in Asian-Pacific American communities throughout the nation, parents are known to overrule decisions of their children, even if their children are grown adults with families of their own. That cultural norm compounded with cultural and…

I speak today in full support of House Concurrent Resolution 31, which expresses the importance of organ, tissue, bone marrow, and blood donations and celebrates National Donor Day. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank my…

I support today H.R. 624, the Organ Donation Improvement Act of 2001, introduced by my colleague, Congressman Bilirakis of Florida. This bill will support payment of travel and subsistence expenses incurred by individuals making living…

considering that the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives has begun hearings on President Bush's tax plan, I thought it important to speak about the impact such a plan will have on my home island, the territory of…

today I am reintroducing the Guam Judicial Empowerment Act, a bill which seeks to mend the Organic Act of Guam for the purposes of clarifying the local judicial structure. This legislation will correct the defect in the Guam Organic Act…

I sat through hours and hours of an exercise which we are led to believe involves an illegal and inappropriate activity, a whistleblowing exercise based on insider knowledge. We are led to believe that these individuals involved were…

I support H.R. 4635, particularly title V dealing with Filipino veterans benefits improvements. I commend Mr. Filner and Mr. Gilman for their tireless efforts on this issue and their leadership in this long struggle for Filipino veterans…

I rise in support of H.R. 4578, a bill making appropriations to the Department of Interior and Related Agencies for FY 2001. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Chairman Bill Young and Ranking Member Mr. David Obey of the…

I rise to the floor today to talk about an issue in the context of the appropriations struggles that we are having, and that is to bring a modicum of fairness and justice to the people, American citizens, of the U.S. territories. It is…

as a co-sponsor of H.R. 5010, the ``District of Columbia and United States Territories Circulating Quarter Dollar Program Act,'' I rise in support of this very important legislation. Although separate from the program initiated in 1997 by…

today is a momentous occasion for the people of Guam. With the passage of this legislation, the Guam War Claims Review Commission, the people of Guam will move one step closer to being healed from the brutalities of enemy occupation during…

I, too, would like to add my words of congratulations to Admiral Johnson for very excellent career in the Navy and upon his retirement and his last tour of duty as chief of naval operations. We in Guam had the opportunity to work with him…

as you may understand, this bill is very important to me and to the people of Guam. I certainly want to thank all of those involved, especially the staff on both sides; the gentleman from Alaska (Chairman Young); and the ranking member…

I rise today in emphatic support of H. Con. Res. 372. I want to thank my colleagues who helped make this resolution possible: My fellow co-sponsor Congressman Mike Caupuano as well as Congressmen Shuster and Gilchrest from the…

S. 1910 is a noncontroversial bill introduced by Senator Moynihan, which passed the Senate in April of this year. The legislation authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire full title to the Hunt House in Waterloo, New York, for…

H.R. 2833 introduced by the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Pastor), our friend and colleague, would establish the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area in Yuma, Arizona. Yuma's location as a natural crossing point of the Colorado River has…

I am taking this opportunity for a one- hour special order to pay homage to the veterans of the Pacific Theater during World War II and especially for those who participated in the battles for Guam and Saipan as part of a conflagration…

I too today rise in support of House Resolution 534, which focuses attention on the recent nuclear weapons security failures at Los Alamos National Lab and calls for improvements of the current system, especially increased accountability…

I speak again on the issue of the implementation of a commercial study, the A-76 program, which basically is designed to outsource a number of jobs in my home island of Guam. I rise again to point out some very serious difficulties with…

this evening I want to take the time to discuss an item of military policy which has directly and negatively affected my home community of Guam, but which will inevitably find its way into other communities. That is the process of…

I also take the time to honor her and recognize her tireless efforts on the Census. She has been a force for accurate counting. She has been a force for inclusion in the most basic American sense when Americans, all Americans, are counted…

I rise in reluctant favor of this bill, which makes emergency appropriations for fiscal year 2000. Notwithstanding my support for the $2 billion package for the costs of the U.S. peacekeepers in Kosovo or the paltry, yet sorely needed $854…

I take this opportunity to do an extended special order on a matter of significance not only to the people in Guam but to the general readiness of our military, and that is the Department of Defense's continuing privatization efforts…

I rise today to speak to a bill which I will introduce that fills a time void which has long existed, and that is the naming of a time zone which exists under the American flag but which has no official title. Wherever the flag behind us…

nearly 2 weeks ago President Clinton delivered his final State of the Union. It included the achievements of his administration, remarkable as they are, over the past 7 rac{1}{2} ext{ years}, rebuilding and returning America's economy to…