Luis Gutiérrez

Let me ask you then, is there a formula, is there a mechanism, are there discussions between the Federal Government and the banking community to get that done, in your opinion?

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

This bill represents a significant step towards rectifying several of the most controversial outcomes of welfare reform by protecting dependent children, addressing the mixed household problem and providing essential food assistance to…

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

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

Fear and Hunger in the Wake of Welfare Reform... has profoundly impacted all non-citizen welfare recipients and destroyed the safety net for those not currently needing help, but who might require it in the future.

A disproportionate share of the federal savings from Food Stamp cuts came from restricting immigrant eligibility.

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.

A May 1998 study by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) tracked household hunger among legal Latino and Asian immigrants in California, Texas and Illinois. Finding 79% of households interviewed to be food insecure, PHR called 'the cuts…

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.

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.

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.

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

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