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Mr. Chairman, we should be a bit consistent in our positions in this organization, and I would like to quote from last year's debate on the crime bill: If they say to me in the name of fighting crime ``Will I stand a $2 billion check to…
I would like to commend the Clinton administration for taking action on behalf of working Americans today and raising the minimum wage. The administration's action is long overdue and I hope this wage increase will help the working…
Yesterday, for the seventh time in the last 12 months, the Federal Reserve--meeting in a closed-door session-- raised the interest rates and gambled on the economic future of the middle-class American. Over the past year, the Federal…
about 2 weeks ago, on April 26, myself and 45 Members of Congress signed a letter addressed to the Honorable Alan Greenspan, Chairman, of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The letter said, in part, as follows: Dear Mr…
I join my colleagues in honoring the memory of 1\1/2\ million Armenians who perished at the hands of the Ottoman Turkish Government between the years of 1915 and 1923. As a result of the Armenian Genocide, the Armenian population of the…
as we begin to review competing health care plans, we have to keep in mind that our goal should be to assure that every American has good health care coverage at an affordable price. We should not be satisfied with anything less than that…
this past week in one short 2-hour period the message of violence among the young struck home in New York's 26th Congressional District. As we deliberate here today it will strike in countless other districts across the Nation. I represent…
I am pleased to support EPA for elevation to Cabinet status. The bipartisan support for this bill is a strong indicator of the Congress' belief that EPA needs to be part of the Cabinet. EPA will become a formal part of the President's…
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