I would like to tell the Members that I have had an opportunity since we first started on this to look at this 33-page bill. As I look through this bill, I find page 1 through 13 has to do with airport and aviation safety. Those are…

Members of the House, yes, it is a great day for the people of this country who are the working poor. That is right, they are the working poor. They are the lowest level in the financial status that we have, but they work just as hard as…

Mr. Speaker, it is not any great pleasure that I come here today to be able to address the rule that is now before us. This is a rule that, when we as Democrats were in the majority, known as basically martial law, that we only used at the…

one of my many small businessmen in my rural district, he has been in business for 30 years, he has approximately 25 employees. Does the gentleman know what he said? He said, the minimum wage should be increased. He does not pay the…

the House and Senate have passed a minimum wage bill, but I want to let my colleagues in on a little secret. The Speaker is not going to let it become law. Our dictator, Speaker Gingrich, has decided that along with the majority Members of…

Yesterday was a big day for a lot of low-income American people that are hard working. The other body passed the minimum wage increase bill overwhelmingly. All the media talked about it, what a great thing it was for the low-income…

who ran GOPAC from 1984 to 1994? We all know that it was our autocratic Speaker, Newt Gingrich, while as a Member of this body ran this very political Republican organization. Where did he get his money? Well, he got a lot of it from…

This is something that Bill Emerson worked on for about 10 years, and working together, he with a bridge in Cape Girardeau, I with a bridge in Hannibal, both across the Mississippi, and also with the Chouteau Bridge in Kansas City. Bill…

The gentleman would not have to do that. If he would have taken the coalition or the Blue Dog budget, he would not have had to do that. We would not be here today making this decision on these type of amendments if you would just forget…

No, I am addressing my statement to all of the Members on that side because they almost all voted for that budget that calls for the tax cut in it. I say forget it.

Mr. Chairman, I won't take the full 5 minutes, but I come down a little bit different than the gentleman from California on this, because I know from personal relations with many people in my district that the weatherization program has…

Members of the House, the cat is out of the bag. The radical Republican extremists are not in favor of reducing the deficits. They do want a tax cut, a massive tax cut, for the wealthy. We saw it last night. Mr. Speaker, if my colleagues…

Mr. Chairman, I think that it would be worthwhile for some of the Members to know why many of us on this side of the aisle are not going to vote for this bill. I know that the gentleman from New Mexico, who I very strongly support in all…

it is budget time again. Once again, I hear my extreme radical Republican colleagues, under the gentleman from Georgia, Newt Gingrich, and Bob Dole telling the American public they are going to save Medicare. How are they going to do that…

this is for the purpose of making it clear that the appropriation on further studies and evaluations by this office over USDA will only be prospective for the coming year. It does not include any evaluation and studies that are ongoing at…

in answer to the gentleman from Texas, I would like to know why the radical Republicans under the Speakership of Newt Gingrich still are proposing to cut Medicare in order to give big tax breaks to the wealthy? Yes, they lost last year…

I would recommend to the House that we go ahead and vote and adopt the Obey amendment, which I think is a reasonable cut in administrative costs.

I may have been able to support the gentleman's amendment is he had offered it as a substitute for Obey. But as accumulate to Obey I am going to have to oppose the amendment, and I think the House should oppose the amendment, because when…

if the Obey amendment fails, then I would support the Manzullo amendment, but I would not support both. But I would support the Obey amendment.

They would like the American public to believe that somehow through the authorization process, not even the appropriation process but in this authorization process, they are going to lead us down, this Congress, down to a balanced budget…

I have been here for 20 years, and I have seen a lot of budgets. Each year that I vote on budgets, I have not found one yet that I can agree with 100 percent. But this time, and basically that is why I voted for the coalition budget…

They are not federally illegal. What you are telling me is if a local city body decides that there are not going to be any guns, as the gentleman has in Illinois, there are not going to be any guns in this community, none whatsoever, and I…

Illegal because of what? Because of a local zoning ordinance that says you cannot have a gun in this town?

if the gentleman wants to put it in there, an exception for self-defense, then I would say yes. But the gentleman does not have that in here. He just says anybody who knowingly and with intent, with reckless disregard for the safety of…

I am saying, you are elevating a local ordnance to a 5-year Federal offense. We do not do it in anything else. We do not make a DWI, a DWI which could kill people, we do not make that a Federal offense.