Stephanie Tubbs Jones

I guarantee you that the Members who needed to get information by a certain date got their information. You are not going to use my committee on the floor to be a battling horse for anybody. I tell you, I will live within the dollars I…

Mr. Boehner, thank you very much, all of you. But let's find a forum to address this issue other than in this process. I guarantee you that our leadership can sit down and work this out. I'm not going to be used. I'm telling you, the…

If you would allow me, I would love to have my colleague, Congresswoman Norton, join me. She was a former commissioner and worked with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Let me just say this, if I have the assurance of the chairman, and I have not worked with you before, but I know that you are a man of your word, you are willing to work with me to try to keep it from being permanent until we hear what is…

The reason I am making the amendment, I brought up the amendment, is the proposal is to make the NCC permanent before the pilot is over with. That is why I am screaming and hollering. If you are saying to me that it is not going to be made…

They say that if you look at inflation and apply it to minimum wage, the minimum wage today should be $9.08. And even in our proposals we are only asking for $7.25. Give people an opportunity to make a living and be proud of themselves…

I am laughing, Mr. Tanner. Remember when we had the IRS hearing, and the IRS decided that they were going to go look for waste, fraud and abuse in Earned Income Tax Credit instead of looking for waste, fraud and abuse in the larger…

If you would allow me, on a wholly different issue, I would like to take this opportunity at this time to congratulate the council president of the city of Cleveland, Frank Jackson. Frank Jackson just won the mayoral primary in the city of…

Now is the time to help the people of America who have been in this situation for 3 or 4 days. If we can go into Iraq and rebuild Iraq, we can build what the people of America need in the Gulf region and take care of what they need…

Absolutely, Mr. Speaker. And, reclaiming my time, the interesting thing about this BRAC facility in the city of Cleveland, it has developed a system for garnishment, which is one of the ways in which we are able to collect child support…

In closing, I am so pleased that Senator Snowe is offering a similar piece of legislation in the Senate with regard to data information on specific projects. I thank all of my colleagues for coming to the floor to support this amendment…

Not only are we giving them this money up front. When the seniors finally do get a prescription drug benefit in 2006, we are going to be forcing the seniors to pay the premium every month into the plan and they will get no coverage when…

Last year when my mother was very ill, she had to get five prescriptions on her health care plan. I went to the pharmacist to pick up these various drugs. Three were within the plan. One cost $10, another $10 and another $11; but two were…

Time will show and time will tell that the John Kerry that I know and the John Kerry that I have worked with and that I traveled with is a man of substance, a man of strength, a man who wants to see this Nation back on its feet and wants…

I adamantly oppose the legislation that is before us on behalf of the millions of low-income workers who will not receive adequate funding under this bill.

On election day Tuesday in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, the voters of the city of Cleveland elected four smart, intelligent, good-looking African American women to the municipal court: Emanuella Groves, reelected; Lauren Moore, elected for…

I will reiterate that it is so important that everybody understand that even though Chile and Singapore may be better than other countries, these agreements are set to be a model for future trade agreements, and we do not want to set the…

The wonderful thing about all these agreements is that, right in the Ohio delegation, we have five members in our delegation who are on record in opposition to this trade agreement. I believe it is probably the largest number of Members…

My philosophy is tax cuts should not be given to people that do not pay taxes. That is a welfare program. And I do not object to all welfare programs. Although, I can tell you that every time that you give money to somebody who is not…

What else was very interesting, I saw the other day, was an article that was discussing not only the fact that the low-income workers are not getting any benefit from the tax plan, that the IRS is now making proposals that people who get…

It is very interesting, has the gentleman been able in this plan anywhere to find any benefit for unemployed workers who are out of money who would spend their money right away if they were able to get any of this money?

Mr. Speaker, I am clear that my constituents would say to me, keep the ``sense,'' meaning S-E-N-S-E, and give me a prescription drug benefit for senior citizens. Keep the ``sense'' and fund No Child Left Behind. Keep the ``sense'' and…

I am only responding to the statement of another Member that disparaged the faith and loyalty of trial lawyers on the floor just before I got up.

I would say I support the amendment of the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Watt) because it does, in fact, limit the responsibility against manufacturers of guns and those who have made steps to cure the dilemma or the difficulty or the…

Oh, freedom; oh freedom. I pledge my unequivocal support for the Armed Forces of the United States of America. I, too, have visited troops in Germany, Italy, Kosovo, Qatar, Bahrain and Hawaii. I have attended deployments of two units from…