Mr. Chairman, I rise really in support of the Tauzin amendment. If we go back to 1984, at that point the marketplace opened up. If we wanted to go pre-1984 and say we really need to take a fresh look, then perhaps this bill, as written…

This is simply to say that before the loan goes into default that we should have some communications, that the school should be notified by the guaranty agency.

Again, I really want to commend both chairmen for the wonderful work that they have done, and the ranking members, too. This is another common sense, I think a good government reform amendment to the student loan program. I think it will…

I rise tonight, I understand the hour is late, but I think this is a very important issue. We have a program which many Members of Congress are not familiar with. It is called the H-1B visa program. This program allows industries from this…

this is a great debate for us to have. Many people may not realize it, but my home State of Pennsylvania has one of the highest populations of rural elderly, and I cannot tell my colleagues how important Social Security is to them and to…

Mr. Speaker, you are right, the House should not consider IMF funding just an hour before we all get on board planes to head toward home. We should have a full debate on this issue. Let me just give my colleagues one example of why we…

I will tell my colleagues, use our region of the country as an example. Back in the days when the steel industry was booming and the railroads were strong and the manufacturing section was strong, these credit unions were begun for the…

let's face it. It's screw labor week! My colleagues on the other side of the aisle have decided that they know better than the entire Supreme Court in this instance. We're not talking about a 5 to 4 decision here, or 6 to 3. Noooo. My…

One family out of 1,619 families has answers. They are not pleasant answers to think that your 17-year-old son, who would now be 41 years old, died in this field, his bones scattered. Only through plowing and digging have these bones been…

Every family who has come from Greece has stories. If we look at the ceremonial uniforms of the Greek soldiers, they have the pleated kilts; and these tall, strong-looking Greek soldiers, and there are 376 pleats in their kilt, one for…

several years ago when we were debating on the floor of this House the North American Free Trade Agreement, we were being told by those who were proponents of that agreement that we would lose some low-skill, low-income jobs in this…

I was so happy last night to hear the President in his State of the Union speech talk about giving our constituents, the people of this country, the opportunity to choose the doctor of their choice and, together with that doctor, decide…

I became aware of a 4-year-old boy named Sean Brake from a place outside of my district called Plum Borough. The local TV station was doing a story about the fact that Sean's father worked for the insurance company and Sean at the age of 4…

if my friend would again yield, I think my point on that would be we know that there is a tremendous amount of money and power and influence. This is a trillion dollar industry. The profits that are to be made in denying people their…

I have seen an abuse by stories that are leaked out to the news media. Mr. Speaker, last week I think was a prime example in the Committee on Commerce, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, when we had, leading up to a hearing…

H.R. 2535 is very similar to section 8 of a bill that I introduced in both this Congress and the last Congress, this Congress it is H.R. 2140, the Federal Accountability and Institutional Reform and Education Act, or FAIR Ed Act, which…

as I have in the past several weeks, I come to the floor of the House again asking my colleagues to give some consideration to becoming cosponsors to a bill that I have done with the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Upton], a Republican from…

Reclaiming my time, they realize the progress that has been made in southwestern Pennsylvania, they understand the good things that have been done with the air. And the gentleman brings up a fine point. This whole issue came to light when…

To boil all of that down, the gentleman is right, when we talk about the width of a human hair being 75 microns and we have been measuring PM10, or 10 microns, that is about one-seventh the width of a human hair. Now they are talking about…

we come to the floor tonight with a heavy heart because we were hoping that as Democrats and as Republicans, we would be able to talk to the administration and have them reach a commonsense conclusion as it pertained to the progress that…

it is my understanding, and correct me if I am wrong, Mr. Doyle, but it is my understanding that in 1996 and thus far in 1997 our Pittsburgh region has not been out of attainment.

Following up on what the gentleman said, he mentioned that all of us, and this by the way I will mention just because both of us are from southwestern Pennsylvania, this is not a Pennsylvania issue, this is a New Mexico issue, it is a…

Is there anything that the gentleman has read in the standards proposed by Administrator Browner and now endorsed by the President which would address this sick building syndrome that the gentleman has described?

On that point I want to repeat again, and I do not think I can say it enough, there is no pride with which we come here and talk about the fact that our President, the party, the President of our party, has made what we think is the wrong…

I know that they have spent tens of millions of dollars modernizing and cleaning the air of that facility. I have got small specialty steel companies and small chemical manufacturers in my district that have spent anywhere from $40 million…