I congratulate all who had anything to do with putting this together, particularly the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Shuster]. Just 24 hours ago, it was very dark as far as the future of Amtrak was concerned, and a lot of us were…

I rise in support of S. 1228, which includes the language of H.R. 2414, the bill to implement a program to issue quarter dollars over a 10-year period commemorating each of the 50 States. This bill has passed this House in each of the last…

let me thank all of those who worked on this legislation. I am pleased to see almost near harmony with respect to support of this. I cannot imagine anything as important as teaching young people, and even older people for that matter, how…

let me just first say that support for charter schools which truly are innovative and truly can change education in America is extremely rewarding and well placed, and I would also like to say that I agree with the gentleman from Indiana…

I do not rise in opposition. Madam Chairman, this amendment, as has been so fairly stated by its sponsor, prohibits the use of Exim assistance for exports to companies that employ child labor. The majority does not intend to object to the…

First is, this is the Eximbank, not OPIC. Exim is not financing the Three Gorges project in China because of environmental concerns. Mr. Harmon, talking about small businesses and their involvement in this, says the small business programs…

I believe underlying this amendment is a certain arrogance. That is that every other country in the world and company in the world must be and do as we in the United States are, that they cannot have their own system. And if they do, we…

Last time I looked the American government was not a dictatorship. These are American businesses and American workers which we are helping. Virtually nobody else is being helped at the same level. We are helping them compete with other…

I do rise in reluctant opposition to this, because I have a great deal of respect for the gentleman who has sponsored it, but I think we really need to understand what we are dealing with here. This is not just a labor vote per se or…

Obviously, that kind of discussion is money that would be foregone, not spent. But it does not use the offset of the revenue that comes in from the jobs which are created, which produces the $24 billion net surplus to the Federal coffers…

The problems of pfiesteria and algae, which we have seen this summer all the way from parts of New York all the way perhaps down to Florida, have been tremendous. In my judgment, the only way to really coordinate and to attack from the…

I think the historical perspective of what they say and what the District of Columbia says does make a great deal of sense. In fact, the more I hear, the more I like it, and we should go forward with that as soon as we can. I would like to…

I do rise in support of the Goodling amendment. As a member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce and someone who wants all children to achieve the highest standards of learning, I am reluctantly opposing the administration's…

We do need, as has been indicated, a multistate surveillance system. We do need case control studies and we do need a biological test of human exposure. Here is the basic problem. So far we have been dealing with this issue as States, been…

Mr. Chairman, I have been reading over the amendment offered by the gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr. Istook] as to when a provider can provide contraceptive drugs or devices. It says if the minor is emancipated under applicable State laws…

Mr. Chairman, I have been concerned about this issue for some time as a Governor. When I became Governor of Delaware, we had the highest infant mortality rate of any State in the country. This is a State that is reasonably wealthy. I am…

I listened to the arguments. I, frankly, think some of them are sensationalized, probably some are factually correct. But the truth of the matter is that we are pretty united in our goals here tonight. There are some 4.3 million…

let me reclaim the few seconds that are left. I believe in the case of responsible parents in most instances we are going to find those children are never going to go to any of these clinics or receive that advice, they are going to go to…

ironically enough, considering the discussion which we have going on today pursuant to a Republican amendment, title X of the Public Health Act, the National Family Planning Program, was enacted in 1970. It was sponsored by…

I certainly do not even begin to question anyone's motives. But he raised the issue, and I think this is at the heart of it. How can we best help kids today? We may be talking about kids from good families but for some reason have a…

We are very supportive of this legislation. We are also very supportive of the concept that the United States of America needs to continue to be involved with some of these organizations, including the World Bank, the International…

I believe that sometimes it is used in a political context, which concerns me a great deal. And I presented three amendments to address this. But I must say that this Congress and this Committee on Rules, and particularly the gentleman…

I want to thank first of all the chairman and the ranking member and all the members of the subcommittee for the excellent work they did under difficult budgetary restraints, and I want to particularly comment favorably upon their…

May I say as strongly as I can, Mr. Chairman, that it is not the intent of the committee to allow the corps to move ahead with the plan for the demolition of the St. Georges Bridge. In the bill we are considering today, there are no funds…

we have heard the scare tactics they talked about earlier. We heard about Social Security and maybe there will not be increases in Social Security. We heard about possible cuts in the veterans' programs. We heard that tax reductions will…