Marcy Kaptur

Alan Greenspan has said fundamentally to the Congress, this is unsustainable. We cannot keep displacing production and bringing it in from elsewhere without ultimately having an impact on your ability to produce and create not just money…

September 11 reminded us all that neglect breeds violence, and an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. This bill has a lot of pounds of cure in it. Speaking as co-chair of the Ukrainian Caucus here in the House, I would like to…

I urge a ``no'' vote on the Thomas bill so we can ultimately bring up the Rangel-Levin bill which takes an important step to restore this body's constitutional mandate in trade making so that trade regimes lift all people. Why pass another…

I hope that every worker in America who has lost their job because of one of these trade agreements will write the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Brown) or myself, will tell us who they are because we are going to keep a list of who they are…

I know that some of the initiatives that the gentlewoman has taken on for Africa, for example, using these programs will be the first time that farmer to farmer programs and modernization programs will be used for development in rural…

I would really beg for the Chair's consideration as time goes on and for the ranking member's consideration of this important issue of renewable biofuels as a critical part of what our Department of Agriculture should be involved in.

I have documents from over 1,100 public housing authorities in our country and their neighborhoods that are benefiting from this program. Members should know and should check their own districts prior to voting on this amendment. It serves…

Another major concern regards the ownership of our public debt, particularly the extent and growth in foreign ownership of U.S. debt securities. I would say to the chairman, the ownership of the government's debt is increasingly in the…

Certainly we know in most of those places it is women who are raising most of the food and feeding their villages. We know that the historically black colleges and Tuskegee Institute will be especially sensitive to that. Without a doubt…

I do not think scarecrows work. Our experience over a decade ago with the MX missile proposal... we cannot just throw money at these problems. But with Star Wars, it seems to be different. Just throw enough money at it, and we will be…

I just wanted to end by pointing out an important clarification here. The gentlewoman from Missouri indicated there was a Supreme Court case or an appeals court case and inferred that it supported her point of view. Let me say that the…

It is my intention, Mr. Chairman, to withdraw this amendment this year, in hopes that final resolution can be reached on such matters as Land O'Lakes and Pioneer Seed; but I reserve my rights to attach this amendment to subsequent…

I thank the chairman. Secondly, anyone who knows Ukraine knows that its economic future will be highly dependent upon a reformed agricultural sector. To fail to recognize this fact in any development program is to ignore this country's…

I again thank the chairman. Finally, Mr. Chairman, with respect to the Russian food aid, the Agency for International Development has not placed a high enough priority on agricultural and food systems development there. Would the chairman…

I am sure that the gentleman has noted the greater and greater concentration in the agriculture industry, and it is much harder for producers to be company-equal partners in any kind of negotiation related to farm product and to actually…

I believe these would be the only three amendments on this side that currently are not allowed under the unanimous consent request. They all concern serious issues of civil rights and litigation related to that at the U.S. Department of…

I just wish we could power some of those sheep with some ethanol, but we will probably figure out a way to do that in the future.

I would ask very simple questions of those who have drafted this amendment and are offering it. Do the gentlemen wish to do anything in this amendment that would lessen the inspection that the FDA does of drugs that may be manufactured or…

I want to reexpress my appreciation to the gentleman from Florida (Chairman Young) and the gentleman from New Mexico (Chairman Skeen) for trying to restore regular order in this House and permitting the Members to exercise their will. The…

I do have a bit of a concern about an across-the-board, an unspecified cut in the agricultural research service because we have so much trouble in that account anyway. I think that the gentleman is obviously one of the leaders in this…

I offered an amendment to make sure that we did not spend any less this coming year than we did the current year, and the original bill that came to us was about $12 million under what we were spending for this area of renewables and…

My impression, Mr. Chairman, is that the disabled are currently underserved by section 811, and I am sure that the gentleman from New York would agree with me that we are not currently meeting the housing needs of the disabled. I further…

As I know the gentleman from New York (Chairman Walsh) is aware, appropriate housing and services for the disabled can vary widely. In the case of some mentally disabled individuals, their needs may simply be a home where they can feel…

I have a sinking feeling that the Republican leadership of this House is about to call a point of order against our amendment and not permit us to pass a program to help American workers who are going to lose their jobs to China. I think…

I had a young woman before one of our committees this past week. We were discussing this. She is a Chinese American. Her roommate was shot. Her roommate was a demonstrator in Tiananmen Square in 1989. This young woman who is a physicist…