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Burgess Owens is an American politician and former professional football player who has served as the U.S. Representative for Utah's 4th congressional district since January 3, 2021. A member of the Republican Party, Owens has focused on issues such as education, healthcare, and economic growth during his time in office. He is known for advocating for school choice and has expressed strong views on various social issues. Prior to his political career, Owens played in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Jets and the San Francisco 49ers, winning a Super Bowl with the latter team.
It is a safety net program. It was started the same time that Franklin Roosevelt started the Aid to Families with Dependent Children. They were poor farmers at that time, but now a farmer may get as much as $390,000 per year, and you may…
this process of the rule shows contempt for poor people and poor children, just as legislation also shows contempt. Welfare legislation should not demonize poor children. Yes, first we must remember that the Temporary Assistance for Needy…
this is a program for children. The only able-bodied adults who get safety net benefits are farmers in America. I must mention that because of the fact that we have suddenly decided to become fiscally responsible in this bill. We do not…
our last debate today was very instructive when you combine the last debate of the day, which was a debate about whether or not our great Nation will feed legal immigrants by allowing them into the food stamps program, and you combine that…
the high school sophomores of America are disgusted with this conversation, I am certain. I am sure they are asking themselves why the Members of the House of Representatives and the other people who are elected to protect their rights…
I would like to talk about a very important aspect of the kind of war against terrorism which I think the United States should wage. I would like to talk about a dimension of that war which is very seldom discussed. We are in the process…
in harmony with the theme that the 1-hour presentation on Black History Month has set forth, is there a color line, is there racism, emphatically, yes, there is. This does not prevent us from noting the positive achievements that have…
Haiti is a democracy right now. They have the most democratic government that Haiti has ever had since Haiti was founded. In this hemisphere, Haiti was the second independent nation after the United States became independent. Haiti wanted…
If the gentlewoman will answer one more question. It is my opinion that the hostile forces here in Washington, hostile people, the four or five key people with a lot of power, very hostile towards President Aristide's government, are using…
Could the gentlewoman also tell us about the Haitian community in Miami? To what extent does the gentlewoman see influences of the drug lords there from Haiti?
We certainly ended the session last night on a high note. It was 2:30 in the morning with you, but we finally passed a campaign finance reform, a piece of legislation that is likely to survive in concert with the other body. And also I…
the gentlewoman makes a persuasive case, and I would not want to argue with the fairness, logic or commonsense arithmetic of what she has to say. It makes sense. The important thing is that Shays-Meehan makes sense as it is right now, and…
I will say emphatically I support the amendment if it is not part of a process of under the cloak of good government attempting to sabotage the Shays-Meehan bill. I think it makes sense. As I said before, it is in harmony with the New York…
the airwaves, the spectrum, is owned by the American people. Most of the American people do not know that we own it and that the representatives of government, including the Members of Congress, are the trustees for the American people. We…
Nancy Pelosi is a national political leader and has deep practical political roots, while at the same time she maintains bright, widespread idealistic wings. I can think of no better trait for leadership than to have roots and wings. She…
There is a great deal of talk about many issues, and I worry very much about the possibility that the American people will be confused if we let all of the various discussions of the various issues become a babble with no focus, a babble…
I join my colleagues in praising this bill, and I would like to point out a few things. The conference report maintains strong civil right protections prohibiting organizations from discriminating against employee and program participants…
tomorrow or the next day we will have on the floor the long-awaited H.R. 1, Leave No Child Behind Act, an education bill initiated by the President shortly after he was sworn in, inaugurated. It is a landmark event. It is a history-making…
I rise in support of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act offered by the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers), H.R. 1433. I think there is nothing more important that we are doing here in this session than this Hate Crimes Prevention Act. We…
the attempt to help New York recover speedily moves beyond boundaries, State boundaries or city boundaries. When the terrorists struck on September 11, they struck at the heart of the Nation, the nerve center of the Nation, the…
I am disturbed by the fact that in this war against terrorism, which we all recognize is going to be a long-term war, we are not recognizing that working families in this struggle against terrorism are very important. Working families in…
The airport security issue and the issue of the stimulus package really cannot be separated. They go together, and common sense would tell us this. We have just heard one of my colleagues say that the airline industry is 10 percent of the…
I lost large numbers of firemen from companies in my district. I lost policeman. I lost a lot of individual young people who worked in the World Trade financial system. I have gone to too many memorial services, and they are all heroes…
I would like to talk about three important items which definitely overlap: education, reparations and terrorism. As a member of the House and Senate Conference Committee on H.R. 1, the Leave No Child Behind Act, a major initiative of…
I would like to urge all of my colleagues to join us in taking this step that Members of Congress can take. There are a lot of things we cannot do. I am proud of the fact that so many Americans have responded in doing the things that they…
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