Kendrick Meek

I lost my dear sister to lupus and many of my very close friends. I am pleased to rise in support of it because it is going to expand and intensify the research part of lupus. NIH each year has done something toward the application of…

it is my pleasure to say to the House today that I am voting today to sustain the Presidential veto, and I would like to ask my Republican friends to refrain from putting Presidential politics into this issue. This issue is extremely…

I do not think that you will find any two better leaders in the Congress than the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Kolbe) and the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer). So it is not that we have not had good guidance on this subcommittee. We have…

Mr. Chairman, the gentlemen from whom we have heard tonight have every right to support their ideologies against abortion. That is their right. It is their personal ideology, and I cannot disapprove of their personal ideology; but I only…

As we are becoming a more global community, we must become more concerned about what is going on with our national borders as well as the people we know are now suffering from AIDS throughout this world. It just does not take very much…

I come here tonight to strongly support the Pelosi amendment. It is troubling to see that we are using the General Accounting Office report as a litmus test for what we should do here in this Congress. To me, we have run out of procedural…

First of all, we in Florida, we have visual acuity, I want to let my colleagues know. We can see, and when we see, we can read these numbers, Mr. Chairman. We have the numbers. There is no question about it, we all want veterans served…

my amendment does not include an offset. This VA-HUD bill is already terribly underfunded as it is. The chairman and the ranking member have worked very hard to try to get us better funding than we have, but we are still in that position…

getting the funding for the Round II Empowerment Zones has been impossible. Last year, the VA-HUD appropriations bill for fiscal year 2000 included $3.6 million for each Round II Empowerment Zone instead of the expected $10 million for the…

The Empowerment Zone concept is a well-kept secret. In terms of what committee of reference it should preside, it is hard to say in that, since we have been relegated, been given an Empowerment Zone, I do not think any committee has dealt…

Yes, Mr Chairman. I think the gentlewoman from South Carolina is right. There is just as much opportunity in rural areas as in urban areas. They have the same needs for economic development. The gentlewoman has been a strong proponent of…

it is really heart wrenching and heartbreaking when a point of order is usually coming from the floor regarding some of the things that people back home do not even understand. Someone who does not have housing, someone who is living in a…

I am standing to support the Mollohan amendment, and having come from an area such as the one I represent, many of the arguments that I hear regarding housing I have to refute many times because of my experience in working with low-income…

despite the efforts of my Chairman, who did the level best he could with the subcommittee funding allocation that was given to him, there are numerous funding problems in this bill. But I rise to express my concerns in particular about the…

I think because of the budgetary gymnastics that the majority party has instigated here, our chairman and the leadership of this House, they have had trouble adjusting to this. They have done a good job apparently for veterans and…

I support H. Res. 491--Naming a Room in the House of Representatives Wing of the Capitol in Honor of G.V. ``Sonny'' Montgomery. This is a fitting honor for a man who served his constituents and our Nation as a Member of Congress from…

I rise in support of H.R. 434--the African Growth and Opportunity Conference Report. The constituents in my district support efforts by this Congress to ease the burden of poverty in the Caribbean by solidifying a strong growing market for…

I hate to go against my friend from Ohio, but all day long I have stood on the floor here to go against people taking a run on CDBG moneys. Even though it is a special purpose grant, I am pretty sure it is very much needed and deserved, so…

with great respect to the housing chairperson, I would want to know, since the gentleman is the chairman of the authorizing committee, and the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Capuano) and the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Waters) both…

I first applaud the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity for having put this program together. I have cautioned them. I have some concerns. It is a good bill, and everybody is loving it to death. But there are some things in…

I agree with the gentleman, but the gentleman said one significant thing. The gentleman mentioned that these programs are good and worthy but a new appropriation is needed. Therefore, the gentleman's subcommittee should have authorized…

I am not speaking against anyone, but it is extremely important that, for principle's sake, that I say that if we want these new programs, worthy as they are, then we should appropriate new funds for them. When we get into presently…

Mr. Speaker, all Americans should have their eyes focused on us here tonight. We are here begging the American public to return their census forms. I say begging, Mr. Speaker, because it is the most important thing that we will work on in…

I am from Florida, and I rise in support of the Everglades Restoration Plan and funding to make it a reality. The State of Florida has lost 46 percent of its wetlands and 50 percent of its historic Everglades ecosystem. Fifty years ago…

I do not think that every Member of Congress understands how far we have come, the 39 African American members of the Congress. They just accept us as being knowledgeable colleagues. They accept us as being friends and many of us as…