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I thank Representative Skeen for yielding me time, and I appreciate the support that the subcommittee has shown for the NEA, the NEH and the IMLS. But I do rise in support of this amendment, because I think we as a Nation need to support…
I am proud to be an American. I am proud to be a citizen in the freest Nation in the world. We have the confidence in America that if everyone is allowed to speak up, to share their experience, to share their knowledge, we as a Nation will…
I want to remind the Members, and I hope to remind the White House, that it is time that we wrap up our business. It is very important that we, as a body, deliver to the executive branch a plan for spending and for funding the priorities…
I say to the President, ``Listen to our seniors.'' My seniors are being hurt by their Medicare+Choice plans leaving the market. They are hurt because through these plans they get better benefits than Medicare offers, and millions of…
H.R. 4312 will authorize a feasibility study to determine if part of my district, and our colleague John Olver's district, qualify for designation as a National Heritage Area. The Park Service defines a National Heritage Area as an area in…
the strengthening Abuse and neglect Courts Act of 2000 will build on the success of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (ASFA) which required states to shorten the length of time that children remain in foster care by filing…
I thank my friend and the honored chairman of this subcommittee the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Bilirakis) for bringing forward a really extremely important bill that will provide many good services for children throughout America. There…
Mr. Luckhan's example once again demonstrates that the virtue of selflessness merits recognition.
I am very proud we are doing it in not only a way that will save and strengthen Medicare for future generations and provides more choice for seniors, but it provides more health care for seniors. Ours is the only bill that covers off-label…
I want to mention something that really has received no attention because it goes to what my colleague from Louisiana was saying. If you rely on the private sector and you have multiple plans out there, lower prices for seniors, better…
Honestly, some nights I just lie in anguish because I know that by my colleagues making this a partisan decision, seniors in America are not going to get prescription drugs for another year and a half. Now, all the plans will take a year…
I must say, as a woman, I have been keenly aware of the need for Medicare to cover prescription drugs. It is simply a fact that 90 percent of all women over 65 have at least one chronic illness and 73 percent of women over 65 have at least…
I congratulate him not only on the bill but for his leadership on education issues over many years... The holistic approach to learning to read embodied in this bill is the right answer, not just for children, but for families.
But for 4 years now this Nation has had Charitable Choice language in its welfare reform bill, in its Even Start program, and in other legislative initiatives for the explicit purpose of allowing churches to be part of the social service…
Listen up America. So often what happens on this House floor is not reported by the media, unless there is a conflict and a battle. The fact that the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) and I have spent many, many hours thinking about…
The 1996 welfare reform law has been one of the greatest social policy successes of the last half century. Due in great measure to this legislation and excellent reforms in the earned income credit, Medicaid child care, and other programs…
First of all, under no circumstances can American dollars be used to fund abortions abroad, period. No matter what anyone implies on this floor, that is the law of the United States of America and it cannot happen. However, I am stunned…
But there is another wonderful provision of the bill that I want to point out to my colleagues. It allows our seniors to participate in a demonstration project if they are diagnosed with advanced stage congestive heart failure, diabetes…
this is a red letter day for seniors. It is just a red letter day. For the first time in history, out of this House is going to go legislation to provide prescription drug coverage for seniors across America, every village, every city. I…
I rise to congratulate the subcommittee for increasing the funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. It is a very cost-effective Federal-State, public-private…
I agree with the gentleman's proposal. I just do not believe that it is evenhanded tax law, because it does not treat in an evenhanded, equitable, fair way all entities that are tax-subsidized, that is, citizen-subsidized, but allowed to…
That is a very, very important point. We do not want to shift costs from the private sector to the public sector, and we do not want to do it for another important reason. Many of the people who have coverage through former employers have…
we have testimony from physicians that the way the bill is worded, it would indeed have that effect, and we have judicial rulings from judges that say the language is so broad they would have to rule that way.
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