following the beginning of what I think is this grand strategy to prevent the public from working their will through the national Congress, in the 1980's the Congress passed another water mandate. This one was the Safe Drinking Water Act…

I say to my colleagues that for 2\1/2\ months now Republicans have been engaged, as they were in 1-minutes this morning, in trying to convince either themselves or the Democrats or perhaps the American people that for the first time in 40…

It would demean the office of the Speaker and the institution of Congress itself for me to respond in kind to Mr. Gingrich, and I shall not do so. It is not for me to call him ugly names or attribute dishonesty to his business…

I want to say a word to the dads, the fathers out there who, like me, have daughters in college or in school at some level. In the late 1970s a mandate law, an unfunded mandate called Title IX, came into effect, and probably every Member…

I think the gentlewoman from Connecticut. Perhaps an uninterested observer listening to the debate today, Mr. Speaker, might be uninformed enough to have found a little hypocrisy on both sides, and maybe listening to the debate on this…