Danny Davis

The direct economic cost of health care for kidney failure, stemming largely from the Federal Government, is more than $15 billion per year.

In 1997, approximately 361,000 Americans suffered from ESRD and required life-saving dialysis or kidney transplants.

I rise to recognize the tremendous work performed by a group of dedicated and tireless professionals: the members of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN).

Health care, as all of us would agree, is one of the essential elements of a great society, and unless people have access, have the ability, unless people have the assurances of knowing that they can find the care that they need in times…

Let me just thank the gentlewoman and commend the gentlewoman again for the tremendous advocacy that she displays consistently on the part of rural America, and especially as she crusades right now to try and find relief for that part of…

I too agree with the chairman that space exploration is important, but so is it important that people in our communities have affordable places to live, to work, to grow and develop so that they too can help explore space.

The budgeting process has become convoluted. It has even gotten a little bit dirty. But this amendment reminds me of the instance where one throws the baby out with the bath water. The baby is the census in this case. While we need to…

He enjoyed the simple things of life, church with his family, backyard barbeques, trips back to Arkansas and Louisiana, family re-unions, poker games with the boys, interacting with his peers and students, attending community meetings or…

Judge had a strong work ethic and worked two and sometimes three jobs for practically all of his adult life.

He would not be moved, he would not be compromised and he shall not be forgotten.

He lived among and worked with people in low-income communities which at one time was characterized by the Chicago Tribune as home for the permanent underclass.

Judge was tough, tenacious and a skilled labor negotiator who could stand like a rock and not be moved.

Notwithstanding all of his professional accomplishments, Judge was most known for his involvement in public activity and his willingness to reach out and help others.

Judge was much too young to die, and yet he did probably because like many other men and especially African American men, did not adequately look after his health.

I rise in opposition to the Gilman-Goss amendment. I do so because we know that Haiti has been unstable. We are not really providing that much to them. But to take away the little bit that we are providing is unconscionable. All that we…

We must also strive as global citizens toward safer drinking water and cleaner air at home and abroad.

I strongly support H.R. 525, the Defense of the Environments Act.

It is clear today, maybe more so than in 1970, that there is a global connection through the environment.

In closing, I leave you with this thought, it is not a question of whether we can afford to protect the environment, rather it is a question of whether we can afford not to.

Environmental Justice matters. We must begin to eliminate the mentality that our nation's poorest communities can be used as dumping grounds for our industrial achievements.

It is not a question of whether we can afford to protect the environment, rather it is a question of whether we can afford not to.

We now must begin to realize the responsibility we have in providing under developed nation with the environmental technology that will allow them to grow as they move towards a more industrialized society.

We must begin to eliminate the mentality that our nation's poorest communities can be used as dumping grounds for our industrial achievements.

Environmental Justice matters.

Earth Day must also serve as a reminder that even today, we still have a need for improvement.