Timothy Roemer

But the gentlewoman is absolutely right. The key indicator, the very most important indicator for a child's success in education is parental involvement. If those parents are not involved, we can have the teacher quality and we can have…

I proudly join in a bipartisan way with the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Camp), the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Smith), and the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Upton) to follow through on a pledge that we have been trying to pass for…

The Roemer-Ganske-Woolsey-Duncan-Rivers-LoBiondo-Roukema-Kind-Camp-Ramstad bipartisan amendment is strongly supported by the Taxpayers for Common Sense, the National Taxpayers Union, Citizens Against Government Waste, the Concord…

I believe, while well-intentioned, this amendment might jeopardize the $30 million increase that we have worked so hard for a program that... we both agree should be supported at a higher level of funding, and that is charter schools. They…

This is a pro-American amendment, it is a pro-worker amendment, and it is a pro-business amendment.

However, as she started out the debate on this issue, she said, we as members of the committee have access, the 16 of us, and all 435 members, have access if they want. This amendment is not about that access of Members of Congress…

There are books out there that you can pick up on the best seller list. I am not confirming, I am not denying what they say and what accuracy they have in a book written by Tom Clancy, or a book written called Blind Man's Bluff on…

I also want to extend my personal thanks to the gentleman from New York (Mr. LaFalce) and the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Frank), who have shown real sensitivity in trying to increase the amount of people in America who will own…

In my judgment the intelligence activity which I have reservations on fails on both these counts, on both achieving its goals and supporting the national interest. I have advised senior officials in the administration of my concerns. I…

I do not support tax increases, as my colleague does not. We voted together against tax increases. So the only way that we can try to in some kind of fair and principled way resolve our differences is for me to go after a program that has…

As long as the gentleman says the best standards are in the private sector and everybody agrees on that, that we do not then have this jumping back and forth between established best standards for one and their administering 50 or 60…

We have sons and we have daughters of America in Apaches, in F-16s, in submarines, fighting for principle and fighting against ethnic cleansing. Now, we can do nothing; we can ignore the horrific holocaust. That is not acceptable. We can…

I support this amendment very strongly. We believe it is very important to get good information about how these waivers are being used. We believe it is very important to get specific information, and not just accumulate a phone book, but…

Mr. Speaker, in our House rules manual, it explicitly states, ``In the modern practice, concurrent resolutions have been developed as a means of expressing principles, opinions and purposes of the two Houses.'' Thomas Jefferson said…

Mr. Speaker, I rise to salute Judge Robert Kurtz Rodibaugh, a loyal and dedicated friend, the senior bankruptcy judge for the South Bend Division of the Northern District of the State of Indiana. It is truly a great honor for me to…

We had a press conference yesterday with two very, very eminent and qualified scientists, Dr. Park from Maryland and a Dr. Brown from Johns Hopkins, and both said, and we will talk more about this in the debate on the space station itself…

Mr. Chairman, in conclusion this side, in efforts to strike this language in the bill, we are for the students' right to know. We just think that the universities should do it in a voluntary fashion, not from a mandate from the Federal…

So I would say that the debate we have had on the cap is a very helpful one, and I applaud the gentleman's efforts in committee, and I applaud what he has tried to do with this amendment. I think that the gentleman from California and I…

I would like to try to get order, Mr. Chairman, because this is a very important bill; we are dealing with education and public school choice. Mr. Chairman, I want to explain to my colleagues, particularly the Democrats, that most of these…

You do fire teachers, principals, and you reconstitute schools that are not working. That is what we are doing in Chicago. We are not giving up on the public school system.

I have visited a school called the Options Charter School, where they serve 100 percent minority, 100 percent eligible for free and reduced lunches. Most of those students are two to three grade levels behind where they should be, and they…

Let us come up with new ideas to save our public education system and let us not encumber those schools with Federal and State bureaucratic dictates that will hinder learning in those schools. Let us have these schools be cradles of…

Reclaiming my time, and I respect the gentleman from California, we have all kinds of opportunities around here to make priorities. We had a priority to try to cut 0.7 percent of the intelligence budget the other day. This body did not do…

I think many of us are very, very concerned about the cost of tuitions at our colleges. ... the composition is bad and it is unfairly biased against the White House.

There are two kinds of disasters, natural disasters and human disasters. Many human disasters can be prevented, and one of the ways we prevent those is to invest in programs like the WIC Program, Women, Infant and Children, that save…