Presidents can't terminate statutes they don't like. They must persuade both houses of Congress to join in a repeal. Should the termination of treaties operate any differently? The question first came up in 1798. As war intensified in…

my good friend, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Kildee), points out that in article VI it says, ``This Constitution and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made,'' and all treaties…

I am here to stand for our elderly, our sick, our poor, our workers, America's middle class, who do not benefit from a regressive tax system. The purpose of the estate tax is to mitigate the accumulation of wealth by family lineage. That…

Mr. Speaker, in the bioterrorism conference report, House leadership managed to put in a new provision that would allow Medicare HMOs more time to decide whether or not to continue offering health plans. This would allow HMOs to delay for…

as a Representative of Cleveland, Ohio, I am proud to join with my colleagues from across the country in this well-deserved tribute to Bob Hope for his service to the veterans of our country, to the servicepersons who for generations put…

while welfare caseloads have dropped dramatically, the decrease in poverty is marginally less. After 5 years, welfare cash assistance caseloads have decreased by nearly 50 percent, but overall poverty has declined by less than 2 percent…

I just wanted my good friend from Georgia to know that the unfunded mandate in this bill would cost the State of Georgia about $266 million, and Georgia has 16,000 children on the child care waiting list. The question before us is, Do we…

However, the announcement by President Bush and Vladimir Putin that they will sign a nuclear pact needs to be scrutinized very carefully. If you read today's New York Times you see they say that "the proposed treaty sets no pace for…

I will ask the gentleman again, I would certainly entertain the gentleman's willingness to strike that language there so that we can certainly keep the for-profit companies out of this, because, Mr. Speaker, the for-profit companies had a…

Mr. Speaker, I call the House's attention to a document from the Southern African Seed-Initiative which states in part with regard to the restoration of sustainable agriculture in the future, ``We are appealing to the regional…

Mr. Speaker, inasmuch as my unanimous consent request was objected to, it is very clear that there are Members of this House, certainly not the gentleman from Michigan, but there are members of this House who are looking to give the…

Mr. Speaker, my legislation which I will be bringing to this House hopefully sometime soon, called the Real Solutions to World Hunger Act of 2002, offers new initiatives and protections to help developing nations resolve their hunger…

Actually, Mr. Chairman, there are some people who believe that the world does have the possibility to live in peace and that the instrumentalities of violence will eventually give way to human reason and that our ability to talk to each…

the transportation of this waste will require over 96,000 truck shipments over 4 decades. Almost every major east-west interstate highway and mainland railroad in the country will experience high-level waste shipments. More…

I declare my support for the State of Israel and the security of the Israeli people. I also declare my support for a Palestinian state and the security of a Palestinian people. So I will vote present today because I believe the security of…

What should we seek to change in TANF when it is reauthorized: to make TANF reduce poverty and help recipients get good jobs with adequate wages, or to punish people and increase poverty? The Herger and McKeon bills only punish people when…

Americans are urged to own a piece of the rock; invest in corporate America. We have gone from a psychology of owning a piece of the rock to owning a piece of the Brooklyn Bridge. Because what is happening is that investors are not being…

Let us go to middle America, where men and women who work hard all their lives to establish some kind of a financial nest egg put their faith not only in the market, but in this country, and invest in various corporate enterprises. Mr. and…

Mr. Chairman, I include for the Record an article in the New Yorker entitled ``The Accountants' War,'' and it has many interesting details about the collapse of accounting responsibilities in this country. It says that Enron was forced to…

I went to a grade school in suburban Cleveland about a month ago to talk about current affairs, and I asked for a show of hands of about 300 grade schoolers, How many have heard of Enron? Every hand went up. These are first through sixth…

what is at stake here today is the faith of the American people in their economic system and in this Congress. The American dream is work hard, get ahead, give your life to a company, get a secure, decent retirement pension. Well, that…

we have not allocated a full hour in our short workweek to consider a resolution that would ensure the richest 1 percent of Americans receive their tax cut on time. When it comes to policies that would benefit the mass of middle- and…

this bill could have been a lifeline for working families suffering as a result of the economic decline. This bill could have increased weekly payments to unemployed individuals and extended benefits to 52 weeks. This bill could have…

Today steelworkers from across the United States have come to Washington to ask our House to recognize their plight and the plight of U.S. Steel. Today the United States steel industry is faltering and in danger of collapse. Tens of…

I rise to oppose this rule and to oppose Fast Track. I come from Cleveland, a steel-producing community which is fighting valiantly to save 3,200 steelworkers' jobs and to protect the benefits of tens of thousands of retirees. But Fast…