Burgess Owens

I rise to challenge the conventional wisdom on taxes and to, thereby, give my tacit support for the conference report to H.R. 2676, the ``IRS Reform and Restructuring Act.'' When H.R. 2676 was initially considered in the House last…

This incident is just one example of the fact that the Fair Labor Standards Act is flexible, the Fair Labor Standards Act will yield to common sense after due deliberation. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, I might point out also, is…

there is an emergency in America right now, and it affects the students in school. It affects the students who go to use our libraries. I would like to announce that it is only 7:10 Eastern Standard Time, and I hope that there are kids in…

this amendment provides that employees who lose their overtime protection as a result of this legislation will have a right to choose whether or not they will work overtime. They will have the right and not the employer. Employers would be…

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…

We could have total bipartisan cooperation if we really recognized what is at the heart of this controversy at this point. It is money. It is only money; $22,600 a year is not a proper cutoff point. I recognize that the Fair Labor…

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…

I want to talk about leadership again. The theme of leadership now shifts to the United States. It shifts to the Congress of the United States. Last week on Friday we voted the majority budget into existence. That majority budget…

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…

It is highly likely that there will be a budget surplus of no less than 50 billion dollars for the coming budget year. For the first time in many decades there will be a window of opportunity to make meaningful federal investments in…

I want to talk about the fact that the commonsense mandate for action on education is being ignored here in Washington. We have an attempt to divert the attention of the American people from what is one of our most important issues. In…

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?

I mourn for the Chinese who were denied the right to own property. I mourn for the Japanese who were put in concentration camps. But I also mourn much more for those descendants of African slaves who were descendants of people who were not…

The power of the United States should be used in concert with other forces, primarily in concert with the United Nations. We should try to strengthen and create the United Nations and create the world order where we do not have to always…

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…

Again, I hope that the committee that the gentlewoman sits on will seriously push for some remedies that would help avoid these situations in the future that they would never happen again with the United States sitting on the sideline…

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…

We should establish a war crimes tribunal so that these people know that they are going to be brought to justice in the end. We want to send a message to people like the dictators in Nigeria right now that we are not going to sit by and…

this amendment seeks to deal with the omission which I cited earlier. There is a problem, there is a crisis, there is a great need for more information technology workers. There is a crisis that will be met with legislation from this House…

I hope that in the next few months we can see an end to one feature of this Congress that is highly undesirable, and that is the attack on working-class families. The attack on working families must cease. It is counterproductive. It does…

this Paycheck Protection Act provision is one more step in the oppression of working families by the Republican majority. If they are interested in stopping people from involuntarily contributing to political campaigns, then they should…

what we are saying is that we want working families to live by a different set of rules. We want two Americas. Working families and the people who represent working families have to live by a different set of rules. We want a loyalty oath…

this is not a fair and balanced bill. This is a bill filled with dirty tricks. The tricks are pretty obvious. This bill to restrict workers from organizing is radical and extreme. The bill is part of a larger plot to create a separate…

I think the gentlewoman might be aware, because, after all, she is from California, and that is where Silicon Valley is, she must be aware of this tremendous shortage of information technology workers. And she has probably heard we are…

I want to talk about the continuing state of emergency in African American education. I have come here many times to talk about education, and I may seem repetitious, but I only come because I do not see enough movement among the…