Eva M. Clayton

I want to raise first the issue of rural development... Unless we speak to those issues that allow for rural areas to make up for that differential, this welfare bill is not adequate. Let me speak about another issue on which I have been…

The gentleman and I both know it takes a long time and is very expensive for people to become legal citizens, and tying food and hunger to citizenship is very difficult.

I was about to ask the gentleman if he is suggesting that he would be willing to restate it, all the legal immigrants, plus your provision, if they had some standard? Is that a 5-year standard, a 4-year standard?

What we have seen, indeed we have no other choice, they say, other than to raid Social Security, and indeed we had a choice. We had a choice. We could have paid down the debt. Paying down the public debt would have allowed to us to protect…

I am very appreciative of what the gentleman has done. I am only saying as a rural-urban allocation, those of us who live in rural communities do not benefit from the program in the same way. I urge the gentleman to work with us during the…

The other part of the Conyers amendment spoke to the civil rights issues both in the equity and distribution of Farm Services that are administered through Farm Services, whether they are loans, technical assistance or environmental…

I am reminded that a Nation that cannot feed itself, indeed, cannot secure its food, cannot secure its population. In his book The Third Freedom, former Senator and the 1972 nominee for President candidate was George McGovern. He reflects…

Madam Speaker, I want to thank the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Millender-McDonald) for yielding to me. Madam Speaker, I would like to applaud the fact that the gentlewoman had the initiative, the gentlewoman took the initiative to…

We are simply trying to raise their sensitivity with this. I just think people of good conscience cannot look at the epidemic and turn away. If you do, it says just volumes about where you are not, not where you are.

I can say unequivocally, though, that every member of the Congressional Black Caucus has made this a centerpiece, a priority, in this Congress as well as Congresses before and Congresses to come, because this is a very critical issue. And…

That is an interesting observation. I was reading something on the United Nations report. Poverty and HIV are related. AIDS is not a disease of poverty, but they become intertwined and connected because having AIDS moves one to the point…

We are on record as saying we do not want to raid the Medicare Trust Fund, and this simply says it cannot be raided to pay for the additional moneys needed for prescription drugs. I want to commend the gentleman from Iowa for putting…

First of all, we are trying to make sure that we have a minimal amount of moneys, and that is the same amount that the Senate put for Medicare. We are trying to make sure that at least that amount of money, which has been recognized by…

The second one, there was a resolution at the beginning of the session that said we will not take any moneys out of the Social Security Trust Fund or the Medicare Trust Fund; so we are simply saying those dollars should not be financed out…

I rise in objection to the Florida electoral votes, and I rise to object to the process that, indeed, that voters do count, the essence of democracy demands that we speak to it.

I was not necessarily opposed to the bill, formally entitled the American Competitiveness in the 21st Century Act. I was opposed to not having a debate about it. But with such vitally important legislation, in an area of critical…

I think there is a standard. So I did not mean to suggest that. I think they are either engineers and meet a certain requirement and may have worked a year. I am not sure, but I think there is even a dollar amount for which they cannot go…

I want to join in support of this and say this is an opportunity to see how we can use tobacco for something other than for recreational use. It also is an excellent opportunity for medicinal and production goods, for enhancing the protein…

We had one in our district, and I will tell the gentlewoman they are suffering. We had water and sewage provided, but we have not had the second provision for the enterprise community. We did not get an Empowerment Zone. But even the…

I support the concept and support the gentlewoman's amendment, but I want to make sure that I heard that rural America had the same opportunities.

I do want to conclude my remarks by thanking both sides of the aisle for working with us for eastern North Carolina and other States that are flooded. I also want to recognize that there are parts of this bill that I may have problems…

The whole gamut. In other words, Mr. Chairman, we will get the drainage that is needed for Princeville.

Normally the Labor bill we call the people's bill, a compassionate bill, a bill that cares about people's health, their welfare. Well, you had an opportunity to do that, to really do that. $508 million would make a difference of humanity…

Mr. Speaker, Social Security is the most important program that we have that is working. It makes the difference between the elderly living in poverty, and to convince them that taking 10 percent of their safety net, that they are helping…