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I think there are some key issues. First of all, we would want the numbers to balance at the agreed amount of time, which is 7 years. Second, we do not want to increase taxes to do that. The American public and the economy is stagnant at…
if you look at the American people, there are bright sun spots in education. You go to a lot of the schools, we have fantastic teachers and we have some fantastic programs. But if you go, for example, outside Chicago, where I used to coach…
I listened to a Republican Governor the other day, and what does this mean to the future, not only to our senior citizens, but to our children as well, as far as a balanced budget? He said that his father took home 82 percent of his…
Let me give my colleagues, Mr. Speaker, some food for thought on how we can balance the budget and not cut some of the valuable programs that we are looking for. Let us take, for example, education. I was the subcommittee chairman…
at the same time, taxpayers do not have to pay for the extra bureaucracy that is not actually going down to education, so it lessens the burden of taxes and at the same time reduces the size of government that we do away with wasted…
AmeriCorps is one of the President's pet programs that allows people to go out and help in other areas; for example, painting a fence or cleaning a yard for a senior citizen or doing different kinds of work, and that is supposed to be…
I want you to know it is not just the State of Texas that grieves, that this Nation has lost a favorite son, that when this country asked Frank to serve, he went and he served in Vietnam and did very well there. I want to also tell you…
every substantive issue in the bill before us today has been voted on by the House or the Senate. I would say to my colleagues on the other side that even in welfare, many of them, no matter what we did, they would vote against it, both…
As I understand it, the other side was talking about follow the rule of law. After the Jim Wright case, and correct me, the gentleman was on the Ethics Committee, there were problems and they did not want the same problems to resurface…
I rise in support of H.R. 1720. I would like to bring attention to four important parts of this legislation: the creation of the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the renewal of certain adult education and literacy programs, the…
many of us do support the investigation, because a lot of the drugs, about 90 percent of them, were purported to go out of Mena, ARK, when President Clinton was Governor. If you look at the Mena chronicles, in which a lot of those drugs…
you want real tooth and nail to really vote for the bill. A lot of us fly a lot, and I am an aviator myself, and in this bill it gives the FBI the authority and the power to protect our airways. It strengthens the security at airports, and…
it is not an English-only bill. It is an official language of the Government bill. If it were an English-only bill, it would apply not only to government but to private businesses, to churches, to neighborhoods and homes, and the bill does…
I agree with some but not all of the findings of the substitute offered by my friend, the gentleman from New York. I know the gentleman is well-intentioned, but his substitute goes in the opposite direction of the bill itself. I would…
The intent of H.R. 123 is not to hinder the preservation of native American languages. It is to encourage fluency in the language of American opportunity, English. This is a technical change that eliminates the limiting reference to…
there are people on both sides of the issue that believe strongly that they are in the right on this thing. First of all, the gentleman from New York [Mr. Serrano], my friend, is a good example of a bilingual citizen, but unfortunately in…
that is not all this bill does. Only one-tenth of 1 percent of all Federal documents go out under current law. But law is more than just law, it is symbology. How many of my colleagues watched Kerri Strug in the Olympics win a gold medal…
This is an honest attempt to combine and empower the American people, and especially those that have limited English skills to help them. Mr. Bill Emerson, the late Bill Emerson, has 200 cosponsors on this bill, 200 cosponsors. They are…
as a cosponsor of H.R. 2391, I thank you for recognizing me in support of this important legislation, the Working Families Flexibility Act. In San Diego County, families work hard to make ends meet. They have some of the county's longest…
the gentleman that spoke in the aisle a minute ago said to increase the minimum wage. If my colleagues remember the last time the minimum wage was raised before this, it was raised by Ronald Reagan and the Republicans. Why, when the…
I rise to thank the chairman of the subcommittee, Mr. Rogers, for his outstanding work on the fiscal year 1997 Appropriations bill for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, State and the Judiciary. This bill places a priority on helping…
many have spoken about the destruction of the welfare system. I think Republicans and Democrats alike can view this as not destruction but the rebirth of a failed system. Ninety percent of the American people believe that the current…
I agree with the gentlewoman who just spoke: Education is the future of this country. I do not think there is demagoguery. I think there is an honest debate here on policy, whether we want the Federal Government to be able to have the…
unlike the last speaker that voted against NAFTA and GATT, I voted for them because I believed that they had a lot of interest and that if this country does not get involved in trade in the future, I think we are going to be in big…
I reluctantly oppose the gentleman from Georgia's amendment. Let me tell Members why. I am not asking to let Storm Thurmond fly, but in my experience, I can name a dozen people that are flying in air shows right now at that age that are…
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