Burgess Owens

I want to call it ``Overwhelming Neglect: The Arithmetic of Federal Aid to Education.'' I am going to talk about the simple arithmetic of Federal aid to education, no higher mathematics, no logarithms, no differential equations and…

Could the gentleman give us one example of what he means by the Federal Government interfering with one's ability to be flexible with parents and run the schools?

In the list of extensions, are there other situations which involve part of the income being derived from commissions? Part of this 22,000 is commissions. It is only 16,000 that is really salary, and part is commission. Is there any other…

Does the gentleman realize this is about inside sales, which means people cannot go home and make phone calls from home. They have to be on the job. That is the whole thing. They are bound to the job. They are bound at the spot. They are…

I want to wish Israel a happy birthday and state that it is 50 years old, and among nations that is really an infancy, it is an infant nation. You know, the United States is 222 years old, and we are considered quite a young Nation at 222…

Would the gentleman take time to tell us about the $4 billion in petty cash funds that were lost? Could the gentleman tell us about the unstable ex-policeman who has now been arrested? Can the gentleman expound on these subjects?

Did we really look the other way? If the French were continuing to arm the Hutus, did they not choose sides and consider that they wanted to be on the side of the victim and they really wanted the Hutus to succeed? I am not saying the…

And then, of course, we have read in newspaper reports emanating from France that the attitude of the Mitterand government was that these are just black people killing each other and that is what black people do. And so then, of course, it…

One-third of all elementary and secondary schools in the United States, serving 14 million students, need extensive repair or renovation. Over 60 percent of the Nation's 110,000 public elementary and secondary school facilities need major…

I just think that our children, our grandchildren will be very disappointed in us if we do not take advantage of this opportunity we have at this moment in American history. We have no evil empire to fight. We have the highest prosperity…

I fully concur in the gentleman's view that OSHA should not adopt work performance measures that can serve to bias the inspection process. The Clinton administration also strongly shares this view. I do want to take this time to…

Is there a ceiling on the amount we put into the International Monetary Fund? Do we stop somewhere?

I just wanted to ask the honorable majority leader if he could explain the fact that the State of Texas actually introduced vouchers in the legislature. They actually had a floor vote in Texas and it failed in the State legislature; it was…

We keep hearing examples of youngsters who live somewhere else. I would like to hear some examples of the children who live in my colleague's district.

As an elected official, have you gone to them and asked them to endorse vouchers?

Does the local school board of the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Talent] endorse vouchers? Has he asked them to endorse vouchers?

I cannot think of any American out there who does not think that we could improve the Internal Revenue Service in some way, and hopefully in a way which relieves us of some of the unjust items that have affected us in the past in some way…

Also, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights has opposed this fast-track national testing initiative. They have given very sound reasons for opposing it. To help the children of America, a bipartisan school reform package with substance…

There are 80,000 jobs, high-tech jobs, that cannot be filled right now that are available in America; 80,000, and the number is growing. Our weapons are very sophisticated. If we do not pay more attention to education, we are going to have…

Mr. Speaker, in closing, let me just say there is an effort to divide and conquer welfare recipients who are put over here and workers who are put over there. The workers of America must understand this is a threat to all of us. If you did…

We may have on the floor this week or early next week an attempt to codify the denial of the payment of minimum wage and other worker benefits to welfare recipients.

I think the fact that the British economy in general was performing very well, they say we have prosperity. What the common ordinary people in Britain understood was that more and more people at the top were getting more and more of that…

I urge that we get back on track and really go to the core of providing opportunities to learn. We want to have a national curriculum. We want to have national testing. We need national standards in terms of the opportunity to learn. At…

I hear language, and a central program is not the same as a mandate. We have tricks here of the trade which all of us who have been legislators understand very well. It leaves it wide open for the strangling. The summer youth program will…

The gentlewoman is a member of the committee so she is aware of the fact that this precious consolidation mode of operation has been dropped for the dislocated workers. We have a line which mandates funding for dislocated workers. What we…