Norvell Emerson

I really had to come over and couldn't let this opportunity slip by without coming to the floor to say a few words about my friend former Congressman Bill Clay, even though we still kind of call him 'Congressman.' This is such a…

with 35 million individuals, including 12 million children, either experiencing hunger or teetering right on the verge of hunger each year, the American people expect us to take every reasonable action possible to address this crisis. The…

I too want to thank Mr. Berry and the other sponsors, thank the committee chairman and ranking member, and hope that everyone will be in support of this very commonsense amendment. There is no excuse for FEMA putting at risk the economic…

first of all, because we are under such tight time constraints, I might add, and I understand the points that the gentleman from Michigan was making. But of course, let me also mention, and I'll submit this for the Record, that the foreign…

I misspoke, and I need to make a correction for that. When I was quoting about the restrictions, the people who wanted to remove the restrictions, I meant to say it was a letter from the dissidents, the Cuban dissidents, to us. And also, I…

it literally breaks my heart to be here today. Young Americans from my district have gone to Iraq and we have lost some of our best, brightest soldiers. One of the finest men I ever met, who I had the privilege of appointing to West Point…

later this year, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, will open a new United States Federal Courthouse. Over the past many months, I have watched this structure rise, due to the diligent efforts of hundreds of skilled men and women working tirelessly…

80 million baby boomers are getting ready to retire, and yesterday the General Accountability Office's comptroller David Walker said, ``If there is one thing that is going to bankrupt America, it is health care.'' Adding that the Medicare…

I would submit for the Record this letter, statement by the Association of Community Pharmacists in support of H.R. 4 saying H.R. 4 does no harm to community pharmacists. We cannot find any provision in H.R. 4 that would either improve or…

2 years ago I talked about the process and the people that convinced me to vote for H.R. 810. I discussed what the idea of pro-life means to me. I remembered my late husband, Bill Emerson, to this body and talked about the victims of…

I am hopeful that we might have the opportunity in conference to clarify in the GAO study that prior to implementation, States would be required to submit to the Secretary of HHS the amounts they would propose to pay pharmacies under this…

you will hear today and you have heard today that modernizing our locks and dams on the Mississippi River is a financial boondoggle. Nothing could be farther from the truth. And economically, waterway transportation is the most efficient…

I have a profound deep and abiding belief in the right to life. I have introduced a constitutional amendment to ban abortions every session of Congress since 1997 and have a perfect pro-life voting record. Two years ago I visited the Bader…

S. Con. Res. 114, sponsored by my good friend and colleague from Massachusetts, Jim McGovern, calls to attention one of America's most important humanitarian missions-- alleviating the suffering of the world's starving children. Hunger…

the Flake amendment is very simple, and I will repeat what my colleagues have heretofore said. It prevents the Department of Commerce from carrying out new misguided regulations, further restricting gift parcels and personal baggage going…

as we mourn the passing of President Ronald Reagan, I remember one experience in 1985 that to me defines President Reagan best. It was my daughter Katharine's first visit to the White House with the Emerson family. As we approached the…

I do have the honor, Mr. Speaker, to speak on behalf of this bill to honor a true American hero from the district I represented in southern Missouri. H.R. 4037 would dedicate the Cape Girardeau Processing and Distribution Facility for mail…

today we may be voting on a measure to open American markets to the reimportation of prescription drugs. I say we may be voting because, as a Member of this House, I have never seen an issue so important to me, to our colleagues, and to…

I want to thank the Speaker of the House for his graciousness in letting us bring this bill to the floor for debate tonight. And speaking of the leadership in the House, I thought it would be important to all my colleagues for a little…

I wish to thank the chairman, the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Rogers), for the tremendous job that he and his staff have done in putting together the inaugural Homeland Security appropriations bill and also for the honor of allowing me to…

I read an interesting article in today's Washington Times about a retired Air Force colonel, Ed Hubbard, a former POW in Vietnam, who traveled down to Miami this week to have a press conference where he was awarded with some medals for his…

I represent a district whose mainstay is agriculture, and for the last 4 years and now going into our fifth year our farmers are in very, very bad straits. As a matter of fact, I would agree with the gentlewoman from Florida when she says…

If soft money is so corrupting, why then does the gentleman allow any soft money to be legal in this bill?

In November of 2000, on the night of my reelection, I told my constituents that I firmly supported meaningful campaign finance reform. That position has not changed and it will not change. I know how hard the sponsors of this bill have…