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…

Mr. Chairman, this House has a proud bipartisan record of reserving scarce Federal funds for public education. We cannot convincingly make the District of Columbia an exception to that record. The majority of the city council, the majority…

this amendment promises to be perhaps the first of three voucher-only votes in this body at this time. The first will be on this bill to remove or strike the funding for vouchers; the second would be the Davis bill, which will try to…

I wanted to put on the record what I learned at a Congressional Black Caucus hearing. The rap is put on these children that they are not as far ahead as they should be. I asked why they were not exposed to reading, and the testimony was…

Mr. Speaker, the All-American City Award, a 53-year-old program of the National Civic League recognizing civic excellence, annually honors 10 communities that best exemplify the spirit of grass-root citizen involvement and cross-sector…

I want to join my good friend, the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Shays), in speaking strongly for this measure introduced by the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Davis). As we have discussed prescription drugs for our seniors on the House…

I want to simply say that perhaps the greatest monument to Medgar Wiley Evers would be to see the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Thompson) on this floor. The notion in 1963 that there could be an African American in the Congress of the…

Mr. Chairman, I think I have an amendment, and this is the way to start off, that I think the entire House can support. The entire region supports this amendment on a bipartisan basis. I think Members are going to be hearing from the…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1018 is a bill to honor Judge James Watson, the Nation's most senior African American judge. He served on the United States Court of International Trade, a lifetime appointment by President Lyndon Johnson. Judge Watson…

Buckle Up America Week marks a high point in our push for greater seat belt and child safety seat use. This week kicks off a massive $20 million "Click It or Ticket" mobilization, the largest-ever nationwide law enforcement program to…

over 25 years ago, in May 1977, Congressman Oberstar testified in front of the Public Buildings Subcommittee, chaired by former Congressman Norman Mineta, our current Secretary of Transportation, about the stark reality of our energy…

I think we are going to remember April 1, 2003, as the day that gave birth to a new American civil rights movement, a second American civil rights movement.

the President and the majority have put us on a budgetary equivalent of automatic pilot. No matter what the Nation faces in emergencies, wars and ups and downs of the economic cycle, only tax cuts for the rich remain stable. Denials and…

today I have introduced a D.C. voting rights bill here in the House, and in the Senate it has been introduced by Senator Lieberman with seven sponsors besides Mr. Lieberman: Mr. Feingold, Ms. Feinstein, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Kennedy…

I rise in dismay at the self-inflicted isolation of our country and wonder if it is too late to recover from the most catastrophic failure in diplomacy in American history. We are left with no alternative to war, gradually each day even…

I want to focus on one issue and that is the failure to use multilateralism when it comes to AIDS policy. The unilateral approach we see here that we do not have a global approach to AIDS any more than we have the kind of global approach…

Mr. Chairman, I rise to try to inject a heavy dose of economic reality into what has been a morning of self-congratulation. TANF was not a success because of our brilliance, Mr. Chairman. The economy more than any other factor made TANF a…

of course the CR before us is not supposed to have items that raise the cost of government, nor agreement on what the cost should be. There is a sleeper item in this CR that Members need to know about because it certainly raises the cost…

I cannot believe that Congress understands what it is doing to the great American city called the District of Columbia. They are simply leaving this city hanging by a thread. It is an anomaly that it is here, anyway. This money is the…

We are now living in a country where people over 50 years of age have lost their shirts. The catastrophic effects of the market on baby boomers and older people is pouring out now in stories, in the newspapers about people going back to…

I rise to support giving long overdue honor to a man who will be remembered as a great chair of the Committee on Education and Labor. "Gus" Hawkins, as he was affectionately called, will be remembered for many significant federal laws that…

the House has taken little note of what is happening to the economy. Millions of Americans, however, are clamoring for our attention, and our increasing economic distress, I am not surprised that the House takes little interest in the…

Patsy had a second coming, and the House is all the better for it, but the heart of the House is broken today. Historic woman, first woman of color, came here 4 years before even the great Shirley Chisholm, the first African American, came…