Mr. Chairman, along with the attention that I think we owe the gentleman in the well is also our attention to his statements about the poverty of courage and boldness and grandness in America today. Let me extend that just one additional…

Beginning with Thomas Jefferson and throughout the ensuing two centuries this Nation has followed a grand and productive tradition of the local, State, and Federal education partnership. Today with shame the U.S. House of Representatives…

this bill is not about change; it is about retreat. Anybody listening would be confused about whether we are spending more or less. Here are letters from America's mayors, Republicans and Democrats that say, do not do it. Do not do this to…

it seems to me that this additional money for Indian education is well worthwhile. I think the committee has recognized that they are incorrect to chop Indian education, although I share the ranking member's concern that without an Office…

I say to my colleagues, do not kill the NEH. Reflection matters; the Nation's memory matters; publications, translations, research, education matters; identity matters; conversation counts; distinctions matter; history matters; the…

Most Americans can answer that for him. The answer is ``yes.'' It is vital to American culture. It is vital to American enlightenment. In the past 25 years of success, extraordinary success of culture and the arts of this country are…

I do want to point out to my colleagues, however, that Indians have made extraordinary gains over the past approximately 15 years in educational achievement in the number of native Americans going to college and in college graduation…

I have been here 17 years, and without exception... I urge my Democratic colleagues to vote ``yes'' on this rule.

Mr. Chairman, I represent a place a long way from Appalachia, and I do not serve on this committee, but I wanted to rise today in support of the Appalachian Regional Commission and in support of my colleagues who understand how well it…

I do not think it is about party affiliation or moving between parties. After all, Mr. Speaker, most Americans vote for a variety of candidates. Most Americans claim they are, in fact, independent. The election and the polls show, of…

The Medicare Select Program as a model deserves support, and it should be renewed. In fact, we should expand the model, but we should keep it as a model until we know how well in fact it is going to work and what the difficulties in it…

Montanans are frightened by the militia, not the Federal Government. Montanans are frightened by outlaws, not by those who would enforce the law at local, county, State and Federal levels. My Montanans, as with your constituents in…

my colleagues, I think the Republicans indeed do deserve recognition. They said they would bring the contract to the floor of this House and attempt to pass it, and indeed they did, and I think that the Democrats and Americans have to…

in fact, the Federal Government has for the past 20 years vigorously promoted the protection of people in its research. An institutional review board has been created a couple of decades ago for the very purpose of scrutinizing these…

My colleagues, I ask you to oppose this amendment. The National Endowment for the Arts not only nurtures America's cultural inheritance, but it also expands on our Nation's cultural activities. Let me give examples. Before the National…

we heard the previous speaker equate public broadcasting with socialism. I think that kind of laid it bare. There is no secret out here anymore. This is an amendment from the far right wing of the Republican party, this doubling of cut for…

in this week's Newsweek, there is an article called ``The Hidden Success Story.'' It is about America's efforts to assist in diversifying the Mexican economy and make good economic friends of our neighbors to the south. And the article…

I have watched with growing alarm at the drum beat of attacks, some of it very personal, that has gone on, particularly this past decade and a half, against lawyers. Attorneys are, in the American system, the arbiters of our justice. It is…

That is not required under the act, is it, that the case law be crosswalked to the department as they try to mitigate for the appeals?

My colleagues, those of you new here who do not know me, I am from Montana, and this takings issue is big-time stuff out my way. But if the gentleman in the well is right, and nobody on the floor now has more experience at this than the…

I support my colleagues on the Democratic side in their efforts here, but not because I am sure that 12 hours is not enough. All of that is relative. It just seems to me there is a larger issue at stake in the Democrats' effort here; that…

This President, I believe, is going to use his veto pen very sparingly, but I would say to my Republican colleagues, if you are serious about getting this bill passed, then you ought to listen to this President's determination about…

This would reduce the overall number of police? If the bill that the Republicans are proposing here was accepted without this amendment, it would reduce the number of police in our cities and towns?

In the last Congress, last September, I introduced a mandatory binding arbitration bill to try to save this year's season for the national pastime. I reintroduced that bill in this Congress last month. I have been working with the…

My colleagues, let me begin with the obligatory statement that I, too, support the line-item veto. I happen to support it in the manner in which it is before us now rather than in the basic bill. That is what I voted for a year or so ago…