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Bill Natcher was one of a kind, and I feel very blessed to have served with him, to have learned from him, to have heard many of his wonderful stories, and to have counted him a good friend. Throughout my 14 years in Congress, Bill was, of…
Mr. Chairman, I rise today to urge my colleagues to oppose the Hefley amendment and other amendments to eliminate funding authorizations for the Economic Development Administration [EDA] and instead support EDA's reauthorization. I commend…
Mr. Chairman, I think the gentleman has offered here a very, very efficacious amendment, one that moved us in the right direction. One of the complaints that I hear most often as people are contemplating economic development and as…
I rise today to express my objections and opposition to this ill-advised piece of legislation, and I challenge the administration's intellectually honest about its real purposes with this legislation. This bill is just the beginning of a…
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to the rule and to the conference report of the Freedom of Access to Clinics Act. As I have stated before, I do not agree with the thrust of this legislation which targets one particular group…
Richard Nixon has departed this life. For a person of my age and vintage, but perhaps not uniquely so, the loss of him makes so very poignant the age through which we have lived. I first personally saw Richard Nixon in that most…
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…
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 did not intend to speak on this amendment, but I sat in my office and watched it, and I decided that somebody needs to come over here and talk about kids. The fastest growing number of kids in this country, or the fastest growing number…
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…
with all deference to the sponsors of this bill, and as one who has been involved with serious reform efforts here in the Congress, I have to say that I think this legislation is an affront to this body. The gentleman from Texas [Mr…
I rise today in strong support of the motion to recommit the conference report on Goals 2000 with instructions. We've been through this before folks. I think it is sad that opponents of voluntary school prayer have to use a backdoor…
the question of whether or not the United States has a common, official language grows more urgent each day. The longer we wait to address this issue the more polarized the positions become and the harsher the rhetoric on both sides. There…
While Mr. Roth, and I share many similar views, such as the importance of the English language, I must rise today in opposition to the Roth amendments to H.R. 6 which would restrict or eliminate federally supported bilingual education…
I rise today to offer my strong support for the Stenholm-Smith amendment to the U.S. Constitution to balance our budget. I have long been a staunch supporter of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. I have cosponsored the…
I commend the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Smith] for offering the amendment, and I rise in support of it. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in strong support of the amendment by my good friend, Nick Smith of Michigan. The Smith amendment is…
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…
I rise today to note the fact that it was 40 years ago today that the House was assaulted by a group of terrorists who were in this corner gallery here. This is not an occasion that we celebrate, but it is one that we note, and 40 years…
The object of the Armey amendment is worthy of reinforcement. Once started, Federal intrusion and regulation are like toothpaste out of the tube, they cannot go back. We have all seen this and know it to be true. For this reason, I believe…
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…
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