The time to act is NOW.

Congress should consider a proposal to provide an extension of unemployment benefits that would last an additional 13 weeks for those who have exhausted their regular six month benefits while looking for a new job.

I encourage all Americans wishing to retrace the steps of the explorers to visit the Falls of the Ohio.

This issue is of more than passing interest to the people of southern Indiana.

Granting William Clark the grade of captain is well-deserved and long overdue.

And I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 3621 so William Clark will receive the rank he was promised and so richly deserves.

I respect thousands of family farmers in southern Indiana. I have family members who operate family farms. I understand how the estate tax can cause a lot of hardship for asset-rich and cash-poor family farms. It sometimes can prevent…

for many years, people in Washington, Democrats and Republicans, have not been writing budgets that use real numbers. The majority's budget we are considering today is more of the same old song and dance, spend money the government does…

I am a new Member of Congress but I am a veteran observer of Congress. For 20 years, I have watched this Congress spend more money than it took in. Year after year, I watched our government run deficits every year and charge their…

Mr. Hill of Indiana moves that the bill, H.R. 6, be recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means with instructions to report back promptly to the House, with an amendment-- (1) which corrects the disparity in the Tax Code affecting…

I grudgingly voted for the Conference Report for Veterans Administration and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations, H.R. 2684, but I still think Congress could have done better by our veterans.

I voted for this bill, but I know we can do better.

I am still very concerned about how this year's budget will affect veterans.

I agree with many of my colleagues who believe the original Clinton Administration request for VA health care funding was way too low.

In the future, I hope we will listen to the veterans and work together to better address our veterans' most pressing needs.

The VA needed a $3 billion boost in health care funding to provide adequate care.

I voted against the House version on this VA/HUD Appropriations bill because defeating it would have given House members another opportunity to find the money needed to properly fund veterans' health care.

we have committed our armed forces to the conflict in Kosovo and now we must pay for it. This unanticipated expense is a classic example of what constitutes emergency spending. I have voted to support our troops and the NATO operation in…

Mr. Speaker, when I am home traveling in my district and talking to farmers in southern Indiana about this farm crisis that we are in, they always tell me that they do not want any handouts. What they do tell me is they want access to…

$17 billion is just a drop in the bucket here in Washington, but back in Indiana it is serious money. Seventeen billion dollars is enough to operate all eight Indiana university campuses for 10 years. Seventeen billion dollars almost…

I cannot begin to tell my colleagues how proud I am to be here in the seat that Lee Hamilton held for 34 years. As a new member of the House Armed Services Committee, I know that we owe a lot to those who currently serve our country and…