Amendment offered by Mr. Andrews: Page 55, after line 15, insert the following new section: Sec. 406. (a) Limitation on Use of Funds for Certain Surface Transportation Projects.--None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to…

For the person who owns the building we have said, if you have a pension plan and you have what you consider to be surplus income in the plan, you can keep it and spend it on yourself. We have said that when you sell the building, we will…

Mr. Speaker, there are two sets of ideas before the House tonight. There is a set of ideas on which there is disagreement, whether we should limit the amount people can recover if they are a victim of malpractice; whether or not people…

I think that the plan that is being put forward is a serious assault on the ability of Americans, particularly middle-class Americans, to go to college or to pursue a higher education. First let me say that the first time that we heard…

Well, why do we not strike that? I would offer to strike it. Second, let me say this to the gentleman, that to the extent that he is concerned about a prohibition against the promotion of ETI's by the Government, let me just read to him…

We have not addressed either of those issues. Instead we brought forward this proposal, and I read its intent as a wholesome and good-faith one that says that the Secretary of Labor has no business meddling in the investment decisions of…

With respect to the effect of Interpretive Bulletin 94-1, in the appropriate procedural manner, Mr. Chairman, I would offer to change that section to say the following: Interpretive Bulletin 94-1 referred to in section 1 shall be null and…

there are some severe problems with America's pension system as we meet here tonight. There are employees of private companies and pensioners of private companies who are legitimately worried that they may not have a pension someday…

I would like to respond, if I could, to the two points raised about concern about the substitute. First of all, with respect to whether or not the substitute prohibits the Secretary of Labor from promoting ETI's or simply declares that to…

Let me just say one more thing. My mother did not graduate from college. My father did not graduate from high school. But they sure were smart enough to know that something is amiss in a country's priorities when we cannot afford to help…

I want to talk, Mr. Speaker, tonight about some of the people who are affected by the issues we are talking about. Many of us sense in all of our districts a tremendous sense of frustration that people have about government. They go to…

I think OSHA is a agency in need of reform, and I am sure there are some bureaucrats in OSHA who are not necessary and who ought to go. That is not what this bill is going to do. Make no mistake about it, this bill means fewer inspectors…

Mr. Chairman, this act is misnamed. It should be called the Special Interest Relief Act of 1995. One of the special interests that is no doubt dancing with glee over the contents of this act is the student loan industry, which has siphoned…

I rise in favor of this tax reduction bill here tonight. I do so thinking about the American families and the families in my district who sit around the kitchen table on a Friday night, and they take out their checkbook, and after they…

Mr. Speaker, here is what this debate is about: This weekend Members of both parties are going to go home and have a town meeting, and someone is going to ask them if they are in favor of cutting spending or not. Most of us are going to…

I think one of the unwritten clauses with the Contract With America is that there will be free, open, and honest debate, regardless of party affiliation. Tonight is the night the Contract With America was breached. We are all watching it…

this is a place where we come to make choices. Many of us, both Republican and Democrat, are ready to make choices to reduce the Federal budget, but today in the Committee on Rules, the Republican leadership of the Committee on Rules is…

This bill cuts $200 million out of this year's expenditures for the veterans' hospital system across the country and it forgives a $50 million loan to the Government of Jordan. I am going to repeat that. This bill says to the Government of…

I join in thanking my friend from California. We are all equal Members of the People's House. We may disagree over what our priorities shall be, but we should never disagree over our right to debate those priorities. The majority is about…

I rise today to join my colleagues in remembrance of the attempt by the Ottoman Empire to systematically eliminate the Armenian people. April 24 will be the 79th anniversary of the beginning of this campaign of genocide, which resulted in…