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A major issue that needs to be addressed before we leave is campaign finance reform. The 1997 elections merely enforce the obvious problems with our campaign finance laws that we learned in the 1996 elections. The use of massive amounts of…
Although Dr. Coburn has his opinion, that is just one doctor. I would like to say that a panel convened by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says that while it is not the only option, "An intact D&X may be the best or…
I am saddened beyond measure every time we debate this issue. Every one of us who has been brought up by a woman that we consider brilliant and wonderful suddenly decides here that the women in the country do not have any sense at all and…
Mr. Speaker, the women who undergo this late-term abortion procedure do so, they do so when they are left with no other choice. Often, this procedure is the only one which will save the life of the mother and preserve her fertility so that…
I want to support this motion very strongly to instruct the conferees to include the Senate level of $100 million in this conference report. This is absolutely essential for us, as part of the most important link that we have in the United…
Public broadcasting gives the American people, both young and old, exceptional programming not available on commercial television, such as the award-winning ``Civil War'' series, the ``Jim Lehrer NewsHour,'' ``Masterpiece Theater,'' and…
Somebody has to speak for the millions of women around this world who desperately want access to family planning. Even with the family planning money, we don't reach enough of them. Pregnancy and childbirth are very risky propositions for…
Mr. Speaker, while I do not oppose this open rule, I do have some serious concerns about the impact of the underlying bill on Amtrak. This passenger rail system is vital to the economic needs of millions of train passengers and thousands…
there is a real snake in the woodpile in this tax bill that nobody is talking about. There is a little provision in there that says an employer can declare an employee an independent contractor. That $500 tax credit per child will not mean…
I rise today to reluctantly oppose the Interior appropriations bill we will be voting on today because it contains no funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. The rule did not allow us to have a vote, an up-or-down vote, on NEA on…
I strongly oppose this rule because it fails to waive points of order on the section of the bill that provides funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. Waiving points of order on this section would protect the Appropriations…
I in no way want to impede this hearing process. Like everybody else in the country, I want to make sure that the political process in the United States is as good as it can be, but I want to speak to the committee process, if I may…
I think those of us who are fortunate enough to live in America where we have good access to health care and information probably do not understand what it is like in a Third World country where one does not have it. Frankly, I think the…
Mr. Speaker, there are a wide range of both triumphs and shortcomings in women's health that could be discussed this evening. On the one hand, a woman's life expectancy has increased from 48 years in 1900 to 79 years today. But on the…
I support this open rule that will allow us to consider H.R. 1273, the National Science Foundation Authorization Act. The National Science Foundation contributes to the advancement of biological sciences, geosciences, mathematical and…
Mr. Speaker, I did not anticipate participating in this debate today, but as a new Member of this House, as a freshman, I want to rise to express my frustration over the fact that we have not been able to put real campaign finance reform…
Mr. Speaker, the rule serves no purpose other than to require the Members of the body to spend another day voting on measures which are noncontroversial and which could easily have been disposed of on the regular suspension days of Monday…
If you tell the House you do not want to move on a vote on the rule, control of the House floor will revert to the opponents of the rule for a vote on an alternative course of action. We would use the opportunity to instruct the leadership…
I want to close with two very brief examples of what we were talking about with the revitalization of towns' economy through art. The Northeast has suffered out migration, as you know, over a number of years, and one little town in New…
And we find that once that right brain is developed it spills over on to the left-hand side, and, as I pointed out earlier, that just 4 years of art, the verbal scores on SAT's will go up 65 points, and math, 45, and I know of no other…
Once again we just find that arts brings people together and does the kind of thing that we want for human beings, and it really would be dreadful if we made a statement here on this floor that it did not matter to us.
Mr. Horn, you know one of the things that he told us yesterday that really stuck with me was that he has this wonderful building and all these students who come there, and they have been there for 10 years, and 2 blocks away is the school…
Frankly, I think the cruelest form of birth control is the fact that 600,000 women die in the world every year from complications, not understanding how to space their families. And it does not happen to all of us, it happens to the women…
in this past election season spending levels for Federal elections shattered all previous records, at nearly $2 billion. The President and our leadership met yesterday and agreed on five priority items for this Congress, but guess what was …
I rise today to strongly condemn what has been a wave of bombing activity throughout this Nation and to urge Congress to act. This type of violence must come to an end and I am working to do just that. On January 7, I reintroduced H.R. 85…
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