I rise in support of H.C.R. 337 and particularly wish to recognize the Negro League teams that played in Florida and the players who now reside in our great State. While there were other minor or semi-professional teams in our State…

Mr. Speaker, this is an emotional time for this country and an emotional time for this body. All of us have participated in events in our communities, tributes to the victims and their families in New York and the Pentagon, and that is…

In addition to the other fine things that have been said about Paul Ecke, Jr., he also led the horticulture industry's successful effort to include for the first time significant research funding for floral and nursery crops in the…

I rise in support of Housing Concurrent Resolutions 275. For thousands of years before the first Europeans set foot on the continent of North America on the East Coast of Florida in 1513, Native Americans were already the great hunters and…

H.R. 1748, introduced by the distinguished gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Cantor), designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 850 Glen Burnie Road in Richmond, Virginia, as the Tom Bliley Post Office Building. Tom…

distinguished colleagues, today is President Ronald Reagan's 91st birthday. Please join me in wishing Mrs. Reagan the very best today and expressing to her, and the President, the gratitude of freedom-loving peoples everywhere for his…

I rise today to support the Asian Elephant Conservation Act, H.R. 700. This important measure will help protect the future of the Asian elephant by supporting and providing resources to conservation programs around the world. The Center…

I have met them. I have walked on their land. I have heard their problems. For us to trade away their jobs to a Third World country that uses labor practices that have been banned here for a century, chemicals that have been banned here…

I represent an area that should be the target population for this amendment, a State that does not benefit from the traditional commodities programs, a State that has a tremendous agricultural base, a lot of family farms. But contrary to…

America changed forever yesterday. Our innocence lost, we have had the horrors of faraway capitals delivered to our own. Our freedom at stake, we have resolved to fight back at all forms of terror and tyranny. We have seen Americans rally…

last year, as thousands of children do every day, a 15-year-old girl from my district logged onto her computer and struck up an online acquaintance. Little did she or her family realize that this was the beginning of a nightmare that…

I rise today to request the support of this body for the passage of H.J. Res. 36--the Flag Protection Amendment. This legislation will clarify once and for all that the language of Title 4 United States Code, section 8, ``No disrespect…

in 2002, the 4-H movement celebrates its centennial as one of America's premier youth development organizations. Reflecting its historic vision, Congress is commemorating this event that has brought together our nation's youth, youth…