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I think it pointed out that Governor Wilson of California took all the disaster relief last year without putting up the State's 10 percent that it was supposed to, it is a deadbeat on that, and that they also were giving back taxes at the…
Mr. Chairman, I rise in passionate support of the Towns amendment. I think everybody ought to be for this amendment, if they believe that water flows and wind blows. Now, no one has proved to me that water does not flow and wind does not…
Mr. Chairman, in my part of the country, partners pay their fair share. They cannot say, ``Let us be partners, and then you pay.'' That is not a partnership. Actually what we are talking about, if we do not pass this amendment, is denying…
one of the problems, again, coming from a smaller State where we have often received the dregs of what other States did not want, one of the groups that I can think of that would be against this amendment would be a group like Mutants for…
I am delighted we stayed in session because I think this is a very tragic, tragic, historic day. First of all, I must say we heard comments about we had to get on to the people's business. I must say if there were some people's business…
I am delighted to be able to take the floor and review some of the things that I think have made this day so confusing to a lot of us. I am a historian, as is the new Speaker, and the new Speaker wears that button with great pride. I…
Americans all know that when they hear a fox is guarding the chicken house, they should be very concerned. They soon are going to know that when a different kind of fox comes with their lobbyists to meet with the Speaker, they ought to…
I will call upon Attorney General Janet Reno to please give to the Judiciary Committee as rapidly as possible the findings from the task force she has set up as to what we can do to make women's lives much more secure as they attend family…
I rise in support of the Hamilton amendment. I think it is the correct one. But listen to the coalition here. The gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. Spence] and the gentleman from California [Mr. Dellums] agree on this. Why do they agree…
today I will be introducing, with a group of bipartisan Congresswomen, the Child Support Responsibility Act. We are very, very tired of the incrementalism in this area. We are very, very tired of seeing $34 billion a year being ducked in…
my inclination is to back foreign aid, but this year I cannot because over half of it goes to programs about which I have great concern. First, over a quarter of the total amount is going to military assistance. Why? In this post-cold-war…
I rise in strong opposition to the Solomon amendment, which would prohibit the Department of Defense from making grants to schools that bar military recruiters. I am joined by our Nation's major universities and colleges and the Department…
I am pleased to discuss the research and technology portions, including the defense conversion provisions, of H.R. 4301, the defense authorization bill. This year we focused on three broad themes that allowed the subcommittee to gauge the…
I heard a lot of Members say they want some opportunities to do some spending cuts, and today we are going to have some great opportunities to do spending cuts. We are coming forward with a $262.7 billion defense bill. That is more than…
universal health care coverage is critical to women who have difficulty qualifying for health insurance and are particularly at risk of losing it. Women are significantly more likely than men to be part-time, temporary, or seasonal…
this is indeed a great day. Medical censorship has really been lifted in America. As Americans, we anticipate and accept our birthright of always being able to have access to the best scientific knowledge for treatment of our health…
I am very proud to serve on the Committee on the Judiciary as the only woman on this issue, and I am thrilled to be in this well, knowing that we have finally gotten to this final step. I listened to the prior speaker, and I must say I am…
the average American does not own an assault weapon, and yet every American can be a victim of assault weapons. Think about the innocent diners in the cafeteria not long ago where the gentleman walked in and rubbed out so many of them. And…
the Defense Department long has had an attitude of seeing no evil, hearing no evil and speaking no evil if it is a high enough ranking official of one of the uniformed services. In other words, shut your ears, turn off your brain and give…
this great Nation is one of the few nations on the planet that is dedicated to the fact that everyone, all races and religions, can live together in diversity peacefully. We really did adopt Dr. Martin Luther King's warning during the…
Let us get right down to brass tacks. We are about to break for a spring break. Agencies are about to have to start laying people off through some Neanderthal way that will not give them good control and good management control unless we…
Mr. Chairman, it is wonderful that we finally have this bill on the floor, and I thank all of the members of the committee who worked so hard. Yesterday I had the opportunity to listen to the majority leader's speech at a school about…
today is a particularly special day for the House of Representatives and for Americans. March 22 marks the day in 1972 when Congress passed the equal rights amendment, clearing it for ratification by the States. As you may know, the ERA…
I want to bring to my colleagues' attention an article in the March 1994 edition of Lear's magazine entitled ``The Most Common Misdiagnoses.'' As the article points out, doctors too often misdiagnose female patients because they do not…
But I have not heard that that has broken down nationwide, and almost everybody who really looks at this fairly understands there are certain parts of this country where there is not a family planning clinic.
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