Kristina has spent most of those 50 years working to ensure reproductive choice, equality and human rights for all Americans, regardless of race, sex, ethnic background, sexual orientation or, other characteristics irrelevant to merit.

I urge my colleagues in this House to join me in saluting Kristina Kiehl.

As a founder of Voters for Choice, a national bi-partisan organization dedicated to protecting and expanding reproductive choice for women, Kristina has been a pioneer in protecting the reproductive rights and health of women.

I assure you that I would have never have been so reckless as to take to the floor and argue for something already declared unconstitutional by the courts.

most Americans do not know and most people in the world are unaware that the Page H11772 residents of the Nation's Capitol do not have any representation in the Senate and cannot vote on this floor

the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia seeks to provide the Delegate from the District of Columbia the right to vote in the House on a resolution of impeachment.

I ask for the vote in these impeachment proceedings, Mr.

The gentlewoman from the District of Columbia is recognized.

I ask for this right in the name of half a million people, the only Americans who pay Federal income taxes who do not have full representation in the Congress.

I rise today in support of H.R. 3567, a bill to amend the John F. Kennedy Center Act to transfer operating and capital improvement responsibilities from the National Park Service to the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for…

let us set the record straight. What is being barred here by the Freedom of Access to Clinics Entrances bill FACE? The use of force. The threat of force, physical obstruction, intentional injury, intimidation, and interference. All of…

I rise in support of the budget resolution and appreciate that important language has been included in the report of this bill and in the Senate bill regarding the search for alternatives for pay raises for Federal employees. But what…

But the President's bill has not been submitted yet and is a testament to his desire to make sure we do not have to raise our taxes in order to reform the welfare system and that we indeed have an effective system when he presents his…

Mr. Shaw, I cannot understand, given the zeal with which you want to clear the welfare rolls, why your side of the aisle seems to be against all training for people on welfare.

Sixty-eight percent of the American people are saying that they are willing to pay more to clear the rolls. I want to ask you about a person like a hypothetical Mary who worked all of her life, lived in a steel town, got laid off, used up…

I remind you it is a Democratic President who has come forward with the notion that we should fundamentally change welfare as we know it. We are not foolish, however. As I said in my statement a moment ago, there is no free lunch or cheap…

If you provide her with a job, of course, you provide her with a job at less than the living wage. Suppose that job, however, suppose even after that she cannot find a job, you then throw her off welfare anyway.

I would agree to the elimination of AFDC payments if in fact a person has lived by the rules and has found a job. If in fact that person has done all you say but lives in the steel town that Mary lives in that I just described, and she…

Now, the income for families maintained by women over the past 10 years has gone down in real dollars. I ask, ``How do you propose that these women will have sufficient income to maintain their families without a safety net?''

I want to ask you one other question, a very important concession you made on Charles Murray. Do you also reject his notion that we should end welfare immediately and, rather, embrace the bill that the Republicans now have?

Of course, if Mary does not have a job after she has been trained, you will kick her off welfare at that point.

the present welfare system is a monument to passive government. It helps you get on. It will not do anything to help you work your way off. There is only one solution that will work, and that solution is work, steady work and steady income…

Mr. Shaw, I am interested in the position your party took when President Clinton sought to expand the tax credit for working families. As we know, there are many more working poor people than there are welfare poor. Only a third of single…

The gentleman would deny benefits even to legal aliens and, as a result, create problems for us that we do not have now because, as the Supreme Court said in the case involving some public schools, students----

Mr. Franks, a favorite scholar of the Republican persuasion, Mr. Charles Murray, has drawn a distinction of late between how he would treat divorced mothers and never-married mothers. He would, he said, deny benefits to the children of…