I just would not feel right if I did not add my words of praise to our late colleague, Ted Weiss, and just to state how happy I am that we are naming this courthouse in New York City in Foley Square after Ted Weiss. I had the honor and…

I do not think anybody cannot say that this is not a political bill. This is frankly a cynical attempt at the last day before we break for the summer recess to be able to go home and tell the American people, we did something about…

The American people are not fools. They understand that the Democrats in Congress all Congress long have been pushing for an increase in the minimum wage. We could not even get a procedural vote to bring the minimum wage to the floor for…

My colleagues, let us call it the way it is. The Republican majority in this Congress has spent the better part of a year and a half assaulting the rights of workers in this country. I have served on the committee, I know what is…

This bill should not be called the campaign finance reform bill. I have some better names for it. It should be called the wealthy country club set control of American politics bill. How about the fat cat influence on American politics…

Mr. Speaker, as I was sitting in the Chamber and listening to all our colleagues speak about Ham, I could not help thinking if Ham were here right now he would be terribly embarrassed about it all. He would probably admonish us to not say…

Mr. Chairman, after years of repression, the humanitarian situation in Kosovo is very grim. Recent reports by respected international relief groups spell out the seriousness of the situation. According to O. Terry Heselius, Country…

I want to say there is no clearer issue in my opinion that defines the difference between Democrats and Republicans that raising the minimum wage. It has been clear. We on the Democratic side have tried for months and months to try to get…

this is a difficult bill to vote against. It is popular, but I think we can all see it for what it is. It is a cynical, cheap, political, election-year maneuver. My Republican colleagues must think that the American public is stupid…

our Republican colleagues never cease to amaze me. They yelled for years about lifting the arms embargo, as did I. We all knew that the arms embargo could not be lifted because Britain and France objected. But we all knew this was going…

the 104th Congress has been on now for a little over a year and let us look at the extreme Republican agenda. They have spent the whole year trying to cut Medicare and Medicaid, to pay for a tax break for the rich. The Democrats and the…

I hope that our House will vote to sustain the President's veto. This is not a good bill and the President was correct in vetoing it. This is an isolationism bill. It is a retrenching bill, a retreating bill. The United States is the…

just yesterday the Palestinian Assembly finally took steps to amend their charter, which calls for Israel's destruction. I have been speaking about that for a number of years here on the House floor. The United States aid to the…

it has been 16 months since the Republicans have taken over Congress, and what have we gotten for it? We have gotten an extreme agenda that hurts the middle class. The previous Speaker showed why the environment is so important and how the…

Certainly nothing is more obscene than those Holocaust revisionists who try to claim that it did not happen or that it did not happen to the magnitude that we know it happened. They include, unfortunately, leaders of countries. Even a…

I think we ought to look at this proposed amendment and call it for what is. It is a Republican election year publicity stunt. They want to require a simple majority to go to war, but want to require a two-thirds majority to correct a tax…

This is an attempt by the Republican majority not to allow the whole issue of minimum wage, of raising the minimum wage for American workers to come to the floor. The Republican leadership has blocked it. They could care less about raising…

Mr. Speaker, for the whole day today the Republican leadership blocked consideration of a raise in the minimum wage. Then the majority whip, in relation to my speech that I made, said, ``This is blatant politics and blatant hypocrisy.''…

Mr. Speaker, this bill ought to be defeated. We should be considering a clean version of the Kennedy-Kassebaum-Roukema health reform bill, and I would say that the reason we are not considering a clean version of the…

our Republican friends are at it again. Last year they spent the whole year trying to decimate Medicare and Medicaid and hurt our senior citizens, and, thankfully, at least for now, we were able to stop them. This year what do they have in…

I certainly support the resolution, I think we need to condemn terrorism, I think we need to reach out to the brave people of Israel. No country could tolerate this kind of wanton terrorism against its civilian population, and I think…

Mr. Speaker, let us call this resolution for what it is: It is a cynical resolution to allow the Republican Congress to take a vacation; nothing more, nothing less. The Republicans shut the Government down, everybody knows it. No amount of…

I have a chart over here dated December 29, 1995, ``Pay to the Order of Federal Employee.'' A Federal employee in my district who works at the Bronx Veterans Administration Medical Center in my district received a paycheck for $1.51 for…

I may have a bruised eye but it is nothing compared to the bruises the American people and our Federal workers are taking from this Republican Congress. I rise today on behalf of the employees and patients of the Bronx Veterans Affairs…

from the home office in Bronx, NY, the top ten reasons why Republicans refuse to hold hearings on their Medicare cuts: No. 10. Republicans figure seniors can't hear, so why bother holding hearings? No. 9. It might interfere with the O.J…