Nick Lampson

oncology services are critical for Texans. The American Cancer Society expected 83,400 new cancer patients for Texas in 2003. Cancer sufferers need access to care near where they live, and they need stability of care. An accessible, caring…

As children across the country begin a new school year, some do so with missing classmates. The problem with child abduction goes on. Seven months ago Monday, Carlie Brucia's remains were found after a stranger took her at a gas station…

it is an honor to rise to salute my colleague, the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Bereuter), on a quarter century of service to this body and particularly to thank him for the opportunity to bring an issue that was so close to me…

middle-class families are feeling the pinch. They feel it as they try to afford health care, try to keep their jobs, and try to provide a rewarding education for their children. When I am in southeast Texas, I talk to folks every day who…

It is an absolute moral scandal that Dr. Stobo's patient, along with 43 million hard-working Americans, people with jobs, have no health insurance. A study by respected analysts Jack Handley and John Holahan estimates that basic health…

once again, the House appears to be in an all-tax-cuts-all-the-time mode all over again. By listening to the talk coming from this body, one would want to believe that we really want tax fairness for all Americans. Last week we had the…

I rise today to ask how the Republicans will provide health care to millions of uninsured and unemployed Americans through the majority's Hire Our Workers program. American families are facing over 2 million jobs lost since January 2001…

I also want to say it does not matter what you call it. If it is inequity, it is inequity. If it is not fair, it is not fair. That is what I want to talk about this morning in this debate. We have lost the issue of a simple matter of…

I rise today to salute Staff Sergeant Eugene Simon of Beaumont, Texas. It has come to my attention through a number of e-mails and other contacts from families in my district about the concerns that many of them are having about our…

I rise in support of H.R. 3550, the bill that provides $275 billion over the next 6 years for highways and public transit throughout the country. Originally, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure introduced a bill that ensured…

I too rise to oppose this Republican budget. My concerns are the tax cuts and the costs that our citizens will face because of them. This budget ignores the needs of many of the folks that work in the petrochemical industry, particularly…

the words that the gentleman of Wisconsin (Mr. Sensenbrenner) just spoke indicate that we would give the opportunity for someone to become wealthy in the event that the child became fat. Well, we are only asking that if a person becomes…

I oppose the core of this bill because I believe that the constitutional right to seek redress in our courts as guaranteed by the seventh amendment is inviolate and the right to civil justice is a fundamental element of any stable and just…

so what we are going to say is we will dilute what was earned by that family. Yes or no?

one quick, simple question. Who earns the benefits that the teacher's spouse, who ultimately goes off and takes advantage of that loophole, who earns the benefits he or she is trying to get?

Mr. Speaker, this is a complex issue and one that touches an awful lot of us in different kinds of ways. While I certainly support the efforts that this committee has made in developing this bill, and I know how important the bill is, I am…

During this week I have heard from representatives of thousands of senior citizens in southeast Texas, like my 93-year-old mother, that they overwhelmingly oppose this proposal, and they give three reasons why. They believe the…

I imagine when a precedent is set, it could be used in other places. It would be the wrong direction for us to go in for this.

we truly do not want to restrict the rights or interests of a community to be able to choose for themselves what they want, and in this case Houston has said let us bring it to the people on November 4. They have the referendum set. They…

we do not want any Federal officials impacting. We want to reach out and make sure the people of Houston have their own say in this matter.

that is what we understand. We also understand it is the single largest city that does not have this kind of infrastructure that the citizens themselves have chosen to put into place and definitely want to have.

I find it a little astounding that I come here to ask the question of what is happening to our government. Why are our fellow citizens withholding information from us, even from Members of Congress? Why are some of the agencies that are…

I rise in great sadness to honor my friend, Reverend Ransom Howard, the pastor for almost 4 rac{1}{2} decades of First Sixth Street Baptist Church in Port Arthur, Texas. Reverend Ransom Howard died on Thursday, May 29. Reverend Howard was…

I want to follow up with what the gentleman from Texas was talking about with the people that decided to stand up against such an egregious process, where they felt left out and had no recourse in Texas but to go away from the legislative…

with all that has been happening in the State of Texas, the Texas 51, the turmoil with people feeling that there is not an open process in the Texas legislature and why the House members there chose to send a message that we must open up…