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the Federal Government now spends nearly half a billion dollars per year providing the States with incentive payments for good performance in collecting child support, but the current system has serious deficiencies. The Federal Government…
I am very much aware of the California problem. I have spoken to the gentleman's Governor, he has been in my office, Governor Wilson. Secretary Eloise Anderson was in my office as late as yesterday discussing this problem with me…
I think that when we are determining who is getting the advantage, I think it is also important that when we define somebody's income that we come to the floor and be really forthright with how we come up with the percentages that we do as…
Mr. Speaker, I rise to engage the gentleman from Missouri in a colloquy. Members may be aware of the ongoing debate in this budget legislation over whether workfare participants are employees, but they might benefit by some background on…
I say to the gentleman, absolutely not. In fact, section 417 of the 1996 welfare reform law specifically provides that, and I quote, ``No officer or employee of the Federal Government may regulate the conduct of States under this part or…
However, large portions of Broward's beaches are severely eroded. While this is partly due to storm damage, it is mainly because the life of the project is nearing its end. The expected life of a renourishment project is 10 years, and…
I guess we should start out the argument in this particular phase of where we are today as 'been there, done that.' As a minority party, we have been there, we have done that. Now I think it is a question of whether or not we are going to…
as we come to the closure of the debate on this, I would like to not only compliment the chairman of the Committee on the Budget, the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Kasich], but also the gentleman from South Carolina who, together with the…
Health and safety standards, that is OSHA, established under Federal and State law otherwise applicable to working conditions of employees shall be equally applicable to working conditions of participants engaged in a work activity.
Mr. Chairman, I think people who are watching this debate have to be just totally confused at this time. I think the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Archer], the chairman, has made a point very, very clearly. If you do not pay income taxes, you…
a year ago, approximately a year ago, I stood at this microphone in support of welfare reform, a most historic bill. The gentlewoman from Texas a few moments ago said that she supported it. If we look at the voting records, she did not…
Mr. Speaker, I would invite those who control the television cameras which broadcast these proceedings from coast to coast and around the world to take the proper perspective as I address in this well one of the dangers we face from those…
there is also another area that I think that there is great misunderstanding, there is the part referring to SSI for noncitizens. We have a genuine disagreement with the President. We thought we came up with a better solution. The…
But I would like to give her the good news, that since welfare reform, since 1995, in the State of Texas the welfare rolls are down 24 percent. That is unheard of. It is unprecedented in the history of this country. Welfare reform has done…
if the gentleman will calm down, I am a cosponsor with him on this particular amendment. Now if he wants to try running off votes, then that is the way to handle it, but I will explain to the gentleman that we are packaging a deal that is…
I might tell the gentleman that the welfare reform bill has probably been the most single successful piece of legislation that has passed this Congress in decades. Thousands of people, hundreds of thousands of people, are leaving the…
the Camp-Kennelly bill that we bring to the floor today is of vital importance to many thousands of the Nation's most unfortunate children. These children are the abused, the neglected, the abandoned. To take these children out of harm's…
I bring that up only because the House now has rulings pertaining to unfunded mandates. And even though I think this is a very good amendment, and one that adds to the bill, I just wanted to be sure that we did not fall into that trap. I…
Mr. Chairman, people who are observing this meeting today probably think they have the wrong parliamentary body when they see the great agreement that this House has risen to by unanimously supporting this and by working out the various…
on this day, April 15, I am most reluctant to get up and speak against an amendment which, on its face, appears to be something that we all should support. However, I think it is an amendment that we should not be putting into the…
I must say, in looking at the amendment that has been filed and that is before the House at this time, that the 6 points are very well thought out and should be in this bill. However, going on to the second provision in the bill, we find…
It is shocking, Mr. Speaker, indeed shocking, that with all of the evidence before the President regarding the complicity of the Mexican Government and the $30 billion a year drug trade, that he has decided to certify Mexico as a reliable…
I will make this very simple. Mexico is not a reliable ally in the war on drugs. Continued and pervasive corruption of Mexican law enforcement, including its top antidrug official, make the choice clear. A nation with between $10 and $30…
I also commend the President today for agreeing to sign this most historic bill. I want to talk for just a second about a part of the bill that I helped write... We do away with a very subjective qualifying criteria that allows children to…
the colloquy that I wish to engage the chairman in involves the NOAA issue affecting Florida and the Nation.
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