I am a big fan of proceeding aggressively in this direction but obviously we do not want to cause more harm as we go forward.

And it has been litigated in many states around the country.

I think we have invested a great deal of money under the Chairman's leadership in trying to improve science education.

Whatever the weather, let me just assure the gentleman from New York, the Phillies are the World Series champions. And we intend to retain that honor.

To the best that I can understand this in layman's terms is that there is a lot of data that has been collected over the last 50 years from satellites.

I do want to clarify the record, however, because I think the Chairman just asked you what level would we have in terms of a rise if there was a melting in terms of the ice sheet.

This is going to be a clear point of demarcation. Eight years of the Bush administration and we lost millions of jobs. Millions of Americans lost their homes, lost their investments. Our schools crumbled. And now as we launch into these 4…

I rise today to commend both the chairman and the ranking member. I am in an all-day markup on the Homeland appropriations bill, but I left that markup because I think this is very important to our homeland security. The notion that as a…

It's been said that it is how we treat the least of these that we will be judged. I think about my own four children, Francis and Chip and Cameron and Chandler. I think about the night I spent at the Children's Hospital all night long with…

Mr. Chairman, the Philadelphia Art Museum is an historic location, well-known throughout the world, with over 1 million visitors a year, 78 years in existence. The project for the modernization and renovation of the museum is one of note…

I think that this discussion on this bill today should begin with an appropriate appreciation for the great work of the chairman and the ranking member. Both Chairman Price and the gentleman, Mr. Rogers, the ranking member, have done an…

I have been over to Walter Reed visiting with soldiers who have been wounded in the Iraqi war, and it is true that they are receiving great medical care, but they do need employment. And I hope all Members heed what I think is a reasonable…

I rise to acknowledge the 100 year anniversary of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, which is a great institution in our country and will be having its centennial conference starting tomorrow here in Washington. As a member of the Alphas, I…

a prior commitment kept me from voting on H.R. 3824, the Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2005. If present, I would have voted ``yea'' for the Democratic amendment offered by Miller, Dingell, Dicks, Tauscher, Boehlert…

I inadvertently voted against the Motion to Instruct Conferees on H.R. 3, which instructs conferees to increase funding for the Transportation/Highway bill. The motion would increase the minimum guaranteed rate of return to 92 percent…

Mr. Speaker, you would not know by today's discussions that the President, the other candidate for President, Senator Kerry, and all of the Nation's leaders have been telling us that we are at war, that we are in this war on terrorism…

The District operates unlike any other city in our country, because it has the responsibility to be the home of the Nation's Federal Government. There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the…

Mr. Speaker, the majority started this country on a ride a few years ago, and the signposts along the way are fairly clear. We have a record-high deficit, hundreds of billions of dollars; we have a record trade deficit; we have a 50-year…

There are three grand juries or at least one that we know of. It's been reported three investigating the White House on a CIA leak.

I give notice to the House today that I have offered a piece of legislation that would have the Department of the Treasury analyze a proposal to transform our system of taxation and to move us away from this very complicated, burdensome…

as we would have wished that there would have been at least one Republican that voted for the Clinton economic plan, there are times in which clarity on these issues is not as readily available. But I want to thank the chairman for all…

I would hope there would come a day we could guarantee that every American youngster would be able to qualify for a Pell Grant or some vehicle for them to go on to college. The gentleman has done a lot of work with me on GEAR UP and other…

I personally think that private school choice is wonderful and if people want to make private choices, I think they should pay for them privately. This is a public enterprise and we have to make public choices. If we have got 70,000…

I read the list of the educational standards, all related to education, and I think the gentleman has done a good job on that. I am just concerned about this particular issue, and I guess so that the record can be clear, your position is…

that is my question. I would not understand that there are any accrediting procedures for religious schools now in the District. And if there are, I would be interested in knowing that.