one purpose of Government is to suppress injustice. The Republican tax plan does just the opposite. This plan unjustly benefits the top 5 percent of income earners by giving them over 50 percent of the cuts. This plan unjustly excludes…

Listening to this debate reminds me of Victor Hugo, who once said that there is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. It seems to me that the Republican tax bill further promotes the misery and…

I rise at this moment to talk about something that is near and dear to the hearts of many Americans, and that is the North American Free Trade Agreement, otherwise known as NAFTA. When the United States enters into trade agreements, the…

Voltaire once said that the purpose of politics is to take as much money as you can from one group of people and give it to another. It seems to me that that is exactly what my Republican colleagues have taken a page from, taking money…

as the Chicago Sun Times put it, ``A jewel has died.'' That is Jewel Lafontant Makarious. I rise to pay tribute to a great woman, a great lady, a great Chicagoan, an accomplished lawyer, civil rights advocate, a great American, friend of…

I have been told that there is a principle which states that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It seems to me that we ought to be trying to find corruption and ferret it out, not create an opportunity to further it…

I take great pride in honoring the memory and the courage of all those brave Asian Pacific immigrants residing in the Chicago metropolitan area as well around the country. I look forward to working with the generations that have followed…

today I rise on behalf of a constituency that during the past few weeks we have heard a great deal about but very little from, and as I sat watching and listening to the debate, as I listened to many of the myths and stereotypes of poor…

Mr. Chairman, I was just thinking that if H.R. 2 is a friend of the working poor, then I am certain that the people in Robert Taylor, Henry Horner and Cabrini Green, and some other places that I know, would say, ``Do not send me any…

But then I had a rude awakening. I was awakened when the House Committee on Appropriations voted to cut the WIC Program, a program that is designed to benefit women, infants, and children; a program that is designed to provide nutrition…

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…

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 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…

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…