I have never had a child nor an administrator nor a teacher ask me whether the money came from the Federal, State, or local. They just knew they did not have enough. Even in some of the nicer schools we go into, and it is true in my State…

what the gentleman from New York (Mr. Crowley) is really talking about is civic responsibility. It has to start at a young age, and we reinforce it every step along the way with teachers in the classroom, with parents, in the community…

Schools need to be safe havens for all children. It is important to teach all of these character traits, but for us as adults, as the gentleman has pointed out, it is very important that we live up to those. Children are a lot smarter than…

I rise today to announce I will vote for this legislation even though I have serious reservations about many of its details. I will vote for this bill because I support providing relief from the burden of taxation on North Carolina's…

Mr. Speaker, I associate my remarks with the previous speaker, my friend from North Carolina, and I join him in saying there are some good things, but this bill is a sham. It is a disgrace to our children and families in North Carolina who…

If our farmers lose their independence, that is the very thing that has made America great. We have had a strong vibrant economy because of agriculture. When our agricultural economy gets in trouble, pretty soon the rest of us follow. We…

There is no excuse when we have the power to do something about it. The majority does. We should move tomorrow. We should have a bill on this floor before we go home this weekend and we ought to pass it so that the farmers can go to work…

This Sunday, April 18, will mark the 1-year anniversary of the passing of a truly great and courageous North Carolinian and American. Former United States Senator and North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford died last year of complications…

I believe in having flexibility at the local level, but I think here we are getting the cart before the horse. We are forgetting that there ought to be accountability and a number of other pieces we ought to be dealing with before we give…

it is true, and I think it is by varying degrees, depending on where one is in the country. In certain parts of the country, there is a tremendous need for renovation and repair of current facilities, not only repairing in terms of…

today I rise to call on this Congress to pass legislation to make permanent the Federal Research and Development Tax Credit. I am a strong supporter and an original cosponsor of H.R. 835, which really is a bipartisan piece of legislation…

The point the gentlewoman makes is absolutely correct. If we think about it, when most of us were growing up, our world was much smaller in the sense that we thought about the competition being maybe the community next door, the county…

let me close by saying thank you for this opportunity to share with you, with our colleagues and with the American people hopefully an issue that is so critical to the future of this country, educating our young people, providing a rich…

At this very moment, halfway around the world, our troops are engaged in battle, at a time that we are here talking about doing in the commander-in-chief. I deplore that, because they are trying to do away with a dictator who has weapons…

I have been in classrooms that water was in the basement, that we needed to move children out of the basement and out of harm's way, and in buildings that were fire codes that we had to move them out of. And 2 years ago in my State we had…

I think the point you made earlier is so true. I could not help but think as you were talking about schools and how things have changed, I think unless you have been there a lot, you forget. I think of the community I grew up in that I…

Education really should not be a partisan issue, but unfortunately in this Congress it is. Children show up at the public schools. They do not come as Democrats or Republicans. When they start, they only know what they get, not what they…

I ran for this Congress because I was appalled when I was a superintendent at the sorry education legislation that I saw coming through, cuts in doing away with child nutrition programs, cuts in every education program that made a…

Dollars for the classroom is nothing more than a hollow sound and it is a joke, because what we are talking about is cutting the allocation to where every single district in my State would lose $12 million of money they badly need, and…

My Republican colleagues ought to be ashamed of themselves. If they think it is such a good idea, they should make it for their hometown schools. The children of this country deserve better. My colleagues take on the teachers. They punish…

Mr. Speaker, I am honored to have this opportunity to honor the life and memory of a truly great American, Terry Sanford. Terry Sanford learned growing up that hard work reaps rewards, that boldness is a requirement of leadership, and that…

I rise today to call on this Congress to pass legislation to strengthen our neighborhood public schools. As a former superintendent of schools in my State, I know firsthand what it takes to improve education for all of our children. We…

I hope we now realize it is time to stop balancing the budget on the backs of farmers. Farmers have taken it on the chin, and it is time that we show our support for the people who risk so much to produce the safest, most abundant food…

I plead for sanity in this tobacco debate. The punitive proposals before Congress are an affront to fairness. These proposed tax increases will devastate farmers who have done absolutely nothing wrong. Excise tax increases are regressive…

I am honored this evening to have a few moments to speak about my good friend and a friend of many, Terry Sanford. The first time I remember hearing Terry Sanford speak was at my commencement exercise as I graduated from college. I had…