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…

Although I have to admit the free enterprise system is great, what concerns me about this bill is, it removes the free enterprise system from the employees. The Fairness for Small Business Employees Act of 1998 more appropriately should be…

the owners of the National Football League voted Monday to provide Cleveland with an expansion franchise, the 31st NFL team. The Cleveland team will be known as the Browns and will begin playing in 1999. Congratulations to Cleveland and…

H.R. 992 would permit private property owners to fully recover from a taking in either court by amending the Tucker Act. H.R. 992 gives both the district courts and the Court of Federal Claims concurrent jurisdiction to hear all of the…

Again, it is just some guidance so people will know that if they make that call for pre-clearance, that if that decision is made that they have some appeal process, and that is just fair. I do not want to particularly go hire a lawyer to…

America has a deep and strong commitment to public education. Education is a need for all Americans. Public education needs to be available for all Americans, not just a select few. In America we try to provide education for everyone…

I oppose the Solomon amendment and support the substitute amendment. To make English our official language limits our Nation. English is our official language. It is our common language. We always have used English. It did not take a law…

the need for managed health care reform is growing every day. We hear numerous complaints from our constituents and concerns about managed care and how it limits their ability to make medical decisions on their own. This coming Monday…

I would like to talk about it in mine, not only in the State of Texas but in Houston. My concern is we need to be more concerned about the patients' rights and establishing some standards for managed health care plans. We all have to live…

What we need to do is deal with tax reform, IRS reform. We need to make sure we continue that balanced budget effort and safeguard Social Security first, just like the President said here in January. We also need to work on modernizing…

to show the support of Texas for the sea grant reauthorization, I rise in support of the National Sea Grant College program. The National Sea Grant College program was established in 1966 to provide wide stewardship over our marine and…

by ``this guy,'' I think my colleague is referring to the President of the United States. Is that correct? So I would hope that after yesterday, when we named that airport for a former president, it is obvious that he will continue to…

America has a commitment to public education, an education which is a requirement for our country to be competitive in this world. Public education needs to be available to all Americans. It is not designed to educate just a few Americans…

Let us fix public education. Let us not abandon it. Let us not take away and give vouchers for a small segment, 7,500 that the gentleman talks about, when we have thousands that need help. I do not want to abandon public education and only…

I know it is a very bipartisan piece of legislation because about 2 weeks ago the President agreed to sign onto it. Even before that, there were a lot of Democrats who were interested in the issue, particularly shifting of the burden of…

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 am amazed to see H.R. 2746 here again today. These are from the same folks who a few weeks ago characterized government-owned schools as a communist legacy. So now we have H.R. 2746 here to talk about how we are really going to educate…

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…

I want to disassociate myself with any of this green tax stuff, but what I am here for this morning is to talk about the fact that every American child deserves a quality education. Quality education needs to be available to all students…

I rise, obviously, in support of the rule. But let me talk about a little problem I have with some of the reforms that the Housing and Urban Development Department is doing. I have had an ongoing dialog with HUD over the last 4 areas, and…

When we talk about, again, buildings, thank goodness we are going to have those kids in high school, because the other problem we talk about a lot of times is the dropout. We do not want to see those children start in the elementary grades…

let me talk about some innovative things that schools have done. For example, in some of the districts I am familiar with, we have always heard of night school students, but they are using their buildings, because why build new buildings…

like my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, I would like to rise today to thank both the chairman and ranking member, the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. McDade] and the gentleman from California [Mr. Fazio], for their fairness and…

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…

there are 52 million students in public schools today. Fifty-two million students. That is more than at the height of the baby boom generation. The question is are these students receiving the best education? Students from kindergarten to…