We also support passage of this act. This bill ratifies a 1996 settlement of a lawsuit between the Miccosukee Tribe in Florida over lands taken by the State for construction of Alligator Alley across the Everglades. Under the terms of this…

this legislation will bring an end to a long-standing problem that has affected the ability of the Agua Caliente Tribe of California to govern its own sovereign tribal lands. H.R. 700 was introduced by our colleague, the gentleman from…

The bill, the Mississippi Sioux Tribes Judgment Fund Distribution Act, will resolve a longstanding dispute over a 1967 judgment fund award by the Indian Claims Commission to three tribes in South Dakota, North Dakota, and Montana. These…

One of my highest priorities since coming to Congress has been to ensure that our Nation's elderly are able to live with dignity. One can judge the humanity of any society by how it treats its very young, and its very old, the most…

The purpose of the language in section 103(c)(1), therefore, is to make bureau funded schools eligible for funding under the within State allocation of funds. Making such schools ineligible for funding under section 103(c)(1) removes any…

I understand, however, that the provision in question is included in this legislation in order to make it clear that the bureau funded schools with secondary vocational programs will be considered a local education agency eligible for…

Mr. Chairman, I rise to urge passage of this legislation. While bringing bipartisan support for this bill has not been easy, it has come about, and I believe that is both significant and important. There are several provisions of this bill…

bills like this could not be written without the staff. I want to thank certain members of the staff who played a major role directly in this bill. On the Democratic side, Brian Kennedy, Marshall Grigsby, David Evans, and Margo Huber. On…

I am pleased to rise to support H.R. 1385, the Employment, Training, and Literacy Enhancement Act of 1997. We have been talking for several years now about the need to create an integrated employment and training system that meets the…

Mr. Speaker, today higher education is a virtual necessity, but there is a tremendous difficulty in achieving that necessity, and that is the significantly increased cost of higher education. If my colleagues go back over either a 10-year…

Mr. Speaker, I rise to urge adoption of this amendment, of which I am a cosponsor. It is purely a technical amendment. It would change the August 30 date in the Federal right-to-know law in two places in order to reflect the fact that the…

I want to be perfectly clear that I strongly and unequivocally support full compensation to the Torres-Martinez Tribe for the injustices they have suffered in the last century. Today almost 123,000 acres of Torres-Martinez tribal…

Mr. Goodling and I work closely together and we have had a nice bipartisan spirit out here on two bills. It is regrettable that the gentleman from California [Mr. Riggs] had to inject a bit of partisanship in this, attacking, among other…

I rise in support of H.R. 3863, the Student Debt Reduction Act, even though I continue to have reservations about the timing of the legislation in light of the upcoming reauthorization of the Higher Education Act next year. My colleagues…

last week Bob Dole gave an education speech in Minneapolis during which he said that public schools are being driven into the ground by bureaucrats and teachers. First of all, if Bob Dole wants to know what is going on in public schools he…

I support it as a separate program also, not to be buried in another program, because we need to build sensitivity to the rights and abilities of all women, all students. I recall a few years ago when my daughter and my two sons and I were…

On this amendment, we are entering the thicket of Indian sovereignty, a very delicate issue. I have read the treaties. I would ask other Members of this body to read those treaties. We are in negotiations. We are trying to work things out…

Tomorrow night we will bid our formal good-byes, farewells, but you will come back to the pages who have served us so well in the 104th Congress. The pages really see Government like no one else sees government. As a matter of fact, they…

the question we face today is not whether one is for or against gaming. The fact is that gambling has been part of our society for a long, long time--and it probably will continue to be that way. The question we face today is what role…

His advice on Medicare, how to cut Medicare, the school lunch program, the WIC program for pregnant women? They have already cut those programs. He could advise them further on how to cut those programs. He is good at cutting programs. Is…

I suggest after Mr. Dunlap, they should at least balance things out and maybe have someone like Mother Theresa come in and give them some spiritual guidance.

Mr. Speaker, education has always had friends on the Republican side of the aisle, and they realize that elementary and secondary education is forward-funded, that this resolution provides money for the school year beginning this coming…

it is important then that we support the Bonior amendment to recommit to restore those funds, at least to the 1995 level for education.

I rise today to express some very grave concerns regarding the devastating effects that the Labor-HHS appropriations will have on public education in America... This bill, which we will take up this week, Mr. Speaker, I believe represents…

Well, first of all there is not $30 million of bureaucracy. There is at least $10 million for adult education here, which the gentleman does not restore, and adult education is a very, very significant part of the Indian education money…