John Tierney

Reclaiming my time, that example is a situation, and OSHA came in and testified before the committee and told you that has been addressed, that OSHA has a zero tolerance now for those situations. They do not fine people for failing to have…

the moment of truth is upon us. It is showdown time today in the Rules Committee on campaign finance reform. Last November, the Speaker of this House promised the House a very fair bipartisan vote on campaign finance reform. The question…

I firmly believe that the visa waiver program is important to allow citizens of eligible countries to enter the United States temporarily without a visa, whether it be for business meetings or simply to visit with their families. Every…

I rise today to talk about campaign finance reform. As we witness the current spectacle of the Senate leadership preventing a clean vote on even modest campaign reform, I urge my Republican colleagues in the House to stand up and resist…

we should not be here today in the position where we are being asked by the Majority to embark upon an impeachment inquiry unlimited in scope and unlimited in time

I think we are having a healthy debate here, but I want to make a note that I sense that what is being said here is there may be more than one purpose of this proposed bill. I think that there are apparently two purposes being put forward…

I do not know the gentleman from Pennsylvania, I do not think we have had any lengthy conversations, so I am a bit surprised to find out that he is taking what up to this point in time has been a fairly, I think, good level discussion…

I think it is one area in education that we can finally say that people have tried to work together without rancor and bitterness to try to come together with an idea of how we might really buttress our public schools. When we voted a…

let me say that it is obvious to all of us that when we are talking the taxpayers' money, we are talking about the community's money. I do not think it is my money. I know quite well it belongs to everybody. It is their choice to have a…

I note that what the Speaker is talking about in terms of unlimited campaign contributions is, in essence, as one editorial says, trying to paste on the label of reform without the content. I think that finally the majority party and the…

I stand today to address the same issue many of my colleagues on this side of the aisle have addressed to date, and that is simply campaign finance reform, and once again reiterate that all of the procedural steps that have been seen over…

I rise this afternoon just to speak briefly on the issue of campaign finance reform. As the Speaker knows, we have had very little opportunity for deliberation and debate of this issue in the current Congress, over the objections of a fair…

If I can interject for a second, all of the business community in my area is very, very focused on having the product of our public school system and our private school systems get up to a level where they can hire these people and put…

I think that we are going to find that education is not an issue that is going to go away with the American public. I think that the polling that my colleague referenced that was done for the Republican party is going to have to move…

John Kenneth Galbraith, who lives in our State and is well-known by everyone, wrote a book recently called 'The Good Society.' Is not a difficult book to read. It is not long. He has an excellent small chapter on education. He talks with…

I have yet, in the entire 6th District of Massachusetts, heard anyone telling me they are in favor of slashing the Federal role, which is already somewhat minimal in terms of what we provide for resources in education.

I have to say that I am shocked, shocked to hear that all this time we thought that many Members on that side of the table were anti-education when they tried to do away with the Department of Education, never stood up for preventative…

I am not a big supporter of bipartisanship, I am an advocate of partisanship, but with a lot of civility, where we clearly establish what our positions are so the public is aware of what the choices are; and in a civil manner we have…

I rise this morning just to speak briefly about campaign finance reform and the need for this House to address that issue before we go home this fall. Mr. Speaker, whatever business we do in this House requires that the American people…

I do not care personally whether we call it a charter school or whether we call it a whole school, whether we call it comprehensive school reform, whatever the semantics may be. The idea is that we are actually trying to get to the point…

I proceed because I think it is important for the people to know that if it is Goals 2000 about which they want to have the debate, let us have it straightforward on that particular program. This is a program that President Bush put…

reclaiming my time, that is totally inappropriate and far from the situation. As I said, your grandmother over here is not unlike a number of other Members here, and we are not impugning her integrity or her compassion for that person. We…

I mention the words, as my colleagues know, of a school in Salem, MA, which is in fact, a whole school concept. With the help of Salem State College, the community got together, teachers got together, parents came on board, they developed…

I rise to discuss not the bill but the rule before us in this particular case. Since I came here some 6 months ago or 7 months ago, it seems that all I hear from the party that said over and over again while it was in the minority is how…

That is, of course, if we are assuming that this is all about friendship and all about trying to do the right thing by their friend. I think we all know it is something else. I think this thing smells to high heaven and that people…