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 rise tonight to beg of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to join me in an effort, and I have spoken on this during the last several weeks. We have a bill called H.R. 1984. That is the number. I thought it was very unusual that we…

as with the previous gentleman speaking, when the Government takes action or the Government takes inaction, it has an impact on all of our lives. Sometimes that impact that the Government has on our lives can be positive, and other times…

in the last Congress we had a debate about minimum wage. There were many people in the Republican leadership that got up and took the well and said that they were opposed to increasing the minimum wage. It caused me at that point to muse…

I will not stand idly by and watch the same kind of degradation to our industrial base that I watched during the 1970's and 1980's. I know that the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Dingell] likewise will not watch that in his State of Michigan…

I have delayed my own departure this evening by better than 3 hours, because I think what I have to talk about is very important. And regardless of what my colleagues may think about my legislative voting record and regardless of what they…

My problem is that we are always, it seems, attempting to amend the Constitution. This is twice in this young legislative year that this House has attempted to amend the Constitution of the United States, and the Senate has attempted to…

The gentleman is correct. These were good paying jobs. And as the gentleman said, when these workers were displaced they did not get good paying jobs. My State of Pennsylvania is one of the top two in NAFTA trade adjustment assistance…

I just want to underline, first of all, before I start, some of the points that the gentleman made because they are very important. No. 1, he pointed out the fact that we are not against free trade. Those of us who come here to the well…

When we heard all of these predictions about the 200,000 jobs that were going to be created almost immediately by this NAFTA agreement, there was an assumption by both the Bush and the Clinton Administrations. This had been started during…

I just came from a telecommunications subcommittee hearing. We are taking up the whole idea of spectrum, which to a lot of you may not sound like much, but it is the frequencies upon which we broadcast all our radios and our televisions…

as we bring this 104th Congress to an end, I look at the pieces of legislation that the Republicans are so proud of, the fact that they brag about bringing the Members of Congress under all of the laws that the rest of the Nation are…

I love this House of Representatives. I love what it stands for. And when there is a shadow cast upon the Speaker of the House of Representatives, there is a shadow cast upon this institution, there is a shadow cast upon the democracy that…

7 years ago, the current Speaker of the House of Representatives stood on this very floor and said I think that it is vital that we take as a Congress our commitment to publish that report and to release those documents so that the country…

I have grave concerns, Mr. Speaker, about the fact that it does appear, from everything I have said, and I am just talking to counsel, now, that we have indeed lost $725 million that could have been used to clean up the drinking water of…

Mr. Chairman, we have got a problem in this country with not making the kind of investment in industry that creates jobs. While Great Britain and France and Japan and Germany go with their industrial leaders around the world and see that…

let me just refer again, since we have had some dispute as to who is being truthful and who is misrepresenting the truth, the exact quote from Speaker Gingrich, who said: We don't get rid of it in round one because we don't think that's…

I was called by a constituent yesterday, Mr. Lou Kasing, who runs an automobile dealership in my district. In fact, in Butler County, he is known as Mr. Republican. And he is a good businessman, understands business and has a great heart…

Mr. Speaker, I am a little confused. I was listening to my colleagues on the other side talking about this budget and what it is going to do. We have just gone through 4 consecutive years of lowering the deficit. This began in 1993 with a…

The bottom line is that $170 gross per week is not enough money for anyone to live on. And when we have a minimum wage that is, in fact, at a 40-year, all-time low, it is a point of fact that economically it holds down all wages across…

If we are going to reform welfare, we have to pay a livable wage for work. Today, after months of prodding, we are finally going to get an amendment to raise the minimum wage. Only the Republican leadership could, under the guise of…

I am reminded of former heavyweight champ Max Schmeling, who was one of those 7,000 elite troops. When the 7th Parachute Division--and you have to remember, again, this was the largest airborne invasion in the history of the world at that…

Mr. Speaker, I do rise today to mark the 55th anniversary of the Battle of Crete. This is really an historic event. It is of great significance. It took place on the Island of Crete during World War II. This was between Nazi forces and the…

just like that 4-year-old child with a sweet tooth, the Republicans are at it again, reaching back in that cookie jar, trying to grab Medicare cuts, Medicaid cuts, education cuts. Tax cuts for the wealthy is what they are going to balance…

here they go again. Snake oil salesmen looking for a magic cure. The Republicans have come up with this idea that the 4.3-cents-a-gallon tax that was put on back in 1993 somehow did not cause the price of gas to go up in 1993, did not…