I introduced an amendment which said that it is a Federal crime to possess illegal firearms in public housing projects, or to discharge firearms, except in cases of self-defense. Did Members notice the opposition that came to the floor…

I greatly respect the gentlewoman from California and have the same admiration for her legislative record as she does for mine. Having said that though, we make a point of saying, for example, we are going to have drug-free school zones…

last Monday in Chicago, IL, I met a lady who works for Montgomery Ward and makes barely more than the minimum wage. She is staying off welfare. She is raising her children. She is doing the right and responsible thing. She deserves a…

with Earth Day coming up, it is time to reflect on the environmental record of the 104th Congress. Do you recall, during the heyday of the Gingrich revolution, when in one appropriation bill the Gingrich Republicans put in a 28-page…

I wish those who take this floor and so casually dismiss the rights of victims of rape and incest could have sat with me across a table at a home for abused children to meet two 17-year-old young women who had been victims of rape and…

on behalf of myself and Congressmen Glenn Poshard and Jerry Costello, I rise to honor Capt. William R. (Bill) Norwood of Carbondale, IL, for his distinguished career and his contributions to Illinois and the Nation. Captain Norwood is…

I guess I am surprised my Republican colleagues are not here today taking note of the fact it was only a year ago that this House of Representatives was tied up in a massive debate over the first 100 days of the new Gingrich Republican…

public housing and the public financed housing is an important part of the life of many American families. In Chicago and in the State of Illinois I have become more closely acquainted with the challenges facing us, not only in the…

Can I say to my friend from New York thank you, but I do not want your sympathy. I would like to see the reform. I really think at a time when taxpayers are being told that we are going to mind their dollars carefully, that we are doing to…

I am glad that the national embarrassment of this Government shutdown is at least coming to an end temporarily. Throughout the shutdown I have been arguing for no budget, no pay. It was a simple concept. If Members of Congress did not do…

I hope that my colleagues, particularly my Republican colleagues, who have endorsed this strategy, the Gingrich strategy of Government shutdown, will go home and listen to what the people on the street have to say about what we are doing…

I think it is clear that one of the reasons this temporary spending bill is being brought to the floor is to avoid any debate over no budget, no pay, to make sure that this House does not go on record on the proposition as to whether or…

It is a shame we have to come here late at night with an almost empty Chamber to talk about an issue which is literally on the minds of every American. We are in the eleventh month of this Gingrich revolution in the House of…

It troubles me for him to take the floor and to criticize this bill because it has not reformed agriculture in America. The bottom line is we have done many things in this subcommittee to bring significant reform in the area of…

during the closing weeks of this legislative debate, the people of the United States should focus on two numbers, 270 and 235. Keep those numbers in mind during the course of this debate about balancing the budget and the future of…

as a cosponsor I rise in support of the Dellums-Kasich amendment. There are only three problems with the B-2 bomber. First, it does not work. It cannot tell the difference between a rain cloud and a mountain. Second, it costs a fortune…

I spent the August recess crisscrossing the State of Illinois from Chicago to Carbondale meeting with a variety of different people, asking them what was on their mind and what they were concerned about. The one thing that came through…

In a country where our health bills are skyrocketing, the abolition of title X will deny preventive health care to millions of American women. In a world where too many unwanted kids become the victims of neglect and abuse, abolishing…

life and politics are a matter of choices. This Congress has made spending choices and is about to make one today. Let me tell you some of the choices this Congress has made. Under Republican leadership, this Congress has decided we will…

Those who took the position that we should have 17 individual riders in this bill, which virtually weaken the environmental protection for families across America, have prevailed. They have had a big weekend. They have reached Members to…

as was alluded to by the gentlewoman from Colorado, after that debate, after the bipartisan decision that it was Congress' responsibility to decide whether we would go to war, we voted on the question. You could have heard a pin drop in…

if you have ever gotten into your car in the middle of the night to drive a critically injured or critically ill person to the hospital, you know that every minute seems like an hour. You pray to God that you will get to that hospital in…

But before I address that, I would like to remind those who are listening that just a few weeks ago on the floor of this House of Representatives, as part of the so-called Republican Contract With America, the Republicans by and large with…

why have the Gingrich Republicans failed to meet the statutory deadline for passing a House budget resolution? The same Gingrich Republicans who were so proud of the fact that they met their hundred-day deadline for the Republican Contract…

I think I have heard some speculation that the Republicans want to cut somewhere in the neighborhood of $350 billion out of Medicare spending, which would mean, of course, that there would either be higher payments by senior citizens, or…