I am encouraged to hear that, though I read just this week in the April 15 issue of Congress Daily an announcement concerning a draft committee recommendation on clean water legislation, and it was an expression of great concern by the…

This was after they began the weekly meetings with the polluters behind closed doors here in the Capitol?

My concern is that that is all they plan to do; that they want to have good public relations but that they intend to continue, as far as I know they have not stopped their closed-door meetings with the polluters and special interest…

strangely, this piece of legislation rejects the notion that I have heard so often voiced from this microphone about the concept of personal responsibility. It is OK to demand personal responsibility of the most disadvantaged, of the…

I cannot help but be a little amused that some of the same forces that come here and complain about the litigation explosion, about how our courts are too crowded are the same folks that I read about this week in USA Today who are going…

among the greatest failures of this failed Republican Congress is the failure to address the real health care needs of the American people. Mr. Speaker, the failed Contract on America was essentially silent on this question. Last year…

The Contract With America Advancement Act: what a true abuse of the English language. If this is an advancement of the Contract With America, the one thing it demonstrates is that some of our Republican colleagues cannot tell backward from…

still high on the agenda of this Gingrich Congress is the assault on public education. It began last year with school lunch. You will remember the Speaker's assault and attempt to destroy a program that had enjoyed 50 years of bipartisan…

Well, you may not want it shut down this morning, but you were mighty proud to shut it down twice last year. You use this term ``civil disorder.'' You say that martial law is something that we bring into play when there is civil disorder…

this is a Congress that operates in spurts, and it is sputtering today as its Members head home for yet another extended weekend with the work of this country not done. The reason that that has occurred, and the reason that this is a…

the real language problem in this country is not the one we just heard about, but it is the fact that our Republican colleagues cannot understand in any language the call of the American people to deal with the real problems that affect…

this is a so-called corrections day bill, but it does not correct any of the real problems that affect the American families that are out there struggling to make ends meet.

surely it is permissible in the course of one of these debates, and I can understand the gentleman's desire not to get into this destruction to the health care of our seniors across the country by raising this issue, but surely it is…

let me ask the gentleman about this particular bill, about this data bank which has been brought to the floor under an unusual procedure never used before by this Congress, that by the very nature of the procedure bringing it to the floor…

I have just received a copy of the House Republican National Strategic Plan for 1996, and I am wondering if the gentleman has an opinion as to how this piece of legislation, which I believe is the first piece of legislation dealing…

these followers of Speaker Gingrich have threatened the health care security of millions of seniors in America with Medicare cuts. They demonstrated, as Gingrichites, such indifference to the job insecurity of American working families…

as so many Texans gathered yesterday in Austin to honor Senator Ralph Yarborough, I was reminded of his urging that we ought to put the jam on the lower shelf so the little people can reach it. How appropriate those words are this morning…

I think they would throw out the management of the company. That is exactly what the people of the United States are going to do if we continue to have the kind of shenanigans that have been going on here. It is time to protect the full…

as this Congress convenes today in Washington, many Texans are convened in Austin, TX, to celebrate the life of Ralph W. Yarborough. Senator Yarborough, Judge Yarborough, Assistant Attorney General Yarborough, a man originally from…

Surely in a Nation as great as these United States, we ought to be able to achieve the objectives that the gentlewoman has so eloquently described to protect the retirement security and the health care security of those who have served our…

Of course, Mr. Speaker, the gentlewoman referred to partisanship. There is nothing partisan about the fact that six or seven prior Secretaries of the U.S. Treasury, Republicans and Democrats, have basically said, ``Don't do this. This is…

The problem was, as the gentleman will remember, that more than anything else, he did not like the fact that the President of the United States absolutely refused to join him in his determination to let Medicare wither on the vine. And…

Unequivocally, and then let these credit issues, many of which are important, some on which you and I agree with our Republican colleagues on and some we disagree on, let us get those disputes resolved in the appropriate manner, rather…

we now approach a time within only a very few weeks when for the first time in over two centuries of this country, the full faith and credit of the United States of America is being placed in dire risk. The creditworthiness of this…

Well, certainly they are concerned about the impact, and particularly as responsible officials, they would be run out of town with the accountants defaulting on the local obligations of the school district or the city or the county…