Carrie Meek

We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for having represented this great country on the beaches of Normandy and as a paratrooper. We owe our lives and the quality of our democratic ideals to your contribution. Thank you.

I hear more a referendum on not having Haitians come to Florida than I do on solving the foreign policy issue of Haitians and freeing them and making a democracy in Haiti. I think that we should certainly vote against the Goss amendment…

we refer to each other as ``gentleman'' or gentlewoman,'' but, when we refered to the late Representative of the Second District of Kentucky, we really did mean it. It has been a privilege for me to serve with the gentleman from Kentucky…

as the song goes: ``I'm every woman,'' and I rise to offer my support for the health care provisions for women and children that Chairman Pat Williams has incorporated in the health care reform bill being drafted by his Education and Labor…

Today is a happy day for me. Almost 18 months ago, I introduced legislation to simplify and streamline the payment of employment taxes for domestic workers. Today, after many twists and turns in the legislative process, the House is poised…

But the easy part of welfare reform is figuring out where you want to go. The hardest part is figuring out to get there. That is what we are here for this evening. We all know, including welfare mothers, that every proposal that is serious…

the moment of truth has finally arrived. During the course of the last several months we have heard much tough talk and posturing about getting tough on crime, lock' em up and throwing away the key, and ``three strikes and you're out.''…

once again I am asking my colleagues to join me in the fight against lupus by cosponsoring H.R. 2420. The bill authorizes increased research into the causes and treatment of this widespread but enigmatic disease. Doctors estimate that…

I have been dismayed at the concerted and continued vicious attacks on Hillary Rodham Clinton which began in earnest in August 1992. These attacks have continued unabated ever since. These attacks have originated in what is the extreme…

the founders of this Nation in the Constitution provided that the Districts composing the House of Representatives shall be redrawn at least after every decennial census. This provision was based upon their observation of the British…

I rise today in celebration of women's history month and in celebration of the life and the contributions of a great black woman writer and a great Floridian. Have you ever heard of a shooting star that lit up the night skies, fell to…

I rise to commend the chairman and the members of the House Committee on the Budget for producing a bill of which they and this Congress can be justifiably proud. In an economic and political environment in which nothing large or small is…

I am honored to stand before you today, balancing on the strong shoulders of those who have preceded us and those who today tell us by word and deed that we are a proud, strong race of people. In fact, we are much like the old…

with the Congressional Budget Office's recent estimate that national health care will increase the deficit in years to come, there has been continuous debate--most of it reiteration of tired assertions--that the United States cannot afford…

I rise to pay tribute to Mr. Ralph McCartney, who resides in Overtown, FL in the 17th Congressional District of Florida. Mr. McCartney, a community activist, is the last of eight children born to Lillian and Leon McCartney. He has been and…