Today in Reisterstown, Maryland, hundreds of police officers have gathered to pay tribute to another fallen hero. Earlier this week, Sergeant Bruce A. Prothero, a 13-year veteran of the Baltimore County Police Department, said good-bye to…

It is a pleasure being with everybody. Demagogues hate facts, but truth usually wins out.

I really have a caveat to your observation because these folks are obviously very intelligent. I am not sure it is a misunderstanding. I think it is an understanding. What they understand is, if you go to this floor often enough and use…

Absolutely. Eloquent rhetoric. We all sat on this floor and watched the master politician. I hate being called a politician. I know you all hate it, too. Because politicians tell people what they want to hear. I know you three and I know a…

Short-term political calculations have ruled this House. By that I mean, let us not tell the American people the facts. Let us hide the deficit. Let us hide the problems of Medicare. If we just repeat what people want to hear rather than…

There is no plan. It is fear. Fear wins elections. Class warfare wins elections. If they can get that woman making $18,000 a year to be jealous of that woman or that guy making $24,000 a year, guess what, they got a vote in the other…

I come here and I watch episodes like we just observed and it is really interesting. I guess my question to you is a rhetorical question. Why cannot folks on the other side simply debate with respect to facts? Why can they not say, look…

Last night on this floor, Mr. Chairman, I talked about the substance of the ACLU lawsuit in Baltimore, the fact that special race, class, and location-based housing vouchers will become public policy outside the scope of this House, of…

I would first like to compliment the gentleman from New York [Mr. Lazio] for his thoughtful approach to housing issues. The gentleman well knows housing issues are a major issue in my district. Mr. Chairman, I also want to compliment the…

The last time I checked, under the Republican budget reconciliation proposal, the Balanced Budget Act, Medicare spending per beneficiary was to increase from $4,800 a year to $7,200 a year. Yet they used the term ``slash and burn,'' and…

Eighty-seven percent support welfare that requires work and is of limited duration. They also support a balanced budget amendment by a huge margin, with 82 percent of union folks in favor of a constitutional requirement that Washington…

The only thing left out of that letter, and that was very well written, was the fact that also many Democrat members of unions who are blue collar, who are conservatives, share that gentleman's views. How ironic that the big labor bosses…

I want to get back to the TEAM Act. I want to go right to the balanced budget, because it includes my favorite whopper: the rich, tax cuts for the rich. How many times do we see class warfare strategy utilized on the floor of this House…

We could really be compassionate, let us get real compassionate. Why not $20? Why not? We could put a lot more money in a few workers' pockets, and we would cause an awful lot of unemployment.

I think there is a far larger point here that I know many of us have discussed on the floor of this House. Should not words have meanings, even in this town, even on Capitol Hill, even in election years? It seems the institutional memory…

We can talk to the American people without anybody filtering our words, directly to the folks that sent us here. I just need to, because it is one of my favorites from the report card, talk about the TEAM Act. Protecting your rights as…

Of course, this whole debate is chock full of irony. You have big union bosses asking the working people in this country to take their hard-earned money to pay big time media consultants to run ads to defeat folks in this Congress who have…

The gentleman just used the term ``fear'' twice in the last minute. That is a great lead-in to category 2, issue 2, standing up for families and seniors. ``Ehrlich voted to slash Medicare and Medicaid,'' my personal favorite whopper from…

Which is a radical thought in this town. It is a radical thought in this town that politicians would act on the basis of what individually he or she believes is best for the country, and not on the basis of what the latest poll would…

Do we hear it on radio and TV? Depending on whose study you believe, every study I have been concludes that under the Republican sponsored bill, which is part of the Contract with America, between 60 and 70 percent of the families or the…

Again, what was the budget figure that the Republicans propose for the next 7 years? Was it an increase of $7,200 in the year 2002, which was very close to the President's number, by the way?

Another irony at work here, and of course we have the President of the United States acting in a very compassionate way in this election year, trying to sell the American people on the notion that he supports an increase in the minimum…

3 weeks ago the Federal Government finally got around to using the services of the National Credit Management Corp. of Hunt Valley, MD, a company located in my congressional district. Under the terms of the contract, NCMC would send…

Today I rise in tribute to a constituent whose achievement is the talk of the Nation. Tonight Cal Ripken, Jr., a native of Aberdeen, MD, will play his 2,131st consecutive game with the Baltimore Orioles, breaking a longstanding record held…