I strongly support the Mink amendment because the distinction the amendment makes is vital. It is a distinction that this body makes all the time in favor of the most vulnerable and the least likely to take advantage of Federal fund…

this coming Thursday I will lead a special order on the life of Dr. Betty Shabazz. Her tragic death from burns to her body cannot overwhelm her triumphant life. Betty's life teaches that it is possible to rise against all the odds. She…

Today is the 25th anniversary of a landmark civil rights statute. Title 9 is singularly responsible for remarkable progress in eliminating sex discrimination from athletic and sports programs in schools and colleges. Two years before title…

the constituents, the tourists of my colleagues come every year. If they go anywhere near Pennsylvania Avenue they will find a traffic catastrophe. The heart of downtown is closed to the public because the White House area is no longer…

come tomorrow, we will be celebrating the 16th annual National Peace Officers Memorial Day, and the President of the United States is going to be here on the west front. I am sure, regardless of party, many of us are going to be out there…

I was in the nonviolent army of Jim Farmer... James fought the brutality of racism through nonviolent means, making him one of the Nation's most recognizable and influential black leaders in the 1960's. In 1942, Jim Farmer and several…

Monday the Supreme Court let stand a title IX ruling requiring Brown University to give equal treatment to men and women in sports. This was not an affirmative action case. It was an old-fashioned deliberate discrimination case, even…

all over the country today, women are preparing for tomorrow, for they have been alerted by women's organizations and others that tomorrow is a day for commemoration, it can hardly be for celebration, because it is pay inequity day, the…

Mr. Speaker, may I add that my Fair Pay Act is an amendment to the Equal Pay Act, and not a separate act. One of the things it does is to add race and national origin to the Equal Pay Act. Mr. Speaker, I can see that there may be fewer…

To live the life of a nun these days is not good enough if you want to serve your country. That is what Alexis Herman, the President's nominee to be Secretary of Labor, wanted to be. It is our good fortune that she decided to serve her…

I first want to say how indebted I am to the gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. Clyburn]. After I organized this special order it became necessary for me to leave the House, and on very short notice he was willing to conduct this special…

I want to indicate before I begin, Mr. Speaker, that my co-chair and I are only beginning this series. The second week of this series for Women's History Month will concern women in the military. That is an issue of great importance to the…

Mr. Speaker, in August 1939 Congress granted a Federal charter to Group Hospitalization, Inc., which authorized it to arrange for the provision of hospital services on a nonprofit basis to individuals residing in the District of Columbia…

Mr. Chairman, progress in family planning is one of the great success stories of the world. It is where we are making progress throughout the developing world. I am proud of the role my country has played in this progress. This is one of…

after the Aberdeen revelations concerning sexual harassment, the Army brass came to the Women's Caucus and unequivocally pledged that they would never go back to discriminatory training of men and women. Yesterday, however, in the other…

I come to the floor first and foremost to thank Members for the way they responded to the President's remarks concerning the District yesterday. The President spoke, in his State of the Union speech, warmly of his own intention to assist…

as I speak, Secretary of the Army, Togo West, is reporting in the Senate on his progress in eliminating sexual harassment following the revelations of last November. I can only hope that today's revelation is not emblematic of that…

Members should vote ``no'' on the OPIC bill before us today unless we want to double subsidized insurance and loans for the Fortune 500. That is what the OPIC bill does. OPIC is touted as a Government subsidized entity that acts like a…

let me try to rebut two points that have been made here. Makes money. First of all, we lose right off the top. OPIC pays no taxes, pays no dividends, and two-thirds of its income comes from Treasury securities, from us to us. Second…

I have put in a unique remedy for a catastrophic financial crisis in the District of Columbia. Questions have been raised about it. I think I and the people I represent are due the courtesy of a moratorium on off-the-cuff conclusions about…

I am not only grateful but proud to stand with the gentleman and with the ranking member as well, and especially in this bipartisan exchange, to stand with my good friend from Oklahoma, Mr. Watts, who sought me out and indicated that if…

I am back with a bipartisan amendment for a small increase in EEOC funding. My bipartisan sponsor is the gentleman from Oklahoma, Mr. J.C. Watts. Mr. Watts had intended to sponsor this bill with me but at the time the offset on the bill…

I had published an amendment that would allow an exception to our policy of using Federal funds for abortion for women who are incarcerated. I ask for that exception because under no circumstances do these women have access to any personal…

I would have no objection to a plan that takes us toward that goal step by step and year by year with a funding bill to that end.

Mr. Chairman, I have no objection to the colloquy now in progress. I would say to my good friend on this side of the aisle from Virginia, any comparison between what you now desire here and my tax bill is nonapt. These are the only…