Just to mention a few things that we have done, the Higher Education Act, the Reading Excellence Act, the school nutrition bill, the vocational technical education bill, quality Head Start bill, a charter school bill, Individuals with…

Mr. Speaker, when I came to the Congress of the United States, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Joe McDade) was already a king on the Hill. My dad said, you will want to get to know the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Joe McDade). He…

Every now and then I hear reports that is a ``do-nothing Congress.'' Well, I want to tell my colleagues a little bit about this committee. It is anything but a do-nothing committee. Just to tick off a few off the top of my head, we…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 4257 addresses a unique problem resulting from the application of the child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Children in the Amish community complete their formal classroom education at age 14 or 15. In…

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…

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…

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.

I want to make sure I choose my words very carefully, because what the Department of Education has been circulating, what the lobbyists for the chief State school officers is circulating, and what OMB is circulating is, let me find a word…

Mr. Speaker, we are here to discuss very important legislation, namely Head Start. For 20 years I sat as a minority member in the Committee on Education and the Workforce, always cautioning my colleagues to think in terms of quality rather…

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…

I think I understood the gentlewoman correctly, and if I did, it was a total misinterpretation of the language that is in this bill. I thought she said that this legislation undermines the local school district's ability to teach our…

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…

H.R. 4037 makes two simple but important changes to OSHA's regulation on Hazard Communication. First, H.R. 4037 clarifies the law with regard to the acceptable use of electronic systems for maintaining ``material safety data sheets,''…

there is one real glowing error in my estimation in this legislation, and that is the codifying of the Beck decision. That is bad enough because that is a slap in every working man and woman's face. But, beyond that, they make it much…

We really owe it to the rank and file of the Teamsters to complete this as expeditiously as we possibly can, and therefore need this deposition authority in order to do that. The Committee on Education and the Workforce is examining the…

First of all, I am proud to say that Pennsylvania was ahead of the Federal Government when it came to IDEA. However, that too was a court decision, before they got around to making that decision on the Federal level. But for 20 years I sat…

I would like to start out by recognizing the efforts of my friend and colleague the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Greenwood). He has been a leader in helping move this resolution through our committee in a bipartisan manner. He has been…

It has been said that the opposite of love is not hate but indifference. And unfortunately, American indifference to religious persecution lends our tacit, if indirect, support and approval of some of the most awful abuses of human rights…

I have spent my entire life trying to make sure that every child has an equal opportunity for a quality education. But there has been nothing more frustrating than sitting here in the Congress of the United States to try to make that a…

I do not plan to oppose the Miller amendment. It is a sense of Congress resolution. But I do want to make a couple of comments about it. First of all, I appreciate the willingness of the gentleman from California (Mr. Miller) to delete…

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 get fed up when I hear the other side keep talking about pupil/teacher ratio, keep talking about building buildings, repairing building. For 20 years, 20 years, they had an opportunity to send 40 percent of the excess cost for special…

I just want to make two observations. First of all, I want to again repeat that we cut the lenders yields by 30 basis points. The students are happy. The colleges and universities are happy. The lenders are not. But it was a compromise and…

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…