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I am in opposition to H.R. 3709, the ``Internet Nondiscrimination Act,'' which extends the existing moratorium on state and local taxation of Internet access and commerce by five years and repeals the grandfather clause for existing state…
if this Congress does anything this year, this might be the bill to pass and get signed into law. This bill underscores the whole issue of the uninsured in this country. When women are diagnosed with breast cancer or cervical cancer and do…
I rise in support of H.R. 1237, the National Estuary Program (NEP) Reauthorization. In 1987, the National Estuary Program was established to promote protection and restoration of the health of estuaries and their living resources. This…
I ran into more and more seniors who said the biggest concern they had was the cost of prescription drugs, and the problems that they had of having to choose between buying their groceries at the end of the month or buying the…
It is not inconvenient to take this bill up. I would be happy to take this bill up every day of the week for the rest of the year. What is inconvenient is the procedure with which we are taking this bill up. The procedure finds the…
the Republican majority's fiscal year 2001 budget resolution before us today tests the bounds of fiscal reality while failing the tests of fiscal responsibility. The Republican budget resolution is premised upon an unsustainable tax cut of…
Mr. Chairman, there is a big difference between the Republican and the Democratic budgets, and one of those big differences is the amount of debt that is paid down. The Republican budget does not use one cent of the on-budget surplus to…
I rise in support of raising the national minimum wage by $1.00 over two years. The Traficant amendment to H.R. 3846 accomplishes this goal. American workers need relief and three years is simply not soon enough. The Democratic measure…
Now, the bill before us today perpetuates a fraud on the Federal budget process and the American people. The Republicans have produced a Federal budget which in reality exceeds the spending caps set in 1997 by more than $30 billion and…
This is the type of resolution that gives Congress a bad name. I know the gentleman from California (Mr. Herger) has only the best intentions, but the fact is the CBO, our budget office, has already said that we have spent the Social…
I as well as the gentlewoman from California and some others have introduced a bill that would direct representatives to both the IMF and the World Bank to use their voice and vote to oppose any additional funding under the IMF-G7 credit…
the reason why we have this insurance program is the same reason why we have the HUD insurance program for homeowners in this country, low-income homeowners, because the marketplace does not provide for it, just as my colleague from…
Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor our fellow Texan, Lance Armstrong, and his remarkable comeback from testicular cancer to win the 1999 Tour de France. Lance Armstrong has stopped at many checkpoints along the road to recovery from cancer. One…
first of all, I do not have any problem with this particular company, and I do not have any problem with the ACC, and I do not have any problem with North Carolina. I think it is a great State. Not as great as the State of Texas, but I…
Unfortunately, on the way to passing what would have been a very good bill, would have worked out the privacy issue in my regard, and I have worked with both sides to try and do this and was trying to get the rule passed, but the…
this is, overall, a pretty good bill. It starts to bring statutory law up to pace with where the marketplace is. The markets, the financial markets in the United States, are the strongest in the world, but the laws governing them are…
I want to, Madam Speaker, rise today in strong support of H. Res. 89 which was a sense of the House Resolution that the House of Representatives should provide an additional $2 billion for the National Institutes of Health budget for the…
I strongly support it; that it includes two important provisions which would correct the opt-out language related to the equity cap for State homestead laws. Without these opt-outs, I think citizens in my State of Texas and several other…
I think it is also a mistake that we are spending such little time to debate this issue. This is a very critical issue for the Nation, and I am afraid that this underscores the way this House is going to operate on issues that should be…
I rise to honor Rosa Parks for her role in American History. It is long overdue that the Congress recognize her with the Congressional Gold Medal for her contribution to the Civil Rights Movement. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks stood up…
let me say to my dear friends on the other side that this is, in my opinion, not a serious budget, this is a placeholder budget. In their haste to try and get something done by April 15, having failed miserably last year, they have thrown…
I rise in defense of fiscal responsibility and in support of the Democratic budget resolution and in opposition to the Republican budget resolution. When I was elected to Congress, my highest priority was to balance the unified budget. We…
as a cosponsor of H.R. 975, I rise in support of this legislation and urge its adoption. Today, there will be a great deal of debate regarding the question of free trade versus fair trade. As someone who concerned about how to promote…
I think this amendment is wrong, but I also think the whole consideration of the underlying text at this point in time is wrong. ... I just think this is a terrible policy mistake. I also do not understand exactly the gentlewoman's…
For the last 40 years, while the Democrats may have controlled the House, the history I learned showed that the Republicans controlled the other body, off and on on a number of occasions, and there are two bodies in our system. That is how…
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