Eva M. Clayton

the month of May is Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month. Teen pregnancy is a condition that can be prevented. But prevention is difficult for most Americans. Parents must stop thinking that we cannot talk about sexual topics until children are…

I have in my hand a sampling of hundreds of plates that I have received from senior citizens in my district when I visited them at centers or they have mailed them to me. The plates make a point. They are really about the reauthorization…

Members in the Congress recently released a report, ``Making Work Pay,'' by the Economic Policy Institute which examined the impact of the increase in the minimum wage in the 104th Congress to $5.15. This report was most encouraging…

Mr. Chairman, I am in complete opposition to the Riggs amendment that brings affirmative action to a screeching halt in the admission offices in colleges and universities across this Nation. Although the language of this amendment sounds…

Mr. Chairman, I also want to rise to support the Lazio-Gilman-Tauscher amendment. I want to speak about the importance of providing quality child care and doing all that we can to increase the supply of well-trained individuals to provide…

I want to tell the Members, this is a family which has had a lot of struggles, a very prominent family in our community in my district; that is, in Halifax County. I know the father has been ill. By the way, the family--I will tell the…

Well, we have a number of farmers in North Carolina who have filed not only part of a class action, but we have a number of farmers who have filed administrative complaints, and some of them have been 17 years old, 20 years old, and now…

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…

this is an opportunity, I think, that we have to acknowledge that a great injustice has been done. And I agree with the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Thompson), we ought to just say we should not have done that, government. We understand…

It has been 2 years since we passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996. When we passed that act, we were all very encouraged that our communities would enjoy local telephone service that had not been available in the past at a competitive…

I join my colleagues in commending the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Stokes) for doing this annually and for his leadership. This hour gives us an opportunity to put in the Record some reflection and attributes of black history. This month as a…

I wanted to be on record as saying that this makes no sense whatsoever. We have a President whose name of this city is very well known. It is well known that National Airport is the Washington National Airport, named after a President…

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.

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

I also want to commend both sides of the House, both the majority and the minority on this issue, for allowing this to come up. I want to pay particular attention to the care and attention and the direction that the gentleman from…

as we are about to adjourn this year, we have many issues that remain to be dealt with, but one in particular I want to lift up is the whole issue of child care. Recently, the President had a conference on child care, and certainly child…

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…

I rise in support of H.R. 2616, although not a perfect bill, the Charter School Amendment Act of 1997, the bill that we will have the opportunity to vote on very soon. This innovative school choice program strengthens our public school…

as you are aware, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Why is the issue so important? It is important because breast cancer is the most common major cancer for women. Every 3 minutes, a woman in the United States is diagnosed…

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…

Pfiesteria has plagued North Carolina for many years and experts now think that this organism was first observed in our waters almost 20 years ago in 1978. While the Old North State has made multiple efforts to address this pestilence…

I am pleased to inform the House about an exciting and successful event that I sponsored in Ayden, NC, Saturday, October 18. This event, called Youth Summit '97, is an annual event for students that I have sponsored for the last 5 years…

where one stands is what one does and not what one says. The opposition says we are supporting a good public school. What we have heard is a problem of public schools. The solution we have is to give 2,000 students an opportunity to live…

We create jobs through promoting trade. By maintaining an effective marketing promotion program, we can more effectively compete globally. Export promotion programs are producing unprecedented gain. The balance of trade deficit compels us…

the National Black Farmers Association marched yesterday in front of the White House. They marched for equality, they marched for change, they marched for fairness, and they marched for justice. Why do they march, we may ask? They march…