This is an issue that deserves the attention of every Member of this Congress, and it deserves the attention of the administration. [...] I am sorry to say that when that child is born he will inherit the largest debt and his generation of…

Mr. Speaker, on behalf of North Carolina farm families and really a lot of farm families who grow tobacco across the southeast, I rise this evening to offer my support for this conference report on H.R. 4520. The $9.6 billion buyout this…

I have just had a number of farmers leave my office this morning, and they are not real sure they are going to be farming this year. So I rise today because tobacco farmers, growers and allotment holders desperately need a tobacco buyout…

I rise to add my voice in praise of the staff and leaders of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, for the job they have been doing during this remarkably challenging time during this hurricane season. We talk about…

I rise today to praise my friend and colleague, North Carolina Senator John Edwards. I want to call attention to a specific accomplishment on behalf of ordinary Americans that has earned him the reputation as a people's lawyer. Valerie…

I rise today to praise the middle-class values and positive vision for our country that John Kerry and John Edwards are offering America. Yesterday, Senator Edwards brought the ticket's Front Porch Tour to the Triangle region of North…

I rise in strong opposition on behalf of the farmers who for years have made a contribution, and now they are asking for an opportunity for a way out to save their way of life. And I am embarrassed that people that have no farmers and do…

I think they will add a great deal to the ticket, and I thank the gentleman for his comments and leadership. As we said earlier, this thing of elections is really about the future. It is about our hopes, it is about our dreams. It is about…

this evening I rise with several of my colleagues and a number from my North Carolina delegation to talk about our favorite son, John Edwards, as well as our ticket. John Edwards is from a little place in Moore County called Robbins, North…

John Edwards is a man of distinction, of dedication, and of determination. He has been distinct in all that he has undertaken. Distinguished personally, professionally, and politically. In everything that he has tackled, he has gone at it…

On behalf of my North Carolina farm families, I rise today to support H.R. 4520. Since 1997, tobacco quota has been cut by more than 50 percent in tobacco-growing regions. Consequently, farm families have seen their income cut by more than…

I consider that a high privilege because I got to work with wonderful young folks like you every day. ... You will finish the work that others have started. And always remember that. I think it is good to remember that there are new ideas…

I rise today to call on this administration to take action now to reduce the price of gasoline in this country. Across my district folks are suffering painfully from the skyrocketing fuel costs to record levels. Yet this administration has…

I rise today to call on the Bush administration and this Congress to live up to its promise on education. Despite the White House's media event this week, the administration's own budget request for next year would cut $9.4 billion from…

Did he not also promise during the campaign when he came in office to protect Social Security and not invade it?

If we drive the debt up, soon enough we will go broke. As some of my folks at home will say, we cannot borrow ourselves rich. And we are trying to do that. And I do not think anyone in this body can believe we can keep running deficits…

I will support passage of this Iraq Supplemental Appropriations bills for our troops and their families. I will support this bill because we must support our troops and we must continue to engage the effort in Iraq to its successful…

I join the gentlewoman in strong support of this motion. This House needs to send a clear signal to the conference committee and the administration that we expect them to keep their promises regarding upholding the moratorium on drilling…

I just have gotten a copy of a document from Department of Homeland Security and FEMA where those counties have now been declared part of this disaster area. One of the things I always said, you really knew who your friend was then. It was…

I want to express again my appreciation to our friends in North Carolina at the Emergency Management. I was there on Wednesday evening late, and again Thursday morning for the briefings, and I would encourage my colleagues in the Congress…

As a matter of fact, in Franklin County we lost a volunteer firemen who was killed as a result of being out that night, hit by a tree. My notes indicate, as of today, a note I just received from Secretary Beatty, the governor's person who…

I remember as a small child growing up in rural eastern North Carolina seeing a tobacco barn burn, because that is where I grew up, and I will never forget watching it burn. There was nothing my parents could do. And I am sure they did not…

Along that line, Mr. Speaker, as we were talking about our volunteers, we have a bill in, as the gentleman well knows because he is a cosponsor of it and which I introduced, to provide a benefit. This fireman that lost his life in Franklin…

As the second anniversary of September 11 approaches, I rise this evening to pay tribute to our Nation's fallen firefighters, law enforcement officers and emergency medical service personnel. Mr. Speaker, every day public service officers…

I rise today to demand that the Congress and the President stop passing the buck on education reform to our States and local communities. Last week the House Committee on Rules held a hearing to consider the issue of unfunded mandates. As…