Timothy Roemer

The second point is that the gentleman used the rules in this Chamber as a member of the minority, or objected to those rules when they were not fair, in instances like A to Z. I assume the gentleman signed the discharge petition for A to…

I will give the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Walker] an opportunity not to re-spend the cut from the space station later this year on social welfare programs, but to put it to the deficit. That is a program that is tens of billions of…

Finally, a question to the majority leader. Many of us know that there are very, very difficult sessions ahead. We know that the Republicans are on a 100-day schedule for the contract. But after the first 100 days very difficult decisions…

The Republican meat ax has fallen once again and this time not just on chicken and meat but on tomatoes, on beans, on carrots, on milk, and on orange juice. The latest target is the school lunch and breakfast program. Now some of them are…

Second, title VI of the bill says that we want to expand NATO to the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, provide additional economic support assistance, nonproliferation and disarmament assistance. Where does it say that in the…

The gentleman and I had an interesting conversation last week on the family friendly agenda, and he told me that he had a date last Friday with his lovely wife Susan. I hope the gentleman made that date and had a great time, and I hope…

We have a program in place that we do not want to see hurt by this legislation. I think we may want to see improvements in it. And if we cannot implement those improvements, we may want to work more with the State and local governments to…

I believe in his very first speech to this body, in his eloquent words, Speaker Gingrich talked about bringing a Russian delegation to the floor of the House, and he was very moved by the words of one of those Russians who said, ``This is…

I am happy with the gentleman's cooperative spirit here, but would say he is willing to tackle the committee staff reductions, and I applaud that and will vote for that, but we should also tackle the personal staff issue. For Members like…

I would like to begin by rising and thanking a number of people who are responsible for maybe one of the wisest and smartest investments that we will make in our Nation's children in this session of Congress. This is smart and wise because…

Reclaiming my time, which I do not have a lot of left, I would say this needs to be targeted. This need to be targeted to at- risk children who will drop out if not provided with the Follow Through assurances in this kind of transition…