this amendment earmarks an additional $7.5 million in unobligated balances available in the Community Oriented Policing Services, known as the COPS program. This money goes into the COPS account to expand community prosecution programs…

Sergeant Ramirez and Sergeant Stone and Specialist Gonzales are soon to be home with their families due to the hard work and effort of Reverend Jesse Jackson. He worked very hard. He was constant in his pursuit of negotiations to achieve…

the vote today on S. Con. Res. 21-- although largely symbolic because of its timing--presents every Member of this House with a grave dilemma. On the one hand, we can vote against this resolution and the deeply flawed policy that it…

In 1990 the Census was the first Census that we had that was less accurate than the one before it. Because of the 1990 Census, 10 million Americans were undercounted. In the city of Chicago, my hometown, 68,000 Chicagoans were not counted…

Mr. Chairman, of the hundreds of votes we cast in this Chamber each year I believe money is more important than the issue of deploying our troops abroad and placing them in harm's way. While I believe it is fully appropriate for Congress…

when Franklin Roosevelt established Social Security more than six decades ago, he did it over the strong objections of Republicans here in Congress. Thirty years later, when Lyndon Johnson established Medicare, he faced similar opposition…

Mr. Chairman, streamlining our Nation's regulatory system and eliminating overhanded regulations in our Nation's small businesses is a good idea. Paperwork reduction is an important part of these reforms, and who could be against reducing…

there is no evidence that Timothy McVeigh and cult leader David Koresh ever actually met. But if they had, it is a good bet it might have been at a gun show. McVeigh financed some of his terrorist activities by selling at gun shows…

2 years ago I walked into this Chamber with awe. As the son of an immigrant, I was raised to believe in the majesty of our democracy, and this is the citadel of that democracy. Today we are on the verge of weakening our democracy by…

I happen to be a product of the public education system. I want to repeat exactly what has been said about schools, but it is clear that a lot of local initiatives across the country in terms of school reform are working: smaller class…

the odds of one of us of becoming a Member of Congress are actually longer than the odds of becoming a major league ball player. I must confess if I had my druthers, I would choose to be a major league ball player. For me, the ideal job…

the amendment I am sponsoring would earmark the remaining $5 million balance in unobligated, community- oriented policing services from Fiscal Year 1998 to the Department of Justice for the expansion of community prosecution programs…

Withholding or conditioning funds for the Census Bureau places the 2000 census at risk. An inaccurate census affects everyone. More than $100 billion annually in Federal aid is allocated using census data. And when it comes to the census…

Mr. Chairman, let me echo some of the comments that the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Gutierrez) just made. Last week, the Asian Longhorn beetles were found infecting a dozen blocks in the Ravenswood neighborhood in Chicago's North Side in…

the Violent Crime Coordinators Program was organized under Public Law 103-322. This law provides that in the investigative component of the Department of Justice's Trigger Lock program, the violent crime coordinators work with local…

we have the privilege here in America to live in what is arguably the wealthiest country in the world. In fact, when we compare the wealth of our country with other countries in the span of human history, we are probably easily among the…

let me first of all start by quoting Winston Churchill, who said, ``Democracy is the worst system ever devised by man, except for all the rest.'' I think there is a clear need for campaign finance reform. I am a new Member and, clearly…

Abraham Lincoln said that the most important commitment we as a people can make is to public education. Yet there are forces here in Congress who would undermine that commitment. Programs like the Safe and Drug-Free Schools Act, which…

So we have seen a great deal of change not only in cultural and social developments but a great deal of change in more important things, like technological changes and changes in trade and the like. We have seen a great deal of change in…

Well, Mr. Speaker, let me thank my colleague from Illinois [Mr. Hastert], and I want to comment briefly, piggybacking on some of my predecessors speaking here today, principally those from Illinois, but also the gentleman from Texas [Mr…

Mr. Chairman, I rise to urge support for an amendment I am offering in conjunction with Mr. Meehan to increase funding for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative by $1 million. This successful…

The amendment that I am sponsoring today with my colleague, the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Meehan], is simple and straightforward. Our amendment will appropriate $1 million in the Treasury-Postal appropriations bill to be used to…

it was Abraham Lincoln who said, ``Upon the subject of education, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.'' Mr. Speaker, most of us, if not all of us, agree that education is…

let me give an example of who benefits under the Republican tax plan. Sandy Weill is a CEO who last year earned $94 million. Under the Republican plan, he would enjoy a capital gains tax cut adding up to $7 million. The average American…

books have the power to bring the world to any child, but it is an obsolete world children see in 75 percent of the books in Chicago public school libraries. Here is a sample of what students learn from many of these books. Russia is still…