Maurice Hinchey

Mr. Speaker, I have some very serious objections to the bill in chief, but I want to focus my remarks at this particular moment on the rule. Although this rule, as has been noted, is a better rule and a more open rule than the one which…

in the last several days, the Speaker of this House has launched an intemperate prejudicial attack on the President of the United States, demeaning himself and the office he holds by prejudging issues that may, in fact, come before this…

Social Security is such a critically important program to every American that it ought to be examined from time to time, and we periodically ought to do whatever may be necessary to strengthen it to make sure that it continues to last…

as has been noted a couple of times here this morning, today is Earth Day. It is the day in which we remind ourselves of the symbiotic relationship that exists between our species and every other species on the planet and how dependent…

so if we allow this bill to pass, what we succeed in doing is allowing vast amounts of natural resources to be stolen and vast amounts of revenue to be stolen. I made the point in my opening remarks that the customs duties in the City of…

This bill is not needed to address real problems of forest health. The Forest Service has now authority to take actions that are needed, such things as prescribed burns, thinning, et cetera, where the health of the forest requires it and…

the American people and most of the Members of this Congress agree that the most important issue currently facing our country is reforming the way we finance campaigns. Earlier this year, the Senate defeated campaign finance reform when…

I want to talk this evening for just a few minutes about the meeting of the Federal Reserve Federal Open Market Committee which will take place on Tuesday of next week, the 31st of March. This is a very important meeting, as all of these…

on Tuesday of next week, March 31, the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve Board will meet. This is a critically important meeting, for out of this meeting the FOMC will recommend short-term interest rates for the…

in our recent history, Barbara Jordan gave us the best short definition of an impeachable offense during the impeachment hearings on President Nixon when she said she would not tolerate the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of…

this is the Here Today Gone Tomorrow Monument Act. It would make two changes in the law regarding large presidentially proclaimed monuments. First, it would require the President to provide 30 days notice prior to a proclamation. And that…

However, we also have occasional differences, and we certainly have a difference on this particular piece of legislation. This bill would restrict the President's ability to declare national monuments. This is a provision that has been in…

life is certainly full of inconsistencies, and nowhere is that more evident than on the floor of the House of Representatives today. We have before us something called the rule on the National Monument Fairness Act of 1997. Of course this…

we live in a country where our agricultural production is so bountiful that it exceeds that which our people can consume. We have excess agricultural production each and every year. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of people in our…

my reading of this amendment is that it would effectively prohibit the Secretary from recognizing new Indian trust lands. I therefore am opposed to the amendment, and I ask others to join me in that position. Mr. Chairman, this amendment…

I must say that there is no balance in this plan that we are being asked to vote on this afternoon, nor does it balance the budget because it has to be seen in the context of the taxing bill that follows hard on its heels. These two bills…

The Citizens for Tax Justice, who are exactly that, have told us that the Republican tax cut benefits overwhelmingly the richest people in the country. Sixty percent of their tax cut goes to 40 percent of the American people. That…

the hallmark of any tax system has to be fairness and justice. No system of taxation, particularly in a republic like ours, can be supported if it is not fair and just. What the majority here in this House is trying to do is to perpetrate…

last week I and others took the floor of this House to deplore the majority party's suggestion that 180,000 American women and children should be cut from the women, infants and children program. This program, WIC as it is known, is an…

2 weeks ago the Committee on Appropriations rejected the President's request for full funding of WIC through the end of this fiscal year. Once again, the majority party here and its leadership is asking us to literally take the food out of…

This bill will authorize the Federal Government to participate in the purchase of Sterling Forest, the last piece of open space in the Metropolitan New York Area. It is a critically important thing to do, protects the watershed of 2…

I think it is intelligent to provide tax support for people who want to provide their children an education to be able to deduct those costs. The cost of a college education, I think, makes eminently good sense, obviously, for the young…

No question about it. I mean the interesting thing about--actually there are many interesting things about Mr. Dole's proposals--one of the interesting things about his proposal for an almost $550 billion tax cut comes about when people…

There is an irony here also that should not be lost. There are a great many people in this Congress, including a great many who are advocating the abolition of student loans, or to make student loans more difficult, or the abolition of…

It has become increasingly obvious, sadly, that the leadership of this House and the Presidential Republican candidate are capable of generating only one basic idea, and that basic idea is to cut taxes for the wealthy at the expense of…