it is estimated that this year alone approximately 44,000 women will lose their lives to breast cancer and an additional 15,000 will die from cervical cancer. As these treacherous diseases continue to spread in women, researchers work…

a new documentary by renowned filmmaker Steven Spielberg, entitled ``The Last Days,'' tells the tragic tale of the Nazi Holocaust through the eyes of five Hungarian Jews who personally experienced and survived this horrific period of…

the past few weeks the Castro dictatorship has initiated an all-out crackdown on the internal opposition and the independent press, who day after day fight for freedom, for democracy and for human rights in Cuba. Yesterday, under strict…

for 594 days, Cuban dissidents Vladimiro Roca, Marta Beatriz Roque, Felix Bonne, and Rene Gomez Manzano have been behind Fidel Castro's prison bars, with no charges filed against them, for disseminating the document entitled, ``The…

Tomorrow we commemorate 3 years since the Castro dictatorship indiscriminately killed four young men, three of them American citizens, when two Cuban MIGs shot down their aircraft over international waters while they were on a humanitarian…

this Monday will mark the 179th anniversary of the birth of Susan B. Anthony, a prominent figure in our Nation's history whose influence has been as remarkable as any President of the United States. Susan B. Anthony's lifelong work to…

another leading citizen of our community unfortunately is no longer with us, and I would like to say a few words about this very unique individual. In Latin there is a phrase ``sui generis'' which refers to something unique and rare. I can…

I would like to highlight tonight the accomplishments of Jennifer Valoppi, a woman who has served as a wonderful example for teenage girls in my community of South Florida, and at the same time she has committed herself to her profession…

South Florida will forever remember the positive and lasting contributions of Commissioner Abe Resnick.

Not forgetting those who continue suffering under Nazi repression, he joined the Resistance and bravely fought to defeat the Nazi regime.

Commissioner Resnick's life exemplifies the achievement of the American dream through hard work, perseverance and dedication.

One of his achievements was the realization of the construction of a Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach that will forever serve as a shrine to all those who perished in that tragic period of human history.

Every day I look around me at all the beautiful things I am lucky enough to see, the faces of the people I love, the words on the pages of a book I read, and I think of the living angels who are working to help me and my sister and brother…

all of us in this chamber and back home in South Florida send our best wishes to our former House colleague, Congressman Dante Fascell. For almost 40 years, Dante Fascell led the charge in the House of Representatives for respect for human…

our laws promise a remedy against sexual harassment. But if we say that lying about sex in court is acceptable or even expected, then we have made our sexual harassment laws nothing more than a false promise, a fraud upon our society, upon…

this Saturday, the South Florida community will hold a march through the streets of Miami to reaffirm our commitment with the Cuban people in their struggle for freedom against the last totalitarian dictatorship of our hemisphere, that of…

for 15 months Cuban dissidents Vladimiro Roca, Martha Beatriz Roque, Felix Bonne and Rene Gomez Manzano have been imprisoned by the Castro dictatorship for publishing a document critical of Cuba's Communist totalitarian system. Last week…

if there is a Member who deserves recognition for his years of service to his constituents, to the country, and to this institution--it is Lee Hamilton. Throughout his distinguished career as a Representative from the Ninth District of…

my community of south Florida is tensly gripping for a possible strike to the region from the dangerous Hurricane Georges, which has already caused great devastation in the neighboring islands of the Carribean, including my native homeland…

as an educator and as a parent of two daughters, I know firsthand that children learn most from their parents. Educating parents to teach children about the dangers of drugs has always been and continues to be the single most effective way…

as if we needed more evidence about the national security threat posed to the United States by the Castro regime, the FBI yesterday arrested 10 individuals for operating a spy ring in the U.S. for the Cuban Communist regime. The Cuban spy…

Mr. Chairman, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone has the right to seek to receive and to impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. So for almost four decades the people of Cuba…

one of the many projects in the Commerce bill which helped to further American priorities and objectives is Radio and TV Marti. Cuban patriot and poet Jose Marti said, ``Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.'' Today…

I am pleased to add my enthusiastic support to H.R. 3821, which would name the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Headquarters in Langley, Virginia after our 41st President, George Herbert Walker Bush. I can think of no one today who is…

In 1983, 19 American soldiers gave their lives to liberate the island of Grenada from the Marxist regime which, under the manipulation of the Cuban dictator, Fidel Castro, had taken over that small nation. Thanks to U.S. troops and the…