I have just come from a hearing on school vouchers, and I appreciate that I was given the opportunity to participate in the hearing because the hearing involved only the District of Columbia. I am left to wonder why the majority does not…

If the average American had a kid in almost any public school today, what do you believe she would say if someone advertised free money for scholarships to attend private or religious schools? How about you colleagues? If you are like most…

I choose today, International Women's Day, to call to the attention of this body that women business owners are proving to be a major factor in the most robust economy since World War II. Women business owners are showing remarkable…

I support the Child Support Performance and Incentive Act, a bill which would ensure that children and families will not be unnecessarily punished in states still working on establishing database systems required under the Family Support…

I want to speak about new ground we have broken with new approaches to working for women as a part of the Women's Caucus. We have initiated three new approaches. One is a team approach, a bipartisan team approach. The other is a Women's…

We in the Congress are celebrating women making history. As such, we are informing women and families of America about just how that history is being made in this body. Before I yield to the gentlewoman from Maryland (Ms. Morella), I do…

Mr. Chairman, a matter of self-determination should be a matter that brings unanimous consent in this body, and it pains to me to see divisions and splits. If the bill is imperfect, there are many hurdles yet to go: additional island…

Mr. Speaker, this has got to be a bittersweet moment for the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Sanchez). The women Members of Congress rejoiced when a new woman joined us in 1996, bringing the number of Hispanic women finally to four. But…

expect to see me on the floor often reporting on the condition of our capital city. An extraordinary turnaround is in the making. At a hearing today, the District reported an almost $200 million surplus. My colleagues heard me right…

my amendment simply keeps the promise of the House that there shall be no unfunded mandates. I do not believe that there is any Member of this House who would take exception to this amendment. The bill itself represents a broken promise…

tonight Karla Faye Tucker may well be executed. But whether Ms. Tucker lives or dies, her case is making the country think more reflectively about the death penalty. The moral bankruptcy of adopting death and violence to conquer death and…

I am here to talk about a committee that Ron Dellums chaired for 17 years, the Committee on the District of Columbia. I am here to speak for the people I represent in thanks and in great gratitude to Ronald Dellums. His attitude toward the…

I support the 50-State Commemorative Coin Program Act and want to call attention to Chairman Castle's promise to include the District of Columbia and the four insular areas in this privilege in forthcoming legislation. The Chair has agreed…

I want to suggest an alternative constitutional theory, that if this body approves a method of taking the Census that deliberately gets an undercount, that raises a constitutional question, and because we know that statistical sampling is…

I rise in support of H.R. 3025, a bill which simply adds a new section to the Federal charter of Group Hospitalization and Medical Services, Inc., the organization licensed to operate as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of the National Capital…

last night's happy passage of the D.C. appropriation was marred for me and many who had helped me by the omission of relief for Haitians from an attachment to my appropriation. Frankly, it looked awful. Whatever the intent, we are left…

I am asking for a bipartisan vote for the D.C. appropriation. There are issues in this bill I would change, and my colleagues may feel the same. But Congress is not a consensus organization. Moreover, this is not Congress' money. There is…

The streamline procedures which this bill would provide are precisely the way to improve the efficiency of this vital regional facility. The provision that would allow Metro Transit officers to carry their weapons while off duty is a…

I rise to ask for a vote, a positive vote, on the rule on a bipartisan basis. Mr. Speaker, this is the last appropriation out. By all rights, it should have been the first, considering the condition of the District of Columbia and…

if this were a court, I would be forced to throw myself on the mercy of the court. Congress has an obligation to allow the Capital of the United States to spend its own money by enacting our appropriation. Did my colleagues know that the…

what do President Clinton, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Cokie Roberts, and the singing group, Sweet Honey in the Rock have in common? They are part of the all-star line up this evening when the Women's Caucus celebrates 20 years…

the women of the House have something to celebrate this evening. Nearly all--Republican and Democratic women alike--are members of the Congressional Caucus on Women's Issues. The caucus will celebrate 20 years of historic legislation and…

I rise to ask for Members' support for the Moran substitute. I do so because the bill before us violates basic democratic principles, will cripple the District's recovery, and will undermine the difficult job we ourselves have given to the…

today we will have before us an appropriation bill that is at odds with our core beliefs. It takes the tough, fiscally responsible work of a district that is not our own, presided over by a no-nonsense control board, and tears it up. No…

I want to make three points. One goes to the futility of this bill based on its unconstitutionality. The other goes to who gets protected. The final goes to the intolerable trade-off that this bill forces and that cannot be condoned under…