I am glad to join so many Members on the house floor to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the genocide of as many as 1.5 million Armenians and the exile of 500,000 more from the Ottoman empire. The horrors of the Armenian genocide have…

Mr. Chairman, I want to talk a minute about budget priorities. The First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, recently--in a speech at the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda--following, I think, very good advice by Secretary Donna…

the Budget Committee has jurisdiction not over the allocation for each function of Government, such as agriculture, defense, transportation, and so forth, but only over the overall spending amount. The Solomon budget would balance the…

I am honored to join Congressman Synar and Congressman Swift in introducing the Waste Export and Import Control Act of 1994. The United States joined with over 100 nations in signing the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary…

reluctantly, because I have such respect for the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Boehner], I rise to oppose the amendment which would eliminate title I transition projects. Over the past year the Subcommittee on Labor-Health and Human…

this is probably the first time in my 12 years as a Congressman in the House of Representatives that I have risen to support a rule that is not an ``open'' rule. But, I believe that the rule before us is a fair and essentially open rule…