James Norton

I wanted, though, to begin by thanking the chairman of the District subcommittee, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Davis), and the vice chair, the gentlewoman from Maryland (Mrs. Morella), for going with me to the Committee on Rules last…

After the Bush press conference yesterday, there are now competing prescription drug plans from the candidates. But for the elderly or the baby-boomers, the competition is already over. The Bush plan is a fundamental, third-rail change…

Mr. Buchanan, a City of Chicago alderman, recently retired as a life-long resident and public servant of Chicago's 10th Ward. He has lived and served Chicago his entire life.

The gentleman does point out that crime is falling, and still we are way beyond other countries. Of course, the statistics the gentleman gave us from New Jersey very frankly could probably have been given from every State in the Union. No…

Mr. Speaker, I want to especially thank the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Franks), the subcommittee chairman, because, were it not for his leadership and attention to the Southeast Federal Center, we would not finally be on the path…

I would certainly like to reinforce what the gentleman is saying about protesters coming here with respect to the WTO. I would hope that in the city of Washington we do not have a repeat of what happened in the State of Washington. The…

Census forms are due. The Census form, the short form, is impressively short. It takes less than 10 minutes to fill out. I urge Members to help raise consciousness and raise the heat to get these forms back. I am having a job fair in my…

To clarify on the court suit, the measure in the bill keeps our corporation counsel, the one lawyer with expertise in District affairs, from even looking at the papers that had, in fact, been drawn by the private law firm, on his own time…

In one of the great ironies of this session, I am forced to ask for a no vote on the D.C. conference report that will come before us later today. My appropriation is actually a local budget with the old federal payment now abolished…

This straightforward resolution will allow the Architect of the Capitol to permit temporary construction and necessary other work on the Capitol grounds. The site is along Constitution Avenue in my district between Second Street and…

I also congratulate the gentlewoman that she has chosen a subject which allows us to speak on this floor about the contributions of African-Americans. In outlining the history of Negro History Week and Black History Month, she reminds us…

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

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…

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?

Great strides have been made in concurring breast cancer. Much of this progress is due to the work of the Congress in general and the bipartisan Congressional Women's Caucus in particular. Tamoxifen, a new drug now promises to prevent and…

The gentleman is appalled because the message strikes home. The gentleman is appalled because this Member is calling for respect. And as the gentleman respects human life on his set of values, there are no set of values on which the…

I am, of course, a strong supporter of the Historic Preservation Act. I represent a historic city, a city that was born with the Nation itself, with much to preserve on the Federal side and on the local side. I want to thank the gentlemen…

I will not abide reckless charges on the floor, and the thing I want to say is that there is no corruption in the D.C. Public schools or anywhere else. I think there is, and we have asked for investigations. But when the gentleman rises on…

I would like to refer the gentleman from Texas to the Wisconsin decision and to the Ohio decision. In both of those decisions the court said they were applying the lemon test, and in both of those decisions the court said the publicly…

Let me correct the gentlewoman from North Carolina on both of the decisions, both the Wisconsin and the Ohio decisions. The courts looked both to their State constitution and specifically, specifically grounded their decisions on the…

Mr. Chairman, shame on the gentleman from California (Mr. Campbell), my good friend and fellow law professor, for racializing this issue. Not once, not once did the gentleman allude to anything but race. This issue does not involve race…

I rise to lead a special order on economic equity for women. I expect to be joined by other women Members of Congress, perhaps by some men as well. They would be welcome. I come to the floor this evening during this special Women's History…

I raise this now because the EEOC is vitally important to women. Pay equity, sexual discrimination, pregnancy discrimination, job discrimination comes through its doors and through its complaint process. We had an extraordinary case, the…

I do have to say to this body that the gentleman from California, who represents his own district with great energy and great distinction, nevertheless decides he always has to do good where he is and has initiated a program here that he…