today I plan on introducing the Sweatshop Product Ban Act, which I have dubbed the ``No Sweatshops Where GI's Shop Act.'' Through defense commissary and exchange stores, the Department of Defense exercises a purchasing power of well over…

after enduring a 35% cut last year, this Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations bill slashes an additional $11 million from bilingual education. This cut is nothing but the latest in a series of backhanded attempts to wipe out this proven…

I rise to voice my concern over the dramatic cuts in education included in the FY97 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Appropriations bill. After $1.1 Billion in education cuts already imposed by the 104th, this Congress continues…

yet again the majority has failed to make education a priority in this year's appropriations bill. Education cuts included in the Labor, HHS, Education appropriations measure, H.R. 3755, total $400 million from last year's level. And these…

I am pleased that Chairman Regula and the Appropriations Committee has included in the fiscal year 1997 Interior appropriations bill $4.58 million in reimbursement to Guam for the costs incurred as a result of the Compacts of Free…

I rise to commend Chairman Howard Coble, chairman of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, for scheduling a hearing to review our maritime policy. In particular, this hearing will take a close look at the Jones Act…

I rise today to support a provision sponsored by Chairman Gilman which is included in the en bloc amendment. I commend Chairman Gilman for his work on this important issue, and for his inclusion of language in the amendment which will…

the majority's budget proposal reads like a hit list of education programs from Goals 2000 to student loans to education improvement grants. If a budget proposal reflects a party's priorities, then education is the least of the concerns of…

for my 5 minutes, I want to speak to the issue of language and its relationship to immigration in this country. There has been a great deal of debate in recent months about the issue of declaring English the official language of the United…

today I would like to respond to assertions that English-only proponents are making about bilingual education in their efforts to advance their cause. Yesterday a Member came to this floor to praise Mr. Thomas Doluisio, for his fight…

Today President Clinton arrives in Asia on a trip designed to shore up the United States security relationship with Japan and Korea. Since the conviction of three marines on charges of raping a 12-year-old girl in Okinawa and the ensuing…

today the House will take up later on House Concurrent Resolution 148, a concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the United States is committed to the military stability of the Taiwan Straits and to the defense of…

In point of fact, Guam is an unincorporated territory of the United States. The legal implications of this status are important because it helps us understand the reasons behind an effort to change the status. An unincorporated territory…

H.R. 3019, the Balanced Budget Downpayment Act II/Omnibus Appropriations for fiscal year 1996, includes funding for territorial programs as part of the Department of the Interior appropriations. I am pleased that the majority and the…

I rise in support of H.R. 497, which would establish a national commission to study the impact of gambling in America. Numerous studies have been conducted on the impact of gambling, studies which have generated a variety of conclusions…

I would like to add that unlike the experience that the United States had in the Marshalls in the fifties, there is ample evidence that this is risky. This is something that is occurring some 40 years after the testing in the Marshall…

I rise to urge, along with you and the other Members that you have mentioned, to urge my colleagues in this House to boycott the President Chirac address to a joint session of Congress tomorrow in protest of his decision to test nuclear…

as an American citizen and as a Pacific Islander, I must rise today in strong support of the privileged resolution offered by the gentlewoman from Hawaii [Mrs. Mink]. This resolution speaks to the issue of this body's integrity because of…

today I have introduced the Northern Marianas Delegate Act, to provide for a nonvoting Delegate to the House of Representatives to represent the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands…

This afternoon I want to address the current situation regarding our effort to advance the cause of a new political status for Guam as envisioned in the Guam Commonwealth Act, H.R. 1056. I introduced H.R. 1056 on February 24, 1995, as my…

while the cost of a college education is rapidly increasing, some Members on the other side of the aisle would like to cut student loan funding. The majority's plans would significantly raise the cost of student loans by changing the way…

I had the privilege of attending ceremonies in Honolulu about 10 days ago marking V-J Day and the end of the war in the Pacific. I was moved by the expressions of gratitude to our veterans who fought in the war in the Pacific, many of whom…

on Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. local time in Mururoa, the French Government exploded an underground nuclear weapon in the first of eight proposed tests that President Chirac contends are in France's vital national interests. It was also the…

I present this amendment. It is designed to reprogram funds to reimburse the government of Guam for expenditures on behalf of immigrants from three newly created independent nations in 1986. By way of background, three countries were…

in 1986 the United States flung open its borders to the three countries of the former U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific. The Compact of Free Association, negotiated between these nations and the United States, waives all usual INS…