J.C. Watts

Mr. Chairman, I ask my 435 colleagues in the House of Representatives how can the Government say to any American parent, regardless of their economic status, that they cannot send their children to schools that work? How can they force…

Across our Nation parents are engaged in a daily struggle for the hearts and minds and souls of their children. Their struggle is with an American culture which, under the protection of our constitutional freedoms, too often expresses…

I am delighted to stand today in support of H.R. 2015, the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, because my wife and I have five wonderful, healthy, vibrant children, and this bill is all about them and all about their future. After almost three…

on Thursday of last week, the White House threatened to veto H.R. 1119, the defense authorization bill, if it included language that will force the President to obey the Base Realignment and Closure Commission, the BRAC law. This law…

Mr. Speaker, as has been described here on the floor today, Juneteenth is the traditional celebration of the day on which the last slaves in America were freed. In September of 1862, in my opinion our greatest President, Abraham Lincoln…

while the White House is fully occupied with an army of lawyers dealing with all the campaign scandals, we here in Congress are moving forward with our agenda. Our agenda is nothing more than the agenda the American people who elected us…

Jackie Robinson said, Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstands just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life. Mr. Robinson did not waste his life. He inspired the lives…

I thank Mr. CANADY of Florida and I congratulate him on his leadership on this critical issue. Let us not fool ourselves about what we are voting on here today. The partial-birth abortion procedure inflicts a terrible violence on the body…

as a father I am concerned about not only my children but about the health and well-being of all children in this country. That is why I support a balanced budget amendment and a real balanced budget. But Mr. Clinton has determined that we…

I rise in support of H.R. 581, and I congratulate the sponsors, and especially the gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. Smith], for leading the effort on this bill, for presenting us with a responsible and viable alternative to House Joint…

I come to the floor tonight on behalf of the thousands of Oklahomans and millions of Americans who have swamped our offices with letters, phone calls, postcards and many, many petitions in opposition to the President's shameful veto of the…

recently, a physician asked exactly what we meant by the term, partial-birth abortion ban and instead of going through the grotesque explanation, we told her that she was right--we had been calling it by the wrong name. Late-term, or just…

I rise in support of H.R. 1776, the Black Revolutionary War Patriots Commemorative Coin Act. I commend our chairman, the gentleman from Delaware [Mr. Castle], and the ranking member, the gentleman from New York [Mr. Flake], for moving this…

I appreciate the Delegate from the District of Columbia, her effort on this amendment, and I want to say to the gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. Rogers], I feel like I owe him an apology because we tried to get an amendment yesterday to add…

Mr. Chairman, the FAA's Mike Monroney Center in Oklahoma City is the Nation's premier air traffic controller training center. The FAA recently rewarded a contract to the University of Oklahoma, under an open competitive process and open…

In the last week, churches have burned in North Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma, and Georgia. Fires are destroying our houses of worship like an unchecked scourge. With each fire, we have all felt the loss because any church that is burned in…

potential abuse of power and invasion of privacy have been uncovered in the Clinton White House. The White House requested, and received, highly confidential FBI files and records of former Reagan and Bush appointees, suggesting the…

it was reported over the weekend that the Clinton administration had used the FBI to obtain the confidential records of former Reagan and Bush administrations employees. The White House passed this off as a mere bureaucratic mistake; an…

I have served in this body now for about 17, a little over 17 months, and I have worked with many of these young people and have learned from them, and I hope that they are taking something positive and that they have learned something…

recently I was in Dallas, TX, and I bought a little plaque for my office that talked about priorities. I know it is very difficult to see this plague because I tried to photocopy it and it is pretty difficult to see it, but here is the…

there was a cultist popular humanistic theme in the 1960's that said ``God is dead.'' I am afraid that many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle decided that they were left in charge, and what they did was drive us into the…

this amendment provides for protection of elderly and disabled by providing that their rental payment will not exceed more than 30 percent of the family's monthly adjusted income.

the time is right for us to replace an outdated Depression-era law that was written in 1937. Instead of being rewritten to reflect modern housing needs and the challenges associated with public housing entities, the 1937 Housing Act had…

on this historic fifth anniversary of the Persian Gulf war, the lessons seem clear: America must work toward energy independence. But, this Nation seems to be ignoring the lessons of the past and heading in exactly the wrong…

as we note the fifth anniversary this month of the successful conclusion of the Persian Gulf war, we must also rededicate ourselves to achieving energy security. Five years after defeating Saddam Hussein's armies, America still depends on…