John Tierney

I am still waiting to hear the answer. What does the gentleman fear about modernizing the public schools that exist? What does the gentleman fear about making smaller classrooms in the public schools that exist?

Mr. Chairman, I heard the gentleman on the other side of the aisle refer to this money as new money. Well, this is not new money. This is money that is not being appropriated for the modernization of our schools, it is not being…

What do we have to lose by actually modernizing our schools? But my colleagues were not willing to do that. What do we have to lose by having more classrooms?

Mr. Chairman, this bill has many good features to it, and I am sure that if we manage to maintain or keep out of it some of the problems that we have run into in the past it will probably pass this body. We have managed to keep out…

I stand in favor of this particular amendment. In Massachusetts we have plenty of testing going on already. This idea by the President simply raises the quantity of testing, while doing nothing about the quality. Beyond that, we have the…

I am what we might term a conditional supporter of H.R. 10. While I believe that this legislation is in fact a step in the right direction toward ensuring retirement security for Americans, I do not think that this legislation really goes…

I also rise here this evening to speak of one of the great horrors of our century, and that is the Armenian genocide. As a member of the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues, I once again join a large number of colleagues in recognizing…

Mr. Chairman, H.R. 327 is a substantial improvement over the small business paperwork bills that were considered by the House in the last two Congresses because in the last two Congresses, these contained controversial penalty provisions…

We have heard for some time now supporters of this bill urging us to believe that we face a bankruptcy fraud epidemic, with an exponentially increasing number of debtors who, but for the fact they are in bankruptcy, otherwise would pay…

I cannot let go unanswered the comments of the gentleman from California (Mr. Cunningham) and the chairman about the Department of Education, who, when they had some difficulty in one of their audits, responded more quickly than any other…

I was one of those 114-plus Members that signed a letter to the President asking him to do a number of things that would improve the energy situation. I joined a number of my colleagues from the mid-Atlantic States, as well as from my home…

I want to say that today this is supposedly an effort on the part of the United States to comply with the ruling by the WTO in an effort to expedite this action is actually an effort that purports to repeal the corporate tax subsidy called…

I think the problem I am trying to get at here is that there are a large number of people, and some producers and end users, who are not sure that the method by which we are testing right now, allowing the companies to test and having that…

this amendment seeks a National Academy of Sciences study to examine three things: if the tests being performed on genetically engineered foods to ensure their safety is adequate and relevant; what type of monitoring system is needed to…

In fact, I quoted from it in my report; and it also talks about the need to make sure that our regulatory system is, in fact, adequate to give confidence to these foods that are coming out and to make sure that the public has confidence…

What this does is to say that the Academy of Sciences would do a study. This is for a study for three things, whether or not the tests are being performed.

I seek to amend the bill by removing funding for procurement of the National Missile Defense and increasing funding for the military's TRICARE senior pharmacy program, prescription drugs for senior retirees. The Department indicates the…

He said that it would be sometime in the 2004 time frame before all elements of the missile defense system could be tested together and then we can make a decision on whether to fully put it on full alert. He said that we are going to be…

the point just is there was a statement made earlier that passing of this amendment would kill the program. I think that is a bit of an exaggeration on that. I cannot imagine for a second that if this amendment passed, that next year we…

The concern I have, obviously, is the fact that we seem once again when it comes to a military procurement to be spending the money to start building something before all of the appropriate testing is done and before we know that we are…

we could all be here on this bipartisan motion today, this bipartisan bill, and actually pass it on a suspension. I do not see a great deal of controversy about what is going on with the subject matter of this bill. The fact that I would…

A vote for permanent normal trade relations with China gives up favorable United States Trade Agreement enforcement rights, it relinquishes forever any ability to use as leverage our existing periodic review process to, at least, try to…

today I rise to commemorate one of the most tragic events in the 20th century and that is, of course, the Armenian Genocide of 1915 to 1923. It ranks amongst the most tragic episodes. It was the first but unfortunately not the last of the…

Today we have heard all stories from our constituents who have to choose between medication and food or rent. We all know that by paying higher prices than individuals anywhere else in the world, Americans are subsidizing the drugs that…

it appears that our Republican colleagues, the Republican Party leadership, have a real dilemma on their hands. After forcing through Congress a budget resolution that we already knew was simply unrealistic and that in order to implement…