Burgess Owens

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…

first I would like to applaud the fact that we have been discussing education now for more than 2 hours and that both parties have chosen to talk about education tonight. It is an indication of the kind of priority that we have set here in…

I have been listening and heard us cover a lot of territory, as is the case with the President's comprehensive program, this little booklet that came out, ``A Call to Action for American Education,'' which ranges all the way from early…

The Japanese CEO's, the German CEO's, and other CEO's around the world are not earning those kinds of salaries.

And consumer spending is still two-thirds of our economy. We are going to wipe out consumer spending.

Every new NAFTA, every new GATT adds to that corporate power. It allows them to make higher and higher profits, 59 percent since 1993. That is light stuff compared to what is going on now, I am sure, in terms of the stock market still…

That is the task before us, to repeal those pieces of legislation; also to do everything possible to get laws in place which will not allow them to keep beating down the work force, to wipe out organized labor. There are a lot of things we…

That was the basic principle that ought to be the bedrock of American capitalism, and they are throwing it away because we are not producing workers that can buy the products any more.

I think that is very much on track. That process is being endangered now. If you wipe out the ability to organize and you wipe out unions, who have the resources and the know-how to organize, then you are going to shut off that whole…

the gentleman from Vermont [Mr. Sanders] was implying before that the challenge to us is to stop them from making products in other countries with the cheapest possible labor and then bringing them back here to sell them duty free. That…

And if we had some tax laws with the people who are making the profits, instead of the present situation where individuals and families are paying 44 percent of the income tax in this country while corporations are paying a little more…

We had a capitalism that worked for both the owners and the managers and the corporations and the workers. We had a capitalism that worked. Common sense will tell us that the present measures that are being undertaken, the abuses by the…

I think Charlie would immediately understand that welfare reform was not reform. It was an attack again on working people, on poor people, people that do not work but who are aspiring to become working people, people who are working but…

I am one Democrat on this side of the aisle that agrees with those who want to lower taxes for American families. We need to lower taxes for families and individuals in the United States. At the same time, we need to have a fair taxation…

our most endangered species in America is the family, and we do not want to be guilty of taking cash away from families which is used to put bread on the table, to buy shoes, and to pay the rent. This is a revolutionary and reckless change…

Mr. Chairman, in the wee hours of this morning I was informed that my first grandchild was born, and I assure my colleagues I pursue my concern with the future of America with a renewed fervor. As a result of that, I would like to see an…

Mr. Chairman, the AFL-CIO says there are no aspects of this bill that are truly protective of employee rights. Vote against this employer-driven attempt to rob employees of their pay and benefits in the name of family flexibility. I have a…

I want to alert everybody to the fact that we are going to be considering H.R. 1, the bill which deals with the denial of cash payments for overtime pay work to workers. H.R. 1 is called, rightly by the Democrats, the Paycheck Reduction…

But what I am trying to show is that on the one hand we have labor unions under attack. This Beck decision and its interpretation is just one of the ways that labor unions and working people and laws that benefit working people are under…

We have a situation in America where we cannot take care of, or we refuse to take care of, a large part of the population of our children. We refuse to take care of it, even though the gross national product is quite healthy, the profits…

It is time to end corporate welfare as we know it, and many of the kinds of tax cuts we are talking about before for individuals, certainly the capital gains tax on homes, would be eliminated or could be eliminated if we were to go after…

I want to talk primarily today about the Supreme Court decision with respect to voting rights in New York City. They have of course come down with a decision in New York that obeys the Supreme Court decision and the precedent it set. So…

we are again quite pleased to observe that the bipartisan consensus on education is rolling forward. I heard this morning a colleague speak of a new initiative to get Congressmen to go into the classrooms. We have had such initiatives in…

I want to close with just a few remarks thanking my colleagues and thanking Mr. Stokes again for the tradition that has been established here by the Congressional Black Caucus. This is just the beginning. I hope that we stimulate a more…

I hope we will never put the spirit of the sit-ins behind us. I do hope the gentleman will take out additional time. He could spend a whole hour on the spirit of A&T and the first big sit-in. I think we may need to instruct this generation…