I rise today first in strong support of the President's proposals to place the majority of the budget surplus into the Social Security Trust Fund and protecting Medicare. Social Security and Medicare are cornerstones of our trust, our…

I rise today to urge our Republican colleagues to join with us in putting Social Security and Medicare first. We have come together to balance the budget, and we now have an extraordinary opportunity to take the next step in fiscal…

as an American who cares deeply about our Constitution, I rise in opposition to this impeachment process. This is a difficult time for our Nation. The impeachment of a president has happened only once before in history. I cast my vote…

I wanted to at this point indicate that when talking about the COPS Program, if I might just put a plug in for our colleague from Connecticut, Jim Maloney, who has been working very hard to expand the COPS Program to include school…

I would join with my friend from Rhode Island in thanking everyone who has been involved in this issue. But I also would join today with those who express great concern about the bill that is in front of us. It has been said that there are…

today we make a critically important decision affecting the lives of every single one of the people we represent: Men and women, young and old, working hard every day, who care about their families. They want us to deal with the…

I was pleased to come to this House and support a balanced budget this last year for the first time in 30 years, pleased to support tax cuts for middle class families totaling $95 billion. But now we have a window of opportunity to take…

I will vote yes on the final passage of H.R. 4569 with serious reservations. I urge the Senate and the Conference Committee to address the issue of family planning and other serious flaws that exist in the bill. If significant improvements…

Social Security is a 60-year success story that all Americans should be proud of. Prior to Social Security enactment, over 50 percent of our retirees were in poverty. Today it is less than 10 percent. We have an opportunity now to take the…

I rise today to declare a state of emergency. Our home health care industry is suffering from drastic cuts to the Medicare reimbursement system that was done in last year's balanced budget agreement. Cuts were made to reduce fraud and…

Simply today we are talking about creating jobs for the future for our constituents, for American workers, or whether or not we are going to stand by and refuse to invest in the kinds of partnerships that will create new technologies to…

I might just add one point, and that is, the universities are in fact doing their research under ATP in cooperation, as the gentleman indicated. The private sector is involved in sharing information, but the dollars are not going to the…

Today, we are here as Democrats from New Jersey to Pennsylvania to Texas to Michigan. I do want to start, though, by saying that, most importantly, we are here as Americans who want to allow every one of our families to be able to…

this morning a hearing is being held by the Democratic Health Care Task Force on the critical issue of managed health care. We are going to hear this morning from families across the country who have been denied care, who have had very…

I rise in favor of the Sanders' amendment to earmark $6 million of the appropriation in this bill for the National Archives and Records Administration for the National Personnel Records Center. I am particularly pleased that this amendment…

I rise also, coming from a State that is extremely efficient. We have, as a State, been serving people in their homes for a little over $3800 per user, which is less than the national average of a little over $4600, $3800 versus $4600. And…

I would first rise today to commend President Clinton for this week announcing new patient protections for those who are covered by Medicare. The time is now for all of us in the House to join together to extend those same protections to…

Mr. Chairman, I would like this afternoon to rise and associate myself with the remarks of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle who talked about food safety for a moment. It happens that the strawberries that the gentleman mentioned…

I rise today to urge a no vote on the bill, but to first indicate that I have voted for IRS reform that we are still waiting to pass this Congress. I support real tax reform. And I would even support a deadline if there were alternatives…

I also rise to support the amendment that adds to what I believe is an important bill and strengthens it to focus on domestic violence. Every 18 seconds in our country, a woman is abused in her home or by someone that she knows very…

I rise today to support that by rejecting the Neumann substitute, the Kasich budget, and supporting the Spratt budget that allows us to continue the balanced budget that we agreed to in a bipartisan way, truly protect Social Security, and…

I rise tonight to strongly support the conference committee for agricultural research and to first commend our chairman and ranking member, as well as the Chair and ranking member of the subcommittee who have worked so hard. This is truly…

I rise to support a 60-year success story called Social Security. Almost half of our senior citizens were in poverty before its enactment, and now literally millions of seniors have been able to live and have a good quality of life because…

I must rise today to oppose this bill. For many of the reasons that my colleagues have indicated, it is fundamentally flawed. We have three wonderful national forests in Michigan. Yes, there are management issues that need to be addressed…

In the last tax debate, when the original bill came to the floor, that was basically the Republican tax bill, we did not see an immediate increase in the exemption for the State tax for small businesses, family-owned businesses, and…