Donald M. Payne

I rise today in absolute strong support of H.R. 3127, the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act. I thank Mr. Lantos, our ranking member of the International Relations Committee, for his continued leadership on issues of importance to the…

I rise today to oppose the unwise, unsound, and unsubstantiated policy changes contained in H.R. 3824--misleadingly named the Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2005. I am deeply concerned about the elimination of all…

I rise to stand in solidarity with the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Woolsey) and other Members who are calling for an end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq. As other Members have stated earlier, I commend the gentlewoman from California…

Let me commend the gentleman, the Honorable Reverend Dr. Cleaver, for calling this very important special order tonight. He is a person that speaks the word of God, a man of the cloth, and deals with people who are anguished daily. They…

Let me thank the Democratic Caucus Chair, the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), for those kind words. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the minority whip, the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer).

as a cosponsor of the Woolsey amendment calling on the President to develop and implement a plan to begin the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and to take other steps to provide the Iraqi people with the opportunity to control their…

I am pleased to support the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act, H.R. 4571, that addresses the problem of frivolous lawsuits in a constitutional manner. As an OB-GYN, I am very aware of the damage frivolous litigation is causing small businesses…

I rise today to add to the overwhelming support of this House for this resolution honoring former President Bill Clinton as he celebrates his 58th birthday. President Clinton is a gifted and charismatic leader who has devoted his…

I rise in support for H. Con. Res. 694 condemning the attack on the AMIA Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July, 1994, and to express the concern of the United States regarding continuing, decade-long delay in the…

I stand very proudly today to urge my colleagues to support H. Con. Res. 436, commending a decade of democracy and majority rule in the Republic of South Africa. I did not believe when I visited South Africa in the 1970s that we would see…

let me commend our leaders in the Committee on International Relations, Chairman Hyde and Ranking Member Lantos, for their tireless work in bringing this historic resolution declaring genocide in Darfur, Sudan to the floor. Many people…

let me say this is a day when we will be talking about four quarters, and this is the first quarter of a four-quarter tragedy. H.R. 2728 weakens enforcement of OSHA by allowing employers to drag out the imposition of penalties and the date…

As I have indicated, the gentleman has really been a beacon of light for the Congressional Black Caucus, and we follow his leadership with pride and with dignity for the justice that he has laid out for this Nation.

I want to take time this evening to talk about a very serious situation occurring in Africa as we speak, a situation of ethnic cleansing in Darfur, Sudan, and Sudan's vicious campaign of terror which it is raining on its people. Mr…

I am proud to be a liberal. I think that is what made our country strong and great. I think a liberal is a person who worries about their neighbor, wants a strong defense, wants to provide for the common defense, but also to promote the…

A tragedy is occurring off our shores. A duly-elected government in Haiti, President Jean Bertrand Aristide's government, is in jeopardy. He is being challenged by the former FRAPH, a paramilitary group of outlaws and bandits, the former…

I strongly believe that the Democratic substitute does two important things: one, it supports ongoing participation of faith-based providers and Community Service Block Grant programs; and, two, it restores basic civil rights protection…

last year, I led the opposition to a pre-emptive war in Iraq--which, according to testimony given this week by former top U.S. Weapons Inspector David Kay, wasn't even pre-emptive. If Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction…

The gentleman might remember there was supposed to be a .2 percent drop in the unemployment rate, and the administration said, see, we are doing the right thing. However, it was because tens of thousands of persons seeking employment…

The ratio is how much more the CEO makes than the regular worker. If a worker is making $30,000 a year, in many countries the CEO would be making maybe 10 times that amount at the highest, $300,000, maybe 15 times in some places. In the…

Finally, the Department of Labor as they are making new categories for workers who are ineligible for overtime through regulations, even though it has not been finalized, from what I understand on the Department of Labor's Web site, there…

as the gentleman mentioned, we talk about promoting the general welfare and we talk about providing for the common defense. There is no question that we have provided for the common defense even above the defense, but in a military budget…

And even the fact that the CEOs' ratio of pay to the worker in many countries, it may be 50 to 1, 55 to 1 ratio.

In this new millennium, we will face many hurdles and we are going to hear the first the State of the Union address tonight. But today I would like to rise this afternoon to discuss the true state of the Union as it is, not as we would…

These children are victims and you turn these children around. As a man of the bible, to say there's something wrong with these abnormal children is absolutely wrong.