Darlene Hooley

No, it doesn't mandate that it needs to be an RFID device. It doesn't mandate that. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.

If I may, I would like to answer the gentleman's question. First of all, there is a definition in this bill. Secondly, it doesn't have a minimum standard. Now, the 1 percent is what the Department of Homeland Security asked for, that it is…

Over the last 7 years, Oregon seniors have told me that their top concern is the high cost of prescription drugs coupled with the lack of coverage for these lifesaving medicines under the Medicare program. Regrettably, the bill before us…

3,400 waiting at her hospital. I suspect everyone here who has a veteran hospital can talk about the number waiting already before the tax cut. It seems to me when any soldier comes home, he or she should not have to worry about whether or…

It is hard to cut waste, fraud and abuse when we are talking about compensation to disabled veterans and when we are talking about health care where there is not enough money and where they are already making cuts and the number of people…

The Democratic budget is a fiscally responsible budget that does not cut funds for veterans, that stimulates the economy, that makes sure that our children can go to college, have after-school programs, and the Republican budget does not…

I am opposed to cloning of humans. I do not believe there is any justification in replication of a human being. However, I believe that we in Congress have a responsibility to carefully craft Federal legislation on cloning that will not…

I rise against the Republican no- benefit prescription drug proposal that is harmful to seniors in my State.

This, again, should be a simple matter. We have heard from Florida, where it literally costs a person a penny a week or less. This can be achieved very easily by placing signs near produce bins or with price information in the stores…

I would either withdraw this proposal today so that, in fact, we could do this amendment as a stand-alone bill.

I believe we need a clarification or assurance from the sponsors that they do not define the home as a polling place in a vote-by-mail or absentee voting environment. If the standard above were interpreted as applying to a home, it would…

Let me try to put that in some perspective. I talked about my piece of legislation. Whether it is this or something else, it really does not matter as long as we live up to the obligation. If we look at fully funding it over the next 5…

It is probably a very small amount of money compared to all the money he brought in off of government.

Oh, he did not know about it. That is right, he did not know about it. When all the other governors supported it, he did not know about it.

But he says he supports it. But I am just saying he keeps talking about how he can get this done in a bipartisan way. I wished he would pick up the phone and call some of these people.

Asthma is now the number one reason that children miss school, the number one reason for absenteeism in our schools today. That is directly related to what the gentleman was just talking about; it is our air and whether or not it is clean…

And the reason it is so important to hire 100,000 new teachers is because they are for kindergarten through third grade. And we know if children have smaller classroom sizes, they learn better and it follows them all the way through. So…

One of the things we talk about all the time is how important education is. And what this budget does, the Democratic substitute, is actually put money where our mouths are. That is the most important investment we can make, is in our…

This bill will help ensure that first and second time juvenile offenders don't fall through the cracks.

Failure of the juvenile to adhere to the plan would result in a referral back to juvenile court.

The bill provides funding for Juvenile Accountability Coordinators who will: Conduct an in-depth assessment of juvenile immediately upon arrest.

This act will provide communities with the ability to take a comprehensive approach to holding first and second time non-violent offenders accountable for their actions.

Today I am introducing the Juvenile Accountability and Crime Prevention Act of 1999.

As a result, the family checkbook is playing a smaller role in our democracy. Special interests are gaining more influence than ever over who is in office, what they support, and what types of bills this Congress passes. Frankly, this is…