I am appalled by the devastating cuts in children's programs which the Republicans are pushing through the House. There are many cuts to choose from--but none is more galling than the attack on child nutrition. Over the next 5 years, the…

I believe the cops on the beat are critically important total law enforcement. My chief of police in Prince Georges County strongly supports it, my police in Maryland support, and I rise in strong support of the Conyers-Schumer amendment.

This morning there is a cloud in the Carolina blue sky. Last night, as the final buzzer sounded and the frenzied fans spilled onto the basketball court, the scoreboard flashed--number one North Carolina 73, and the mighty Maryland…

Mr. McMillen has been redistricted out of Congress, but he was five seats from me cheering on the Terrapins.

The American public wanted to say, Mr. President, if you see some projects in there that are not wise policy or not needed or inappropriate to be in appropriations bills, then take them out, Mr. President. Now, the President of the United…

America is experiencing a serious problem: Too many working and able-bodied parents are not taking responsibility for their children. The time has come to declare war on our current welfare system so that we can properly address the…

last night President Clinton spoke of a covenant of rights and responsibilities between Government and the American people. Today we begin again the renewal of our responsibility to manage our Nation's money with common sense and…

I had not intended to give a 1-minute, but I hear this carping about the balanced budget amendment. Twelve out of the last 14 years, we have had a Republican President. Not once, not once did any one of those Republican Presidents submit a…

Mr. Speaker, clearly we have a concern about the procedure, but more importantly than the procedure is the substance. The gentlewoman from the District of Columbia mentioned we are now extending to all our employees protections that we…

I think it is appropriate, as the gentleman says, that the American people have the facts and have the truth. First, let me say to my friend--and I mean that sincerely; Mr. Weldon and I are close friends; we work closely together on a…

Nominally in terms of the difference between inflation, which was 17 or 18 percent, and interest rates which were 21 percent, a 3.5-point discrepancy. In point of fact, in the 1980's real interest rates, which is really what the gentleman…

Ladies and gentlemen, I was motivated by the previous speaker. We had a $945 billion debt in America in 1980. We changed the checkbook and one person could have stopped spending in its tracks from 1981 to 1989, one person, Ronald Reagan…

And energy costs skyrocketed. We had long lines, shortages, and energy prices skyrocketed. But the gentleman also correctly observed that interest rates followed the inflation rate up, and the reason they do that obviously is because…

Interest rates, of course, and inflation rose very rapidly in the 1970's, as the gentleman well knows, for reasons unrelated to domestic policy, but very much related to the oil cartel that was created in the Middle East.

Mr. Speaker, in November there were 435 contracts made in each of our districts, and we came here to represent as best we can the aspirations and the hopes of our constituents. I would hope that as we proceed, that we together work to…

today our new Speaker spoke of the majesty of this House. He spoke of 208 years of history. He spoke of the light of the world, this democracy, America. It is our Constitution that gives this democracy its grace and its reverberation…

Mr. Speaker, to paraphrase Yogi Bera, its deja vu all over again. This bill ought to look familiar because this House overwhelmingly passed it last year. I am happy to vote for congressional compliance 25 times if need be. Mr. Speaker I…

Heavens forbid that the Committee on Appropriations would initiate spending. When did the last authorization bill pass the Senate? My point is, it has not passed.

I wanted to make that clear to the Members, that these projects have to go through the process. I am not going to respond to every point that has been made about the White House, Mr. Speaker, because I think that would be time-consuming…

I urge Members to vote for this. It is a rule exactly like we passed last year, almost verbatim. There is a difference. There is going to be a vote on this one. It was so noncontroversial last year, there was no vote on this rule. It was…

Mr. Chairman, we are about to make an important decision in voting on the McCloskey-Gilman-Bonior-Hoyer amendment. It is more than a vote on whether we will or will not lift the arms embargo on Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is a vote on…

I want to thank the gentleman from Michigan for his generosity and say that I rise in strong support of all three of the components of this legislation. I think this conference report makes some key improvements in the Head Start…

last year when we passed the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1993, we adopted a fuel-dying scheme to ensure compliance with the new diesel fuel taxes on recreational vessels. On paper this requirement seemed rather simple. Recreational…

I rise today in support of H.R. 4296, the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act. I commend Chairman Schumer and his subcommittee for drafting a bill which is narrowly drawn and focused. This bill targets only a small…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 4250, which reauthorizes--and in some key ways reinvents--the Head Start Program. I want to touch briefly on several of those key improvements, but I also want to say a few words about the…