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I want to pay tribute to someone who has made celebrities while she stayed in the background. Her name is Vonny Hilton Sweeney. She set high goals and obtained one of the most prestigious achievements by becoming the first black majorette…
I rise today to also commemorate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and to celebrate the lives and accomplishments of Asian Pacific Americans in U.S. history. I want to thank the gentleman from California (Mr. Honda) and the gentleman…
We are all shocked, saddened, and outraged by recent reports of the abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. The evidence cannot be in dispute. Graphic photos have gone from one end of the earth to the other that show stripped young…
I want to read into the Congressional Record the names of five women who were honored by the Touched By an Angel St. Bernadette Women's Day on Sunday April 25, 2000, in my district. The following have been honored for their exemplary and…
As you know, in April 1915, approximately 1.5 million Armenians were systematically killed in an organized fashion by the Ottoman government. Ample documentation of these facts exist; yet today, almost 9 decades later, the government of…
In reading the base bill I have a concern, and it has nothing to do with the number of days, but it has all to do with how that is triggered. In the legislation itself it says, ``Extraordinary circumstances occur when the Speaker of the…
H.R. 1822 would designate that a United States Post Office in the Koreatown section of my district would be renamed the ``Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Post Office.'' Los Angeles is the home to the largest Korean American population in the country…
What I did say is it would have placed my number one USC volleyball team at risk because this bill eliminates the Women's Educational Equity Act.
For more than 200 years the men and women of the United States military have, through their valiant actions, earned a well-deserved reputation for courage, honor, and sacrifice in defense of liberty. The brave Americans now fighting and…
I stand to commend a great citizen and a contributing member to the betterment of family life in the greater Los Angeles area. Her name is Elizabeth Benson Forer. She is the chief executive officer and executive director of the Venice…
It is with deep sadness and regret that I rise to inform my colleagues of the death of Los Angeles Police Department Officer Ricardo Lizarraga, who was killed in the line of duty on Friday, February 20, 2004, while answering a domestic…
Over the last several weeks, my constituents have watched the escalating violence in Haiti with increasing alarm. Their alarm is caused not just by the brutality and the chaos of the revolt, but by this seeming lack of resolve of our own…
H. Con. Res. 357, authorizing the use of the capital rotunda to award the congressional gold medal to Dr. Dorothy Height, is offered today to sanction the venue for the upcoming award of the medal to Dr. Height on March 24, 2004. I want to…
I was privileged and honored to represent the United States as the Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia, and I have a deep and abiding respect for the island nations who are struggling to build their democracy following the…
As former chair of the California Senate Health Committee for 17 years, let me say how pleased I am with the comprehensive legislation that the Health Care Equality and Accountability Act of 2003 contains. The elimination of racial and…
According to the latest U.S. Government estimates, some 800,000 to 900,000 people worldwide are trafficked across borders each year for forced labor or sexual exploitation. Although men are also victimized, the overwhelming majority of…
I stand here outraged because I am asked to vote for a bill that would give $87 billion as a grant to a country that has billions of barrels of oil buried underground in reserve. At the same time, we have cut veterans services. I am…
President Clinton gave me the privilege to represent the American people as Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia. I have a deep respect for the Island nations, and I am pleased that we have passed the new compact legislation…
Mr. Speaker, the son of a stonemason and an aspiring concert singer, Bob Hope had a career that stretched across the decades. His casual careers included a butcher's delivery boy, a soda clerk, shoe salesman, pool hustler and boxer, but it…
Mr. Speaker, I am representing the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Davis) as a member of the Committee on Government Reform, and I am pleased to join the gentleman in consideration of H.R. 2075, legislation naming a postal facility in West…
It has been a year since the President began pressing to invade Iraq. At the time, many of us pressed the President to fully account for the cost of his planned war. Most Americans would agree that if the issue of Iraq was important enough…
Mr. Speaker, two years ago to the day after the tragic terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, this date will always be etched in the minds of every American as a new day of infamy, when over 3,000…
I rise to speak about how H.R. 2210 will dismantle Head Start and take thousands of beloved Head Start teachers from the children who depend on them so greatly. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to H.R. 2210, the wrongheaded…
I, too, feel the unease of those who spoke before me about the information the President gave us on a reason for going to Iraq. I think it requires investigation. It requires us to know the truth. I do hope when Tony Blair comes on…
For the next week, Africa will be on page 1 news due to the President's trip to the continent. Then, once again, news on Africa will most likely recede to the back pages of our major newspapers and disappear for good. However, what many…
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