Eva M. Clayton

I am excited about this legislation because it provides more opportunities for college students ages 18 through 24 to register to vote. This group, one of the most mobile groups in this country, has the lowest voter participation rate of…

I thank you for being with us, but thank you for who you are and, more importantly, I thank you for what I think you will become. All of you are very special, but one of you comes from my district. So, Monique Jackson, I expect great…

I also want to emphasize the fact that this may be an unfunded mandate in its technical sense, but you have a way to close this and you also have a way of correcting the unintended result. Please know when you vote yes for the gentleman…

This bill is a well-crafted, balanced bill, and it is much needed in rural areas. But I cannot find the rationale for leaving out of scope the legal immigrants.

I want to say the fight that we are making for the black farmers is also yielding for the betterment of small farmers and other minorities. I want to tell my colleagues that the farmers who are Indian that have come from their reservations…

As we consider whether to launch an impeachment inquiry, it is useful to contemplate the lessons we have learned about impeachment

I believe the Constitution sets out a process that Congress should follow when serious allegations of wrongdoing, allegations of impeachable offenses, have been made against a President.

I want to say that I voted for the bill but I also support the cause for I know why 125 did not. I voted for the bill because nothing in the bill itself says it is going to take any of that money to use it in any way. But because people…

Approximately 4,206 Army Reserve and National Guard members were deployed to Europe as a part of our second rotation for Operation Joint Guard. These brave men and women were caught in the middle of an administrative policy change…

You know, all of our young people are not blessed like your young people and mine, and to ignore that is to dump them in the streets. They need some institution embracing them or somewhere where they get factual information and credible…

This is an equity issue. It is a fairness issue. By approving this amendment, we will authorize the Department of the Army to pay for the shipment of personal items which the Department itself has paid for before and which now, after some…

I want to commend the leadership of the gentleman from Maryland [Mr. Wynn] and thank both the chair of the subcommittee and our ranking member of the subcommittee for both of them agreeing that this is the right thing to do. Let me just…

The Washington Post has termed the efforts of our bipartisan retreat task force as a ``politics of politeness.'' I prefer to term our efforts as ``indispensable decency.'' There is no doubt in my mind that the rancor, the hostility, the…

I want to respond to the distinguished chair of the Committee on Ways and Means. The bill that he said that I am supporting, I am delighted to be supporting, Castle-Tanner, really indeed allows States to provide for vouchers, wherein his…

I rise to support the Furse amendment and to say we should find ways to sustain our forests. We should not find ways to rapidly disregard our environmental standards. This does not mean there are not opportunities to salvage dead and dying…

I think we should make work pay. When we do not make work pay, we make work a burden, so those who are on welfare will want to stay on welfare if they cannot find enough to provide for their basics. Raising the minimum wage will allow for…

In some instances they wanted to eliminate it. They cut it, but they wanted to eliminate it in many instances.

It makes no sense that a person in America who wants to work, and who has a job and works more than 40 hours a week, can still fall below the poverty level. That is the situation we have under the current minimum wage. The President has…

I remember seeing that same executive. He said he was not sure what God had in store for him. So part of our hope is that God has in store for him to help push what Ron Brown started. We are also pleased to have Congressman Shays from the…

My point is to suggest that young people, we want to instill responsibility in them and positive behavior, but also there is a reciprocal responsibility for society to make sure there are opportunities for work and career and positive…

This is not just a debate with women and by women. It is a debate that all people are joining, and I am pleased to have the gentleman join this debate.

We should stop a national policy of abandoning children simply because of the mistakes of their parents, but we should not give up on that parent themselves.

Because they made the first error. We can still have them turn their lives around.

I would say part of this is economic, and the other is social. All of us have the responsibility. Finally, to the extent I do have a moment, I would say this is not something that Congress itself can do, this is something that all society…

I just want to join in strong support of the privileged resolution that is offered by the gentlewoman from Hawaii [Mrs. Mink] and also to say that the dignity and integrity of who we invite, who speaks from that well says volumes about…