as a long-time advocate of providing telecommunications services to our public classrooms, I rise in support of the Davis amendment. This amendment would allow the Chief Administrative Officer [CAO] of the House to transfer surplus…

Mr. Chairman, GPO, the Government Printing Office, has reduced their staff by 25 percent over the last 4 years, meaning a reduction of more than 1,000 full-time equivalents. The Klug amendment, although well intentioned, is extreme. Time…

As budget negotiators work to finalize the details of our historic agreement, we must make bolstering children's health coverage for low-income children a top priority. It is unconscionable that the most developed country in the world has…

although I am very sensitive to the economic needs of our neighbors who live in the Appalachian corridor of Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, and adjacent States, I support the Klug amendment to delete the money, $90 million, specifically…

I rise in support of H.R. 2003, the bipartisan Budget Enforcement Act. Without this legislation, the balanced budget agreement will be devoid of any enforcement mechanism, and it runs the danger of joining the many past well-intentioned…

Mr. Chairman, during my tenure in the House, I have always supported programs that would ensure that women have access to nontraditional jobs. For women who are seeking job training services, the bottom line is a livable wage…

in an effort to address the challenges of technology in our Nation's classrooms, I am joining with the gentleman from Minnesota [Mr. Vento] in introducing the Technology for Teachers Act. This bill would establish two competitive grant…

I support the open rule guiding the consideration of the reauthorization of the National Sea Grant college program, and I support the bill H.R. 437. I want to commend my colleagues on the Committee on Science and the Committee on Resources…

I am very much in support of it. Mr. Chairman, hunger is caused by poverty. Poverty and hunger are a violence against humanity, whether they are in the streets of Washington, DC, or the villages of Iraq and Bosnia. Fortunately, the pain…

I am strongly in support of it. We must never again shut down government, causing a situation we do not want to have repeated; an incredible waste of resources, important work left undone, tremendous cost to taxpayers and what it did to…

in the 9 months between the declaration of the cease-fire last March and the signing of the final peace agreement last December, not a single shot was fired between the forces of the Guatemalan Government and the URNG guerillas…

I offer an amendment to the Adoption Promotion Act of 1997. This amendment would encourage kinship care families, which are families in which adult relatives are the preferred placement options for children separated from their parents. My…

I am really very pleased to sponsor tonight's special order on women's health with my colleagues Nancy Johnson, Louise Slaughter, and Eleanor Holmes Norton, and so many of our colleagues who are here this evening. The Congressional Caucus…

my amendment simply clarifies that the limitations in section 6 apply only to grants funded through the research, engineering and development account.

I rise, Mr. Speaker, to express my support for the arts and to highlight the important world of the arts and the educational development of our children and the economic growth of our country. The arts and humanities have absorbed their…

I rise in celebration of Women's History Month and in tribute to the many women who, through the ages, dared to challenge injustice and discrimination in the workplace. It is the tireless work of those leaders who came before us that allow…

Mr. Chairman, this vote is so important, and it is about family planning and it is against abortion. I would say to my colleagues, to reduce abortions we must increase access to family planning. I hear that this is an abortion vote. There…

There is just no doubt about it. We also know that 6 out of every 10 new jobs that will be created as we enter the new millennium are going to involve technology and are going to involve the importance of knowing something about Internet…

H.R. 4233 provides for the appropriate implementation of the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 in Federal construction projects. The Metric Conversion Act, as amended, requires all Federal agencies to use the metric system in procurements…

we are back today to reconsider a bill to improve our Civil Service system and help Federal employees cope with downsizing. This is the same bill that we considered yesterday, except without section 201, a controversial provision to…

I will briefly explain what this resolution does. First and foremost it is a compromise that has been agreed to by the House, by the Senate and women's groups throughout the Nation who have been involved in this project for years. What…

I am pleased to give this special order honoring the women Members who will be retiring next year. I am saddened that so many talented women are planning to leave Congress, and I wanted to take this opportunity tonight to express our…

I have always respected the work he has done, and I do want this body to know of my great respect for the gentleman from California [Mr. Lewis], who chairs the subcommittee and who has done such an exemplary job and is so humane. This…

Madam Speaker, this is truly a landmark day for those of us who are seeking protection of the antarctic environment. For the past 5 years, those of us who have been ardent longtime supporters for the preservation of the Antarctic Continent…

I firmly believe that those of us who serve in this body are diminished as well as the American public are diminished by the loss of Ham Fish, Jr. He was fourth generation in terms of serving this great country in Congress 26 years. To me…