I am wearing a Liz Claiborne, very attractive, very glamorous scarf which is being used and is being handed out to Members of Congress, especially women Members of Congress this week, as we call attention to Violence Against Women and Stop…

Mr. Speaker, Paso Robles, California, is a small town nestled in the Central California wine country. Since 1892, the clock tower atop the Mastagni Building had kept the pulse of the town, an unceasing progression of hours for 111 years…

The Detroit Shocks proved they were the best team in the league last September when they came from behind and knocked out the two-time defending champions the Los Angeles Sparks before the league's largest crowd in history, with a score of…

I have left a hearing to come to the floor to congratulate the gentlewoman from California for coming forward with a bill that does what the great majority of the American people want to see us do today. Is the point here to penalize…

I want to thank the three gentlemen who have preceded me in speaking, because what they have done is herculean. They have worked together in a bipartisan manner to try to get a bill for this House. There are three different figures here…

How can we possibly pass the Community Services Block Grant to aid the poor, and leave the people who are being made poor by the jobless recovery with nothing? I agree with the gentleman from Arizona who said the remedy for this is jobs…

Today when regrettably when almost half of high school students report having had sexual intercourse, I want Members to consider the following: How would a court likely react when an 18-year-old star high school athlete, a student from a…

the denial of voting rights to people in the District of Columbia who pay their taxes every day and are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, and all around the world is finally sparking national attention, and even more important, it is sparking…

I am very concerned with what it means in particular for the baby boomers who seem to me are in dire risk because of the President's budget which is not even out yet. It is already controversial. CBO's projections, as I understand them, do…

I literally mean it as friendly advise because the subject is the cause of so much chaos in the African American community, and that subject is jobs. The President got 10 percent of the black vote the last time, something under 10 percent…

yesterday was December 7, known as the Day of Infamy, so named by the great President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Mr. Speaker, I suggest this evening that this day is a kind of day of infamy for this House, particularly with the passage of…

Mr. Speaker, this morning's news talks about the elections in Russia. At the same time it speaks about elections, it talks about the steady erosion of democratic freedoms embodied in these elections, and it says there is mounting national…

I strongly support the many provisions of H.R. 3521, but I rise to speak particularly about the D.C. tax incentives because the Members of this body have seen what these tax incentives have done with their own eyes. They have seen the…

I can identify with the frustration of the gentleman from Alaska (Mr. Young) and the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Mica) because you really did do your job. You have gotten a good bipartisan bill out of committee, and I know it because up…

I appreciate that this bill was authorized in 1996 and that the Congress understood it to be an important matter, that Martin Luther King, who has been honored all over the world, has never been sufficiently honored until he is honored by…

I want him to know that I think I would speak for the chair, as well as myself, when I say it was heartbreaking not to have more money for this bill because of the way in which communities came forward and wanted to be included. But we…

I rise, therefore, in support of H.R. 2535 as amended by the manager's amendment, a bill to reauthorize the program authorized by the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965. This bill will reauthorize the Economic Development…

To close, I just want to remind Members of what the mission is of this bill that was declared in 1965, to enhance community success in attracting private capital investment and lucrative job opportunities. This is not a classic public…

The President himself woke up the American people with his September 7, $87 billion sticker-shock speech. People have already voted. Choose the poll: 59 percent in one, 66 percent in another. The vote is ``no.'' The reason is the President…

Let me say what we all know, that there are no veterans, and I think all would agree, that are more deserving than Vietnam veterans, no veterans that got a rawer deal at home and in the field. We cannot do enough. They still are the…

I think it bears saying that Dorothy Height, who is a District resident, although she lived for many years in New York, is indeed a great American leader among us and one of a kind. There is no comparable leader in American life today…

I want to say that I do support the gentlewoman's work and the work of the Chair on the Defense Production Act, and I am particularly grateful for the Meeks amendment on minority contracting. As we now go abroad, it becomes more relevant…

I appreciate that the Members understand the vulnerability we feel here in the national capital. The gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Cummings) is in this region as well. And, of course, there is almost no attention being paid to vulnerability…

I thank the gentlewoman for New York (Ms. Slaughter) for her steadfast work to preserve a woman's right to choose, as this bill does not, and to keep us from endangering that right from the thirteenth week on. And that is what this bill…

If I were to summarize what I have to say today, it would be that the troops have become an abstract concept. I want to deconstruct the concept. The proposition that I want to put forward is that two inexcusable errors by the…