I rise today to recognize Ford Motor Company's 100th anniversary. Throughout 2003, Ford Motor Company will celebrate 100 years of manufacturing automobiles. Ford's history is an integral part of America's rise to global economic…

It is instructive to note that sometimes it is important to stay focused and that when the House passes repeated resolutions, sometimes that helps us get focused and get a bill to the President's desk. I would point to the stimulus bill…

the Valley Sports American Little League Team from Louisville won not only the World Series in this country, but the International World Series. This is a group of 11-year-old youngsters that not only played terrific games all the way…

In this new atmosphere of bipartisanship, I am going to avoid being insulted by the claim of the gentleman from California (Mr. George Miller), the previous speaker, that somehow we do not see these things. But I do for the record want to…

I am angry, too. I am angry that we had a good idea in 1990 and 1992. Libby Dole and other Republicans encouraged an ergonomics standard, but what we have had over the last 8 years is an absolute tone deaf Labor cabinet that was going to…

the future will only demand more information technology workers across every profession as the global community expands.

the statistics are sobering.

for millions of children with learning disabilities in this country, the future is brighter than any other time in this nation's history.

we owe it to our children to make sure they learn to read, and read well.

the majority of children can work up to their potential.

this bill originated because one of my constituents, Thomas Williams, came to Washington, D.C. with his wife to see Washington, as so many Americans do. He wrote to me when he got home and talked about the moving moments he had as he went…

as a relative newcomer on the block in Washington, people ask me all the time in my district if it seems different to be in Congress, if Washington is different, if it is different than our State legislatures, if it is different than our…

I wish to rise and add my voice to the others in recognition of our teachers who have made such a difference in our lives. Most of us can think back to the years that we went through school, and the teachers that touched us in many…

Tomorrow is an important day for all of our schoolchildren and all of our children across this country. When I came to Congress 3 rac{1}{2} years ago, the rate of children that could not even read at basic level in our schools across this…

it gives me a real thrill to be here today and to be part of this debate. When I ran for Congress in 1995, what I told my constituents was that there was a new day in this country, a day of talking about restraint, a day of talking about…

Mr. Chairman, tonight, as we consider this bill, I think it is important that we consider the consequences that the bill will have. I think it is interesting that the bill is called the Workplace Protection Act, and I would just like to…

last Thursday, May 6, I was present and voted on the important matter of the emergency defense supplemental that was before this body.

I rise today to encourage and to applaud Congress for putting this resolution before us to honor Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks changed the course of history when, on December 1, 1955, she refused to give up her seat to a white man. The fact is I…

often when I go before groups at home they ask me what sort of training I had or what seemed to help me be a Member of Congress. I tell them that it was growing up in a family of 11 children, because when one grows up in a family of 11…

I want to start with where this idea I believe originated. There are women today that are in the private work force. They have a choice of one policy. Their employer says, you can have this policy; you have to contribute the monthly…

I wanted to speak for this, speak on behalf of Dollars to the Classroom and against this amendment, because of how it works for Kentucky. Kentucky has long been cited for their education reform bill that was passed in 1990, and I was proud…

the people that come before us and say they are for campaign finance changes say it will protect the integrity of elections. What about protecting the integrity of elections? Why do they want to so narrowly define it that they only stick…

reclaiming my time, it is currency. You cannot provide currency. I think the gentleman is missing that word. It does not say you cannot provide donuts. You cannot provide currency.

it says specifically here that anything that encourages or assists individuals to appear at the polling place is not forbidden. All you could not do is give somebody cash. In other words, on the campaign form the final receiver of money is…

Mr. Chairman, I have opposed the Shays-Meehan bill for a couple of reasons. First of all, I believe that it chills free speech, that it has the effect of trying to keep people who want to influence public policy from having their voice…