John Shaw: “I am grateful for the increase. I am, however, concerned that these funds can be raided by other divisions at NOAA.”

I have heard for so long we keep talking about NAFTA as if it was somewhat of a disaster. But I think there are some statistics that have to be really examined when we are talking about NAFTA. Sure, there have been some jobs lost in this…

Florida is bleeding. It is bleeding. We have had tremendous damage all throughout the State. Four hurricanes in one year. There is nobody in this House, there is nobody alive today that can remember the tremendous suffering that one State…

I want to introduce to my colleagues someone that they may already know, Ida May Fuller. Ida May was the recipient of the first Social Security check ever issued. In 1940, the year Ida May began collecting, Social Security was a dream come…

I would like to close with a couple of quotes. The first is I would like to quote President Clinton at Georgetown University on February 9 of 1998. This is an exact quote. He said, ``So that all of these achievements, the economic…