we are coming up on Veterans' Day, and I rise today to honor and say thank you to the over 65,000 men and women who are veterans and constituents of Tennessee's Seventh Congressional District. I thank them one and all for their service…

today I wanted to take time to honor one of Tennessee's most accomplished Memphians, Judge Kay Spaulding Robilio of the U.S. Circuit Court, Division 5, 30th Judicial District. For more than 20 years of dedicated service as a judge and the…

I can tell my colleague that I was very encouraged with the way Tennesseeans support our President, the way they support our troops, they way they support our leadership in fighting this war on terrorism, the way they recognize that this…

sometimes I think that too many of us are ignoring the big picture during this debate, and sometimes we lose sight of what this money will mean, not only to America but for the entire world. I have got an article off of CNN.com that just…

in every one of our lives there are people and places that are really unique, and they are so special that they become an essential part of who we are and who our communities are and what they become over time. Today, I want to recognize…

Mr. Speaker, I appreciate so much the remarks that have been made about Larry Doby and his career. We recognize the importance of Larry Doby. As the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pascrell) was saying, Jackie Robinson and Shoeless Joe…

In late July Congress recessed and the Republicans headed back to their districts amid a firestorm of criticism from the left for passing record levels of tax relief. Democratic candidates for President issued blistering condemnations of…

today I rise to speak on the enormous waste that occurs every day as Federal agencies continually fail to use proper oversight of disbursements of taxpayer dollars, and I want to cite three specific examples. Instead of using its Federal…

a few weeks ago in my district we held a government reform subcommittee hearing on the effectiveness of faith-based organizations. And our chairman is exactly right. These are priceless national resources. There is an issue that I am…

the freshman class agrees that the waste has got to stop. The President agrees, the Congress agrees. Taxpayers must manage their own money, and so should the government. We are saddled with too many costly programs that are duplicated…

in 1999 I began battling imposition of a State income tax in Tennessee. Our State spent 4 years debating the ability of government to levy new taxes and the meaning of tax fairness. The battle was long, and it engaged virtually every…

we have had a busy agenda since we started back into session in January. I am like a lot of freshmen. I feel like we have spent a lot of time looking at reform issues. That is something that my constituents want to see, and it is certainly…

I rise in support of H.R. 1115, the Class Action Fairness Act, and I want to thank the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary and the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Goodlatte) for bringing this legislation to the floor today. It is…

Yesterday those opposed to tax relief came to the floor to wage an orchestrated campaign of disinformation against the Jobs and Growth Act. Having lost the battle to convince the voters that tax relief is fundamentally bad, and unable to…

Under the current civil service system, agencies are limited in the extent to which they can reward employees for their performance, in the way they can recognize excellent performance. In the current system, employees at lower levels of…

No parent should feel forced to put their child on a psychotropic drug like Ritalin or Adderall. But that is just what is happening every day in schools across America. Currently, teachers can coerce parents by demanding that their child…

today I had the opportunity to do something that millions of Americans would love to do: I asked the Internal Revenue Service to account for the use of its taxpayer dollars. Representing the Committee on Government Reform at the Joint…

last September the U.S. Census Bureau released figures that showed that the number of Americans who do not have health insurance has increased to more than 41 million Americans. Of those, 60 percent are employed by small businesses. We…

Today Congress can take action to give employees more options in how to manage their 401(k)s and other investment plans. H.R. 1, the Pension Security Act, includes important financial safeguards and new disclosure protections for America's…

just yesterday our friends across the aisle introduced their version of a jobs and growth package. I have looked into the details of this plan, and it is nothing more than another empty promise to America's workers and entrepreneurs. On a…

The claims have been made that the bill's requirement that a knowing violation of the statute occurs is unjust. The claim that it is too burdensome to require that a person knowingly violates the law before they can be said to meet the…

each day in the United States more than three children die from abuse at the hands of a family member. Most are under the age of 6. However, there is hope. Childhelp USA is an organization that is working hard to assist victims of neglect…

as we debate H.R. 1104, the Child Abduction Prevention Act of 2003, it is important to talk about not only the AMBER Alert provision in the bill, but to also praise additional measures of the legislation that serve and protect our Nation's…

the President has said that bringing freedom to Iraq would not be easy and that it would not be fast. I think it is important that Americans know that we are indeed making incredible progress, but it is unrealistic to expect that after 12…

I rise today to honor Dr. Burton Grant and the Hope Clinic for Women. In March 1983, a group of concerned citizens in middle Tennessee sought to give the growing number of women who sought abortions another option to an unplanned…