I rise in support of S. 2000, a bill to reauthorize the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program and the Head Start Programs. These programs have been effective in helping those in poverty, especially children, to get through difficult…

I will not vote for this budget resolution. First, I do not approve of how the House Democratic leadership decided to have the House vote on this budget before the minority party had a chance to examine it. Few members have been able to…

I rise today as a member of the Sportsman Caucus in strong opposition to H.R. 4296, the so-called assault weapon ban. I am a firm believer in the second amendment right to keep and bear arms. While many in Congress feel the way to control…

Ms. Woolsey, I say, God bless you. You are an example of a success story, and I am pleased to be able to see that, and to be able to hear you talk about it.

Mr. Moderator, the intent of welfare was to serve as a temporary safety net to help people get back on their feet, yes. However, it has gone off course considerably. In my opening statement I compared welfare to slavery. We can all agree…

In many ways, welfare is the 20th century's version of slavery. It is reserved for those who are in the worst possible socioeconomic position. Its victims are dependent on the very system that enslaves them. Its victims receive shelter…

Another question for you, both slavery and welfare will reward or praise the mother for having another child. For the slave, obviously more children would increase the slave master's work force. Our welfare system gives mothers more money…

More blacks were able, just looking at the black population alone, more blacks were able to move into the middle class during the 1980's than any other time in our history. More blacks were able to buy a home during the 1980's than at any…

Do you agree that we should pay mothers more money for having more babies? That is the question.

They cannot go in and ask for an increase in pay. My last question, and I will try to be brief with this, lastly, do you believe that noncitizens should receive welfare, with the exception of refugees and individuals over the age of 75?

There are a number of individuals today who are earning $25,000, $30,000, and $40,000 a year, and upon their having another baby they cannot walk in to their supervisors and demand an increase in pay.

I have not seen that report, but as I stated to you before, we have seen a growth, a rapid growth, of teenaged birth in our society. In the 1980's we had a tremendous amount of economic prosperity during the 1980's, as you well know. We…

As the father of teenagers, both male and female, I strongly support that notion, but within the Republican bill, obviously there is a requirement of no additional payments to the mother, a requirement that she may have to live at home…

No, I do not know why we are here defending Charles Murray. We are giving him a lot of attention. Hopefully, he has a book he is trying to push. You are doing wonders to make his book become a best seller. I am not here to support Charles…

Our teenage fathers are eligible, just like anybody else. I agree with you. I know a male today who has had two women pregnant at the same time in the hospital and has not been accountable for taking care of either one of them. You are…

Then we give that person three options: Find a job and support your children, go to jail, or you have a State-supported type job as we talked about before, community service type job. We also within our bill talk about training and we talk…

The problem I have with all these individuals is the fathers we have not identified, who are not taking care of their children.

Statistics would show that the growth in poverty that we have seen has been due largely to the growth of the teenagers giving birth out of wedlock, and we have statistics to support that. Yes, we should try to create more jobs. That is why…

In my remarks, I talked about how there was a lack of education, a lack of hope, the plantation being very similar to a project. I talked about the fact that today you have people entrapped. Can you tell me any differences? If not--we…

the Federal debt burden on our children continues to grow. Despite all of the White House rhetoric about deficit reduction, we are still going to have a $223 billion deficit in fiscal year 1994, according to the Congressional Budget…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, when I was 9 years old, some white racists burned a cross on my front lawn. The Ku Klux Klan killed a dog on our lawn and placed a dead possum in our mailbox, simply because we dared to live…

we just recently witnessed a dreadful example of why it is so important to take cash out of our welfare system and replace it with a debit card. Mr. Speaker, in Chicago, 20 people were living in a 2-bedroom apartment, 5 families used the…