I speak in support of the conference report to S. 151, the PROTECT Act, which creates new and increases already existing penalties for crimes against children, as well as provides for the national coordination of the AMBER Alert…

Turkey may need assistance, but today is not the day to approve that assistance. Today we send a clear signal to America and the rest of the world that we support our troops. Turkey has not supported our troops. The U.S. over the last…

Thousands of our Nation's troops woke up today with the express task of defending our country against Saddam Hussein's reign of terror in order to protect the safety and freedom of his people, neighboring countries and other nations like…

This $64 million appropriation has nothing to do with enlisting people for this year to be a part of national service. That is a distortion of where this $64 million is going. This $64 million is going for mismanagement of the trust fund…

The myth has been repeated often that what we are doing tonight is taking money from young people who have served. That is not accurate. In February, we put $100 million back into the trust, and the way that this works is that these young…

I would once again like to congratulate the Grand Valley State University Lakers. They have had an awesome year. Today we recognize them and congratulate them for that performance. I would extend to the President a request that he invite…

H. Con. Resolution 297 recognizes the contributions of Korean-Americans and the contributions that they have made over the last 100 years. Since that first day when Korean-Americans immigrated and landed in Honolulu, they have become an…

Nine rangers, along with some Border Patrol, who have pretty much single-handedly stopped over close to three-quarters of a million pounds of drugs, 700,000 to 750,000 pounds of drugs, in a single year.

I went to Central Asia and I know my colleague has spent a lot of time on the border, and sometimes our constituents ask us why we go. They think it is some kind of a junket. It is to go to see a couple of things. It is to go to see these…

I would like to just build off of that comment. Obviously, today is September 10. September 11 we will again remember, as we have for almost every day over the last year, the heroism of the firefighters and the emergency personnel in New…

I think what my colleague points out is the fallacy in this process if we increase over the President's spending.

I want to really reinforce the point my colleague made, which is that this system shrinks the taxpayers' dollar; that when we put a dollar at the top of that funnel, by the time it gets down to the student, that dollar has shrunk from $1…

What we have said is in some ways these people are accomplishing, these business leaders, because of their failure to exercise true leadership, are accomplishing what the terrorists could not. We bounced back after September 11, believing…

the end result is the shared vision that we have with the President, that we have with our Speaker, and with the chairman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce to make sure we leave no child behind; that every child in America…

If corporate America does not step up and deal with these abuses, or if we do not stand up here on the floor of the House and highlight these abuses and push the business community to come up with solutions through the private sector, the…

There are about 10 different steps, and a Washington bureaucrat telling us how to spend the money. Quite often when we go through that process they tell us what to do and it is going to cost $2 million, $3 million, but they do not give all…

But the exciting thing here, this is kind of like a voluntary decision by people at the local level that says I want to put more money into my local school, and they have the option of doing it. It builds that trust between a local parent…

it is kind of interesting, when I come back and we do our next Special Order on this topic, I will bring along a copy of an op-ed piece written by Jack Colson, because that is exactly the question that he asked, which is who is training…

The other people that really do get excited are the school officials at the local level, because under the bureaucratic model, the dollars that come from the Treasury come with strings attached saying, ``you are getting a dollar and you…

I want to talk about what happens in America when corporations violate the public trust. Max De Pree, a former Fortune 500 CEO, my former boss at Herman Miller, wrote in his book, ``Leading Without Power,'' about the importance of people…

I mean when we are talking about what is the easiest and what is the fairest method for kids and for local taxpayers, this is the posture that clearly works. There is no bureaucracy, there is a lot of flexibility with how the money is…

Remember, this is the model that says the taxpayer puts in a dollar and 60 to 65 cents makes it to the classroom. On the other hand, this model says we have gotten rid of all this stuff in the middle and the taxpayer puts in $2, and it…

I think that is why, for a lot of our public school folks, this is a very exciting proposal, because they only get about 7 percent of their money from Washington to begin with. A lot of that money comes with the strings attached and very…

I think it holds great opportunity. It is not a perfect system, and it is not going to fix it by itself. Tax credits are not going to reform the system. But when you can combine the tax credits with H.R. 1, more parental choice, cutting…

It also gives a great liberty to our public school system, because what it does in our State of Michigan, basically, our public school superintendents who care passionately about the kids in their districts have become beggars to Lansing…