Joe Cunningham

I think that also goes when we are talking about drugs, not to come across to MTV and say they would inhale if they could, the leader of our Nation. I have talked to drug agents and I have talked to people in rehabilitation. The kids…

I think both sides, no matter what the opinions are, education is the key to a lot of many different areas. It is anticrime, it is antidrug, it is antipoverty. My father and mother, who were Democrats, focused on education because they…

Let me give my colleagues a good example of coming to arms. I had a doctor come into my office about 3 years ago. And I was fortunate enough to write much of the welfare reform bill, being on the Committee on Education and the Workforce…

Exactly. And when we are trying to balance the budget, we can look forward that for all of those wastes, from the 12 to $16 million for only 10 percent of what we could have done for 100 percent, taxpayers have got to send their dollars to…

I was able to get $12 million through both the authorization process and appropriations to copy all defense maps. All services for $12 million. That was a reduction of 1 to 100th of the cost. The office of Secretary of Defense held onto…

one of my favorite speakers is a guy named Will Rogers. First of all, he tells stories and he relates to people. And my subject tonight is the readiness, the national security of this great country. We just finished a hearing in San Diego…

But just like in education, if we get so little money out of the Federal Government down to the classroom, and I would say, Mr. Speaker, a State bureaucracy is just as bad as a Federal bureaucracy if it keeps the dollars away from the…

one thing I think the members of Puerto Rico will see, I think this is one of the most healthy debates that I have seen on this floor in 7 years. It is issue-oriented. I have got conservatives for and against, I have got liberals for and…

it was the full intention to protect Native American languages, as these sovereign tribes have a unique relationship with the Federal Government. Unfortunately, the Parliamentarian ruled that adding these sections would not be germane to…

there is a vision for education and a vision that could be bipartisan, but it chooses not to, unfortunately, because of partisan politics. We can have big government control of education or we can have it where parents, teachers, local…

I would make one correction: There is no such word as ``hero.'' You do what you have to do, and try to survive. I rise in support of this resolution. One of the most victorious things I think that has ever happened to me is we sponsor an…

there are not two more Members I respect more than the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Skelton] and the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Murtha]. I have not heard the tape. I will listen to it tonight, if I can. If that is the case, then…

In San Diego, for example, there were 2,000 new citizens sworn in, 2,000. The Republican Party asked if they could have tables to register, and they were told by Mr. Reed, head of the INS, no, they could not. They went down to the ceremony…

I had the privilege of working on the education provisions of this legislation. I would like to personally thank the chairman, the gentleman from North Carolina, Mr. Charles Taylor, and ranking minority member, the gentleman from Virginia…

I think that Hong Kong will have much more effect on China than China has on Hong Kong. And I do not think there will be peace in the Middle East in my lifetime, but I believe we have to engage in the Middle East and constantly work in…

many of us heard about the harassment at the voter polls in California for the first time last night. At the time I was flying fighters for the U.S. Navy. I thought, if this is true, it is truly un-American for anyone to harass any ethnic…

I just want to address the gentleman from New Jersey saying that we had radical ideas. My wife is a public schoolteacher and a principal today. She has got a doctorate in education, a master's in business, and a master's in education. I…

only some groups that would want the power to reside in Washington, D.C., of wasteful spending would oppose this. Why? They want the power here in River City; the same people who vote against balanced budgets, tax relief, because those are…

I feel like bottom gun tonight because I am upset with this bill. First of all, in the light of Communist China trying to influence the White House and the DNC, the President gives $50 million to a coal-burning plant in China. Then he…

Let me give another classic example of where the Federal Government can run amok in writing standards or tests. The ranking minority member, he was my chairman when the Democrats were in the majority and then he became my ranking member…

the gentleman stated that the only person in this House, what he did not state is in the White House, in the Times and in the Post today it goes through where the White House campaign manager pleaded guilty, two of them, to laundering…

I would like you to read Karl Marx and Engels Communist Manifesto because in there the No. 1 creed is class warfare and you see it over and over and over again. The gentleman from California says the Republican plan, the Republican plan…

we hear in this body over and over that the liberals represent the working person. They represent the union, which only accounts for 6 percent of the work force in this country. Ninety-four percent of the jobs in this country are nonunion…

Would the gentleman say that it is wrong for a low-income parent that does want to set aside, that we ought to tax that individual?

I speak as a teacher and a coach for many years. I have my entire family either as coaches, teachers, or principals in public school. Last weekend we attended the public school teacher awards for outstanding teachers, and I want to tell my…