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I do rise today in honor of our chairman, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Solomon), and to say that our committee is a small one, but it is definitely dominated by the humor and the kindness and actually the temper of our chairman. There…
this past July, the United States Congress and our entire nation were gripped by a terrible tragedy, the deaths of the Capitol Police Officers Jacob Chestnut and John Gibson. Officers Chestnut and Gibson gave their lives defending the…
This is just a clean and simple bill that is designed to help States enforce their parental notification laws. We decided that Congress should not override the wishes of voters in 20 States by allowing amendments that would weaken parental…
in the past month, we have learned that the President may have turned a blind eye to an issue that caused harm to our national security by helping the Chinese improve their ballistic missiles. We have also learned that he may have ignored…
This simply says, ``To secure the people's right to acknowledge God according to the dictates of conscience: Neither the United States nor any State shall establish any official religion, but the people's right to pray and to recognize…
Perhaps it is just a coincidence that the President turned a blind eye as one of his wealthiest campaign contributors harmed our national security by helping the Chinese improve their ballistic warheads. Maybe the President did not mean to…
I think we probably would have to be completely out of touch with the world today to in any way defend our Tax Code as reasonable or common sense. Mr. Speaker, any one of us could send our tax forms to eight different accountants and we…
I very much respect the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton), and I know how hard she works to face the problems that are in the District, which everybody acknowledges. So I do want to say that this bill is in no way an…
when we came here and became a majority, we said we were going to change things. We were going to be different. We were going to balance the budget, which we finally did now for the first time in 30 years. And now we are getting ready to…
just before the November 3 election my 5- year-old grandson, Jake, asked his mother if we were going to be electing a new President, and upon being told, no, we already have a President, Jake replied: No, we do not; he lied
when was the last time that the American people saw such a spectacle as last week, when the Senate Finance Committee conducted hearings on the IRS abuses? Listen to some of the shocking things that we heard. IRS agent Jennifer Long, a…
I urge a yes vote on Smith-Barcia-Hyde- Oberstar, which will restore the pro-life Mexico City policy; and a no vote on the Gilman-Pelosi-Campbell-Lowey-Greenwood-DeLauro-Slaughter amendment, which would substitute vagueness for clarity…
Brian Matthew Eichenbrenner of Charlotte, NC, died in the early hours of Saturday morning, June 7, 1997, just 4 days before his 18th birthday. He was valedictorian of Providence Day School, and he also received the Headmaster's Award. He…
I have witnessed firsthand the devastation that this causes in our communities, the devastation of lives and the crime that comes along with it. I have worked on the streets so I know firsthand of what I am speaking. I also found the best…
Another part of the genteel soul of America died last Saturday night in the small North Carolina town of Weldon, just off I-95, a town where everyone knows everyone else, where just a short time ago evening strolls ended with neighbors…
The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 1122, the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1997, under a closed rule. The rule provides for 2 hours of debate divided equally between the chairman and the ranking minority member of the…
the beauty of comp time is that it empowers the employees, the hard-working moms and dads of America, to have the flexibility to meet the responsibility of parenting. This bill allows today's employees to choose whether to take paid time…
I think that is true, and that is one thing that has been missing, and it is a good point that you make because this place is such a busy place that you do not take time to build those friendships and you do not take time to walk across…
you know I agree in what you are saying and being able to speak what you think, and I appreciate your quoting Lincoln because he is also one of my heroes. And it kind of ties in with a couple of things that I wanted to mention this…
the President's decision to sign this welfare reform bill is really great news for working Americans and for people in need. The welfare bill will really reform and empower the States to be creative in solving their own problems and it…
the Working Family Flexibility Act is pro- family, pro-worker, pro-women, in its approach to provide relief to the hard-working men and women across our Nation who struggle daily to support their families. These men and women who support…
back home in Charlotte, we have many successes in moving people off of welfare--because we have created programs that work best for the folks in our community. As mayor of Charlotte, I worked closely with many people who found themselves…
I am very happy to stand here tonight in support of this resolution, and I am very happy that the resolution is coming forward. Back on the first of March some of us who are members of the Family Caucus actually sent a letter to Attorney…
our budget shows our trust in the American people to make their own decisions. We want to let them control their money and design programs that will solve the problems at home. I know firsthand that the local people can be trusted to do…
this debate today is about one thing and that is trust. As my colleagues know, we trust the folks back home to manage their own lives better than the bureaucrats in Washington, DC. Our budget resolution demonstrates that trust. For the…
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