Timothy Roemer

I rise as a coauthor of the Ed-Flex bill with the gentleman from Delaware (Mr. Castle), and proudly proclaim that we have made it a long way in the last 8 or 9 months when we introduced this bill through committee, through the markup…

two weeks ago, with strong Democratic support, the House of Representatives, in a bipartisan way, passed the education flexibility bill. This bill is about old values and new ideas: old values of local control of our schools, new ideas of…

Mr. Speaker, I want to encourage Members on both sides of the aisle to support the motion of the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Hall) to defeat the previous question and do so for the following two reasons: One, maybe the most important book…

I would like to first of all thank the gentleman from Delaware (Mr. Castle), my Republican colleague who joined with me in crafting this legislation 8 months ago. The gentleman from Delaware and I have worked very hard in a bipartisan…

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…

I rise to applaud the authors of the amendment, who I deeply respect, the gentleman from California (Mr. George Miller) and the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Kildee), and also to applaud their amendment. I think that the gentleman from…

John Page wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson on July 20, 1776, which reads and I quote: ``We know the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.'' I pray…

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…

it has been said that, as education goes, so goes America. As education goes, so goes America. We are here in the last days of this Congress to try to build on bipartisan support for increasing local control, but also having Federal…

I join in the accolades toward the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Goodling), the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Clay), and the gentleman from California (Mr. McKeon) for their hard work and their coming together to put together one of the…

Lee Hamilton is a tall order to follow. I am not making allusions to his height, although he is a tall man. But he stands tall in so many other ways. He is the conscience of America's foreign policy. He is the soul of dignity in politics…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today on the floor, recognizing the importance of trade and growth in our economy, and rise as a free trader. I have supported GATT, I have supported normal trade with China, I have supported the Caribbean Basin…

I just want to very briefly associate myself with this commemorative toward our great leaders Lewis and Clark. I take great pride in having read Stephen Ambrose's ``Undaunted Courage'' about Lewis and Clark's great adventure across the…

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…

when I was elected by the people of Indiana and sent to this distinguished body, my very first vote was on whether to send young people into harm's way, into the Persian Gulf, on war. And this body conducted itself with the utmost dignity…

As we look to the ceiling of this great historic Chamber in the direction of Officer Chestnut and Detective Gibson, we see inscribed on this great Chamber ceiling an eagle with the words E Pluribus Unum. From the many, one. Today, I think…

the Space Station of the future, what we have in this bill, and we have agreed to a balanced budget, we have in this bill zero funding of AmeriCorps, yet full funding for the Space Station. The President asked for 100,000 Section 8…

Mr. Stokes, I think you know a lot about somebody by the company they keep and by the family and the service that they have provided to this country. You come from such a distinguished family of service. Your brother Carl Stokes and you…

I think that that is an important point to clarify, because personally I am for NASA and I am for the other $11 billion that we spend every year. I would recommend to the viewers out there at 1 o'clock in the morning who are tuned into…

I rise to salute my good friends, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Stokes) and the gentleman from California (Mr. Lewis), who I have the utmost respect for, but I also rise to oppose this rule and to plead with my colleagues for a fairer and…

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, I rise on an historic day when we will reform the IRS for the first time in 46 years. We will follow up on a capital gains tax cut for the American people, and for the first time, in the underlying bill, we will give Members…

Robert F. Kennedy once said when one of us prospers, all of us prosper, and where one of us falters, so do we all. Over the weekend in my hometown of South Bend, Indiana, we all succeeded and prospered. That is because our local community…

I rise to commend the bipartisan support for this bill and the leadership. However, I am concerned that the level of modernization funding for our aging tactical trucks, specifically the HMMWV and the 2 rac{1}{2} ton truck extended service…

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…