I thank the chairman. So there would be an assumption that we would limit the benefits of this bill, insofar as that one particular district is concerned, to the increase in appropriations for this fiscal year, and not for future fiscal…

Mr. Chairman, I certainly rise in opposition to this Markey amendment. The amendment would zero out an appropriation of $20 million for what I believe is an extremely important ongoing environmental nuclear waste reduction research program…

I rise in support of H.R. 3268, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Improvement Act of 1996. In 1975, the original version of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act [IDEA] was signed into law. This comprehensive…

If this were a court of law, Mr. Speaker, 95 percent of what we have hard would be ruled irrelevant and nongermane to the issue before this body. Because whether one is for the minimum wage or not, all that this bill does is to clarify…

I simply want to emphasize the fact that I believe that what the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Goodling] has presented in all four of these amendments are very reasonable ones, and I think also that I can say that when the minimum wage…

I think it is too bad that we have what I would call extremism here as we try to talk about something I hope more rationally. When we talk about the fact that the Goodling amendment, for instance, is going to cause some 10 million people…

I rise to enthusiastically support H.R. 3160. The bill includes key small business health insurance reform that was in H.R. 995, reported by the Economic Opportunities Committee: It gives small employers the right to form groups for the…

The report language is very careful to refer to those kinds of activities by the Department of Labor in regard to technical releases, prohibited transactions, exemptions, in any number of areas. I cannot say that I am such an expert on the…

this is a good example, I think, of people trying to, in good faith, have an understanding. The ERISA law is very arcane. It is important to understand that the DOL does issue advisory opinions, but they do not issue advisory opinions that…

we do not want this construed to mean that there can be just generalized opinions. So I think it is something that ought to remain in the report language. And I repeat, I think if what the gentleman has is centered only upon housing, then…

This legislation has in no way altered the basic ERISA law. And it certainly, insofar as domestic investments are concerned or foreign investments are concerned, absolutely no change has been made whatsoever. I think that is so very…

for the past 20 years, the Employment Retirement Income Security Act, known, as ERISA, has protected the financial security of America's retirees, and during that time the Department of Labor has served as a guardian of ERISA's private…

I only wanted to point out that all of those industrial figures to which the gentleman made reference to, of course, that all has occurred and it has got nothing to do with this legislation. Second, I want to emphasize the fact that there…

Mr. Chairman, referring to the interpretive bulletin, which to my knowledge was the very first time that there was an official interpretation of the prudent man rule, they take sections 403 and 404 and they say: Here, we are going to…

the definition of ETI's, which is the first time to my knowledge that ETI's have ever been legally defined in any of the regulations or in the law, states: Are defined as investments selected for economic benefits they create, in addition…

As I have indicated, first of all in section 1 the gentleman has entirely removed the very clear statement that any promotion is inappropriate on behalf of the Department of Labor. In reference to the other sections of the bill, frankly…

I simply wanted to respond to the previous speaker when he indicated that the 10(j) injunction had been eliminated. Now that just is not so. The 10(j) injunction will be alive and well. It will require the usual equitable grounds to be…

I am going to try to, in the 5 minutes I have, make reference to the National Labor Relations Act provisions which are involved in this particular amendment. First of all, in regard to the 10(j) injunction, I think that is oftentimes…

H.R. 1225, as reported by the Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities on July 20, 1995, would allow an exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act for official court reporters while they are performing transcription duties and…

I think it is awfully important to understand that in this case there is no National Taxpayers' Union opposition to what we are doing here. There is no Citizens Against Government Waste opposition to what we are doing here. This has been…

for years I have supported a straightforward way to help solve Congress' lack of spending restraint: the line-item veto. Today, the House begins consideration of H.R. 2, a bill introduced as part of the Republican Contract With America…

during the debate Members argue, of course, that we do not need a constitutional amendment because Congress can be trusted to balance the budget without one. Well, that is what I thought 10 years ago, when I came to Congress. Since then…

I rise to commend the majority leadership for bringing this bill, S. 2, the Senate version of the Congressional Accountability Act, which the House passed on January 4, to the floor today. Consideration of this legislation can be directly…

I compliment the new leadership in the House for having a Congressional Accountability Act as the first bill to be presented to the 104th Congress. We know this bill is not perfect. And the full specifics as to the exact manner in which…

the concept of applying the laws of the land to Congress has been one which I have been fighting for since I first came to Congress. This is why I am pleased to see a bill on the floor of the House which attempts to achieve this goal. The…