Norvell Emerson

As civil war approaches its third decade in Angola, a generation of children has been lost. No matter how many sites I visit to urge solutions to humanitarian disasters, it is the images of hungry children that haunt me the most. In…

If I may say to the gentlewoman, every day the AFL-CIO and the Chamber of Commerce, the NAM and the NRA, and I am sure any number of interest groups in this country rate our votes according to their perspective, and I would suggest there…

I have always understood that citizen communication or interest-group communication with Congress was protected under the first amendment, and people had the right to make expressions.

So this is another example of where we are willing to exempt ourselves, as it were, from some laws and regulations, yet have other entities in our population be exposed to them?

I thought then that I had heard the ultimate chapter in that story, that the people who had perpetrated the event here were traded for Americans who were in Cuban prisons from the time of the Bay of Pigs... Clarence performed a very heroic…

But when I was traveling in Sudan in 1989 with the late Mickey Leland, who was chairman of the Hunger Committee, he and I were there together about the famine in Sudan on the occasion immediately prior to the trip in which he tragically…

This language will prevent any school district which has a policy of prohibiting voluntary student-initiated prayer in the schools from receiving any Federal funds authorized by this act or any other act. In other words, it simply forbids…

I abhor the statement of Khalid Abdul Muhammad with every sense of outrage I possess. Let there be no mistake about that. Mr. Muhammad is a private citizen and is not a prominent individual. We should individually express our displeasure…