Timothy Roemer

I offer this amendment in a bipartisan spirit with the gentleman from California (Mr. Riggs), my friend, and I offer it to eliminate language in the bill that is a Federal mandate to our colleges and universities that is an intrusion into…

I wanted to discuss with the gentleman from California (Mr. McKeon) an amendment that we had been working on in committee, starting actually at the subcommittee level and then going into the full committee and then going to the House…

I believe it was Socrates that said the living are to the dead as the educated are to the uneducated. In our society today, an education is a person's future and their future extends from cradle to grave, and we all will be learning our…

I wish to, first of all, I want to compliment the chairman on his willingness when I offered this amendment in committee to continue to work with me and my staff to try to perfect this amendment, to make sure that we attain the goals of…

as we moved into hearings on this very important bipartisan higher education bill, what we heard both in Washington, D.C., and in field hearings in Indiana and across the country was the resounding call for more flexibility, not more…

Mr. Chairman, Indiana is known as the crossroad of America. It is nicknamed the crossroad of America not only because it connects the people to their communities, but because it is in central America and it connects the east to the west…

certainly the American people have a great deal of cynicism and outright apathy some days about the United States Congress because of the way that they handle campaign finance reform and other kinds of activities, sometimes late at night…

I just want to take this time to remind my colleagues that this is bipartisan legislation. It has been a pleasure working with my good friend, the gentleman from California [Mr. Riggs] on this very important legislation. We have spent the…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

I rise to extend my prayers and my sympathies to the Capps family, to Lois and Lisa and Todd and Laura. And I want to just reflect for just a minute about Walter Capps, who was a man of contrasts but certainly not conflicts. He was gentle…

I rise, Mr. Speaker, with very, very strong concerns and reservations about this VA, HUD, independent agencies appropriations bill for fiscal year 1998. I oppose this conference report due to funding increases for the international space…

Mr. Speaker, I rise with hesitation and reservation about the rule, but with strong support for the underlying bill. Mr. Speaker, this certainly is history in the making, and we do not use that term lightly when we bring both the tax cut…

Simply put, Mr. Chairman, this amendment requires unexpended congressional office funds from the salaries and expenses of Members representational account allowances not to be respent, not to be shifted into a Speaker's slush fund or spent…

the reason I ask that is, in reading through the report language on the VA-HUD bill, on page 88 we have references to the Russian program assurance. We have had a Russian contingency fund. We have had a Russian program assurance fund. Here…

Gen. Colin Powell says, ``AmeriCorps is doing a lot of good things around this country. They are leveraging other volunteers who come in to work with AmeriCorps.'' Gov. William Weld, a Republican from Massachusetts, and I quote, ``Every…

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 rise as one of the 27 Democrats that voted in favor of this bill, but voted for it because, first, I believe my constituents back home in Indiana, whether they want to send their kids to college or they are a farmer or they have worked…

I appreciate the gentleman directing his events across the aisle in a bipartisan way because I intend to vote for this reconciliation package. I would say that it is not only important to work in a bipartisan way to balance the budget, but…

I rise in favor of normal trade status with the Chinese. Back in 1919, then-President of the United States Woodrow Wilson said this, and I quote, We set this Nation up to make men free and we did not confine our conception and purpose to…

I want to start off by saluting and commending and applauding the bipartisanship shown by the chairman and ranking members on both the Democratic and Republican side... This is the kind of cooperation and these are the kinds of bills that…

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…