The Community Service Award is presented each year to an outstanding citizen who has made a valuable contribution to the fabric of community life through courageous leadership and dedication to humanity.

I am proud to join with his wife, Rosemary, his family, his friends, and the community in congratulating Dick on this prestigious honor.

I consider him to be a good friend and an outstanding community leader.

few will remember what we say here but history will record forever what we do here. The vote of this House will redefine the constitutional power of impeachment and restructure the very nature of our government from three separate but…

I rise today as a Member of Congress that shares a common border with the 10th district in northeastern Pennsylvania. The name ``Joe McDade'' is famous. As a matter of fact, he came to this Congress as the immediate successor to the…

Mr. Chairman, I could not resist this argument today because as I listened to it, and I have some good friends that are making it, all I could think of was back in about 1480, some 518 years ago, I suspect that in the country of Spain…

The bill includes language grandfathering persons and groups which were members of a credit union or eligible for membership in a credit union prior to the Supreme Court decision. Is it my understanding that these grandfather provisions…

I would like to register an objection. I am a guy who loves peanut butter, and I have discovered, my research, it cost me 33 cents more for a 18 ounce jar, and I think that the Members on the other side of the aisle should get together and…

I am what I classify as a moderate Democrat, and I think that reform of bankruptcy is something that is necessary. I think there has been an abuse in the country. I would say some of the abusers are in the banking industry themselves, by…

I am not usually engaged in these type of discussions, but I made it a point to come down tonight because I like the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Boehner). I have had the occasion to spend some time with him and find him to be a man of…

I rise today and perhaps I should ask for a moment of silence because the vote that was taken to table the privileged resolution from the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Gephardt) is a sad moment in the House of Representatives. I have the…

Today one out of four Americans will have an opportunity to keep their eye on the House of Representatives as we will have an opportunity to take up H.R. 1151, the Credit Union Access Bill which will allow 70 million Americans to exercise…

this is a great day for the House of Representatives. I just want to take a moment because I am one of the Members that have had the opportunity to serve in this House not only as a Member of Congress but as a page. So my history goes back…

a year ago, in a bipartisan effort, a young man from Ohio joined me to put together a bill to solve the problem of allowing American credit unions to continue to survive in anticipation of the Supreme Court ruling that happened a little…

I stand today first and foremost as an American and secondly as a Member of one of the finest institutions I have ever had the opportunity to be a part of, the House of Representatives of the United States. I come here with a heavy heart…

my intentions were to reiterate some of the arguments made by myself and other members of the committee, but actually, after having heard the 5 minutes from the chairman of this committee, the question comes to my mind, why do we need an…

Bill Emerson was a colleague to all the Members that are here on the floor. To me, he was my oldest and dearest personal friend. As all my colleagues have learned, as we go through life, particularly in politics, friends and associates…

I have to say that one of the prior Members who spoke on the Republican side talked about the reason he came to Congress. It was to straighten out the fiscal responsibility of the United States. That is the reason I came here, and I think…

I commend him for bringing this important consumer legislation to the House floor today, and I particularly commend our colleague, the gentleman from Utah [Mr. Hansen], for introducing it. This bill provides meaningful financial relief of…

the newspapers are replete this week with IRS browsing of confidential information of American taxpayers' earnings. Recently, we read that Social Security is trying to outdo the IRS by putting on the Internet individual Americans' total…

first of all may I congratulate both the gentlemen on the majority side and minority side for taking up in the closing moments of the 104th Congress a very important piece of legislation that will allow for the privatizing of Sallie Mae…

That is not quite the Shermanesque statement I had hoped to get from the majority leader. It seems to me the majority leader is saying that the 100 days is more important than allowing the membership to communicate with our constituents…

I indicated about 2 weeks ago on the floor that I do not think there is going to be any surprise that the majority entertains a majority of approximately 240 votes more or less, and that all of the legislation the majority wishes to adopt…

For purpose of inquiry to the majority leader, Mr. Leader, as you know last week I expressed my great concern about having markups on very important bills in the committee and having amendments on the floor to legislation going at the same…

The results of the last election speak volumes in terms of this particular issue. Many of us were elected on the idea that this institution has not had the discipline to balance its budgets for whatever reasons. We believe the way to bring…