Major Owens: “I said it might be they spent $360 on stamps to notify parents of various meetings. Yes, that is a possibility.”

I rise in favor of welfare reform. I am in favor of any form of reform of a Federal function or government function. Everything can be improved. But I hope the reform will go forward without hysteria, and without seeking to wreak revenge…

I thank the gentleman, and would like to extend my congratulations to those members of the CBC that prepared this budget, and say that in the Congressional Black Caucus budget, we have the only budget which clearly refuses to accept the…

It is more reasonable to take the 5-year-old and 6-year-old as the cutoff point where the child is older and able to go to Head Start or school, kindergarten or regular school, and they are just going to overlook all of the evidence that…

I would like to clarify a position. The gentleman is the sponsor of a bill, H.R. 4114, on which I am a cosponsor and all the members of the Congressional Black Caucus are cosponsors, and there are in all more than a hundred cosponsors, and…