Elijah Lewis

If the committee refuses to release the report, the American people can only assume a coverup of massive proportions. Release this report. Release it now, Mr. Speaker.

I can clearly understand that the gentlemen from Pennsylvania and Georgia desire to silence us on this issue, but this issue will not go away. Mr. Speaker, if I might continue. The outside counsel, James Cole, has submitted an extensive…

If a Member of this House was involved in a $6 million tax fraud scheme and the Ethics Committee knew and did nothing, what would that be? If a Member of this House set up and used tax exempt organizations for partisan political purposes…

Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole oppose an increase in the minimum wage. The Republican leader has said he will fight the minimum wage with every fiber in his being and the Republican whip has said in regard to families living on the minimum…

I rise against this election-year gimmick; 4.3 cents has nothing to do with the price of gasoline and everything to do with trying to buy an election, but the American people will not be fooled. Not one voter, but not one voter from the…

Mr. Chairman, could the gentlewoman from Washington tell us what she means about the liberals, the so-called liberals having a distorted sense of compassion? Maybe being from Georgia, I do not quite really understand what ``distortion''…

This morning the Democrats in the House will once again attempt to bring a minimum wage bill to the floor for a vote. I urge my colleagues, Democrats and Republicans, to support bringing this bill to the floor. Raising the minimum wage is…

The time is always right to do right. And raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do. This is not just an economic issue, Mr. Speaker, this is a moral issue. Hard working people deserve the right to earn a livable wage. The minimum…

Saturday is Earth Day, a day to celebrate our environment--our Earth--our home. We must protect it; we have no other place to go. We have a responsibility to make our world a little greener and a little cleaner--to make it safer for our…

Mr. Speaker, I think tonight we have tried to say why we marched from Selma to Montgomery 30 years ago and why we come tonight to commemorate, to celebrate the great progress we have made as a Nation and as a people down that road toward a…

I think the mail that you got from my State tends to dramatize to the Nation and to all of us that the scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society. So we must still act. We must still speak. And thank you.

The Los Angeles Times succeeded in doing something this week that Speaker Gingrich has refused to do for years--release the names of the contributors to his political machine, GOPAC. The partial listing published by the Times shows that…

Terry and Mary Kohler: $715,457. Richard Gilder, Jr.: $310,000. Roger Milliken: $255,000. These are but a few of the heavy hitters who have contributed to Speaker Gingrich's personal political machine, GOPAC. Is it any wonder the Speaker…

I understand you want to write a book. I own a publishing company you know. Could these words have been uttered in the Rayburn Room just off the House floor? Mr. Speaker, the more we know, the more we have to wonder, what went on in the…