Our Founding Fathers, the authors of our Constitution, created something that the world had never seen, a representative government based on the popular election of the legislative and executive branches. It was a powerful idea whose time…

Today, like every day in America, 788 babies will be born at a low birthweight. They will start life at risk. We rank 18th in the industrialized world in the percentage of babies born at dangerously low birth weight. Let me put it another…

every day we hear more and more about what is wrong with the President's budget, yet his critics have not put on the table one plan, one proposal, one budget, or even one idea, except to talk about cutting and balancing, cutting the heart…

I am glad we are here where we are today, Mr. Speaker. Section 201, despite its controversy, is out of the bill now. We can accomplish some of the things that I think everybody agrees need to happen for Federal employees as we experience…

I have the honor today of introducing Rabbi Melvin J. Glazer, who has just offered the opening prayer today. Rabbi Glazer was born in Atlanta, GA, in 1947. In 1969, he was graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in philosophy and…

I rise in support of S. 1995 which authorizes construction of the Smithsonian Institute's Air and Space Museum Extension at Washington Dulles International Airport. Since 1983 the Smithsonian has been looking to build an Air and Space…

since the beginning of the 104th Congress, I have been working with the entire Virginia delegation to move this important piece of legislation through Congress. With the assistance of my fellow Virginian, Congressman Jim Moran, and other…

This gives equal and expanded access for Federal jobs to veterans. It provides veterans who have been honorably discharged after 3 years equal access to compete for vacant positions. Such has not been the case in the past. I think…

now the USIA and the International Broadcasting Bureau are in the process of determining exactly how to carry out that vague mandate. They have been directed by the White House to move not just the headquarters but the entire broadcasting…

I think once again to resolve this problem in a way favorable to the inmates, to the surrounding communities and everybody else, it takes a joint effort. So far what is missing from this debate is a Federal presence thought the Bureau of…

Without reviewing the entire troubled history of the correctional complex at Lorton, I would like to share with my colleagues some very compelling facts. First, as the gentleman from Kentucky is aware, the D.C. government has allowed the…

I want to compliment him and the ranking member, the gentleman from California [Mr. Dixon], for their yoeman's work on behalf of the District of Columbia in trying to work through what has been a very, very difficult financial crisis. As…

Mr. Speaker, this has taken a lot of work on behalf of a lot of people. I thank the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia [Ms. Norton] for her help in helping bring the city to the table; Mike Rogers, the Mayor, and the entire council…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 3663 is a completely noncontroversial measure which addresses major ongoing problems at the Blue Plains wastewater treatment facility and with the water and sewer pipes in the District of Columbia. The bill was bipartisan…

I rise to oppose this with a number of other members of the Committee on Science on this side of the aisle and the gentleman from New York [Mr. Boehlert], the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Wamp], and the gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr…

I stand corrected on that, Mr. Chairman. But I know that the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Wamp] and I, could reach no contemporary consensus this year on the authorization. We are dealing with last year's, last year's amendment which was…

as an American citizen, a Virginian, and a Member of Congress, I want to condemn in the strongest possible terms the epidemic of arson against churches that has taken hold across the southern States and elsewhere in our land. I am…

I, too, rise to pay tribute to the retiring pages. They are part of a proud tradition that has brought many Members back into this body either as Members or as legislative aids or to the Clerk of the House. When I was a page, 1963 to 1967…

I rise reluctantly to oppose his position on this and support this amendment. This amendment continues the current level of immigration. It allows children and the brothers and sisters of immigrants to apply for immigration. Otherwise they…

Mr. Speaker, it is important for the House to know that Dr. Morgan and her daughter are, frankly, gagged right now from even communicating with Members of Congress or lawyers in the United States because a New England gag order has come as…

I am going to speak today on a bill that we have introduced, H.R. 1855. This is a bill that amends the District of Columbia Code, title XI of the D.C. Code, but basically what it does is it allows Dr. Elizabeth Morgan and her daughter…

My friend, the gentleman from California [Mr. Beilenson], who I think is a very able man, has mentioned that this would be demeaning to the President to ask him to submit a balanced budget. I do not think it is demeaning at all. He…

this does not require the President, as I understand it, to support any tax cut. He could have full funding for Medicare. He could add money to Medicare over and above what the law allows, add more money to the environment, add more money…

I would like to ask a couple of questions. We have, in addition to the Federal employees who have been furloughed and unpaid since December 15, in my district thousands of Federal contractors, a majority of whom have been working with…

I was moved today to hear the comments of a young man from Baltimore at a rally outside here, a Federal employee talking about the hardships that this furlough has placed on him and his young family, and I place the following in the…