Kendra S. Horn

I will save substantive remarks on the proposal as a whole for the debate. But I would like to say a few things in response to my fine colleague, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Kucinich), the new ranking minority member on the Subcommittee…

I feel very strongly in support of the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York. I will support it. But I will also vote against this bill. We have a wonderful Resident Commissioner here from Puerto Rico. There is excellent…

I happen to have been on the drafting team in the Senate where we wrote that bill in the Republican leader's back office. There were four of us on the staff from the Republican leadership side, and there were five on the Democratic side…

I think he raises legitimate questions, and I recall back to my first years in the Congress in 1993-1994 when we had numerous meetings with the then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Colin Powell. He was always a very honest…

I am certainly not saying that Saddam was our friend, but I think our administration was naive in its support of Iraq against Iran, and that is what concerns me. The balance of power system, while academics can write about it, and the…

Let me just say, for my own answer, I think that our problem here is that we have given too many Presidents powers that belong to Congress. I was on the floor as a young Senate assistant when the Tonkin Gulf Resolution came in. Only two…

A vote against this bill says ``We do not want to check citizenship. We want illegals and noncitizens to vote in American elections.'' Now, if Members think this is wrong, may I say, we all stand up and take the oath in this Chamber to…

when my Irish great-grandfather came here, the first time he had a chance to vote, he dressed up in top hat and tails to go to the polls. When my German immigrant father came here, he could not afford the top hat or the tails, but the…

we all know that Ron Dellums was the first African American member of the House Committee on National Security. I came in the 103rd Congress, when he was chairman, and I can testify that in those two years not one single Democrat, not one…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1493 expands nationwide the successful prearraignment identification programs currently run by the Immigration and Naturalization Service at the city of Anaheim and Ventura County jails. This means that 100 such programs…

here we have another attraction for people to come here illegally and then realize, well, ``we are sort of dumb here and we will say `if you pay us $1,000, you can sort of stay around.''' Let us not just think about the young Americans…

with the exception of Representative Sanchez, I have heard a lot of shouting on the other side of the aisle. Because one shouts does not mean that one is seeking the truth. I think most people in this Chamber know that I would vote for the…

Davis-Bacon is one of the finest laws we have on the books. Davis and Bacon were both leading Republicans in the Congress of 1931. We faced the same thing now that they faced then, people coming in undercutting the prevailing wage rate…

I am an educator. I have spent 30 years of my life in education, and I have long opposed vouchers generally, but I have favored vouchers to build competition within public schools. Mr. Chairman, we are in such a crisis in this city that I…

H.R. 680 is a bill to enhance charitable activities by authorizing the transfer of surplus property to organizations that provide assistance to impoverished individuals. This bill offers a helping hand to the neediest in our society at…

I have known our guest chaplain today, Rabbi Sidney Guthman, since moving to Long Beach in 1970. During the time I was president of California State University, Long Beach, he was deeply involved with the students as friend and as…

It is sort of sad that the European Community is talking about fines when their countries have subsidized Airbus to the tune of $34 billion or more dollars over the last decade.

My final reason for urging Members to oppose the substitute, and the substitute is in essence what the minority wants to do here, is because it provides for rules and procedures that would severely hamstring the investigation. The…

I urge my colleagues, regardless of party, ideology within the party, to support the Spence amendment. It is long overdue. Its passage will result in savings for the average taxpayer. Equally important, the Spence amendment will result in…

Members might recall that a few weeks ago I discussed some of the participants in the investigation that is about to be undergone by the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. We talked about Web Hubble, we talked about the Riadys…

the White House has stated on a number of occasions that it is fully cooperating with our committee subpoenas, but that is simply not true. The White House has given us some documents, but they consist mostly of highly censored items; the…

these are the six individuals about which the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight is seeking to obtain documents from the White House. Three of them, former associate attorney general Webb Hubbell, Commerce Department official…

H.R. 680, originally introduced by the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Hamilton], is a bill for the transfer of surplus personal property for donation to providers of necessities to impoverished families and individuals. This bill would…

Mr. Speaker, I think as most would agree from their comments, this is a very innovative, progressive piece of legislation, one that is bipartisan in nature, which will meet needs all over this country and help provide home ownership for a…

today I and 16 other colleagues are introducing the Voter Eligibility Verification Act, H.R. 1428. I think most American citizens would say that the very hallmark of citizenship is the right to cast one's vote and to have it counted. But…