Mr. Speaker, we should look upon the day of remembrance in the very same way that we look upon Martin Luther King's birthday. We need to remember, because if we forget, we cannot be sure that sacrifices that were made will not have to be…

because I represent the home jurisdiction of the United States Congress, I want to personally welcome new Members of the House and my friends and colleagues from past years. Many of them will spend more of their time here than they will in…

I especially want to thank her for her consistent and dedicated leadership on gun safety; leadership that has not faltered, as I am sad to say this Congress has. I want to congratulate the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tancredo), who knows…

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. Chairman, I have had it. I have really had it. Why do you see people go to the gallery, screaming at the top of their lungs, something I do not encourage now and did not encourage then, it has a lot to do with what we have just heard…

Mr. Chairman, for many of us, this has become an issue laden with emotional content because of its life-or-death consequences so visible where we live. HIV-AIDS has become another burden of race in our country and in this majority black…

Mr. Chairman, I rise to introduce a democracy amendment that will wipe out all riders, most of them operational riders, that are outdated or irrelevant. Members would not commit themselves one way or the other on the substance of any…

I rise to speak for the city where free Americans reside, not the Federal city. The Federal city belongs to everyone. As free American citizens, Wards 1 through 8 belong to those of us who live in the District of Columbia. Each year lots…

I rise to oppose a rule shot through with financial, operational, and social intrusions that should concern no one unless you happen to be a resident of the District of Columbia. D.C. is once again bringing up the rear of the…

I ask Members to stand back for a moment from the gag rule. Seldom have so many violations of cardinal American principles, which enjoy overwhelming support and respect in our own country, been embodied in one law. Look at what is at stake…

The Republican majority touts their plan for offering people choices. Why do they not begin by giving us a choice of bills? It is unthinkable that seniors would buy into a plan that thrusts them further into the managed care and HMO market…

Mr. Speaker, it is with special and personal pleasure that I rise in support of this legislation. H.R. 3323 would designate the new FDA laboratory located in Jamaica, Queens, New York, in honor of our former colleague and Member, Floyd…

I rise in support of H.R. 1959, a bill to designate the Judicial Training Center in San Antonio, Texas, in honor of Judge Adrian A. Spears. President John Kennedy appointed Judge Spears to the Federal bench in 1961. Judge Spears…

Mr. Speaker, I am a strong cosponsor of H.R. 809, a bill to provide a higher level of law enforcement professionalism in the Federal Protective Service, or FPS. The FPS is responsible for providing security not only in Federal buildings…

I very much appreciate the action of the chairman of the full committee in moving this bill forward. Had it not moved, there would have been a cascading effect on a referendum that is required in order to settle the matter of the school…

on April 12, 2000, I testified in the subcommittee chaired by the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Porter) with a group representing the bipartisan Congressional Women's Caucus about a problem that affects women slightly more than men but has…

As a fourth generation Washingtonian, I must say that growing up in the Nation's capital was like growing up in a cultural desert. The only great company was the National Symphony Orchestra, and I am pleased that now the Congress would…

H.R. 3519 has important breakthrough potential to level substantial funding from those who have it to those who do not. The spectrum of urgent needs in Africa from prevention to treatment and research is exhausting to even contemplate…

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.

Mr. Speaker, if I might, I would like to offer some personal comments about the Senator, because, though I am a native Washingtonian, I spent some of the best years of my career as Human Rights Commissioner of New York City and executive…

there have been lots of marches in Washington, but some marches do not fade away. Indeed, they do not go away at all. A movement was born yesterday, Mr. Speaker. In this city there occurred the largest anti-violence march in the Nation's…

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, the need for national gun legislation is brought home by the virtual futility that many of us who have succeeded in getting strong gun legislation in our own jurisdictions now see to that effort. Many large cities in the…

It should not take a million moms to do anything, but that is what we are going to get this coming Sunday, Mother's Day. Actually, it should not have taken the moms whose children died at the Columbine High School youth massacre. It should…

Indeed so, because when children are acculturated to violence, they get it off the television, off the same CDs, off the same networks, they get it out of the same Hollywood, we really are one Nation. Nothing, ironically, proves that more…