Jim Clyburn

Now, there is no way in the world these people are going to be adequately addressed under current appropriations.

I subscribe to your theory that seems to be based upon one of my favorite writers, George Santayana, who once wrote if we fail to learn the lessons of our history we are bound to repeat them.

We put them up in a one-stop facility.

Is it possible to set up one-stop?

We may run out of money before we reach all of the hard-hit areas, but we know where they are.

If we are, in fact, about to entertain the MOX amendment, I would love to speak in opposition to that amendment.

I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 216. I yield back the balance of my time.

If each one of our 12 bills just followed that simple 10-20-30 formula, we would begin to address this issue of poverty.

I view what I do now as a ministry of public service.

That youngster should have the same opportunity as any youngster anywhere in the world to realize his or her full potential.

I have no further speakers at this time. I yield back the balance of my time, and I urge all of my colleagues to support H.R. 3375.

It contains our 10-20-30 initiative, requiring that at least 10 percent of Federal funds in certain accounts are directed to areas that have had a poverty rate of 20 percent or more for the last 30 years. Mr. Chairman, our budgets should…

And I am hopeful when we get back here after the first of the year that we will move and do as we have done in the past, pass unemployment insurance, make it retroactive to January 1 so those people who find themselves unemployed through…

I am pleased my friend would yield me 30 seconds. I want to take a little time to say I have been hearing from the veterans in my congressional district. I represent counties that have two VA centers. We have two of the most, I believe…

I want to thank my colleague, Representative Terri Sewell, for her leadership in this outstanding effort. Representative Sewell has quickly made her mark in this institution for her tireless devotion to duty and her thoughtful approach to…

Thank you. I am also pleased that all of the Democratic substitutes reject the austerity-for-working-families plan that the Republicans are proposing. Democrats will honor our commitment to senior citizens and invest in a brighter future…

This bill protects the middle class and working people with a more progressive Tax Code than we've had in a very long time. And this bill prevents the meat-axe approach of budget cuts that could do more severe damage to our national…

His compassion was not cabined by race or color or ethnicity.

A teacher affects eternity. He can never tell where his influence stops.

Donald was always a teacher. He was the kind of teacher a lot of us wish we had.

Congressman Payne was dedicated to protecting our health from pollution.

Expresses profound sorrow at the death of the Honorable Donald M. Payne

It was the work of a man using his position and his power to simply do the right thing.

He helped make real the possibility of our Nation's first African American President--and first African American Attorney General.

He was a determined enemy: of poverty; of violence and cruelty toward children; of obstacles to prosperity; of war; and of human rights abuses around the world.