This is not an IRS ``you owe the money'' deal. This is a requirement on the employer that they notify the employee of what their retirement benefits are. It is my belief that that would be dealt with under the act, that part of ERISA is…

I would point to page 4 of the bill, lines 22 through 25, as addressing the violation or violations of Internal Revenue law or laws asserting the assessment or collection of any tax debt, revenue or receipt, and the provision of ERISA to…

as members prepare for this historic vote, I would like to say that I take this matter as seriously as any issue I have ever voted on during my tenure here in Congress

as I have indicated repeatedly over the past weeks and months, President Clinton's conduct in having an improper relationship with Monica Lewinsky and not being truthful about it was wrong, plain and simple, and it has left me profoundly…

impeachment in the Constitution was meant to be applied when the elected President misuses the office in a way that threatens our structure of government

it is very, very rare to sit as a Member of this body and to feel so strongly about the good of the legislation before us. I just want to go ``yes.'' But that is what I feel on this legislation. And for all we get up and gasp, one Member…

I would add, I would have preferred the consideration of this in an unamended form, but I am really pleased that it is before us on the suspension calendar. I do support the legislation. It is strongly supported by the tribal government at…

I am proud to be its cosponsor, and I think that as we enact this bill, we will be making a very positive contribution to what truly is one of our growing national matters of urgency: Retirement savings. We have to save more. Our savings…

sometimes we screw up, and when we do, we need to take steps to fix it. When we passed the illegal immigration reform bill, that put on to the INS the requirement to develop a system for documenting every alien entering and leaving this…

rare, but from time to time we will meet someone whose decency, intellect, and integrity leave upon us a permanent impression. Such was the case with Walter Capps for me. The House of Representatives, on any given day, can be a very tough…

To my thinking, this bill addresses a crisis and also addresses over 1 year an inequality which needs to be addressed. The crisis is the Federal Government's loan consolidation program offered as part of the Department of Education's…

I rise to express particular personal gratitude to the chairman, to the chairman's staff, to the ranking member, and the ranking member's staff for all of the patience and time they have spent with me in understanding our problems and in…

Mr. Chairman, the family farmers that work in their fields in the Red River Valley that I represent must be watching this debate with utter amazement. After all, U.S. sugar prices are 32 percent below developed countries. U.S. retail…

I take the well to protest the unfair rule before us. Legislation is a work in progress. We all know that. No one gets it perfect the first time. And so there is give and take as we listen to concerns and move to change the bill to address…

Mr. Speaker, while in concept adding budget safeguards that ensure we stay on track to balance the budget makes all the sense in the world, the measure before us fails to advance that goal in an acceptable fashion. Now, we all know that…

Mr. Chairman, this is not a balanced bill. A look at what it does to help folks save for retirement tells the whole story. First, the bill will actually force the retirement benefits of many retired college professors to be reduced, cut…

The sky is beginning to clear over this Chamber. The light of good legislation at last is beginning to shine again. It should not have been this hard. It should not have been this rancorous. But what counts is getting the job done, and…

today many inside the Washington Beltway are gleefully calculating who is winning and who is losing in the disastrous supplemental debate. Is it Congress that has lost because they failed to timely pass a bill? Is it the President who has…

I believe that each and every one of us is here as a Member of the House of Representatives because the bottom line is we care about people. We believe differently as to how we best help people, but we are here to help people. Let us…

I speak as the representative of the citizens of this country that have perhaps been hit the hardest by all of the natural disasters addressed in this bill. The bill before us represents some of the very best and some of the very worst…

how many times have each of us heard from the people we represent, ``Why can't you guys just get together in Washington and balance the budget?'' I have heard it scores of times. Of course, there is nothing easy about getting together to…

It has been 13 days since Congress recessed without taking action on the urgently needed disaster bill. Now, in its first action since coming back into session, it takes up the foreign aid bill. It was wrong of Congress to recess without…

to the families that have been apart for 6 weeks and have no place to live, it looks like foreign aid to us.

It is now day 12, 12 days since Congress recessed without taking action on the disaster supplemental appropriations bill. It is the sixth week since an absolutely devastating flood, a flood of 1,000-year proportion, hit Grand Forks and…

I have appreciated the time and attention that the majority leader has spent looking at the consequences of the natural disasters experienced in our region, the people of Grand Forks and East Grand Forks and Devils Lake, ND. The…