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I rise this evening to commend the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Ferguson) and to acknowledge the tremendous work of the New Jersey State law enforcement officers. They do this work on a daily basis, and we took this work for granted for…
I am in full support of the Boehlert-Kind-Gilchrest-Dingell amendment. This amendment will increase funding for conservation programs and give farmers and ranchers the ability to solve water quality problems, to improve the health of the…
yesterday's tragic events touched the residents of my congressional district in a profound and personal way. United Flight 93, one of the fateful flights on that most horrifying of days, departed Newark International Airport, which I…
Mr. Speaker, I rise in celebration also of the 150th anniversary of the YMCA's founding in America. The organization has a special place in my heart, because I had the privilege to serve as the president of the National Council of YMCAs of…
I too rise to express my opposition to the nomination of former Senator John Ashcroft, a man who has spoken repeatedly against gun control, against a woman's right to choose, against affirmative action, against integration of schools…
I add my voice to those who have already spoken to express my heartfelt sympathy for the family of Julian Dixon. When I decided to run for chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, among the first persons that I sought advice from was…
I congratulate the democratically elected President Vojislav Kustinca and the brave people of Yugoslavia.
It is now time for the West to welcome Yugoslavia into the family of free nations.
Let me say that the Good Friday Accord established an international body chaired by Chris Patten, and it called to bring a new beginning to policing in Northern Ireland with a police service capable of attracting and sustaining support…
I have an amendment on what I think is probably one of the most horrendous situations that has occurred for the past 40 years in a country that was the first African country to receive its independence back in 1956 from Britain. It is the…
Mr. Chairman, I rise to request that the important Development Assistance Fund, which is a fund that much of the appropriations for development assistance around the world is a very important instrument for development in Africa. The House…
Mr. Chairman, as I have indicated, the Development Fund for Africa, which is the prime fund, USAID, elections, funds for democracy, building, funds for IRI, International Republican Institute, NDI, the National Democratic Institute…
I am just simply indicating that we are not asking to specifically earmark by line item, but in the allocation of the funds that were in the development assistance fund it was always understood that we would have a floor of $700 million to…
Yes, Mr. Chairman. Although the importance of this matter in this dialogue I believe sort of ought to be considered, the fact that we are making the request I assume would be considered an earmark. I think that the importance of it is so…
Mr. Chairman, this also is an amendment dealing with the problems on the Continent. This is asking for $500,000 to be allocated to the assistance for the national dialogue, which is the Lusaka Accords. The Lusaka Accords are the accords…
let me just say that when we say this is nongermane, it makes it appear as though the question of peacekeeping has never been raised. We have been talking about peacekeeping. We even had $2.7 billion removed from the bill about…
let me just commend the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Roemer), and the number of cosponsors of this amendment. Microeconomics is very important. First of all, it puts women in charge because many of these loans go to women. Secondly, when we…
let me rise in strong support of this amendment, and commend the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lee) and those who have worked with her, the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Waters), the gentlewoman from the Virgin Islands (Ms…
I also think that it is an abomination that out of the $472 million requested that $82 million has been approved. I heard earlier the chairman of the subcommittee talk about a person that bought a plane in Uganda. He said that it was…
my question, basically, is, with the reprogram appropriator, I am the one that deals with the policy; and so, for example, if the combatants in the Congo, which are at the point of agreeing, I have spoken to two presidents of the…
in the Congo we have a similar situation which is at the verge of coming to a conclusion. My question is, if in two weeks all of the discussion that I will be having with the various presidents of the combatting countries agree they indeed…
The way the U.N. assesses dues is based on GDP. The U.S. has 28 percent of the world's wealth. And as we continue to reduce our contributions to the United Nations, we are actually paying less. As we reduce our contributions down from 25…
Let us take the Congo. In the Congo I have spoken to heads of State just a day or two ago, the main belligerents, that is what they are called, the aggressors, they are waiting for the U.N. The reason there is a skirmish here and a…
since we have such little time, we have heard about the domestic priorities which I support, I would just like to say that in light of the flooding in Mozambique we have requested $320 million to the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster…
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