Victor Fazio: “Mr. Speaker, I am very sad that this House and this Nation has lost a decent, caring and thoughtful Member. Walter Capps…”

In addition, if I could ask of the leader, the Speaker has promised a vote on campaign finance reform by the end of March. I note that we have what appear to be four individual bills; I do not know the content of all of them. But is this…

despite an overwhelming bipartisan defeat in the Senate, unfortunately we have before us another attempt to gut a program that gives women and minorities the chance to compete for Federal highway dollars. The Disadvantaged Business…

What we are here to say is that this rule, uniquely, among the 13, is designed to pass a budget in real terms that will apply to the appropriations process, and nobody really knows that until we came to the floor this morning and…

sometimes these bills are known for what they do and sometimes for what they do not do. I think that most of us today are pleased that we are beginning to attend to the problems created by the disasters that have befallen this country over…