William F. Goodling

The FAIR Act ensures that those with modest means will not be forced to capitulate in the face of frivolous actions

Mr. Speaker, I will say where the beef is. The beef is where we put it the last 3 years while we were in the majority. $800 million one year, $600 million the next year, another $500 million the next year for a total of almost $2 billion…

I would repeat one more time that if this amendment had been part of the Goals 2000 legislation, Maryland would not have been eligible to participate.

Let us target something that is beneficial to the most important students, the most disadvantaged educational students. Let us not give them any more pabulum as they have had in the past. Let us make sure that $50 billion or the $110…

Let me close by saying, if a student cannot read at a fourth grade level, I guarantee that he or she is going to have a difficult time doing math and science. Yet, we find that fourth grade scores were flat from 1992 to 1998 in reading. We…

If we move this red line up to the 40 percent, which is up here at the blue line, property taxes have a good opportunity of going down because property taxes are going up, up, up because the local district has a Federal mandate. But the…

I ask my colleagues to join me in honoring Rabbi Irwin Goldenberg for twenty-five years of dedicated and selfless service to the congregation at Temple Beth Israel, the Jewish community, and the people of York, Pennsylvania.

Rabbi Goldenberg is an example to fathers everywhere.

He lends his time to countless charities and organizations, and has been showered with accolades including 'Educator of the Year' and 'Man of the Year.'

Rabbi Goldenberg's gracious outreach into the community has been consistent for over twenty-five years.

One of the greatest aspects of this man is that his kind efforts are not simply confined within the Jewish community.

Rabbi Goldenberg has long served as the official voice for the Jewish community in York, establishing a sturdy link between his congregation and the community at large.

Rabbi Goldenberg has served both his congregation at Temple Beth Israel and the community of York, Pennsylvania as a revered leader, teacher, and father.

Mr. Speaker, S. 459, the Native American Programs Act Amendments of 1997, would continue the important programs operated under the Native American Programs Act. This Act promotes social and economic self-sufficiency among Indian tribes…

I just want to say that I am so glad that our committee is not infected and infested with attorneys. We would not get anything done. I have to laugh because when they talk about money being spent, if you look at ESEA, if you look at title…

We are going to have Prepaid College Tuition Plans. We are going to have Job Training Reform. We are going to have Emergency Student Loans. We are going to have Quality Head Start. We are going to have School Nutrition. We are going to…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 3874 is the reauthorization act of 1998 and it is one of the most important bills we will enact. Its main purpose is to provide our Nation's children and participants in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for…

There are several hundred thousand teachers presently working at other jobs because they cannot find teaching jobs where they want to teach. It would be amazing if we all of a sudden decided we ought to create 100,000 more since there is…

I will guarantee it will be more, as it always is every year. Fact two. Completely wrong. Mixing apples and oranges, because he is talking about an appropriation bill. CRS did this very clearly, very carefully, and the State of Indiana…

I want to close by making sure, again, that everybody understands we are not talking about what the committee may have done in relationship to appropriations. That has nothing to do with this legislation. Those are the figures that are…

We are going to give Pete Wilson $24,928,828 more to reduce his class size and to prepare his teachers to teach in those classrooms.

As I tried to point out earlier, we are not talking about a language, we are talking about more than 100 languages. I would like to also point out at this particular time we are talking in this language about 583 grants. There are 16,000…

I merely wanted to ask the previous speaker, when he was saying, as I have heard him say on several occasions, that bilingual education is a beautiful program, I agree with that, but is the gentleman saying that the only beautiful…

My good friend from Arizona (Mr. Hayworth) is correct. The deference to Native American sovereignty in the Riggs amendment was modified to alleviate concerns that Members had raised about tribal colleges and how the amendment would have…

I am going to say the same thing that the gentleman from California (Mr. McKeon) was told to say, which is the same thing that he mentioned. We are accepting this amendment this evening with the understanding that if it creates too much…