I too rise to support of the Castle amendment to the Porter amendment because the DARE Program happens to be the best anti-drug, anti-alcohol, pro-student program there is in the United States. It started in Los Angeles County some years…

We do in Pennsylvania as well, so we look forward to working with you on this issue and make sure we bring light to it. The fact is we want to protect the programs for children, and we will work together for that purpose.

I rise on the issue of nutrition for children. Mr. Speaker, when Republicans stood on the steps of the Capitol on September 27 last year, we made a contract with the American people. We said that if the people made us the majority party in…

I think the case can be made and I hope the American people realize that we Republicans are dedicated to increasing the school lunch programs, approximately 4.5 percent per year from here to the year 2000 and beyond. We will be working…

the school lunch program under the Republican majority proposal will actually increase the current $4.5 billion budgeted to $4.7 billion for fiscal year 1996. The other side of the aisle would have you believe the school lunch program will…

Now, the Federal Government, Mr. Speaker, wastes 15 percent of the school nutrition money----

Now, the Federal Government wastes 15 percent of the school nutrition funds for administrative costs alone, and under the majority Republican proposal, more children will be fed, and only the bureaucrats of Washington, DC, will be the ones…

we made a promise, we signed a contract, and we kept our promise--it is as simple as that. We just passed the National Security Revitalization Act, a component of our Contract With America. In fact, in the past 44 days, we have been…

Mr. Chairman, over the last 10 years, U.S. troops have been deployed for more operations per year than ever before. Currently, the United States has over 48,000 military personnel involved in 13 ongoing operations in unstable areas like…

Mr. Chairman, the amendment before us tonight does not give the flexibility that H.R. 728 will do. H.R. 728, without this amendment, will in fact give each community the right to establish law enforcement block grants, the right to have…

the Contract With America crime bill was introduced as H.R. No. 3, the Taking Back Our Streets Act. The bill strikes at the heart of the violent crime problem by fixing countless problems with the Clinton crime bill and fixing larger…

as a former prosecutor in Pennsylvania, I found today's discussions about addressing crime most illuminating. I have spent much of my life battling criminals in our courts and trying, in my own way to make the streets of my home…

America has a new Congress, new leadership, a new majority, a new direction, a new work ethic, and a new relationship with the American people. This Congress listened to the people and entered into a contract to make their voice heard…

I thought you might be interested in some voting statistics from the first month of the 104th Congress. In the month of January, we had 79 rollcall votes. Compare that to last January, when we only had 2 rollcall votes, and in January 1992…

I quote from President Ronald Reagan's final State of the Union Address on January 25, 1988. He said at that time, Let's help ensure our future of prosperity by giving the President a tool that, though I will not get to use it, is one that…

what a difference 3 weeks can make. Since January 4, the new Republican-led Congress, under the leadership of Newt Gingrich, has cut the number of committees and subcommittees, cut the number of committee staffs by one-third, limited the…

I hope the gentleman will get back to us through this forum of the special orders or within our Committee on Government Reform and Oversight because I know the gentleman from Pennsylvania has a full plate with many of the Contract With…

So it is your opinion then that the Banking Committee under Jim Leach and Government Reform and Oversight Committee under Congressman Clinger could in fact hold appropriate hearings to get the appropriate and honest and fair information…

Would the law impute, in other words, based on the transactions the gentleman spoke of and the fact it was in his firm, would they automatically assume that the Secretary would have known?

In November the American people clearly demonstrated their disgust with outlandish spending, skyrocketing taxes, and a lack of responsiveness from Congress. The new Republican majority is working hard to eliminate many of the…

all Members of this body, Republicans and Democrats alike, are concerned about the exploitation of children. Existing State and Federal laws provide protection and H.R. 5 will in no way abrogate those laws. As a former prosecutor, I can…

I think we have seen a whole new changing of the President last night in his State of the Union address. It is very clear for the doomsayers; they like to say we are going to cut Social Security. Absolutely hogwash. As you well know…

Mr. Speaker, since the 1980's the Democrats in Congress have argued that fiscal discipline, not a constitutional amendment, is needed to balance the budget, but absent a constitutional amendment, Congress has refused to make any progress…

the programs, as the gentleman from Virginia pointed out eloquently, are all worthy. As a former assistant district attorney in Pennsylvania, I can tell you a national data base is certainly a program worthy of being explored and worthy of…

The fact of the matter is every Member of this Congress, Mr. Chairman, wants to make sure we have clean drinking water, and the fact is we have strong clean drinking water laws in the United States that all of us want to see protected. The…