I am concerned today that Congress is being asked to make a significant policy change, committing billions of dollars to unproven technology at a time when there are a legion of serious questions that have been raised about many aspects of…

an important part of what makes livable communities is a broad concept of what constitutes the infrastructure that constructs them. That means both the natural environment as well as the built environment. And most important, it also means…

one of the benefits of a livable community is that it provides a setting that high technology industries can flourish. Indeed, it works both ways. While a livable community attracts high technology, high technology can in fact provide the…

it is my pleasure to reflect for a moment this morning about the importance of our being able to provide livable communities for Americans. A lot of what we deal with on the floor of the House of Representatives at times seems a little…

I have forever, I think, seared in my mind more than any of the other stops along the way during our visit in that troubled region, the visions of what happened in Indonesia. It has been already mentioned on the floor of this Chamber that…

as somebody who has worked for years on helping communities find ways to promote livability, I am excited to see the attention that has been accorded lately to the livable communities movement. It is clear that we do not need a lot of new…

One aspect of livable communities is the global connections that we are facing today as trade interrelates our economies, world peace is affected as one destabilized area can have serious consequences for others, how environmental…

yesterday there appeared an article in The New York Times entitled, ``There's Plenty of Space for Suburbs to Keep Sprawling''. This article, I feel, represents a wrong turn in the discussion about our communities and how to make them more…

one of the most exciting issues that has arisen in this new year has been that of livable communities. It received prominence in the President's State of the Union address. Just this last week, on Friday, it was the feature article in the…

one of the tenets of a livable community is control over one's own destiny. Unfortunately, sports franchises have held communities hostage, pitting one city against another as they have left fans in Brooklyn, Hartford, Baltimore, Houston…

during the 25 years that I have been privileged to work with communities across the country to help make them more livable, nothing has captured the imagination of the ordinary citizen more strongly than suggesting that our communities no…

we begin the new session on a note of optimism that has been sounded by Republican leaders, by our Democratic leader, the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Gephardt), and by the President of the United States in his recent appearance in this…

while the world is rocked by war and the spectacle of removing a president, our drama here is not about impeachment, it is what we have done to ourselves. We have managed to squeeze the life out of what is the most important vote we will…

investigations and impeachment proceedings have dominated news of the 105th Congress. The disappointing reality is that, by scheduling less legislative business than any Congress in a generation, the Republican leadership has provided…

I strongly support H.R. 3888 today. I have had my personal experience, as a number of people have, in terms of being slammed. I find that I am not unique. The distinguished gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Bliley), chairman of the Committee on…

at a time when the eyes of the capital and the news media are focused on the Judiciary deliberations and the scope and authority of impeachment inquiry, when others are struggling to deal with the slaughter in Kosovo, it is hard perhaps…

10 days ago our community in Portland, Oregon celebrated an opening of a new light rail line, but what brought together the Vice President of the United States, numerous administration officials and over a quarter million Oregonians was…

I have been following this legislation carefully, and I marvel at the hard work of the committee for bringing it forward. In 1994, the Department of Labor did, in fact, adopt a new interpretation of the Federal Child Labor regulations that…

just weeks before the election, the Republican leadership has proposed an $80 billion bundle of tax breaks, and has asked the American people to pay for these breaks by dipping into future Social Security surpluses. I have worked my entire…

This is a sad moment for me because I came to Congress believing in enhancing the United States role in a global economy. I represent a State which has prospered mightily from trade. I have enjoyed working with my colleagues... in the…

Mr. Speaker, I deeply appreciate what the gentleman from California (Mr. Fazio) represents. I am only starting to understand what he has done for this institution, and I have enjoyed listening today to the testimonies of many of the…

I must say as the only Member of Congress to be an alumnus of the Lewis and Clark College, as somebody who was born and raised in the Northwest and steeped in the culture of that expedition, I am very pleased and proud that this is coming…

sometimes the action of this Chamber can confuse or disappoint even those of us on the floor. We find occasionally people switching sides of debate on the great issues, seemingly to suit their mood or whim. Everybody agrees, at a time of…

at times I fear we are losing our perspective on the telecommunication issues. Yet again this week, we see that the e-rate is in the cross hairs. I want to be very clear that I am a strong supporter of the e-rate. I believe that this…

I disagree with the proponents on the narrow terms of the waiver. But more importantly, I feel that they are also wrong on the big picture. This very day, my daughter, a college-age young woman, is in Vietnam going anywhere she wishes…