William Ford

I rise today in support of the Hatch/Ford amendment to the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act, S. 1587. Our amendment is short and sweet and to the point. It prohibits the use of Federal funds to lobby State and local governments…

I strongly support H.R. 2108, the Black Lung Benefits Restoration Act of 1993. The bill is essentially the same as the one which passed the House near the end of the 102d Congress. That bill was severely scaled back to meet both…

Mr. Chairman, if we were in a court of law, I would say this side rests at this point, because I think the gentleman has done a marvelous job of confusing the issue so badly that no one could follow his lead and vote against this bill, and…

I would like to thank the following staff for their hard work in helping to ensure a strong bill was crafted and moved through the Congress expeditiously: On the Education and Labor Committee staff, Alan Lopatin and Kris Gilbert; On the…

Mr. Speaker, this past winter was devastatingly cold across a large swath of our country. So cold, that many States were on the verge of running out of funding for their Low Income Home Energy Assistance Programs [LIHEAP] long before the…

Mr. Speaker, on February 10, 1994, H.R. 3842--to reauthorize the Head Start program for another 4 years--was introduced in the House of Representatives. The bill has cosponsors from both sides of the aisle. Measures to reauthorize the…

29 years ago, within the first few months of my first term as a Member of Congress, President Lyndon Johnson spoke these words at a Rose Garden ceremony announcing Project Head Start: Today we are able to announce that we will have open…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the conference report on H.R. 2884, the School-to-Work Opportunities Act. Initially, I want to point out that we have had wonderful bipartisan cooperation on this legislation. The goal of this legislation…

I rise to speak about the history of Armenia. It is a tragic history, but one we must remember. On April 24, 1915, the Ottoman government began the genocide of the Armenian people by rounding up Armenian religious, political, and…

little over a year ago, this Congress passed H.R. 1, the Family and Medical Leave Act. President Clinton quickly signed this measure into law. Its enactment was the culmination of a decade-long struggle which was successful only when a…

Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the minority on the Committee on Education and Labor for their cooperation in getting this bill swiftly to the floor so that we could meet the deadline that is so important to the schools involved and just…

There is a stronger correlation between being poor when you go to college and not being able to pay your loan than there is between where you finish with respect to your peers in school. If you go to college from a poor family and an…

Madam President, if I had been present at the rollcall vote on passage of the conference report to accompany H.R. 1804, the Goals 2000 bill, I would have voted ``no.'' This is not legislation that the American people would support if they…

I am sorry. I think the words should be taken down, and he should be silenced in this Chamber.

H.R. 6 is the eighth reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 [ESEA]. With the possible exception of the 1978 House consideration of ESEA, the number of amendments offered on the House floor to that act during…

the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Roth] just made another misstatement that cannot be left standing with the Members who are watching this from their offices. He said flatly that once they get into bilingual, it is virtually impossible to…

Bilingual education was not invented by or created by the Congress or by any State legislature. The requirement placed upon the States to provide bilingual education resulted from a Supreme Court decision, Lau versus Nichols, and the…

I rise in strong support of House Concurrent Resolution 218, the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1995, as reported by the Budget Committee. At a time when budget rules and fiscal constraints limit our options, this…

Mr. Chairman, I have discussed this amendment with the gentleman from Kansas [Mr. Roberts]. The gentleman from California [Mr. Miller] raises a very good question. When I first heard about the amendment, I put the gentleman on notice that…

If the gentleman from California [Mr. Rohrabacher] has an objective here, he should attain that objective by amending the immigration laws and putting obligations on local police departments, school districts, whoever he wants to…

If the gentleman from California [Mr. Rohrabacher] has an objective here, he should attain that objective by amending the immigration laws and putting obligations on local police departments, school districts, whoever he wants to…

We do not believe it is right to have little children in public schools enlisted to be spies against other members of their families, no matter who pays for it. We do not care whether it is funded or unfunded. It is immoral. It is wrong.

I support a balanced budget amendment and always have. The borrow and spend policies of the past must not continue. The ability to expand our economy and provide job opportunities for this and future generations... absolutely depends upon…

the Senator from Illinois, my distinguished friend, is accusing me as a cosponsor of the Reid amendment as being a stalking horse. I assure him that I am not. I intend to get every vote for that resolution that I possibly can. So I do not…