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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.
I share his concern. Not being on either foreign affairs committee but from the Committee on Commerce I have watched, and the concern I have is that when we are dealing with the central Asian republics and the republic of Turkey, we cannot…
We are in a long-term debate, I guess, on campaign finance reform. We call it 'death by amendment,' because the seriousness of the campaign reform issue is so important, and yet our colleagues on the Republican side are the ones that have…
I have no problem with that. They have that right. But they do not have the right to stand up in an algebra class and do it. But they have the right to pray on their own. And so we have to have some reasonableness applied to it. We have…
I am opposing this rule and opposing the Istook amendment. It is hard to stand up here... we should go into a room and pray on our own and not necessarily have to do it like we are doing it today.
Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as requiring an employer to employ any person who is not a bona fide applicant. My concern is the definition of bona fide is going to be made by that person making that decision to hire that…
I support one of the issues particularly that is in this bill, where the reform would allow for the burden of proof to be placed on the IRS instead of on the taxpayer... If one is mistreated by a government agency, whether it be the IRS or…
I wish we had quick fixes to education problems, but we do not. It takes hard work. And there are millions of parents, teachers, and even school administrators who care and love those children and that are not looking for quick-fix…
Here we go again. After the Civil War, we had radical Republicans trying to punish the South. Now we have latter day radical Republicans attacking public education, and yesterday we had a Republican colleague compare public education to a…
Reclaiming my time, that worries me because we have not seen a lessening of injuries on the job. Maybe what we need to do is make OSHA better by providing more funding for training of those inspectors and more inspectors to go out and…
What the gentleman said is right and what our colleagues said was correct, in that over a month ago we reached a bipartisan agreement on helping parents and helping students in college, whether it be the Hope scholarship program, the tax…
Recently the Houston Oilers received the final agreement to leave Houston and become the Tennessee Oilers, playing in Memphis, TN, this year and later on in Nashville, TN. As a long-time Houston Oiler fan, I am looking for a new…
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