Even before the President submitted his health care reform bill, it was clear he had taken the lead on that issue. He has made the crisis of the welfare system an issue for the first time in this country, and, when it comes to overall…

The citizens of the world, of course, cannot get welfare. The people who can get welfare are indeed citizens of the United States.

It is encouraging the working poor to work instead of going on welfare. Why did not the Republicans who, the gentleman is right, supported this year after year, simply embraced this welfare prevention bill?

The outline of the President's bill has not come from leaks, but from briefings of the press, and if your concern is you do not have a bill yet, then I can only say that you will have a bill soon, and the bill you have will be better…

Your bill calls for job search. What Mary needs is training because in the steel town----

Let the record show, Mr. Chairman, that there is agreement on a very important item in the welfare debate, and that is male responsibility.

Mr. Shaw, you concede that training has to be a part of any successful strategy to remove people off the welfare rolls?

Had a deficit reduction package there. Not only was this paid for, but in fact we will end up--we would end up paying much more if we had not expanded that tax credit. If anything is going to save us money----

What I am talking about is the gentleman's non-support of help for working families which makes them more vulnerable to going on welfare.

yesterday, I went to TransAfrica headquarters where its executive director, Randall Robinson, began a hunger strike until discriminatory and summary interdiction of Haitians fleeing the most repressive regime in the Western Hemisphere is…

I love this body, but sometimes I wonder about its collective intelligence, especially when we have come on the floor now three times on this bill, and especially since we are talking about money that has already been committed for the…

I wish I could say that the most important part of the Goals 2000 legislation for me was the heart of the legislation, the voluntary national education standards. As a law professor still at Georgetown, I feel deeply about what students…

I am pleased to rise in support of this thoughtful and urgently-needed legislation. I extend my thanks to the crafters of this bill, particularly full committee Chairman George Miller and subcommittee Chairman Bruce Vento, who, like many…

My friends who express pro-life sentiments need the opportunity this bill provides to disassociate themselves from the small but determined and often effective band of storm trooper-like extremists who are discrediting their movement. In…

I urge that we reject the balanced budget amendment and go no further than the amendment offered by the gentleman from West Virginia. Mr. Chairman, there have been 10,938 amendments to the Constitution introduced since our founding as a…

let the last speaker, the gentlemen from California [Mr. Hunter] know that in his State 2,146,900 families are eligible for the earned income tax credit which his side voted against last year. Mr. Chairman, the Kasich priorities are clear…

I ask my colleagues to give a very serious look at the CBC budget this year, a year when we can afford this budget. Mr. Chairman, in the 1980's we saw a massive transfer of funds from the domestic side of the budget to the military side of…

my mother, Vela Lynch Holmes, now in her eighties, is a retired schoolteacher. She taught many disadvantaged children in this very city. She would be the first to say that it is much tougher to teach such children today. I have come to the…

this week I introduced the Urban Watershed Restoration Act that already has the support of 26 original cosponsors and 25 environmental organizations. This strong support reflects the dismay and disgust of urban and suburban communities…

I bring my view that all bigotry is the same from my own experiences growing up in segregated Washington, my work as a young person in the civil rights movement, and my professional life as a civil rights lawyer, former Chair of the New…

we are pleased to welcome this morning Father George Walter Wilson, who is a priest of one of Washington's oldest and most revered churches, St. Augustine Catholic Church. Father Wilson has spent most of his life in service to his church…

I want to thank the bipartisan leadership that has worked this difficult problem out for the benefit not only of the employees involved but of the efficiency of the Government and of the expectations of our country. Last October my…

I want to welcome back all of our colleagues to Washington, DC, my hometown, and, for all practical purposes until the end of this session, yours. As you found when you went home, residence is not all we have in common; fear and spread of…