David Price

this education bill represents the first real bipartisan effort of this Congress. I commend the leaders from both sides of the aisle who have put it together. I just hope it stays bipartisan for the sake of our children and our home…

I want to underscore what others have said, that the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Waters) has done a wonderful job in pulling this committee together and in taking us all over the country to examine voting practices and possible…

reclaiming my time, in my State alone we are going to need 80,000 new teachers in the next 10 years. We do not know where those are coming from. The gentleman is correct, this budget has no investment in recruiting and training and…

Mr. Speaker, our budget reflects our values, and Democrats want to provide tax relief. We also want to take care of other priorities, like paying down the debt and strengthening Social Security and adding prescription drugs to Medicare and…

I thank my colleague for underscoring the need to get our kids out of these trailers and into modern effective classrooms where they can learn and where teachers can teach.

reclaiming my time, is it not true that our colleagues in the other body actually put additional funding in the budget for special education, and now as this budget comes back to us, those funds have been stripped out. Those funds are…

Mr. Speaker, on April 3, North Carolina and the Nation lost one of our most distinguished citizens and public servants, L. Richardson Preyer. It is a privilege today to join with my colleagues in paying tribute to his life and his work…

I would like to engage the ranking member of the Committee on the Budget and perhaps also the gentleman from Washington (Mr. McDermott) in a discussion of the situation we are facing with respect to the Medicare Part A Trust Fund. We have…

Mr. Speaker, having sat on the Medicare Commission for a year and looked at the future of Medicare, and having realized that beginning in 2010, we are going to double the number of people on Medicare as the baby boomers move into that…

I appreciate the gentleman outlining some of the implications for elementary and secondary education on this budget. Is it not true that President Bush campaigned on getting the Pell grants, in opening up opportunities for students on…

reclaiming my time, we are at present running a slight surplus in Medicare, but the Medicare Trust Fund is accumulating assets which we will need to draw on later. If we, instead, take those funds and use them for prescription drug…

This budget would keep the maximum Pell grant well under $4,000. It is simply not adequate to do what we need to do to open the doors to opportunity in higher education. We have been increasing Pell grants several hundred dollars a year…

last night, Duke University from the 4th Congressional District of North Carolina was crowned the national champion after the victory over the Arizona Wildcats 82-72 in the Final Four, the king of the NCAA. This is the first national…

like most Members of this body, I support tax relief. But today we are debating this bill in clear violation of the budget law which states, quote, the concurrent resolution on the budget must be adopted before budget-related legislation…

I will be voting for H. Con. Res. 426 to express support for the resolution of Arab-Israeli differences by peaceful negotiation and to condemn the violence that has engulfed the region. In doing so, I am mindful of the special relationship…

As we build additional classrooms, as we get children into lower class sizes, especially in the early grades, we are going to need quality teachers to teach those children. As a matter of fact, we are confronting a teacher shortage in this…

I think we all have to push toward that end, and I hope we can have a good bipartisan effort on that. There is no reason before we go home that we should not have the next sizable installment of those 100,000 new teachers on the way into…

any prescription drug benefit worthy of the name will provide a defined benefit as part of Medicare. It must be available to all seniors who wish to take advantage of it. The Republican plan does not measure up. It simply throws some…

I rise in support of permanent normal trade relations with China. The economic benefits are undeniable for our country and are particularly favorable for my region and my State. North Carolina has much to gain from opening and expanding…

I was proud to note yesterday the quick thinking and bold action of our colleague, the gentleman from North Dakota (Mr. Earl Pomeroy) when a threatening situation arose in the Committee on Agriculture, so I would like to this morning…

the budget conflicts and frustrations of the last 3 years have prompted various proposed procedural fixes for what is mainly a failure of political will and responsibility. In my view, the most misguided of these proposals is the amendment…

I want to suggest five reasons why our colleagues should vote against this Republican budget resolution. The first reason is that it contains indiscriminate and risky tax cuts that, under realistic assumptions about defense and nondefense…

Mr. Chairman, this afternoon we talked about the Republican majority's budget resolution and some of the risks that it would pose. Their $200 billion tax cut in the first 5 years would take us into the red by 2004. Well, if you are worried…

If there were ever a successful program in getting children ready to learn it is Head Start. Why over the next 5 years we would want to actually cut that program escapes me. Then we look at the other end of the educational spectrum, Pell…

I understand that one of our friends on the other side said there was no such thing as an irresponsible tax cut. That is a dangerous view. In fact, the tax cut proposed by George W. Bush, the Republican presidential candidate, seemed to…