Timothy Roemer

Mr. Chairman, on the front page of the USA Today, the article right here says, ``College Dropout Rate Hits All-time High.'' College dropout rate hits all-time high. One of the reasons that the college dropout rate is hitting an all-time…

I rise in strong support of MFN for China. Changing China's human rights policy is going to be like turning a blimp around in an alley. It is going to be very difficult, very slow, very painful. The process is going to take idealism and…

I offer this amendment in the spirit of bipartisanship on behalf of the gentleman from Iowa [Mr. Ganske], the gentleman from Minnesota [Mr. Minge], and the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Neumann]. This is a bipartisan amendment to try to…

my statement would be that the American taxpayers work very hard for the money they send here, and they probably would like to see it spent on shuttle safety or on science like the Galileo program, but not on Russian monkeys going up into…

But within NASA there are probably only 100 higher priorities than this sending monkeys into space for the Russians. There are only probably one million higher priorities within our own budget with $15 million, and certainly there are…

I am a strong advocate for MFN. I seem to disagree with Mr. Wolf and Ms. Pelosi on this particular issue, but it is not because I am not outraged about MFN, or that I am not upset with the Chinese Government for orphanages and abortion, or…

Mr. Emerson taught many of us by example a number of things. One was courage. Mr. Emerson was wheeled into this body about 2 weeks ago in his wheelchair with his oxygen on and I went over to say hello to him and asked if there was anything…

I will not offer this amendment. I am precluded from offering this amendment due to the UC that was arrived at last week, but I think that this was a noncontroversial amendment that both Republicans and Democrats would have agreed to. This…

I guess I ask for the patience of this body, since we seem to go through this argument on eliminating the space station a couple of times a year. Certainly people on both sides could dust off their talk from 1992 or 1994 and virtually give…

I yield myself 4 minutes to just reply to some of the questions and comments that have been made. Mr. Chairman, certainly this vote is a tough one. It is a tough one to eliminate the space station because people think that they do not want…

I offer an amendment on endocrine disrupters. Before I get into what this amendment does and what we hope to accomplish with it, I think I should explain what endocrines are and what endocrine disrupters are. Endocrines are chemicals that…

in Indiana we are known for our hard work and our common sense. This coalition budget represents hard work because it is not a pie-in-the-sky budget, it cuts spending in Washington first, and it also is known for its common sense because…

I rise to commend the efforts of the committee to support key modernization efforts for our services and wish to compliment both Chairman Spence and Ranking Member Dellums for their efforts in meeting the needs of our armed services…

in relation to wind standards, that he very articulately discussed on his time that the gentleman from California and I were in Congress before the gentleman from Indiana, and we worked very closely with the industry and very closely with…

Mr. Chairman, nothing is more important to our American society, to our citizens, our consumers and our businesses than addressing the excessive cost of regulation. Nowhere is it more true and more accurate than its impact and its negative…

so many Americans are working two jobs, they are making sacrifices for their children, and they still cannot get to the American dream of homeownership. One affordable and quality option for many of these Americans is manufactured housing…

I think that the budget that we came up with, the blue dog coalition budget, balances the budget by the year 2002. It cuts wasteful spending out of Washington. But we did not cut a dime out of education. We did not cut a nickel out of…

Each year more than one million teenage girls become pregnant. Four out of 10 will become pregnant before the age of 20 with half of them giving birth and very few marrying the father. These numbers pose a serious problem not only to the…

I voted for a line-item veto for President Bush. I voted for the rule to give the line-item veto immediately to the President 2 hours ago. This motion will say, do not wait until 1997, do not play politics, do not do what the American…

I wish for once Members of Congress would put themselves in the shoes of hard-working Americans, whether those shoes are loafers or construction boots, and then Americans would work together to reform in a simplistic and bipartisan…

we hear now today from some of our colleagues that this is an issue of privacy and the U.S. Congress should not vote on it. We vote on issues of speech, and that is very private. We vote on issues of prayer, and that is very private. We…

we are going to have a debate today about banning or removing the ban on such dangerous weapons as streetsweepers and AK-47's. But I, sadly, think the debate is not about the substantive issues that we are going to hear about and the…

I think one of our former Presidents once said, ``Education is expensive, but ignorance is even more expensive.'' This bill is about educating the American people. It is not about mandating the States. It is about getting information out…

many of us over the course of service in Congress have come to this floor as Members of this body and as parents to strongly condemn some of the types of films that are coming out of Hollywood and New York for their vulgarity, for their…

We should not delegate our tough choices to a committee or to a commission to make the choices to close national laboratories. We are elected to represent the people and the taxpayers. We should make those choices right here right now.