Mr. Chairman, I was over in my office and I could not hardly believe what I was hearing when I was listening over there, so I decided to come over and add my 2 cents to the rest of the discussion. Mr. Chairman, as one who has been a pet…

I stand here today requesting the Republican leadership, Newt Gingrich, to schedule the minimum wage bill for the House to vote on. I am not here on behalf of any union, I am here on behalf of a lot of people in my district and all over…

the radical right of the Republicans is at it again. Although the vast majority of the American citizens, the majority of the Members of this House, the majority of the Members of the other body, and the President of the United States all…

It is very apparent to me, listening to the debate, that the gentleman from Colorado is trying to obfuscate the real issue. We all agree that we will take up the appropriation bill that will finally fund the Government for the rest of this…

Members of the House, the radical Republican majority is still bent on cutting educational funds, especially title I funds. It is mean-spirited. Who does it impact on? Not the local school districts, but it impacts on children; children…

if Newt Gingrich and the radical right Republicans want to do something for the working poor, then let us have a minimum wage bill. Yesterday some of their Members stood in the well on that side and said, ``Well, we have already proposed…

effectively, this amendment does the same thing as the amendment we just voted on. Effectively it is the same old thing.

But we Democrats are asking the leadership of the Republicans, Speaker Gingrich and the radical Republicans, to bring forward legislation that will help millions of people in this country now, and that is an increase in the minimum wage…

I do not know if I will take the full 3 minutes because it is hard to find very much to say about this radical piece of legislation from the radical right that is bound and determined to shift the tax burden of the American public, to…

I am really truly amazed. I heard this morning when I came over the Speaker talk about what great things they had done yesterday with the legislation, but one of the things he did not mention in that legislation was the exemption of…

I am curious. Maybe the gentlewoman can tell me what the economic loss is for the ability to have a child. What is the economic loss of the inability to have a child? I do not think you can put a dollar figure as an economic loss on that…

what I am trying to get across is what you are going to end up with is there is no damages, really, for a woman's loss of the ability to have a baby.

I hope Members will really take a look at what is happened here. This is blatant politics and blatant hypocrisy. The bill's title speaks of laudatory goals, while the provisions of the bill for medical savings accounts will ultimately have…

I just heard the most idiotic statement I have ever heard here. I really have. None of us had anything to do with this list. It was the proponents. There, the gentleman from New York [Mr. Schumer] and the gentlewoman in the Senate, the…

there are not many times, but there are some times when the gentleman from New York [Mr. Solomon], chairman of the Committee on Rules, and I agree. This is one of these times that I strongly agree, and I think just as strongly as the…

I agree 100 percent with the gentleman that it has been a misstatement all along that these are assault weapons. I do not believe that even the opponents of the legislation, the proponents of the ban, would ever think about sending our…

Today is another one of those sad days in the history of the 104th Congress. Today, once again, you are seeing the Democratic minority gagged basically by the Republican majority. They are going to, by passing this rule, be able to take up…

as I have reviewed this legislation, I have some serious misgivings about it. I am desirous that we continue to have the provision in the bill that is sponsored by the gentleman from Illinois on habeas corpus. I am sorry I have to disagree…

the gentleman makes a very strong argument for the bill, and I will have to continue to consider it as a result of his statement and elucidation about all the good things in the bill.

as we have progressed in this House through the appropriation for the education program, especially for our title I program, we have found a continuation of the philosophy on the majority side that these funds for elementary and secondary…

It is an attempt to say that the criminal, the individual who commits the crime with this new technology, bears the burden of doing it and that the penalty would be increased on the individual. It is specifically what a lot of my…

And there is no Gunderson proposal or anything else in this recommittal motion that can go to conference because there is not anything like that in here. The provision in here just lets it expire at the end of this year. Now it is going to…

That is true. He can get the payment. He does not have to crop the land at all even if he has rented it in the past. He does not have to rent it this year if he has not already done so.

I too rise in strong opposition to this rule. I know the gentleman from New York [Mr. Solomon], the chairman of the committee, gave me one of my eight amendments, but it is not the one that I asked for; well, it is not the one I asked for…

Except in the current farm program, you have to crop the land in order to participate in the program.