Do you want to do something about improving wages and job security for your constituents? Then, support this bill. As chairman of the Exports Subcommittee on Small Business, I held eight hearings on Federal export promotion programs. I've…

in the last 31 years this country has spent over $5.4 trillion on the welfare system, and what do we have to show for it? We have generation after generation locked in a seemingly endless cycle of destitution and poverty. They are the lost…

Theodore Roosevelt once said the credit belongs to the one who is actually in the arena and who spends time in a worthy cause. This is the spirit of the Olympics. Shining examples of this indomitable spirit are Judy Wilmarth from Leaf…

many people are legitimately concerned about the large U.S. trade deficit, which reached $111 billion in 1995. But few people know that the U.S. Government maintains barriers to American exports to willing customers overseas. In 1993, the…

this debate is about normal trade status with Romania. We are not providing any favorable benefits to Romania from this action. It simply authorizes the President to determine when the United States should treat Romania on equal trade…

every day in this country men and women get up at the crack of dawn, pack their lunches, send their kids off to school, go to work and work harder than ever in their lives, and then realize they are taking home less money. The reason they…

every day millions of Americans get up, pack their lunch, send their kids off to school, and go to work. Denying normal trade relations with China hurts these families. These Americans have no idea the products they make end up in China…

it is my understanding, I would say to my colleague, the gentleman from Illinois, that Exim's refusal to get involved in financing with several companies could cost this country tens of thousands of highly skilled and highly paid jobs.

let me state this again. I think it is fiscally inappropriate for the U.S. Congress to reduce the subsidy appropriation of an agency by 2.5 percent, and yet increase the salaries of bureaucrats by 4.2 percent. All my amendment says is very…

how many agencies is the gentleman aware of that have had an actual increase in administrative expenses besides border patrol?

I think we can cut bureaucrats at Eximbank and the organization can function just as well.

I would just state that the purpose of my amendment is to reduce the administrative expenses by the same percentage as the reduction in the subsidy appropriation; that is all we are doing, because we are asked to decrease the subsidy…

This is what this is about. We are talking about the largest public works project in the world. If the Members who are in their offices watching this debate on this amendment want to be consistent on MFN, what they ought to do is vote for…

I am not punishing, Mr. Chairman. All I am saying to the gentleman, why should the Eximbank administrative account have an increase when all other agencies, including social service agencies, are having decreases?

I would state an inquiry to the comments of the distinguished gentleman from Texas [Mr. Wilson], that in an article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times about 3 weeks ago, China has asked several countries, excluding…

we all use charts in this body, and different figures are thrown out; but every day millions of Americans get up, get out of bed, they have their breakfast, they pack their lunch box, send their kids off to school. In many households both…

there is a chapter that normally appears in every budget called the generational forecast. It has not been in the last couple of budgets. That states because of the $5 trillion national debt, unless something is dramatically done, the…

so much has been written, and so many discussions have taken place about how quickly life seems to pass us by in these modern times. We are always trying to make time for the parts of our lives we hold most precious: our families, our…

Today commemorates one of the most significant events that has ever taken place in the history of this great country. One hundred thirty-four years ago today Congress emancipated over 3,000 slaves owned by residents of the District of…

today we have a great opportunity to move America forward by passing this conference report on products liability reform. This is not a perfect bill, but it is a fair bill. It is fair to the consumers in America, and it is fair to the…

Agricultural exports are the unsung heroes of American trade. Yesterday the Census Bureau released the annual U.S. trade figures, revealing that $111 billion deficit for 1995. Many people are legitimately frustrated with the high trade…

If by January 26 the President of the United States submits a balanced budget in 7 years, scored by the neutral Congressional Budget Office, then we will agree to open up the entire Government 100 percent. Mr. Speaker, that means at that…

the House just voted a few minutes ago to override the President's veto of the Interior appropriations bill. Whenever the President vetoes a bill, that mean he does not like it. But when the President vetoed the Interior appropriations…

Mr. Chairman, this is a very difficult situation where we are posited between two committee chairmen, the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Clinger]; the chairman of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, and the gentlewoman from…

Well, everything is alive and well in Illinois. It is a magnificent district that I represent, and I think one of the most interesting things that occurred, we had a series of three town meetings. It is the district that is well served by…