I appreciate that my friends on the other side have given me the opportunity to offer the amendment. Unanimous consent is one of the few privileges that remains almost sacrosanct in this form in this body. It is an indication of the…

Time limits without a way to get to that point are meaningless, especially when the city is insolvent.

Mr. Chairman, there is very little to get excited about when we discuss a choice amendment on the District of Columbia appropriation. No one believes that in the state of its finances, what we are going to see is an epidemic of abortions…

I am inclined to simply say, ``Enough already.'' Mr. Chairman, look at this week's U.S. News and World Report. The National Capital, the gentleman's capital, has become a national daily controversy. You cannot separate yourself from that…

We are at the end of the toughest year in memory for Federal employees and for Federal agencies. It can only get better, and I know this has been a tough bill to work on, in part for that reason. I would like to call the attention of the…

Mr. Bush and Mr. Reagan both went to the conventions of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Why is Mr. Dole boycotting this organization? I come to the floor not to castigate the putative nominee but to ask him…

I want to associate myself entirely with the gentleman's remarks. This is a regional matter. All of the regional partners agree. It is before this body only because a charter change in the District of Columbia law requires the action of…

this House was so shocked by church burnings in recent weeks that it last week passed a bill to add to Federal law enforcement authority, and I want to commend the gentleman from Illinois, Chairman Hyde, and the gentleman from Michigan…

Mr. Speaker, as a student member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the South during the civil rights movement I remember no time when there was a rash of church burnings. We have enough polarization in this society. We do…

I have just come back from the other body, where Senator Connie Mack, the chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, has just introduced the DC Economic Recovery Act on the Senate side, the bill I introduced on April 15 on the House side…

I come forward this evening to make a plea to my colleagues that the cynicism toward Government which has infected the executive branch and the legislative branch, as Americans regard us, stops at the courthouse door. Recently, from the…

Outrageously, this bill revisits and denies choice for women in the Armed Forces who have made the choice to serve their country. Now what we get for military women is patriotism and abandonment overseas if they happen to need an abortion…

the Capital of the United States is in serious disrepair, and I mean a lot more than potholes. It is trying to recover by downsizing a loan as no insolvent city has ever done. There is Federal responsibility here, including the unfunded…

we tried welfare reform without jobs. Do we want to put these same people to work without enough pay to live on? All the welfare reform in the world will not do what a raise in the minimum wage will do. One hundred thousand kids would come…

as this body is aware, it has imposed a Control Board on the District of Columbia, which has become insolvent. The only reason there are not more cities in this category, of course, is because most cities have States. Nevertheless, New…

this is taxpayers day. I have introduced a bill to make this tax reduction day for D.C. residents. I expect to have leadership support for the D.C. Economic Recovery Act, and I expect support and will seek support from my side of the aisle…

this special order on women, wages, and jobs comes during Women's History Month, but more pertinently it comes because finally the issue of declining wages in our country has made it onto the national agenda. The underlying discontent that…

What has happened to women? The gentlewoman from Georgia indicated that women were in fact beginning to improve, and that is true. But women have now been caught in the same spiral that has dragged men's wages down, and that is why we have…

Leave it alone.'' That is what the majority of Americans are saying. If we allow this issue to rise from the dead, it will kill people. There is one reason to prefer this ban: Criminals prefer assault weapons. That is their weapon of…

if the comic Letterman were to name the 10 most unlikely events this year, 1 of them might be that the Presidential primary in any part of the United States would be canceled for lack of funds. I am here to tell you that this morning's…

education is the motherhood and apple pie of Congress, yet the divergent ideology on education is punishing 80,000 schoolchildren in the Nation's Capital. Six months into the appropriation year, a third of the District's Federal payment is…

the majority is pursuing a contradictory strategy. Everything they have hinged on eliminating the deficit, but an increase in the deficit would be the first result of default. The official position of the United States of America today is…

the D.C. appropriation has just passed this House after 4 very arduous months. The concern that I have had all along relates to the financial condition of the District. As I have seen what has happened to this city, I have not been able to…

As we approach the fifth month of the fiscal year, the appropriation of the District has finally come to the floor. This is the first time in more than 200 years that the D.C. appropriation has been so late. The subcommittee was prepared…

my mother always said, ``Do not let me have to tell you twice.'' We heard you, Moody's. We do not need to hear from Standard & Poor's, too. We need to respond that we are not the kamikaze Congress. The markets actually responded positively…