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today's legislation before the House, H.R. 3616, authorizes a very valuable and important Federal education program known as Impact Aid. Impact Aid is a Federal formula grant designed to assist school districts that have lost property tax…
I congratulate two remarkable students from Hawaii--Leanne Nakamura, age 17, of Kaneohe and Aubrie Weedling, age 13, of Honolulu. Leanne and Aubrie are Hawaii's top two youth volunteers for the year 2000 in the Prudential Spirit of…
I rise in opposition to S. 1287. The bill poses a serious risk of contaminating our Nation's groundwater with nuclear waste. It also would require the Department of Energy to accept nuclear waste for permanent storage before a storage…
I rise to express my sincere condolences to the family of my respected colleague, the Honorable Carl B. Albert, who passed away this past Friday. I join my fellow Members of the U.S. House of Representatives in paying tribute to former…
What I know is bad enough. It includes an across-the-board cut of 0.97%, and it undermines the Administration's class-size reduction initiative.
Although adopting these bills through a series of continuing resolutions is very costly to the taxpayers, it provides us with time to debate and amend these measures properly and constitutionally.
The bill must originate in the House of Representatives. We must be given the opportunity to debate and amend this measure.
Today we are considering the conference report on the so-called Labor-HHS FY2000 appropriation measure, even though this measure has not even been voted on by the House.
The Republican leadership has provided us with no opportunity to amend this measure. We are being denied the opportunity to offer an amendment on behalf of our constituencies.
Passage of this amendment will send a message to thousands of legal permanent residents that we as a nation want them to contribute to our economy, join our military, fight and die for our country but we do not want them to exercise their…
It is extremely unfair to deprive someone in this financial situation the benefits of the earned income tax credit merely because he or she has not reached the age of 25.
Legal permanent residents of this country are here in the United States working, paying taxes, fighting in the military, and they have even sacrificed their lives for this country.
Many workers today struggle to make a living wage. This credit provides these workers with a financial boost to help them in their struggles.
My bill corrects the problem of the earned income tax credit by simply reducing the minimum age requirement to 21 years of age.
This amendment which unconstitutionally denies legal permanent residents the protection of the first amendment right of free speech and which will cause a discriminatory and insulting effect on the rights of U.S. citizens who are ethnic…
This amendment seeks to unfairly and unconstitutionally shuts them out of the political process.
It would be unconscionable and beyond the scope of power of this Congress to pass this amendment and rob a whole class of people of a constitutional right.
Any class of citizens having to prove their citizenship in order to exercise their basic first amendment right is an insult to all U.S. citizens.
This amendment will also have a discriminatory and embarrassing effect on the rights of U.S. citizens who are ethnic minorities.
To state that legal permanent residents should only be allowed to exercise their constitutional right of free speech when they become U.S. citizens displays a dangerous misunderstanding of constitutional law.
For the sake of human rights and democracy, I urge my colleagues to support the Moakley amendment to end funding for the SOA.
It is not in American interests to continue support for the U.S. Army School of the Americas.
I rise to express my support for the Moakley amendment to H.R. 2606, Foreign Operations Appropriations for FY2000.
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