Federal Government policy has a major impact in the way that employers treat their workers. It is important that Federal policy encourage workers to take the high-skill, high-wage road. For the good of our Nation, employers need to invest…

Mr. Chairman, in its committee report, the committee stated clearly its intention that the Coast Guard can, quote, ``do more to lower its operating costs through greater energy conservation,'' unquote. In 1994 the President issued…

the independent contractor provision in the Revenue Reconciliation Act will do great damage to employer relations in our country. Millions of Americans would lose health care coverage and pension benefits. Working women would suffer the…

our country is going through a major transition in employment relations. The temporary help industry is exploding. Workers can no longer count on working for the same employer for their entire lives. Now is the time for Federal policy to…

Mr. Chairman, I am a firm believer in good science and common sense, and I am also a firm believer in believing my eyes and what I see and what I breathe. People across this country today are fully aware of the consequences of the ozone…

Mr. Chairman, at this hour the ailing Russian astronaut Tsibliyev is aboard the Mir space station awaiting help in outer space to see if an American astronaut, Michael Foale, can take charge to make critical repairs to the space station…

the Revenue Reconciliation Act contains a very destructive provision that would destroy employment relations in our country and eliminate key economic benefits essential to working families. I am speaking of the independent contractors…

I rise to celebrate my city, Cleveland, OH, for its outstanding debut as America's All-Star city last night when the American League beat the National League 3 to 1 at Cleveland's Jacobs Field. The All-Star victory was brought about…

I rise in opposition to most-favored- nation status for China. The American people have heard that trade at all costs with China serves United States interests, but here are the figures. The United States trade deficit with China has grown…

Branjevo Farm in eastern Bosnia was an ordinary livestock farm. Then, in the course of war, this ordinary place became extraordinary. The banality of evil reared its ugly head in July 1995 when more than 1,000 Muslims were bused to the…

when we consider, as we just spoke of, a combined trade deficit increasing by 400 percent over a 3-year period with respect to Canada and Mexico, and now when we consider China, the United States trade deficit with China has grown at a…

I rise to honor Bob Hope, world renowned entertainer, humanitarian, and Clevelander. Bob Hope started his entertainment career in the great vaudeville era with Fatty Arbuckle. He made his broadway debut in ``Roberta,'' by Jerome Kern. He…

human rights is not just an international issue, something we should be concerned about happening in other countries. Human rights is a domestic issue, too. If someone does not have a job, if someone does not have decent wages, if someone…

I think I figured out why they call it Calle Ohio, anyhow, Ohio Street; because listen to the cities in Ohio who have lost jobs to NAFTA: Bethesda; Bucyrus; Cambridge; Canal Winchester; Columbus; Dayton; Delaware; Galion; Green…

Why are we giving away our national sovereignty in the name of global trade? H.R. 408 is a giveaway of our national right to self-determination. What it does is, it repeals the U.S. ban on tuna caught by methods that kill dolphins and…

One needs to be making a good wage to do that, but what is happening is that this transition in our economy, while it is wiping out good paying manufacturing jobs, it is creating jobs, according to the Department of Labor, among the top 20…

when you think about the history of the growth, the economic growth in this country, which permitted the rise of the middle class, which permitted people to go from $10 to $15 to even $20 an hour, it is really somewhat of a miracle that…

it is possible that many Americans for years and years have understood and even accepted those kinds of disparities as long as they had jobs. We all expect that the bosses and the people that head the corporations are going to make more…

In 1997 in January, the Economic Development Corporation of Tijuana was advertising that they would pay wages and benefits together of 91 cents an hour in maquiladora areas. Those are the kinds of jobs that are moving to Mexico from areas…

In our follow up interviews with organizers in campaigns where plant closing threats occurred, we learned that specific unambiguous threats ranged from attaching shipping labels to equipment throughout the plant with a Mexican address, to…

I remember a time when a label that said ``made in America'' was something you could not help but see no matter where you went, and now it is difficult when you shop for goods and check for a label to find things that are made in this…

It goes to family values and democratic values which underpin our ability to celebrate family values.

And that is something that certainly fast track must be challenged to do, but it does not do that. It does not provide for the kinds of worker and environmental protections which we need to see established so that we do not find our…

The importance of us taking a stand on this cannot be repeated enough, because I remember when I was first starting my career, back in the city of Cleveland, and as all politicians do, I went through a crowd and shook hands, and I remember…

Skepticism is a healthy expression in a democracy, but skepticism should never permit us to stop reaching upward in establishing new frontiers. In the words of the poet, "A man's reach should exceed his grasp or what is a heaven for?" We…