Nick Lampson

It is the bright future and promise of students like Angelin, who make teaching worthwhile and rewarding experience.

While our nation continues to grieve over the school tragedy in Littleton, Colo., I'd like to turn our attention for a moment to a middle school student from Galveston, Texas, who is already making contributions toward advancing our…

I'd like to congratulate Angelin, who has won awards at the Galveston County Science and Engineering Fair, the Houston Science and Engineering Fair, the state of Texas Science and Engineering Fair, for her research project, entitled 'Math…

Mr. Speaker, as a former high school physical science teacher, I know the value of science education, and I remember the sense of anticipation and excitement that my students shared with me when we huddled around a television set as Neil…

I rise today to challenge all of my colleagues, Democrats, Republicans and independents, to pass legislation that would provide all Americans with the health care protections that they need and deserve. I am very concerned that patients…

I rise this afternoon to pass along some comments that my mother, Nancy Lampson, made to me after church just recently. She, like millions of other senior citizens, is worried about the future of Medicare and Social Security. She is afraid…

I rise today to extend congratulations to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, sometimes known as the NAACP, as it celebrates its 90th anniversary on this Friday. The NAACP is the oldest, largest, and strongest…

I rise this morning to announce that I will host a Social Security summit in the Ninth District of Texas. Why? Because hundreds of senior citizens and their families have called and written letters to my office concerned about the future…

this morning I began writing a letter to my daughters and my future grandchildren and great-grandchildren to describe my feelings on this sad, yet historic day. I wrote my daughters that I have listened to my colleagues talk about truth…

We have to give our children an opportunity for a better future, and that is going to be through a quality education. We know we are going to have more teachers now. That is going to be in this budget. Thank goodness for that. Now we need…

I would ask all of our colleagues to join the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Turner) and the gentleman from California (Mr. Waxman) and myself in supporting the Prescription Drug Fairness Act. Let us pass it and maybe we will be able to save…

it really would make sense if we can cut the costs of seniors particularly who are in greater need of some of these medications than perhaps other citizens of the country are that we would perhaps be able to save money in the long run in…

this morning, I rise to call on my colleagues to join me in praying for our children, teachers, and administrators as a new school year begins. Why is it important that we pray for our children? Well, it is because our kids face so many…

as a father, one of my biggest fears over the years has been discovering perhaps that one of my daughters would be missing. Sadly, last November, one of my constituents was living mine and every parent's nightmare when she frantically…

Mr. Chairman, why on Earth do we spend money in space? Mr. Chairman, when a young President, John Kennedy, described his vision in 1961 of landing a man on the moon, he encountered also many skeptics. Some said it could not be done. Some…

This bill provides for restructuring the management of the Internal Revenue Service by establishing an oversight board to oversee the agency's operations. Along with expanding certain taxpayer rights, the conference report also reduces…

I take to the floor today to express the outrage of the good people of southeast Texas, and my own personal outrage, at the actions of the three men in Jasper, Texas who brutally beat, chained, and savagely dragged James Byrd, Jr., an…

I appreciate that. The trial and resulting conviction of Jesse Timmendequas for the murder of Megan Kanka was harrowing for all Americans. The thought that someone so violent and dangerous could live across the street from any family in…

nothing is more heartbreaking than when a young person turns to drugs. Although the use of drugs by American youth began to level off in 1997, drug-use rates are almost twice as high as they were in 1992. Research indicates that young…

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Communities that care about their children and families can and do work together to find solutions to tough problems. It is because of the partnership of a community in my district and a…

I adamantly oppose the Roukema amendment to strike provisions of BESTEA that continue the Transportation Department's Disadvantaged Business Enterprises Program. I represent the part of Houston which is currently embroiled in a lawsuit…

as the only Houston area member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, I am pleased to have played a role in moving the BESTEA out of committee and to this floor. I applaud the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr…

Yesterday in, Galveston, Texas, I was visited by one of my constituents, Lisa Halili, who brought about 15 other people along with her, many of whom had relatives and certainly had friends in Kosovo. The story that they proceeded to tell…

Southeast Texas said good-bye to Julie Rogers last week. Julie Rogers, and her late husband, Ben, displayed the finest example of citizenship throughout their lives that I have ever known. "Extraordinary" is the only word our language…

This bill provides for increased mandatory minimum sentences for criminals possessing firearms. Had I been recorded on that vote, I would have voted ``aye.''