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I hope this bill is a stepping stone for successes of a future Congress, that we can work together in a bipartisan way to help moderate- and low-income people get access to housing and help their children and help their families and help…
This should be nonpartisan in that funding for low-income people helps not only New England but the Midwest and California and Florida. It helps not only with heating oil, it helps in the Midwest with natural gas. And it helps in a host of…
I rise in support of a partnership between the Federal level and our local communities to help on reducing class size, to help with discipline in the classroom, to help with parental involvement, to help with quality teachers. Something…
I want to join in praising the bipartisan bill to help improve affordable housing opportunities in the American dream for more and more Americans. I have a number of employees and employers in the manufactured housing industry in my State…
at this time of day, all across this great country from San Diego to New York, from Wisconsin to Louisiana, our parents, our grandparents, our aunts and uncles are concerned about the same thing, and that is the safety of our children in…
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 have constituents in my home State of Indiana that know how active I have been on this issue and how enthusiastic I am about this idea, who walk up to me saying, when can we do it? I was fortunate enough, they say, to make a little bit…
the gentleman mentioned this case from a teacher in his home State, North Carolina, of 31 children in one classroom; and it just brings home what we have been saying over the last hour: parental involvement, class size, quality teacher…
I do have. We just had our fourth child, a little girl, Grace. I have Patrick, Matthew and Sarah. The job of a teacher today, and I think the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Etheridge) in talking to his wife and talking to him on many…
I believe that that really leads us to an issue that is a very, very important one and vital one to me; and that is the quality of teachers in our schools. The gentleman from Florida (Mr. Davis) and I have introduced a bill that seeks to…
As education goes, so goes America. As we are able in a bipartisan way in this body to work together in a civil manner, Democrat and Republican alike, to try to work to give our local public schools more arrows in their quiver to try to…
I constantly find, as I visit both my small businesses and my big businesses and my unions and my chambers, that there is an overwhelming concern, probably the number one concern within the business community, and it was expressed very…
It has been said that, quote, ``Our children are our message to the future that we may never see.'' We should not be arguing so much about this spending level or that spending level rather than the priority of working in a bipartisan way…
I just respond to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tancredo) by saying this: The first bill that he mentioned, the Education Flexibility Act, was a bill that I authored with the gentleman from Delaware (Mr. Castle), a Republican; and we…
I would like to extend a bipartisan hand to my colleague on the other side of the aisle who also serves on the Committee on Education and the Workforce for his common sense, his bipartisanship, and his responsiveness to a need in America…
Mr. Chairman, I will be offering a bipartisan amendment on behalf of the gentleman from New York, (Mr. Houghton), the gentlewoman from Maryland (Mrs. Morella), the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Hall), the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Hastings)…
Mr. Speaker, President Harry Truman received the very first honorary card from President Johnson when Medicare was created. We need some Truman honesty about what this bill is about. Charles Kahn, the president of the Health Insurance…
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 other amendment would simply again look at the U.S. taxpayers' interest, and it would cap the overall costs of the Space Station. According to a graph put together by CRS back in about 1988, the Space Station took about 4 percent of…
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…
Mr. Speaker, as a new Democrat, I rise in strong support of fair trade, not unfettered free trade, and I also rise in support of the rule, but against the underlying bill. As a fair trader, as a new Democrat who believes that the trade…
Mr. Chairman, the issue I close on in this bipartisan debate is we are trying to be innovative, and we are piggybacking on a successful idea called Troops-to-Teachers that has transitioned thousands of people from the military sector into…
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…
we have heard the old adage over and over again about a billion dollars here and a billion dollars there and pretty soon we are talking about real money. This amendment is a real amendment because we are talking about a thousand dollars to…
at a time over the last few days when we have listened to such prominent leaders in our business community like Bill Gates at Microsoft and Andrew Groves at Intel and Carly Feorina at Hewlett-Packard say that we need to do more in terms of…
Politicians like Timothy Roemer
