I would suggest that Roukema-Kassebaum-Kennedy is that modest step. It is that first step that is going to help tens of millions of Americans keep their health insurance when they switch their jobs, regardless of preexisting health…

I went back to Kalimnos last August and saw Imia, and, of course, it is uninhabited. A lot of people are making the comment, well, this is a pile of rocks in the middle of the Aegean sea, there are no people who live there, so who should…

the other body yesterday by a vote of 86 to 14 handed out a repudiation of the extremist cuts in education that have been promoted by the Republicans in this House. Many schools are only a few weeks from notifying teachers that they will…

The GOP piecemeal governing strategy is threatening to wreak havoc on our educational system and on the local school districts. The constant uncertainty about Federal funding has meant nothing short of chaos for school districts across…

I will tell Members that while the bill that we are taking up here, this conference report, is certainly far from what this Member of Congress would call ideal, I will support this bill. I think that we have now seen how the process is…

yesterday, October 11, 1995, is a day of infamy as 15 senior citizens were taken prisoner of war in the Republicans' assault on America. These gray-haired ladies in wheelchairs and veterans walking with canes were not mugged in some back…

I got a hoot out of hearing my colleagues talking about the Democrats having no plan. It is like a baseball game and it gets to be the bottom of the ninth inning, and they turn to our team and say, hey, do you want to go to bat? They have…

Mr. Chairman, the question this morning is, what is the hurry? After 61 years, we spent time in committee and in subcommittee and we developed H.R. 1555. I did not support the bill but at least I was part of the process. Now it is whether…

The FCC is essentially the agency that would be able to consult with the Department of Justice under the manager's mark that we passed this morning. But when we talk about going from a monopoly industry, which telecom was after 1934, to a…

the Markey amendment is really very important to this bill. I will tell you that for us to have a free Nation, for people who are going to elect those of us who are their representatives in Government, they have to have different points of…

This really, Mr. Speaker, is an assault on average American working persons and their families. This bill will come to the floor with a cut of 31 percent in enforcement for health and safety protections. At a time when 55,000 American…

To the previous speaker, you know I had a friend that said he made $100 back in 1960 if he made $125 now. That is not an increase; such a thing is inflation. With Medicare there are additional people called baby boomers that are going into…

Mr. Chairman, I also vehemently speak against my friend from Wisconsin's amendment. I thank him, though, for offering the amendment because it has made me think about something that has been an ultimate success not only for this Nation but…

let me get this contract correct. If I am a child and I happened to be born to a mother who is of the wrong age or who has been on assistance for too long, then the Contract With America leaves me wanting just because of the circumstances…

we have often heard those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Usually there is a lot more time that passes than just 14 years. But for those of us that remember 1981 and that famous Reagan tax cut that was going to bring…

I have learned over the years as a journalist that where there is smoke there is fire, and I have learned as a Congressman that sometimes when there is a fire, it can quickly become an inferno. We began talking at the beginning of this new…

Mr. Chairman, I am not an attorney and I will not stand in the well and say that I understand everything about derivatives, either, even having served the last 2 years on the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs. But what I do…

I think, to answer the gentleman's question, there appears to be, with this whole derivative thing, the fact that things are changing from moment to moment and from hour to hour. Every time we pick up a newspaper something new has…

I just think that when we are talking about something as volatile, something that is as dangerous and as complicated as derivatives that I think that the gentleman's amendment from Massachusetts certainly makes a great deal of sense, to…

Reclaiming my time and asking the gentleman a question, would you say, sir, by everything that we know that certainly we have had much more experience in the normal securities market. We have not had that experience in understanding how to…

Proponents of this so-called securities litigation reform are arguing that private securities and class action suits are making it virtually impossible for public companies to raise capital and are preventing these companies from going…

William Billups, the Principal at the all black Jefferson Elementary School in Jefferson County, MS, rural, poor, and 85 percent black, says that school lunch programs are not just a luxury. Principal Billups is a Republican, and he says…

I rise to salute some brave Senators who are standing up for our Constitution, standing up for Social Security, and standing up to a Speaker of the House who has called them liars and is intimating that they are perpetuating some mythical…

today we take up H.R. 7. If it were a song, we could get Vaughn Monroe to record it, and we would call it ``Boondoggles in the Sky.'' It is, in fact, spending additional moneys in addition to the $36 billion we have already spent on star…

I rise today also to talk about the increase in the minimum wage. I was talking to a woman from my district on Friday. She said, ``Congressman Klink, I don't want to be forced to go on welfare.'' And then she listed off the expenses that…