I hope all minority members who have yet to sign will join me in this action.

Because the indefinite House delay is irresponsible and very unfortunate I am signing the discharge petition.

The Senate has acted. The American people want Congress to act.

I am signing the discharge petition for the purpose of forcing floor consideration of the Patient's Bill of Rights.

I am disappointed the majority leadership has broken its commitment to have House action on this matter this week.

I further hope that we will be joined by a sufficient number of Republicans who understand that it is time to act.

this is a very dysfunctional Chamber. Blind partisan hatred infuses, it seems like all issues, even something as we look back at a successful completion of a military conflict, an end of a series of atrocities against a people too horrible…

I am reluctantly voting yes on H.R. 10. It needs work--a lot of work--in conference committee to fully establish functional regulation of insurance in state insurance departments. In light of assurances I have received from the Banking…

we all know as Members of this institution that this is a troubled House of Representatives. At times in the history of this institution it has also been similarly troubled. But I have heard from many who have served longer than the 3…

Mr. Chairman, back in North Dakota this afternoon there are a number of farmers I represent wondering whether they will even be able to get through until next fall. We have had an unprecedented level of rain. It has destroyed the planting…

I do not lay this on the chairman's shoulders. I have an enormous amount of respect for the chairman. But the fact of the matter is that that $600 million did not deal with extension and research, the $10 million I am talking about, and I…

I would echo the comments so ably made in the course of this Special Order about the crisis in agriculture. The crisis is a deep, threatening crisis that will in North Dakota cause more families to leave their farms in search of other work…

I wish some of the Members that have worked so hard to keep this from coming to the floor would have their own paychecks in the same kind of uncertainty that we have placed these farmers. I wish they would get up in the morning, sit at the…

there is a vile partisanship in this Chamber. We may have a new Speaker, but make no mistake about it, we have the same utterly dysfunctional leadership that saw us through government shutdowns and that made a partisan mockery out of the…

I believe it is ludicrous to assume that but for the NATO air campaign, Slobodan Milosevic would not have turned 1 million people out of their homes. He could not, Mr. Speaker, forcibly evict 1 million people from their homes in 2 weeks…

I cannot say how terrible it is relative to the farm economy in North Dakota. I have with me today some auction bills. We have been seeing a lot of these auction bills. Consider that each auction bill represents a sale of a family farm…

The legislation he has advanced I believe goes a long way to expanding retirement income security for Americans. I am proud to be a cosponsor.

I just came back from conducting town meetings all across the State of North Dakota. When the people I represent consider the priority in which this body and this Congress ought to move forward in response to the budget surplus, they…

today in Kosovo, a baby will die. Three weeks ago, this same little one was healthy and happy. She will not, however, be strong enough to cope with the cold, the hunger, the exposure and the inevitable disease, and today she will die in…

The Dakota Water Resources Act amends the Garrison Diversion Reformulation act of 1986 and would refocus the project from large-scale irrigation to the delivery of safe water.

Additionally, authorization for irrigation on the reservations is included in this legislation, along with a provision which gives tribes the flexibility to determine which sites to irrigate within the reservation.

In addition to meeting the State and the Indian reservation's comprehensive and future water needs, this act involves significant environmental achievements.

This bill represents an unprecedented agreement among North Dakota's congressional delegation, the States' elected leaders and a variety of State organizations.

Without a dependable source of quality water the State's potential for economic development will be crippled.

I would like to personally thank the Senators from North Dakota, Senator Kent Conrad and Senator Dorgan and their very capable staff, as well as North Dakota's State engineer and counsel, for their tireless work on the extraordinary…