Melton Hancock

one minute to express my personal feelings concerning the passing of our colleague, the Honorable Bill Emerson from Missouri, is very difficult. Bill Emerson was a good friend, a trusted confidant, and a great American. He was dedicated to…

He said, well, he said, here in the Congress you have one of two choices. You can either vote politics or you can vote what is right. Sometimes they are the same, sometimes they are not. But he said, I know you, and I know southwest…

On May 27, 1947, Central High School, Springfield, MO, graduated 563 students. On June 13 and 14, 1997, the class of 1947 will commemorate the 50th anniversary of this momentous and historical occasion. Rarely does a Member of the United…

I want to talk about an amazing thing that happened on Saturday, January 13, in Springfield, MO. Private citizens, with the support and encouragement of local institutions, organized the first ever Good Community Fair--an opportunity for…

is it not great that we live in a country where we do not have to work 14 hours a day just to get enough to eat or 18 hours a day just to get enough to eat? You know we can spend a little time, and maybe quit watching so much television…

I am hoping other communities will emulate what they have started there in Springfield, but it is the positive thing that I want to stress. I have been up here for almost 70 years. I mean it is negative, and I will say that you have to…

I felt like when I was elected to the Congress I came up here with a good reputation. I plan on leaving the Congress at the end of this term with a good reputation. After all, that is really all you have to leave, is a good reputation.

I apologize to the staff that is having to stay here this late hour. However, I feel that this subject I want to talk about is of the utmost importance. It is something that has been bothering me for quite some time. In fact, before I came…

It is a mixed bag for Republicans in Congress these days. On the one hand, we are thrilled so far with our legislative progress on important issues. The Republican House and Senate overwhelmingly passed a plan that will balance the Federal…

I have a real problem. Just the other day the President comes on national television, and the first item he mentioned as part of the shutdown was Meals on Wheels. My wife devotes 1 full day a week plus other free time to Meals on Wheels in…

as my colleagues know, we keep talking about what we tried in 1980-81 to cut taxes. Only difference is we got a Republican Congress now that is going to cut the spending, too, so that will take care of that. As my colleagues know, the…

this argument that we are into is getting to where if it was not so serious, it would be amusing. We are talking about voting to reduce the deficit. We are talking about concentrating on the budget of the Federal Government. Do you not…

I rise today to express my opposition to employer mandated health coverage included in the President's Health Security Act, and in the health reform legislation currently pending before the Committee on Ways and Means. As one of the few…

the Unsoeld amendment--or what I will refer to as the ``Unsoeld double-loophole'' amendment--is a gutting amendment, pure and simple. It is a desperate attempt to undermine my amendment completely. A vote for the Unsoeld double-loophole…

I would just like to say that if everybody in the United States, every parent, every person in the United States could see this literature, I think he would find that 98 percent of the people would come into the category that the gentleman…

No, in fact I think it is just the other way around. I think that AIDS education, properly presented for what it is, but not the type of literature that is being used in our public schools now, this document here--

I believe, under those circumstances the gentleman describes, the proper position for a school official would be to refer that student to an individual with the credentials that the gentleman from Washington [Mr. McDermott] has, to be…

The Unsoeld amendment does do the same thing the gentleman is asking me to do, and, no, I would agree because that opens up the door for them to say, ``Well, we didn't intend for this to be this way. We didn't intend.'' It opens up the…

since the question was brought up yesterday we did a little research, and we found that the Department of Education, when they receive applications for Federal funds from schools, that the schools swear to uphold the laws under this--under…

Counseling them for the purpose of the counseling which we have here of homosexuality as a positive, affirmative lifestyle, yes, I think that would be prohibited.

Mr. Chairman, the program or activity is defined as an activity with the purpose or effect of encouraging or supporting homosexuality as a positive lifestyle. That, I think, is pretty explicit.

Were those recommendations made to promote--to encourage and support homosexuality as an alternative lifestyle? I do not think so.

That is correct, and they also have to uphold the rules and regulations, the mandates, if you want to call it that, the other 23 of the Department of Education. So, those funds could be removed, if in fact--if they did not abide by the law.

I think they could counsel them. I question whether we have very many people in public education who are qualified to counsel on this particular subject. I do not know that that is a requirement for teaching.