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…

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.

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

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…

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

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 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 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…

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…