Timothy Roemer

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.

I would say there are natural disasters and there are human disasters. Certainly a human disaster is one when we cut WIC programs that affect thousands of children and thousands of expectant mothers. I would just say to the Committee on…

Mr. Chairman, one of the primary purposes of the bill we are discussing today is to provide affordable housing for Americans. Certainly one major source of affordable, quality and unsubsidized housing is manufactured housing. At an average…

I would add that while there is not necessarily a need to return to the 1984 staffing levels, there is concern that the basic functions of the manufactured housing programs, such as issuing interpretations and updating even…

in this body we all talk about putting our families first and about balancing the budget. But I find it very difficult to understand how Republicans have cut $38 million from the WIC Program when the WIC Program is the single best…

I think the big differences between H.R. 3 and our Democratic substitute are that, for one, H.R. 3 says that Washington knows best. We are going to tell the States how to run their programs and if they do not do it our way they do not get…

I want to salute the gentlewoman from Connecticut, the gentleman from Michigan, and the gentleman from Florida for their hard work on this very important bill that I am an original cosponsor of. So often with legislation around this body…

I would just like to hopefully wrap up this very successful special order on women's health issues and congratulate my classmate, the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia [Ms. Norton], and the gentlewoman from Connecticut [Mrs…

I rise in support of H.R. 363, which provides a 1-year extension, with no extra funding, to the electromagnetic fields and health effects R&D and information-dissemination program at the Department of Energy. As we heard in March 19, 1997…

I support about 80 percent of the NASA budget. I do not support a space station that started at $8 billion and now has costs of $100 billion over the lifetime of the contract. But I do support so many good things that are taking place in…

I just hope that we are not doing too little too late. That the Russians, if they are going to be genuine partners, that they pay their bills on time, that they genuinely perform the services that they are contracted under, and I would…

I appreciate the kindness of the gentleman from California [Mr. Lewis]. I would only say that I did vote for the Sensenbrenner and Brown language in committee, which does establish some accounting and some different monitoring mechanisms…

just a month ago on the front page of Time magazine, we have a cover story talking about our children in this country and new, brandnew research coming out how a child's brain develops fertile minds. We find that researchers across our…

this a very difficult issue. It is difficult for Members of Congress, it is difficult for America, it traumatizes most people to debate this issue. I would hope that we could do it in a civil manner, in an intelligent manner, and in a…

as a strong supporter of family planning initiatives, I would like to emphasize my support for the U.S. International Family Planning Program. This program has been extremely effective in protecting the health and lives of women and…

I think that many of the problems in America today are not necessarily going to be solved by people in Washington today. As we debate term limits here, saying that term limits are going to solve problems, to finance the budget, to change…

I rise in firm opposition to term limits for Members of Congress. Since I was elected to Congress, I have been a leading advocate for congressional reform. I have supported scheduling reform, cuts to committees and staff, and simplifying…

one of the important accomplishments of this bill is that it focuses the FAA exclusively on safety, a matter of renewed concern in this country. The conference report includes a number of provisions similar to the Vice President's Aviation…

Mr. Speaker, I rise as the proud sponsor of H.R. 3576, to designate the new Federal bankruptcy court located at 401 South Michigan Street in South Bend, IN, as the Robert Kurtz Rodibaugh United States Bankruptcy Courthouse. This bipartisan…

we are talking today about a procedure that is defined as the following: ``Partially delivers a living fetus before killing the fetus and completing the delivery.'' And we are talking about doing this with a pair of scissors inserted into…

oftentimes over the last 2 years in this Congress we have not been bipartisan and we certainly have not looked out for the best interests of our children. Tomorrow, with the partial-birth abortion ban vote, we have an opportunity to be…

this bill, this conference report that we will soon vote on, represents the biggest change to our social policy in the last 60 years. We have moved from the New Deal to the New Frontier to the Great Society, and now hopefully to the fair…

the Advanced Light Water Reactor is the last nuclear option left in the federal budget. I rise today to give my support to this project and to oppose the Obey amendment to kill this project. We must cut spending, but we must also invest…

I rise in support of H.R. 1627, the Pesticide Regulation Reform Act. I want to congratulate my colleagues who have worked so hard to produce a bill that helps our farmers while protecting public safety, and has considered the concerns of…

this bill, Castle-Tanner, reflects common sense because it is produced on common ground. How refreshing, Madam Chairman, to see Democrats and Republicans working together and trying to fix the welfare system that all Americans want us to…