Thomas Mott Osborne: “I urge support of H. Res. 660. I want to thank Mr. Davis of Illinois for his support. Mr. Speaker, I have no further…”

this last month, former Congresswoman Virginia Smith died in Sun City, Arizona, at the age of 94. She served the Third District of Nebraska for 16 years through eight terms. It is a very large district. It covers 80 percent of the State of…

So, Mr. Speaker, what we are looking at now is the sixth year of severe drought in essentially the same parts of the United States. So this cumulative drought, in many cases by most estimates surpasses the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s in…

yesterday, I attended a funeral of the Staff Sergeant Jeff Hanson from my district in Nebraska who was killed in Iraq last week. His death was the 29th soldier from Nebraska and the 14th from my district. My district is largely rural. We…

in 2003, I was privileged to hear British Prime Minister Tony Blair speak in this Chamber, and one comment he made that particularly caught my attention was this: He said, ``As Britain knows, all predominant power seems for a time…