due to notifications from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that hurricane ``Floyd'' is likely to hit my district within 48 hours, I will not be able to be present and voting this evening and tomorrow.

Judge Harvey makes me proud to be an American, and it is my great honor to pay tribute to him today.

It is with great enthusiasm and pride that I join you in dedicating this new city hall and declaring 'Open House' to all.

over the work week that we just had many people asked me, ``With the changing of the leadership of the Ways and Means Committee, is health care dead or is the Clinton plan dead?'' And I said, ``No, we have 435 Members of Congress. There is…

In Congress, when we say there is no increase in spending, we simply mean there is not going to be as much of an increase as projected. When we say there is going to be a cut, what we mean is there is going to be a decrease in the…

What do the legislation regarding the assault-rifle ban and the Clinton tax increase have in common? Two things. Both of them failed. Neither had the requisite number of votes to pass in the allocated 15-minute voting period. But the…

My friend, Lois Van Ryn Stock, turned 40 on Monday, and in so many ways Lois epitomizes the best of baby boomers. She is bright, intelligent, ambitious, attractive, and of high moral fiber. Yet she also symbolizes the tragedy of baby…

Tomorrow as we begin the very important debate on a very important bill in Congress, there is an amendment that I plan to support and I urge my colleagues to support, and that is the one offered by the gentleman from Florida [Mr…

435 out of 435 Members of Congress seem to agree that Americans need a tough crime bill. But is the pending legislation tough? We know this: It does not allow pretrial detention. It does not have truth in sentencing. It increases the…

in 1970, I had one of my first jobs. I was in the 9th grade. I sold programs at the University of Georgia football games. They were a dollar each. I made big money. We got a 10-percent commission. And I was coming back from one game…

we are about to go home for a work recess. There are a lot of issues that Congress is dealing with, some that we have not addressed that I look forward to addressing when we get back, some of the environmental issues, the defense issues…

one of the great stories and, I think, an unwritten story in the United States of America has to do with volunteerism. We often talk about volunteerism, but yet it really is an entity in itself. As we in Congress and in State legislatures…