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Al N. Green is an American politician serving as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas's 9th congressional district since 2004. A member of the Democratic Party, Green has focused on issues such as civil rights, healthcare, and economic justice throughout his tenure. He has been an outspoken advocate for various social issues, including gun control and voting rights.
But working with him for these 9 years, I appreciate not only his inward strength, but also his dedication to the issues. It helps having, even though, again, a very urban district in Houston, and David being from Michigan, having a lot of…
This last week, last Monday on Veterans' Day, our holiday, I had a chance to go to one of our middle schools in my district, Burbank Middle School, and I rise to congratulate a young Burbank Middle School constituent, Cynthia Plascencia…
He was a man of integrity, honor, commitment, and service. He was a great man who gave himself selflessly for the betterment of others.
California is an exception, because we have lots of intrastate pipelines running through the State of Texas, running through lots of States in the Union, but California has taken the Hinshaw exemption from 1954 and carried it much further…
It is not the governor, it is the problem with California's distribution system. That is why there needs to be more pipelines, newer pipelines. In fact, we have a letter dated July 17 from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to the…
The reason this is not a problem in other States is that no other State has come to the FERC or the Federal Government to ask for assistance like California has. But in looking at the problem in California, it seemed the disparity in the…
There are 17, from my understanding. Again, in Texas, we do not have any hesitation at all about going to the courthouse when we feel aggrieved, and so after 4 years, only 17 lawsuits. We have not had an overwhelming number of lawsuits…
Whatever time I have left, I know that Storm Allison moved from Texas to Louisiana, and we are seeing that devastation along the Gulf Coast, and I know we will be here to provide that funding.
I have to admit, we do not have any farmers in urban Houston, but we do grow our backyard gardens, we have tomato plants and peppers, but with this heat, they are all dead now. But I think the graph and the distribution that our colleague…
I think what the House passed the week before the 4th of July was a travesty. It was something that the seniors can see through, and we said that on the floor. That is why I think it only passed by three votes as the gentleman from Texas…
I know in my own district in Houston, our population turns so quick, that we may do a great immunization program 2 or 3 years ago, but we have so many new children who are coming in to urban areas in our country that this money, this…
I have followed this story and the tragic fires in my colleague's district in northern New Mexico that has disrupted the lives of thousands of citizens of New Mexico, and we have shared the anguish of their families who have lost their…
I believe Congress is well-intentioned today by not allowing the FCC the ability to impose per minute charges on Internet access services. We all know that per minute access would devastate the Internet. The explosive growth in data…
That is the history of managed care reform in Texas. There are things that I am proud to be a Texan always; but obviously we have not done as well as we should on the CHIPs program and those prescriptions that you talk about on Medicaid; I…
You remember when the legislature passed the HMO reform bill or managed care reform bill in Texas and it was passed by the legislature and it became law this time, though; but the governor did not veto it, he did not sign it, it became law…
In 1995, the State of Texas passed the first strong managed care reform bill, HMO reform bill, passed both the House and the Senate and the governor vetoed it in 1995.
When somebody in my district that is a blue collar worker gets a job at Johnson Space Center, they move to the district of the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Lampson) or the district of the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay) or the district of…
Because of the prior commitment of my daughter's wedding in Houston, I was not present for the final vote on H.R. 1664, the Kosovo Supplemental bill. If I had been present, I would have voted yes on final passage. ____________________
Mr. Speaker, our country, a leader in the world, has fallen dramatically behind the rest of the world in the critical subjects of math and science. When compared to students in European nations, our students finish at the bottom of their…
I hope other States will follow this on those policies that are licensed by State law; but we have to pass something in Congress to affect Federal law, to affect those multi-State companies that have plans in the gentleman's district, in…
The number of wireless subscribers in our country totals about 68 million, and that number continues to grow. Although being in my fourth term in Congress, the first time I became aware of 911 was as a State Representative in Houston in…
I rise tonight and requested this special order and share it with a number of our colleagues to pay tribute to our friend and colleague and the Dean of the Texas Congressional Delegation, the distinguished Congressman from 20th…
I want to support bankruptcy reform, but not this conference committee report. There are several provisions in this bill that prevent it from meeting its intended goal... Big banks and credit card companies target teenagers and college…
I want to make a few points about the Republican bill would do to State-passed patient protections and share with my colleagues concerns that have been raised by officials in my own home State. And, again, we discussed this before, that…
And the Senate could take up the bill number that we passed over there and put real reforms in that bill. What we did is wrong because it is a step backwards. But the Senate could change it and pass real patient protections and send it…
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