I cannot get two pennies to help disadvantaged children in the area of education, but we can put $7 million into this bill to make sure your children, my children, and every other child of a Member of Congress, can have a free breakfast…

Mr. Chairman, one author in general debate said that we must treat all in the same manner. That is exactly why I made this amendment in order. This bill purports to codify an important Supreme Court case dealing with workers' rights; but…

I offer amendment No. 6. The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Amendment No. 6 offered by Mr. Goodling. Strike section 501 and insert the following (and conform the table of contents…

Let me again say that so many times we rush into things, so many times we do legislation, so many times we promulgate regulation without any scientific knowledge as to will this help the people we are trying to help or will it not? Last…

It is my intention to prohibit our military from spending U.S. tax dollars on free weight strength training products that are produced by a Communist government.

I believe Congress needs to protect our domestic interests by ensuring that U.S. manufacturers are insulated from cheap imports.

I cannot condone the actions by our government that facilitate the continued import of these cheap products.

At the present time there are 46,000 women, infants and children who belong to our military overseas who are not covered by WIC. Fortunately, thanks to this committee, that will be remedied and we will not have that imbalance. They will…

The FAIR Act will arm small entities--businesses and labor organizations alike--with the incentive to defend themselves

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

There was a time when Pell Grants covered 75 percent of a college education. We are now down to about 36 percent. The good news is, however, we did get a $2.7 billion increase in the last 3 years, so we have billions of dollars available…

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…

this is an old topic for me, 25 years, speaking on the same subject, trying to encourage the Congress to put their money where their mouth was 24 years ago, when school districts were promised that if they participated in the Federal…

Mr. Speaker, I can only say it was awful lonely for 20 years in the minority trying to get some funding for IDEA. In my home State of California, the cost of educating an estimated 600,000 children with disabilities is a staggering $3.4…

My legislation basically says that no DOD money can be used to send ground troops into Kosovo unless approved by the Congress of the United States. Now, it is right to condemn Milosevic for driving ethnic Albanians out of Kosovo…

I have been wanting to give the gentlewoman from D.C. an extra $12 million a year. All the gentlewoman has to do is help me. All she has to do is get the special education funding that the gentlewoman's side promised 23 years ago, and we…

I tell my friend from Tennessee that there is no question if they did not require a plan, if Castle-Roemer did not require a plan, I would not support it. If they did not meet what the GAO said they needed to meet, I would not support it…

Mr. Chairman, very briefly, there are two major problems with this amendment to the amendment. First, we are starting to pick away at the whole idea of flexibility, little by little by little. But this whole debate is a debate about…

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…

I would like to wrap up by indicating what I said at the beginning of this entire debate, and I do not know how I can say it any more sincere. The well-intended legislation of the 1960s failed the very people we wanted to help the most. We…

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…

I know the gentleman wanted to tell his friend, the gentleman from New York City (Mr. Owens) that the great mandate that the gentleman really wants to tell him about, which is a 100 percent mandate, which destroys his school district from…

I just want to point out some interesting statistics. There are 16,000 school districts in the United States. If we say there are seven schools to each one of those school districts, that gives us about 112,000 schools. That gives us less…

the most painful part about sitting for 20 years in the minority on the committee was the fact that I could not get members of the committee to think in terms of quality and unfunded mandates. The emphasis was always on quantity and…

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.