On the eve of 1 year ago, on almost the same date, one of the most destructive storms ever to hit my State came upon the shores. On September 15, 1999, Hurricane Floyd made landfall at the mouth of the Cape Fear River in North Carolina…

Reclaiming my time, this gives me an opportunity to really talk about the heart of the issue. We have those extra students in trailers or in closets or wherever, and most cases we do not increase the size of the cafeteria where children…

As we think about education, and the gentleman has been a real leader in this certainly in math and science education, but the gentleman has expanded to all education and I thank him for that, bringing his background to this hall of the…

I would remind our colleagues and those who are listening this evening that Social Security has been with us now since the 1930s. There have been those who have talked about its demise ever since and some who have tried to make sure it was…

I particularly agree with the gentleman on the issue of school construction that is so badly needed, not only in those growth areas but in a lot of our urban areas where children are going, as the gentleman said, trailers and substandard…

I hope they remember that that is H.R. 996, and, so they do not misunderstand, as the gentleman has indicated, all this does is pay the interest through a tax credit. It would allow the States and local jurisdictions to build the schools…

When some people use the words they talk about students and children, they really are not talking about all children. They do not mean all children. The gentleman does. I do. I trust that is what we are talking about when we talk about…

When we talk about the number of teachers we are going to need over the next 4 or 5 years that are retiring and the openings and the challenges this country faces in having teachers in front of those classes who are the best teachers we…

That is absolutely right. That is why it is imperative that this Congress not go back on the commitment they made and to keep putting that money in there. All of us use the language of the new economy. It is true, it is propelling our…

that is an important point as we deal with it. I think we need to keep in mind and remind our colleagues that it really is called, not just H1-B visa, working at the top, but it is called for a need for investment at every level. For…

It is not just to say, as the gentlewoman said, we provided the resources, because the E-Rate has been helpful working with the administration getting that out there so we get the rate down. So many times, people forget, and I think our…

we have, and I am sure it is in several other States, certainly in North Carolina, where we have a group that actually are taking computers, corporate folks are providing for them. Once they will take all of the insides out of the…

I rise today to announce my opposition to H.R. 4680, the Medicare Rx 2000 Act. This plan will not guarantee affordable prescription medicine coverage for all seniors and it takes the first step towards privatizing Medicare, forcing seniors…

I rise to highlight one of the most egregious problems in this severely deficient VA-HUD appropriations bill. Earlier today, my good friend Mr. Boyd, offered an amendment to increase funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency by…

I brought this chart up here because we talk about numbers. I want people to understand, we are not talking about a static number. We are talking about the growth in the number of students in high school over the next 10 years, the…

I rise today to support granting China permanent normal trade relations. The growing relationship between the United States and China has helped support my home State of North Carolina's economy and its leadership in world trade. Even…

the vote on permanent trade status for China is vital to our technology and small business interests in North Carolina, but it is particularly important to North Carolina agriculture, so I am glad this evening to come and join a number of…

I am in strong support of House Concurrent Resolution 309, the sense of Congress with regard to in-school personal safety education programs for children. I want to thank my colleagues from Texas, Congressman Nick Lampson and my colleague…

Mr. Speaker, as the father of an outstanding public school teacher and as a former State superintendent of my State schools, I rise in strong support of this resolution and I am a proud cosponsor of it as well, which really expresses the…

tonight I rise to pay homage to Evander S. Simpson of Smithfield, North Carolina, who died on April 27 after a long and fruitful life. His passing has removed from North Carolina's Second Congressional District a giant of community…

this evening I want to talk with my colleagues about the future. As I talk about the future, I want to talk about the children of this country, because they truly are our future. Mr. Speaker, I rise this evening to talk about education…

My older son liked one of the teachers. We had her home for dinner because he just idolized her. All of a sudden, that is why this is so important to be taught and integrated in the curriculum, because teachers do have a significant…

In my district, well in North Carolina as a State, over the next 10 years, we are projected to be the fifth fastest growing State in the Nation in school population. We cannot build schools fast enough. Yet, I went by a school, visited a…

As we work together with our colleagues to make sure that, not only is character education integrated and a part of our curriculum in the future, but all of these issues of education continue to be at the top of our agenda. Because if we…

I could not help but thinking as the gentleman from New York (Mr. Crowley) was going through it, we talk about children. If one goes in certainly the early classrooms, early years, kindergarten, prekindergarten, first, second grade, their…