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in honor of National Teachers Appreciation Week, I rise to pay tribute to our teachers. I would like to recognize Mike Weddle, a teacher from Waldo Middle School in Salem, Oregon, who was recently awarded one of the three Milken awards for…
I rise today to recognize a familiar figure to the people in Newport, Oregon, one of the coastal communities in my district. After 37 years with the United States Postal Service, on March 30, Steve Bruns officially hung up his mail bag for…
I would like to comment upon one aspect of the changes to the manufactured housing language within H.R. 1776--and that is the composition of the Consensus Committee. First, let me say that I applaud the diligence of all those who…
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…
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…
Right now I do not think there is a bigger issue facing seniors in Oregon and elsewhere in the United States than prescription drugs. Two months ago, Mr. Speaker, a massive ad campaign was undertaken in the Portland media market attacking…
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.
Failure of the juvenile to adhere to the plan would result in a referral back to juvenile court.
Today I am introducing the Juvenile Accountability and Crime Prevention Act of 1999.
The bill provides funding for Juvenile Accountability Coordinators who will: Conduct an in-depth assessment of juvenile immediately upon arrest.
This bill will help ensure that first and second time juvenile offenders don't fall through the cracks.
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…
imagine a land where cows outnumber the people two to one, where the high school football team is aptly named the Cheesemakers, and where world famous cheddar cheese is produced by a cooperative of dairy farmers, many who have passed that…
watching this debate I couldn't help but ask myself a question. Where are the 302B allocations? For those watching at home, 302B allocations set the spending levels that the 13 Appropriations Committees must work with to move forward the…
Mr. Chairman, I am an original cosponsor of H.R. 833, a bill that provides common sense bankruptcy reform. It has been said that over the last 7 years we have had unparalleled economic prosperity and yet the bankruptcy filings have hit an…
when one offers with one hand and takes away with the other hand, that is called bait and switch. If one were an advertiser in the public sector, one would be fined for what is going on in Congress today. This Congress is trying to tell…
I have worked well with the Republicans since coming to Congress. I think it is important to try to work together. But what this Republican budget does is cross that line of reason. This is a bait and switch budget. Republicans are saying…
I used to be a teacher. I can guarantee my colleagues that smaller classroom sizes, you have much better performance by the students. Do not take just my word for it but go out and look at all of the research on this subject and you will…
economists and the Congressional Budget Office agree: We have a budget surplus starting in the year 2001, which will grow to $164 billion by the end of the year 2009. Let me tell my colleagues when I talk to people in Oregon what they say…
Americans now are looking at the longest peacetime expansion of the United States economy since the start of the 20th century. The outlook for our future is rosy. Economic growth is expected to continue to rise, and unemployment is…
I am sick at heart as I stand before this body today. I believe in this institution of self-government and that good people can disagree on issues and that we must respect that disagreement. But I believe in order to have legitimate…
when I watched the 104th Congress--the partisanship and the petty games--I was sickened. I was frustrated by the willingness of a Congress to shut down the entire Federal Government for political gain; and I was frustrated by the…
I rise today to enter into a colloquy with the subcommittee chairman regarding a program that is important to the coastal communities in this Nation. Mr. Chairman, less than three weeks ago the world witnessed one of the most devastating…
I rise today to say thanks to Capitol Police Officer Jacob Chestnut and Special Agent John Gibson for being there when we needed them the most. I really shudder to think of how much worse this tragedy could have been if these two men had…
I look at these two bills and I see mirror images. The Hastert bill takes us a step backwards, at least in Oregon, in protecting patients, and the Ganske-Dingell bill moves that agenda forward. I want to tell my colleagues how backwards…
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