have been outraged about what they have…

I had four amendments in the Committee on Rules to H.R. 1701; only one was accepted and, of course, I thank the members for that. However, I think I was thrown a bone, a bone to say, well, we did something; but certainly, this does not…

the rent-to-own industry has come to this House, and they have gotten support to try and preempt States that have stronger consumer protection laws. We should not allow it to happen. It is unconscionable that we are allowing them to rip…

Elections are the heart of our democracy. We cannot afford to allow another Federal election to come and go without addressing the myriad problems in our election system. We must complete action on election reform legislation. We must…

Mr. Speaker, it has been almost 2 years since the 2000 Presidential election, an election that created a crisis of confidence in our Nation's election system. It has been more than 9 months since the House of Representatives passed the…

Mr. Chairman, what is behind this bill? Not a desire to create a Federal floor of consumer protections for rent-to-own customers, as the majority views allege. If Members really believe that the rent-to-own people are in here doing all of…

I rise in support of the Turner amendment. This amendment provides a reasonable balance between the protections needed by the liability insurance market and the access to compensation needed by the public and certain industries, such as…

I am very pleased to have been a part of the conference committee, and we are finally legislating a corporate responsibility bill. It is long overdue, and if, in fact, the gentleman from New York (Mr. LaFalce), our ranking member, had had…

it is time to lift the embargo and stop the blockade. The Castro-haters took this floor tonight to talk about limiting travel. But Members of Congress go to Cuba whenever they want to go. People are going to Cuba from all over America…

last week I was here on this floor for an hour speaking of the crisis in southern Africa, speaking about the famine, speaking about southern Africa's plight. Approximately 13 million people in southern Africa are in danger of starvation…

I come this evening to talk about a very serious problem in this world. Last evening, I watched in horror as ABC, the Ted Koppel Show, depicted the food crisis in southern Africa. I watched as one woman was identified as having lost one of…

I do not delight in having to reveal that the Chairs of both the Committee on Financial Services and the Committee on the Judiciary just did not do their job. My friend on the other side of the aisle, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Oxley)…

this is precisely why the American public does not trust the Members of Congress. We passed a bill out of the Committee on Financial Services that was not good enough. It was weak. The chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, the…

The purpose of the Export-Import Bank is to create American jobs for American workers.

What I would like to do is try to explain why this debate will have a negative effect on Social Security. Currently, the Federal government does not have enough money to run its day to day operations. There are many reasons for this…