along with two members of the Committee on Intelligence, I just got back from Haiti, where we saw how House vote sent terrible signals to the Haitian military rulers; basically, the signal being that the United States had no policy, that…

Let us not play politics with the crime issue. Let us remember that violent crime is a national issue and not a political issue. Victims of crime do not care whether they are helped by Democrats or Republicans, they just want to be helped…

Mr. Speaker, S. 1654 makes certain technical amendments to various Federal statutes affecting Native Americans. The bill has technical amendments to five Federal statutes. The first provision would amend the Northern Cheyenne Indian…

teenagers throughout the United States are dropping out of school. At a crime forum I held in New Mexico, parents expressed their fear that more and more teenagers are joining gangs and are not interested in getting a good education. The…

last night a great Mexican leader, Presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, was assassinated by a coward. Even though violence has not been a part of Mexican politics in the past, this incident shows that all of us in public life are…

Mr. Chairman, all across the Nation, each and every American has been telling their Representative to be strong and to make their schools, neighborhoods, and homes safe again. Mr. Chairman, the time has now come. Today, we are prepared to…

one out of every seven children in America, living in almost every district in this Nation, starts school speaking a language other than English. Through the bilingual education act, these children including Hispanics, Asians, Armenians…

I, too, rise to address the issue of Whitewater, dealing with facts and reality instead of the hype that currently surrounds the issue. I think it is clear the reason the Republicans want to talk about Whitewater is that they do not want…

reducing the Federal deficit is unquestionably one of the most important issues facing Congress today. House Joint Resolution 103 proposes to amend the U.S. Constitution to require a balanced Federal budget unless a three-fifths majority…

I rise today to ask 81 Republicans to apologize to Mrs. Clinton. Some have charged that Mrs. Clinton unethically sought to profit from her investment in Value Partners, a limited partnership investment fund. The charge is absurd. In fact…

Mr. Speaker, a year ago our friends on the other side were predicting economic disaster if we passed the budget resolution. Alan Greenspan, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, recently commented that we are seeing the best economic…