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the manager's amendment at the desk is a compromise designed to remedy a few possible flaws in the underlying bill. I want to thank the gentleman from New York [Mr. LaFalce], the SBA, and the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Talent], and the…
Certainly, the SBA should take into account the fact that many small lending institutions have been making small business loans for years. The intent of this provision is to provide the SBA with better policing authority to restrict access…
I support this rule and urge my colleagues to support it. The Personal Responsibility Act is a good start toward reforming our welfare system. Because of the block grant, the entitlement nature of the program is ended. We ask able-bodied…
Mr. Speaker, this is a good piece of legislation. It is a commonsense solution to a problem which faces today's workers, and that is how to balance the time that must be spent working and the amount of time available for family matters…
as Chair of the authorizing committee for the Small Business Administration, I rise in strong support of H.R. 3814 and commend the gentleman from Kentucky, Chairman Rogers, for the excellent work he has done on this appropriations measure…
I cosponsored the Political Appointee Reduction Act, now being offered as an amendment, because I support reducing the size of our Federal Government. This amendment will reduce the size of 'The Plum Book' and rightly so. I know everyone…
last Wednesday, May 15, the Committee on Small Business held a hearing to listen to the concerns of small business owners who would be faced with some very unfavorable choices if the minimum wage is increased--denying unskilled workers the…
H.R. 1227 amends the Portal-to- Portal Act to allow employees to use company vehicles for traveling back and forth to work. It is a simple bill, and frankly, addresses an issue which the Congress of the United States should not have to be…
Mr. LoBIONDO. Mr. Chairman, I come to the floor today as a proud cosponsor of the Paperwork Elimination Act. I commend the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Torkildsen] for introducing this legislation and the gentlewoman from Kansas [Mrs…
we know that after the 24th week, only .01 percent of all abortions are performed, .01 percent. There are two or three procedures that are used, meaning that this particular procedure is used in only a portion of that .01 percent. Of these…
I think a lot of people out there are thinking we could get the Government open again, we could get the people back to work, it is just a matter of numbers, why do they not just split the difference in what they want to do with Medicare or…
I think within their own committee's report, it says the section would amend to define the terms ``open access'' and ``competitive procedures'' as the operative elements of the new competition standard. According to the new definition…
I just know that in the competition requirements, in the contracting requirements, they have eliminated the competition requirements. They have eliminated four pages. At the end of that they say standards for determining when the…
the gentlewoman from Illinois [Mrs. Collins] and I both are offering an amendment which would restore full and open competition to bidding. Now, I know that the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Clinger] says that there is full and open…
I rise in support of H.R. 1594, and I hope we pass this legislation today. We need to protect our American workers' pension funds, and that is exactly what this bill does. Right now American workers have more than $3.5 trillion in private…
I philosophically do not think the Government should guarantee small business loans as high as 90 percent, but I did not want to make that determination in committee. We did have a hearing on this, with two of our subcommittees meeting…
Today U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor is meeting with Japanese Trade Representative Hashimoto in Canada to discuss United States auto sales in Japan. Last year, as in previous years, the largest share of our trade imbalance with…
on behalf of nearly all the small business organizations across the country who have for 6 years supported efforts to enact the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, and on behalf of the Small Business Committee, I want to proclaim hallelujah…
Today is the 75th anniversary of League of Women Voters. Created in 1920, in anticipation of passage of the 19th amendment, the league was created as a nonpartisan organization to promote political responsibility through informed and…
The number one issue on their minds was health care reform. Many of these entrepreneurs--recognize as exemplary small business owners from their respective States--said they have seriously looked at the President's health care reform…
this week, for 31 consecutive years, the President has designated a national ``Small Business Week.'' This recognition honors the more than 20 million small enterprises in the Nation who will lead America in job creation and innovation…
I would like to talk today about the subject of welfare reform. I have a bill that I have introduced, which is H.R. 1293. I would like to start out by telling you all a statistic which I think is a startling statistic. At least it amazed…
yesterday in a ``Dear Colleague'' I shared this poverty statistic with my colleagues: A recent study compared two groups of Americans: those who finished high school, got married and reached age 20 before having their first child, and…
today I introduce a resolution of inquiry in an effort to obtain factual answers to a few of the questions raised by a complicated web of prominent persons, events, and federally insured or licensed institutions. This growing embarrassment…
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