the time for final passage of the reauthorization of the Office of Education Research and Improvement, OERI, has come. The Senate and the House have agreed on the language of the bill, and both houses, on a bipartisan, bicameral basis have…

does this body have the will and resolve to commit this Nation to a future of peace, or will we leave for our children an inheritance of uncertainty and world instability? I do not want to see our Nation at war, and I pray that this crisis…

I rise in support of H.R. 5331, which would extend educational and privacy rights currently available to families of public school students to home schooled children. I want to applaud my colleague from Minnesota, Representative Mark…

Madam Speaker, let me congratulate my colleague, the gentleman from California (Mr. Ose), for bringing this resolution honoring the braceros and their contribution to our country during a very difficult period.

Before I talk about the bill that we have on the floor today, let me pay tribute to a colleague and friend, Patsy Mink. It is my understanding the House will consider and adopt a formal resolution this week honoring her service to our…

the rhetoric we are hearing from our friends across the aisle is not about children. This is all about politics. And when it comes to education funding or any other kind of funding, our Democrat friends this year have no budget, no plan…

Mr. Speaker, in May, my colleagues and I passed important legislation to reauthorize the 1996 welfare reform law, one of the most successful social policies ever enacted by Congress. It has transformed the lives of millions of families and…

let me congratulate our colleague from California, the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means (Mr. Thomas), for what really was a very successful negotiation with the Senate over putting this Trade Promotion Authority bill together…

I am pleased to bring attention to the First Tee program. I appreciate the bipartisan support that this resolution has received. The First Tee program was a collaboration between the World Golf Foundation, the PGA tour, the PGA of America…

What we went through was a bipartisan, commonsense exercise to ask the higher-education community what is it that makes your life more miserable that we can address. We went through a commonsense, bipartisan effort to put this bill…

I rise in support of H.R. 4866, the Fed Up Higher Education Technical Amendments of 2002. The bill provides for technical amendments to the Higher Education Act. This bill has had bipartisan support throughout its process. The development…

Mr. Speaker, the first thing I notice about the Democratic substitute is that, at least on the surface, it has no quarrel with strong work requirements. This really tells me they have come a long way since 1996, when many of my friends on…

Mr. Speaker, the 1996 welfare reform law that we are reauthorizing today has been an unprecedented success, one of the most important pieces of social policy since the civil rights legislation of 1965. Today with the Personal…

H.R. 4737 is a top priority for President Bush and one of the most important bills we'll consider this year. The 1996 welfare reform law--one the most successful social policy initiatives in recent memory--is set to expire later this year…

Reclaiming my time, I would argue that the opposite is exactly true. I reluctantly urge Members to vote no on this bill.

the reauthorization of the Office of Education Research and Improvement has been waiting for more than 3 years to receive action on the floor of the House. And today we have the Education Science Reform Act of 2002 here through the hard…

I would argue that the proposal offered by my good friend, the gentleman from California (Mr. George Miller), does in fact go way too far. Let me point out several of those differences. As the gentleman said, when it comes to…

before us today is a bipartisan bill that will help promote security, education, and freedom for employees who have worked and saved all of their lives for a safe and secure retirement. Those of us on the Committee on Education and the…

Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my good friend from Massachusetts' concern about his amendment that would seek to eliminate the ability of, frankly, some of the best advisers, some of the most successful companies in America, from offering…

the act is not intended to apply to diversification provision in the indication of a nonpublicly traded employer with affiliates that have only a limited amount of publicly traded stock outstanding. In this special case, as in others that…

Mr. Speaker, let me close with our section on the general debate and thank my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for their contributions to this process. Members on both sides of the aisle believe it is important to protect retirement…

Mr. Speaker, we have talked a lot today about diversification, blackout periods, fiduciary duty; but at the end of the day what this bill really is about is real people and their own financial security. Current pension law is simply…

this year's budget provides the resources for education reform while funding a nation at war. As one of the authors of the bipartisan education bill signed by the President in January, I'm proud to support this budget. It's a compassionate…

Every 2 years we as Members raise our right hand and swear to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. That means when bills come before this House we have a responsibility to, in our opinion, look to see if we are, in…

I do believe that fixing the student loan interest rate problem will provide continued availability of affordable student loans for our students. Today some 9 million students take advantage of our student loan program, the highest number…