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, 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…