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Robert E. Andrews is a former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing New Jersey's 1st congressional district from 1990 to 2014. During his tenure, he was known for his work on health care issues, particularly related to Medicare and home health benefits. Andrews served on several committees, including the Committee on Education and Labor, where he focused on education reform and labor rights. He was also involved in various initiatives aimed at improving the quality of life for his constituents in New Jersey.
Mr. Chairman, it is very important for the Members to understand that the Norwood amendment, which will be presented as a patients' bill of rights, is most certainly not a patients' bill of rights. It is a mirage. It appears to be a refuge…
For years, the policy of this country has been that when we find schools that are filled with students who are underachieving, we do not do anything about it. Year after year, wasted generation after wasted generation, we just keep sending…
the Repaupo Creek watershed in my district in New Jersey is in urgent need of a replacement tide gate and dike restoration project. The project is needed for several reasons, the most important of which is to provide flood protection for…
Opposition to this amendment is not based upon an expression of guilt, it is based upon an exercise of common sense. I do not think that any violent student should spend one more hour in any classroom in this country. Under the existing…
this is a very special day in the House of Representatives when those who support this amendment are overwhelmed with compassion for the parents of low-income children. That is not the case when we bring a tax bill to the floor and they…
this Congress, led by the gentleman from Ohio (Chairman Boehner) and the gentleman from California (Mr. George Miller), has come together to produce an agreement that I believe will make America's public schools better, and I am pleased to…
Mr. Speaker, the choice before us today is whether we choose the future or the present. In the present, the smart political thing to do is go home and tell everyone you cut their taxes. People like to hear that. It makes for good political…
This budget should be sent back to the conference, and it should be fixed. The way it ought to be fixed is that the budget plan put forth by the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spratt) last month ought to be substituted for what will be…
we should oppose this resolution. When a woman stands at a supermarket checkout counter and when many women who stand with her get hurt, when there is a pattern of people getting hurt because the cash register is at waist level instead of…
Mr. Speaker, we are having an argument that is worth having. The argument is predicated on this, as the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi) just said. In the springtime, the majority passed a budget that was predicated on the…
In my State of New Jersey, an individual buying family health insurance would pay in the neighborhood of $10,000 a year. But the price that would be offered through the group plan would be considerably less, probably $6,500 to $7,000 a…
There is another grave danger here. And, that is, that the HMOs will certainly take the position that even if there is not an explicit statutory definition of medical necessity in State law, that the State laws which permit them to…
The gentleman has just very eloquently described what in sports we call the home field advantage. Imagine if the home football team got to pick the referees for every game at its stadium without any consultation with the visitors or with…
In our economy, actors are regulated either by litigation, regulation or competition. None of those three things applies to the oligarchs of the managed care industry. This Congress, I am confident, is going to take a step to impose the…
The bill as it presently is constituted is spend first, think later. I think we should do the opposite, think first and then maybe spend later. We are being asked to invest nearly $30 million into a project that is not economically proven…
Mr. Chairman, in 1997, this House enacted the Medicare+Choice Program. The idea was to give some senior citizens the ability to get extended benefits under Medicare, including prescription drugs, by enrolling in managed care plans. There…
there is an audit ongoing by both HCFA and the IG at this time. My interest is in expediting the completion of that audit. I would ask for the chairman's, the ranking member's, and the committee's cooperation in impressing upon HCFA the…
because of this bipartisan agreement, the House is about to vote this morning for the first time in its history for $100 million in direct aid to the fire service. The gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pascrell) has really spearheaded this…
Mr. Chairman, my friends who offer this budget have done a great public service, because I think they have shed some light upon the underlying dilution of the majority's Republican resolution that is the base bill. The base bill says that…
I want again say that each one of us involved in this effort is devoted to the idea of our constitutional principles, devoted to the idea of the separation of civilian and military; of the fact that in this country, the military responds…
I thank my friend, and again, long before this was an issue on the evening news or the front page of the newspaper, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Weldon) was working on this issue on his committee, on the floor. It is not a partisan…
Among the people who work the hardest in our country are those who make the least. Tonight we are about to vote for a long overdue increase in the minimum wage. At a time of booming prosperity, lowered unemployment, and greater…
I appreciate the endorsement of my efforts by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Goodling). I would simply say that my colleagues, who wished that there had been regular order to consider these in committee, I believe, should have been…
I do not know if it is a miracle or a coincidence, but for over 100 days after the House passed the bill there was no meeting scheduled of the conferees. Then last night we filed this motion calling for a meeting of the conferees, and we…
I applaud the leadership of both President Clinton and Prime Minister Ecevit.
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