Mr. Chairman, what we have in North Dakota is an absolute disaster, the dimensions of which we have never experienced before. Grand Forks, ND, second largest town in the State, A town of 50,000, was under water, and the consequences of it…

Mr. Chairman, it is impossible in 50 seconds to describe what our area has been hit with, but pictures tell 1,000 words. A flood. A flood of a 1,000-year dimensions. A flood to the signposts, causing more harm than one can possibly…

I come to the well as an expert in what can happen when levees are not sufficient to withstand raging flood waters. Three weeks ago the city of Grand Forks went under. We have a city of 50,000, the second largest city in my State, which…

I believe this is extraordinarily important legislation and addresses in an overdue, albeit ultimately very important way, I think, the pendulum that the State, that we have to deal with, as we wrestle with dysfunctional families and the…

as North Dakota's sole Member of this body, I rise on behalf of the people of North Dakota to express the profound gratitude that we feel toward the outpouring of support demonstrated in this Chamber and across the country as North…

my remarks tonight have nothing to do with political party or political ideology. In fact it has rather to do with something much more basic than that, disaster of an unprecedented character that has inundated the second largest city in…

the people I represent in North Dakota are tired of the debate in this House where one side points to the other side and says they are terrible and get a ``they are terrible'' back, and more of the fracas just continues. Unfortunately, a…

I do think that, as Congress rushes to complete its work, it is an appropriate time to evaluate the true record of this Congress. Mr. Speaker, I would speak about, in particular, three shortcomings of this Congress. The first is the…

There are many things with which I agree with the majority. In other areas I disagree. But I was absolutely shocked that on this pension raid issue, threatening the retirement security of millions of working men and women, all but one of…

I think it is time that we just step back a minute, take a deep breath and think about what we are doing here. Do any of us possibly think that the illegal activity of a parent ought to be taken out on the kid? I think if any of us were…

this morning I rise to give credit to a small brave group of House Republicans that will join House Democrats and make it possible to at least raise the minimum wage. We in the House minority think that $4.25 an hour is not enough to live…

Unfortunately, this bill contains a poison pill relative to my part of the country, and that is the provision in this legislation that would direct the Corps of Engineers to extend navigation on the Missouri River by 1 month. The…

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to follow the preceding speaker who has worked so hard to make certain that a bipartisan welfare reform package is possible. The issue before us is not whether we should reform welfare. It is how we reform welfare…

the plan of the majority to reform the welfare system is weak on work and tough on kids. In my comments, I will talk about the work requirement. We must reform the welfare system. This reform is in fact overdue. The heart of the reform has…

I see it quite differently, and I think there are two driving issues at stake, legislative versus executive branch, Federal Government versus State government. First, legislative versus executive. We actually had a speaker on the other…

I participated in hearings on the concept of dynamic scoring and acknowledge... we simply do not have the tools, the ability at the present time to reasonably quantify in a way that would give anyone the certainty required under this…

While my preceding speaker, my colleagues and friend, the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Traficant], acknowledged that it may be unusual to have all the appropriations bills done by this point in time, I would make the point that we have never…

I came down here with a text on one of the many issues before this country. I am putting that text away, because I too want to reflect upon Bill Emerson and publicly express my deep sympathy to his family. I served on the Agriculture…

I grew up 3 miles out of a small town in North Dakota, and our water was not fit to drink. We literally carried water to our town. This is the state of thousands and thousands of homes today. The happy news is that literally thousands and…

I would just also ask the chairman to address this in conference committee. This is an extraordinarily consequential policy change to try and be moved forward in report language. That just is not right. It ought to come back to the…

once again, I would like to express my strong support for Representative Cramer's amendment to streamline the certification process for eliminating a National Weather Service office. When the National Weather Service began developing this…

today again, I wish to express my strong support of the amendment offered by the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Roemer] and the gentleman from Iowa [Mr. Ganske] to eliminate authorization for the space station. In 1984, the Reagan…

In fact, the Republican budget proposes the deepest cuts in Medicare, future Medicare spending; once again, $161 billion over 6 years, compared to $117 billion in the President's budget before us. Let us look behind these numbers, however…

I am going to vote for the President's budget. I will oppose the GOP budget, for the reasons that I am saying. Mr. Chairman, another area of important contrast involves the Medicaid Program. The Medicaid Program is a major source of…

one of the greatest errors made by the majority in their budget of last year were the devastating reductions they proposed in the future funding of the Medicaid Program. Unfortunately, they have done it again. What is Medicaid? Medicaid is…