Gary Franks: “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…”

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.

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…

It is with a great degree of sadness that we, today, mark the passing of a true, distinguished public servant, and a fine human being, Congressman Bill Emerson of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, we will always remember Bill for his wonderful sense…

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…