Kendra S. Horn

I believe basically that the will of the House is supreme, and what can be done by some of its committees certainly can be done by the whole body of the House. We all know there is a rule that we cannot legislate on an appropriations bill…

I hope that the House will reject the amendment offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Royce). I am sure it is meant in good will, but the fact is that it defers too much money to next year. His amendment would defer $237 million. I…

I want to praise the gentleman on behalf of the Arts Caucus, which is much more than 130 in this Chamber. I appreciate all he has done, both in the committee and are going to do. I would say to my friend, the gentleman from Florida (Mr…

I commend my colleagues, Mr. Portman and Mr. Matsui, and support H.R. 3916, the Phone Tax Repeal Act. In 1898, Congress approved a ``temporary'' tax of one cent on long distance phone calls, as a way of funding the Spanish-American War…

And we should not be funding diesel equipment in any of these bills anywhere, be it the Nation or the State or the county, and what we need to concentrate on are the natural gas technology and particularly the battery technology. Since the…

Mr. Speaker, health care paperwork has become a complex and often confusing problem for many Americans. Many of us have experienced the confusion of erroneous billings, lengthy delays in reimbursement, and troubling disputes about what is…

in 1990, Congress passed and President Bush signed into law the Breast and Cervical Cancer Mortality Prevention Act, creating the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program. This program allows States to work with the…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today on National Teachers Day to pay tribute to America's teachers. Every day I can go through in my mind the teachers I had from first grade through the senior year of high school, not to mention the college teachers…

today the City of Long Beach, California, mourns the loss of a fine young police officer who was brutally murdered last Saturday night in a gang attack that also wounded his partner. Officer Daryle Black was 33 years of age when he died in…

H.R. 1827, the Government Waste Corrections Act, would require executive branch departments and agencies to use a process called ``recovery auditing'' to review the various payment transactions in order to check for erroneous overpayments…

today this House of Representatives will take a real step toward tax reform for America's working retirees. By repealing the so-called Social Security earnings test, we are doing away with an outdated law that affects over 800,000 seniors…

every Member of this House knows that although we have a Federal budget surplus now, we still face a very low national savings rate. That is because individuals simply do not or cannot save a significant portion of their income. That…

in the 1996 presidential campaign, our nation witnessed the most scandalous money chase since the glory days of the big-city bosses and the robber barons. The question we now face is whether we have the will to clean up and toughen our…

Mr. Speaker, I just want to thank the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Turner), the ranking member. He had an excellent series of questions this morning of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and the General Accounting Officer. The gentleman is…

I think a lot of our colleagues know that most of us in this chamber work very hard in committee, we work on a bipartisan basis in many committees and subcommittees. I am shocked at what I have seen tonight with motions to adjourn when we…

I think every American over 45 years of age remembers the heroic stand that Rosa Parks took. That stand inspired the Nation, and the inspiration of the Nation ultimately inspired Congress--both the House and the Senate. She did this at the…

when John F. Kennedy committed our Nation to sending a man to the moon by the end of the 1960s, he was not ambiguous and he did not hedge. He committed this Nation to a hard-to-reach goal with the knowledge that American ingenuity and hard…

earlier today I expressed my views on why the American military should not be sent to Kosovo. The conflict in Kosovo is taking place within a sovereign nation. If we are going to go to war with a sovereign nation, we ought to provide a…

Mr. Chairman, during a speech in Ashland, Kentucky in March of 1829, the distinguished former Speaker of this House, Henry Clay said, ``Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees, and both the trust and the…

Censure did not change Andrew Jackson. We have heard a lot about censure during the Jackson administration. When the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Cherokee Indians, Jackson was heard to say about the sitting Chief Justice, ``Well…

I happen to represent the two largest ports in the United States, the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles. I want to see steel moving both ways through those great ports. They are among the top in the world. But, right now, 90…

This is truly a bipartisan effort. It is nonpartisan. It is the old story of the city manager movement. Garbage is not Democrat or Republican, it simply has to be removed from the streets, and that is exactly the way we have all worked…

it is funny how the other side has such stunning lapses of memory. Whenever a number of Ivy League law school graduates appear before the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight or other congressional committees or courts of law, I…

I am rising to recognize a very important asset we have in the war that we have waged consistently against waste, fraud and abuse within the Federal Government. Madam Speaker, 20 years ago this month, in an effort to more effectively…

In the fiscal year 1997, which ended September 30, 1997, the inspector general audits identified $25 billion in funds that year that could be put to better use. They returned to the government $3 billion in restitution and investigative…