Mr. Thompson, are you referring to what is known as the crack report labeled Civil Rights at the United States Department of Agriculture, where there is documented discrimination of the documented filing of claims that went unaddressed…

I submit that the Justice Department has said no matter what we move to do in USDA, they have got the final word. We can go through the administrative process all we want and resolve these cases, but they are going to look at each one of…

It is so absolutely typical of what has been happening, and it spells out, in no uncertain terms, the trauma and the harm that has been fostered on many of our farmers who have attempted to get some justice at the United States Department…

The memorandum discussed a way by which they could deny the check that had already been cut, and they did it within 24 hours. See, the reason the gentleman got his 1099 from the IRS was because the check was cut, and the form went over to…

the gentlewoman is certainly welcome. And I would like to thank her for the education that she has provided for all of the Members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Those who have struggled with this issue have taught us not only the…

We were just describing this unbelievable situation where the farmers had filed the complaint, there was no Civil Rights Division, the complaints went into a cardboard box. Now they are being told by the Justice Department, sorry, they…

Mr. Thompson, as I understand it, many of these farmers who have lost their land, lost their homes, who have been trying to file complaints with the U.S. Department of Agriculture thought that this year that there was a break, that there…

H.R. 1428 is unAmerican. It is unfair. It is an outrageous attempt to deny immigrants democracy. H.R. 1428 is quite simply a frontal assault on our Nation's essential voting rights. The bill would seriously undermine the Federal laws…

I rise today to join with all my colleagues in celebrating this Black History Month. Each year during the month of February we consciously take time to acknowledge and celebrate the history and accomplishments of African Americans in this…

I want my friends out there in America, however, to know how I feel about Ron Dellums. Ron Dellums is my friend, he is my colleague, and he is a man that I have admired for many, many years. I do not know exactly when I first came to know…

we find ourselves in a rather unfortunate situation. This is the most cynical kind of public policy-making that I have ever witnessed. I cannot understand for the life of me why the Haitians would have been left out from consideration. As…

it gives me great pride to stand before this House this afternoon and say a few special words about my friend, Floyd Flake. I am not pleased that he is leaving. As a matter of fact, when he first told me I was standing back near the door…

I do not rise to speak for or against charter schools. As a matter of fact, I tend to think that I could be supportive of charter schools. However, for many years now, I have been involved in trying to stop the rip-off of our Pell grants…

my intent is not to defeat the legislation. My intent is to surface this problem that I have run into in California. Even if they are not receiving Federal assistance, I do not know if they are or not, you can perhaps not have this…

I would ask the gentleman how much his school district spends on its children in his district per student.

I offer this amendment to change the funding of the Drug Courts Program from $30 to $60 million, a program which has already proven to be a tremendous success in reducing recidivism rates and encouraging rehabilitation for nonviolent first…

our children are not failing because they did not have a national test. Our children are failing because in many cases there are just plain lack of resources in districts that are poor, that do not have the resources. We have discovered…

we train them and we send them back. Then we rely on them. We support them. Guess what? Members cannot be concerned about drug dealing and drug trafficking as long as they are supporting the very ones who are dealing the dope back to us…

I am absolutely surprised and appalled at the energy that they are expending to defend the School of the Americas. I do not know why those who posture themselves as law-and-order policymakers, I do not know why anybody who gets up time and…

let me make it absolutely clear that if the President of the United States wrote to the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. Callahan], called, and insisted on funding the School of the Americas, then I am opposed to the President and the President…

I thank very much the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia [Ms. Norton]. I thank her for taking the time to organize this tribute to Betty Shabazz. She is one of the busiest persons in this House. Not only does she have the regular…

However, this Congress is about to pass the most profound and drastic tax cut this Nation will experience in many years to come. This is a true redistribution of the wealth, and let me tell my colleagues why. The top 1 percent in our…

I would certainly advise the members of the Committee on Banking and Financial Services to reject that offer. I would be supportive of doing everything that the gentleman has talked about, even though I was never contacted about concerns…

the agreement that was just discussed by the gentleman from New York [Mr. Flake] that will take us into conference in the way that the Committee on Appropriations had designed with 125, with language that would define the way in which it…

The general points that my colleagues have made are the outline of some kind of agreement that appears acceptable to all of us. My colleague's suggestion about the prompt involvement of Treasury is something I do not know how to frame in…