Dawn Zimmer

I mean, I think he's done terrific things for the state overall. I do think that he has been a great governor, you know, and I support him on the 2 percent cap, the arbitration, these are things that really, I believe, have helped the…

I'm asking for the National Guard to come in. We're desperate for the National Guard to come in.

I'm asking for the National Guard to come in. We are desperate for the National Guard to come in. We need their specialized equipment to be able to get to our city streets, to be able to safely get to people and to be able to evacuate…

I thank my colleague, Mr. Bilirakis , for once again arranging this special order on Cyprus. I join my colleagues in calling for a swift and peaceful end to the illegal occupation of nearly 40 percent of Cyprus by Turkey. That occupation…

Amendment offered by Mr. Zimmer: Page 97, after line 5, insert the following: prohibition on development of shopping center near the former auschwitz concentration camp Sec. 573. It is the sense of the Congress that the Government of…

I wish I could say that we were wrong, but every day provides us with new evidence that we were right. In a period of declining NASA budgets, the space station, which is now estimated by the GAO to cost more than $94 billion, has already…

Mr. Speaker, on July 29, 1994, a beautiful little girl named Megan Kanka was lured into the home of a man who literally lived across the street from her. He said that he had a puppy he wanted to show her. He then proceeded to brutally rape…

Mr. Speaker, some who are opposed to this legislation argue, against all evidence, that conciliation and appeasement will liberalize the Castro regime, when 35 years of history has proved exactly the opposite. The downing of those…

Mr. Chairman, these days it is advisable for any candidate for Federal office to know the price of eggs and bread and other staples at the supermarket. I would advise those Members who stop by their local supermarket to check up on those…

Cuba's downing of two planes whose only arms were pamphlets is an outrage, and it shows how desperate Fidel Castro is in his fight to deny the Cuban people liberty and freedom. Castro is an international outlaw, no more and no less. I am…

the recent General Accounting Office revelations on Hazel O'Leary's junkets show that her performance is even worse than we had imagined. There are hundreds of thousands of dollars that are completely unaccounted for of the expenditures…

I do agree it would have been an excellent idea to have enacted the lockbox earlier. In fact, it would have been an excellent idea to have enacted the lockbox shortly after the gentleman from Idaho introduced the legislation along with the…

I would submit that items such as running boat landings, and campgrounds, and tourism simply are not the appropriate realm for government activity. I would submit that other activities that are covered by this cut, although they may be…

Surely I would agree that we, as Members of Congress, have the responsibility to write the laws, but we also have a responsibility to take into account the facts of nature that scientists can describe for us. In that regard, there is an…

It is a sad reality that the average American family is earning no more today than it earned 20 years ago. This reality has led to frustration, it has led to pessimism, it has led to anger among middle-income Americans who are beginning to…

This amendment assumes that the plaintiff gets the recovery and the plaintiff's attorney gets a piece of the action. Your amendment to the amendment would anticipate a situation where the defendant in fact would have a recovery? Or are you…

we should not pass the buck or pass the blame to regulatory agencies. We should not pass the burden on to American taxpayers with this huge new Federal entitlement program. I strongly urge the adoption of the Porter amendment.

the fact is these agencies are not rogue organizations, they are creatures created by Congress and the executive branch. And if we have problems with the substance of the regulations, we should modify the underlying legislation. The Porter…

Mr. Chairman, in this latest vote in which the House adopted the Tauzin amendment, the proponents of H.R. 925 have put their cards on the table. Their concerns are basically about the Endangered Species Act, wetlands programs, and water…

Mr. Chairman, some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are having some difficulty determining how truth in sentencing would apply to a 30,000-year term. It reminds me of the judge who sentenced a defendant to serve 100 years…

I want to alert my colleagues that later today I will be introducing a ``no frills'' prison amendment to this legislation. Simply put, this amendment will provide that prisoners in Federal prisons will be provided no more than the least…

Mr. Chairman, prison perks are bad public policy, and they are an abuse of taxpayer money. My amendment is aimed at eliminating them from Federal prisons. In some prisons, inmate amenities are better than what law-abiding Americans on the…

if a prisoner dies before he fulfills his sentence, it does not disqualify that sentence under truth-in-sentencing.

in the 1970's, nearly every State in the Union enacted sweeping open public meetings laws. Inspired by Florida's sunshine law and spurred by citizens' organizations such as Common Cause, legislatures across America opened the meetings of…