It is a rather silly claim to say, well, we just used the depositors' money or the investors' money to pay the dividends and the bonuses...

What did you do with the money?

I see no question that more funds will be necessary on the side of stabilizing the financial institutions of this country.

I have always voted in support of any amendment to eliminate and/or drastically change the way this school functions and had I been present in this Chamber when this vote was cast, I would have voted ``yes.''

I congratulate the Edward Hines Jr. Medical Center Nurses for their invaluable work caring for our nation's veterans

I want to congratulate the '50th Anniversary Committee' and Chrystya Wereszczak, President of the American Ukrainian Youth Association on the occasion of this important milestone.

The American-Ukrainian Youth Association--Mykola Pavlushkov branch-- in Chicago is the largest such organization in our city and seeks to provide activities for children and young adults.

A central component of the SUM ideology is the concept of self-enlightenment, a concept that has been successfully incorporated into the existence of the Chicago branch.

The United States government carries much of the blame for this slaughter in East Timor, as they have sat by for twenty-four years while Indonesia... carried out its sadistic policies against the East Timorese population.

78.5 percent of the voters rejected an indonesian government plan for East Timor to receive a special autonomy arrangement within Indonesia.

I urge my colleagues to cosponsor H.R. 2809. This bill will impose an immediate suspension of assistance to Indonesia until the results of the August 30, 1999, vote in East Timor have been implemented.

I write this letter as a plea, an agonized cry from across the Pacific, to ask that you pressure our representatives in Washington to act.

I fear (am terrified) for the life of Gaspar da Costa whose house we rented in the mountain village of Maubisse.

I want the Record to show that if I had been able to be present in this chamber when these votes were cast, I would have voted 'yea' on each of them.

PRWORA's provisions requiring public agencies to report to the INS any persons 'known to be unlawfully present' in the U.S., have exacerbated this fear.

This law did not address immigrants who entered after the arbitrarily chosen cut off date.

One of the most egregious problems directly resulting from PRWORA has been an extraordinary increase in hunger among legal immigrants.

Legal immigrant households were ten times more likely than the general population to suffer from severe hunger.

Wholehearted support by this Congress would send a clear message to law-abiding, taxpaying immigrants that they need not fear, that they need not go hungry and that they will not be abandoned in their times of need.

Although the majority of legal immigrants were 'qualified,' most were nonetheless barred from SSI and Food Stamps until they were naturalized.

Public health providers report that this is already having a chilling effect on the use of prenatal care, preventative care and primary care.

The cuts against individuals who are in the U.S. legally and who pay taxes... a serious human rights violation.

The immigrant provisions of PRWORA created new categories of distinction among immigrants based not on their legal status, but on their date of arrival in the U.S.

The article addresses the consequences of the immigrant-specific provisions of welfare reform, and demonstrates the need to restore essential benefits to immigrants who have come to the U.S. legally and have paid taxes.

The Fairness to Legal Immigrants Act of 1999... proposes the most extensive restoration to date and offers the first substantive opportunity to right the wrongs done to legal immigrants by PRWORA.