the Supreme Court begins its session today and has announced a set of cases it will decide, among them another troublesome sexual harassment case, this one called Davis versus Monroe County Board of Education. It involves…

I am amazed to have had to have come to the floor more than once on this issue. The Treasury, Postal rule went down again. There may be more than one reason why. But underlying that rule is a bill that allows basic minimal health…

a bunch of fellows from this body are running around the Treasury, Postal conference committee trying to get into the contraception business, women's contraception business, that is. But women's contraception is nobody's business but…

last night the Treasury-Postal conference settled virtually everything except the controversy over contraceptives in this body. Normally, such controversies concern differences between the House and the Senate. There are no differences…

October 1st is fast approaching, this Thursday, and we will be at the end of the fiscal year, with miles to go and much to do in order to fulfill our most basic responsibility, and that is to pass 13 appropriations bills. As co-chair of…

I come to the floor with a sense of both relief and concern, relief that this bill, this rule, the bill underlying this rule no longer requires sex segregation in the armed forces; concern that it does express a sense of the House that sex…

a serious step was taken last week when the House defunded an elected body that had only a token amount in the D.C. appropriation, a 100th of 1 percent amount in a $6.8 billion consensus budget that had been approved by the control board…

I want to thank him and the Chair of the subcommittee for their hard work on this very important bill, a bill that had the very special concern of the Congressional Women's Caucus as well. Mr. Speaker, there was a time when talk of…

Mr. Speaker, S. 2032 is a bill to designate the Federal building in Juneau, Alaska as Hurff A. Saunders. Mr. Saunders was a lifelong Alaskan who helped write chapters of Alaskan history. He was the civil engineer for the United States…

Mr. Speaker, there are few instances in this Chamber where bipartisanship is required. There are almost no instances where fairness is required. Bipartisanship is not even required when we are declaring war. As we saw in the way the Gulf…

I ask my colleagues, in the words of the old adage, to consider the source or, shall I say, consider the sources. The only Members who have come to the floor to support the repeal of the District's residency law have been suburban Members…

I am absolutely amazed by the capacity of this body to debate settled issues. This is the second time that these folks have tried to gather enough signatures for medical marijuana in the District, and this is the second time it has failed…

Mr. Chairman, the Child Welfare League of America says of this amendment, ``This amendment would unnecessarily limit the pool of families available for these children who desperately need families.'' Make no mistake. This is a gay-bashing…

Mr. Chairman, the Congress has banned the use of Federal funds for needle exchange programs and left local jurisdictions to decide for themselves how to handle the AIDS epidemic. I ask you not to read the District out of our federalist…

I rise to oppose gratuitous language that would forbid the District to use its own funds as part of a lawsuit testing whether American citizens who happen to live in the Nation's capital are constitutionally entitled to voting rights in…

Mr. Chairman, here we are back at the same old stand. Women, if the Republican Congress has anything to say about it, will not have the right to choose. They found a place where they could pick on people who did not even have a…

Every cent of the funds involved here was raised in the District of Columbia from District taxpayers. These funds are found in the budget of the District of Columbia. These funds were scrubbed and approved by the Control Board, which did…

I ask that $570,000 in local funds be restored to the advisory neighborhood commissions. These neighborhood elected bodies were included in the original Home Rule Charter to allow residents at the block and neighborhood level participation…

Is it the gentleman's view that the framers intended democracy to obtain in every other jurisdiction of the United States except the District of Columbia because they enacted Article I?

is the gentleman citing the Federalist Papers for the proposition that the national legislature should be able to overturn any law of a local legislature?

the outright repeal of the District's residency law in this bill is an abuse of congressional power that even Congress has been reluctant to do. This repeal would mark only the fourth time that a District law has been overturned in 24…

the present bill contains language barring the use of both Federal and District funds to pay for abortion services for low-income women. I do not rise to ask for an exception to the strongly-held views of this Congress on abortion. I ask…

I am not asking for anything special for the District of Columbia. I am asking for what this body has already ceded to every other district in the country. District residents have decided this question. Cruel consequences could flow…

Why does that not deal with the gentleman's problem with the quality of the work force?

representative Hefley's amendment to the Commerce, Justice and State Appropriations for FY 1999 would prohibit any of the funds in this bill or any other act from being used to implement, administer or enforce Executive Order 13087, which…