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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…
I read a poignant article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram this morning. Mr. Sanders compares the legislative body in Texas and its lack of leadership to a runaway freight train that has been hijacked by a self-serving Congressman, Mr. Tom…
I also listened a few minutes ago to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Turner) talk about those wonderful people who spent so much time searching for the remains of the Columbia after its dissolution on its return from space. What a…
The gentleman spoke of Craig Eiland, who is one of my constituents, Craig and Melissa; and their prematurely born twins are doing well in the hospital, thank goodness, but the night that those Department of Public Safety officers showed up…
And not since the time of Richard Nixon when they interfered with a political activity using Federal funds, Federal people, Federal employees has something like that occurred until now?
I am just curious in listening to this and knowing what kind of time and cost that that would be, when I know that many of our entities, ports along our coastline and many other places in the country, are strapped for money, is there any…
Well, not to fight for what you believe in is the more correct part. He could not have missed that mark in a worse way. It is exactly what a Texan is all about, to stand there and fight in the face of knowing they may not be able to win…
my Governor, Rick Perry, called some Texas legislative members children, and Speaker Tom Craddick called them Chicken D's. Well, I am calling them heroes. Joe Deshotel, Allen Ritter, Dan Ellis, and Craig Eiland are heroes to the citizens…
The fact that the gentleman's committee, and under his leadership with the Homeland Security Committee, is asking for $350 million to help address that problem is most appreciated. And I want to assure him that not only will I pass this…
there are an awful lot of good people who want to leave some kind of employment into which they have been paying Social Security and go into the classroom, and our classrooms across the State of Texas and across this whole country are…
If our recent experience with anthrax, for example, has taught us anything, it is that we need to make the necessary investments to better identify solutions to these problems and to prepare appropriate responses. This comes only after we…
as the chairman and founder of the Congressional Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, I am proud to be part of this overall issue of child abduction. Missing and exploited children is an issue that I became critically aware of within…
the Nation grieved with the Smart family when Elizabeth disappeared 9 months ago. As chairman of the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, I, and our Nation, are overjoyed at her discovery. This is the light at the end of…
there are over 40,000 teachers across the State of Texas who could be adversely affected by this legislation. This bill includes provisions which I consider to be catastrophic for Texas teachers and many other government employees…
I rise today to welcome our colleagues back and to remind everyone that while the media fervor of missing children has died down it does not mean that the cases have gone away. It is my hope that we will continue in this body to focus and…
I have a question regarding a visit I had just a few minutes ago from some physicians from the State of Texas asking me about the replacement of the Medicare funding into the CR. We know that on January 1, their Medicare payments, or…
Reclaiming the few seconds that I can take on this, it is a travesty to our citizens of this country who are going to need and want treatment within our health care system. If they cannot get access to the care that they need, they will be…
on Monday, the House passed H.R. 5422, the Child Abduction Prevention Act. As the founder of the Congressional Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, I would like to thank my colleagues for coming together to pass this important piece…
on Sunday I held an event to honor Eloise Milam, a great lady and a proud American, who gave much and has given much to her country and its military by founding the Melody Maids. Founded in Beaumont, Texas, the Melody Maids traveled…
I am proud to ask all of my colleagues to support H. Con. Res. 484. We all know now the names of Elizabeth Smart and Michelle VanDamme and all the other children who were tragically abducted this summer. This sense of Congress expresses…
I stand here today to tell you that the Secret Service does not just protect the President, they also protect missing kids. Nearly a decade ago, Congress authorized the U.S. Secret Service to participate in a multi-agency task force with…
Yesterday a group of staffers for Members who are part of the Congressional Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children took part of a tour and briefing at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and I want to thank them today…
Tomorrow in Texas I am co-hosting on the Beaumont Police Department and the Jefferson County Sheriff's Academy a seminar on missing-and-exploited-children cases. And while we work here in Washington to pass legislation to protect children…
usually when I stand here to address these 1-minutes, it is on the subject of missing children. Today I want to talk about kids who are missing mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers and friends and family because on September 11 of…
today I rise to again urge my colleagues, if they are not already members, to join the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus. In 1997, a little girl named Laura Kate Smither was abducted while jogging near her home in my…
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