Mr. McKEON. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of the substitute offered by the gentleman from Illinois. Before I came to this body I had the opportunity to serve on a local school board for several years. I served with four concerned…

and my colleagues, the foundation of the Clinton health care plan is a requirement that employers shall pay 80 percent of the cost of health care coverage for their employees. It is estimated by a number of different organizations that…

Goals 2000 is on the floor today. We ought to remember why we are here and where this process started. The process started when 50 Governors came together with then-President Bush to talk about what can the Governors and the President do…

the stonewalling by the Democrat majority in the House has subsided, at least for now. Earlier this morning the bipartisan leadership of the House has come to some agreement that there will be hearings on the Whitewater matter, and their…

Many Members in this Chamber believe that this resolution covers all of the funding for committees when, in fact, that is not the case, not even close. Looking at the chart next to me, the total amount of funding for committees is not the…

I come to the floor today to oppose the committee funding resolution as presented by the majority. As the gentleman from Kansas has pointed out, what is portrayed as a 5-percent cut really in fact is a 2-percent cut, and we can quibble…

I rise today in strong support of the Stenholm-Smith balanced budget amendment. During my service in Congress, I have stressed the need for reform in Government. To me, there is no more significant reform Congress can take than to enact a…

Mr. Speaker and my colleagues, yesterday the President of the United States said at a Democratic fund raiser in Boston--he decided to use the occasion to attack the Republican Party, and he attacked the Republican Party as the party of…

I would just respond that no one is questioning the integrity of the people from the territories. No one is trying to make this an argument between citizens of this country and citizens of the States versus the citizens of the territories…

I would point out the territories under the piece of legislation we are considering would get under title I $70 million. Under chapter 2, they will get $4,350,000. Under the Eisenhower Program, they will get another $4 million, plus…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Let me make it clear that Hawaii qualifies like any other State for all of the educational programs that come out of the Federal Government. But I want to remind my colleagues in the Chamber that there…

Mr. Chairman, I rise today in opposition to the Durbin amendment. I do not oppose the amendment because I think kids ought to be allowed to smoke in school. Certainly kids should not smoke in school or anywhere else, and I do not think…

As we have debated this bill over the last week and the week before in committee, the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Miller] and I and others have been trying to eliminate a lot of the programs that the President wanted eliminated in the…

I rise today to support Mr. Miller's amendment. I understand that there is a desire among school districts for more technology in the classroom and more services for their libraries. I acknowledge that we are in the midst of the…

referring to us as ``mean people''? Mr. de LUGO. Reclaiming my time, Mr. Chairman, I did not refer to anyone as ``mean.'' I said that it was a mean-spirited act. I stand by those words.

I bring to the attention of the Members in the Chamber the fact that on Thursday the House will consider the budget resolution for fiscal year 1995. During that debate on Thursday the Republican Members led by the gentleman from Ohio, Mr…

I sit on your subcommittee, and you do a wonderful job. I have to ask you this question: Do you currently have a school district in your congressional district that receives funding under the Follow Through Program?

I thank the gentleman from Florida for speaking and for yielding on this important issue. The gentleman and I do not have any beef with the program, and if Members want to do the program in their districts, more power to them, because…

Would you think that with this new authorization that that school district would continue to receive funding?

I do not blame them for standing up on the floor here defending the program, trying to keep that money coming into their districts. We are all familiar with pork in Congress. We all think it all happens in the appropriations bills, but it…

As I said earlier, I do not have any problem with the objectives that the Members who put this language in here are trying to accomplish. The problem is that it is only $10 million. It is not a problem that is going to help in transition…

I rise today to offer an amendment which would allow school districts to use their title I funds for public school choice programs. To begin, I would like to emphasize three points. First, this amendment is strictly optional. There is no…

if this was such an important program, why would not President Clinton have proposed in his recent budget that this program continue? And why would he, when he proposed the reauthorization of the elementary and secondary and vocational…

when it comes to their health care reform plan, the Clinton White House is saying to the American people, ``Try it. You'll like it.'' But after looking at the particulars of this proposal, the people are gagging on the Clinton plan. Eight…

I want to thank the gentleman from Oklahoma for yielding, and want to congratulate the gentleman for his persistence in bringing this issue to the floor. For 6 months now this issue has been under discussion. The gentleman from Oklahoma…