That is deliberate misinformation as well. The holding of NLRB versus Town and Country Electric was very narrow. The Supreme Court held simply that paid union organizers can fall within the liberal statutory definition of ``employee''…

I wish to continue the colloquy with the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Fawell). As I was indicating, title I thus establishes a test which does not seek to overrule, does not seek to overrule Town and Country, does not infringe on the…

Mr. Chairman, my amendment further spells out in the most direct and clear manner possible the intent of title I, which ensures that the truth in employment provisions of the Fairness for Small Business and Employees Act do not infringe…

This is not legislation that takes a step backward, as some people mention. As a matter of fact, it is an attempt to move into the 21st century. As I indicated before, unless we can get labor and management to move into the 21st century…

It means that if an individual applies for a job at a company and expresses at least 50 percent interest in actually working there, then that individual is entitled to all the rights granted by the National Labor Relations Act. In fact, an…

I cannot believe that some of the people who were waxing eloquently have read anything about what it is that is in the legislation. It was amazing, all the things that I heard. One of them that really concerned me is someone was talking…

I will guarantee him that all employees have great confidence in that general counsel. I will guarantee him that organized labor has great confidence in that general counsel at the National Labor Relations Board. Let me close simply by…

The level of intent would be determined by the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, and someone just a little while ago said we are putting it on the National Labor Relations Board. That is exactly who makes the decisions…

It does not. In fact, as I pointed out, the legislation has a provision spelling out quite clearly that nothing in the act shall, quote, affect the rights and responsibilities granted by the NRA, quote, of any employee who is or was a bona…

That is correct. Title I is completely consistent with the policies of the National Labor Relations Act. All the legislation does is give the employer some comfort that it is hiring someone who really wants to work for the employer, and as…

I wanted to point out that, as a matter of fact, the resolution that I am bringing here today has been around for at least 2 weeks, and the fine-tuning of the statistics were in the hands of the Democrats as of 6 o'clock last evening. But…

I was just amused that we ought to spend more time fixing public education. First of all, in many areas of the country it ain't broke; and they prefer that we do not try to fix it. And, in other areas, we spent 35 years trying to fix it…

H.R. 2846 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. FINDINGS. The Congress finds the following: (1) High State and local standards in reading, mathematics…

Mr. Chairman, let me once again focus the debate on the real issue. I agree with every question the Ranking Minority Member asked. We need to have answers to those questions before anyone progresses with a test as a done deal. The only way…

Mr. Chairman, about a year ago, President Clinton announced his proposal for a Federal test in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math, and the White House and the Department of Education relied upon a little-known program, the Fund for…

I want to rise in favor of this resolution because this resolution is quite simple. It says that the President cannot formulate a national test for our students unless the Congress specifically authorizes such a test. It is just that…

I want to correct one or two statements that were made in the gentleman's time from the other side. First of all, this legislation has nothing to do whatsoever with anything that the National Academy of Science is doing. We are the people…

we are here today to an address in a bipartisan fashion the real demographic time bomb that faces the American work force... Far too few workers, especially the young, understand the importance of saving for retirement.

I rise in support of H.R. 2614, the Reading Excellence Act. The issue of literacy has been one of my main interests since I came to this body. Over the years I have had an opportunity to work in a bipartisan manner with many members of the…

I really did not plan to participate in this debate today, but as I thought about it over the weekend, I kept thinking that there probably will be more heat and more emotion than facts. And I thought perhaps I could start it by simply…

Mr. Speaker, I want to first pick up a little bit on what the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Weldon] said when he said there are good public schools. I do not want people out there to believe that as a Republican Party we believe all public…

this would be a good time to say I told you so, if it were not for the fact that probably 100,000 students and former students are dangling in the wind. But I have repeated, since 1991 or earlier, what my predecessor, Chairman Ford, would…

I merely repeated what Bill Ford said time and time again, when the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Petri] would try to move direct lending. It was the gentleman from Wisconsin who was moving it, and Bill Ford would say over and other again…

I have been rather disappointed on several occasions in the last couple weeks when it was mentioned by some that perhaps this was a political argument. I want to assure everyone this has nothing to do with politics whatsoever. My concern…

Mr. Chairman, let us focus on what happened here. A judge in New York allowed a consent decree as part of a settlement of a corruption charge against the Teamsters Union. That 1989 consent decree said that the Teamsters would pay for the…