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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.
I think this poignantly demonstrates the situation that America's workers are facing today, even those people who had white-collar jobs, who thought that they were secure. I have a constituent who was employed by IBM, who thought that that…
Perhaps this is one way that they can get on the right side of history, by doing something that is a moral obligation to working Americans so that they can at least go to work every day and then come home and not have to live in poverty.
I think $8,400 a year is what the present minimum wage comes out to. Eight thousand four hundred dollars a year. And we just pointed out about 4 million of these people are the sole wage earners in their families. Kevin Phillips, a…
Now the problem is we have a kind of elite minority decadent reasoning that takes place. Even though it does not cost the government one penny, the elite minority reasoning is that you do not want to do anything which might lessen the…
Just the opposite has happened. The common denominator is becoming the prison laborer in China, the workers in Bangladesh, the workers in Mexico. The philosophy behind the assertion by the Republican majority that we need to keep our wages…
the Dingell-Kennedy-Kassebaum substitute is a modest but significant step forward for health care. I rise in support of the substitute. It is good that we are here addressing problems such as portability or increased deductibility for…
I rise in opposition to the Immigration in the National Interest Act, H.R. 2202. This bill is a misnomer, for it denounces a historical tradition of the United States--to welcome different cultures that add to the richness of this diverse…
in less than 2 years the barbarian Republican majority has destroyed all of that. A piece of civilization that has been wrecked by the pressure that has been put on them, budget-wise. We have large numbers of people being forced to sort of…
At the CIA. {time} 1830 Two billion dollars. There is an agency that the President does not know has $2 billion, the director does not know has $2 billion, it is just wandering around there. Think of what that could do for the education…
Why should they raise property taxes and other taxes when the Federal Government has a tremendous amount of waste that ought to be transferred into education? Just to give one example. Most Americans are not aware of the fact that auditors…
Our economic viability is directly threatened. Education is the basis for the kind of skills that we need in order to compete economically. Bangalore, India is now called the computer programming capital of the world, Bangalore, India…
That was an experience of talking with constituents who displayed in their commonsense reasoning far greater wisdom than is often displayed here in this institution. This body seems to have lost touch with common sense. Common sense of the…
At that time, Mr. Speaker, there was a partisan defense of farm subsidies. I am happy to report that yesterday on the floor that partisan defense crumbled, and we had legislation, amendments being offered by both sides of the aisle which…
Mr. Speaker, American agribusiness is one of the most successful industries on the face of the earth. Due to the vision and foresight of the Congress which enacted the legislation which created the land grant colleges, the agricultural…
we have just passed the Agriculture Reauthorization Act that reauthorizes farm programs, and I think it is very important to take note of an unprecedented development. We had a bipartisan breakthrough of the truth in respect to…
The top two managers of the National Reconnaissance Office, the secret agency that builds spy satellites, were dismissed today after losing track of more than $2 billion in classified money. This action is dictated by our belief that…
the front-page article of the New York Times today, which talks about the CIA, has implications for the war to remake America that is going on in this Capitol now. Speaker Gingrich has declared that politics is war without blood, and they…
There is a sucking sound out of New York, there is a sucking sound out of Michigan, out of all the Great Lakes States, the northeast States. There is a sucking sound moving the money mostly into the South and the Midwest, and those are the…
I have been talking about the budget and appropriations process as being one of the most important things that has happened in this Congress in the last 20 years. It is always important every session of Congress what we do with the budget…
I would like to point out I have been talking about this for 3 months now, and I have yet to see any major columnist discuss it, I have yet to see any editorial board discuss it. Rush Limbaugh, who follows me very closely and often targets…
I thank the gentleman for reemphasizing the fact that education has been recognized by the best minds in America as being a No. 1 priority. We understand we are in a technological and scientific revolution. We understand that you need the…
Nothing is more important now on the legislative agenda than the rape of Medicare and Medicaid. Many people have focused on Medicare and do not even know that Medicaid is being cut even more drastically than Medicare. Medicaid is being cut…
H.G. Wells said that civilization is a race between education and catastrophe. Catastrophe has stared us in the face as we go forward with these reckless cuts that have been proposed by the Republican majority in this House. Speaker…
We want more money to go to the real defense budget, and not have Aldrich Ames and his colleagues wasting our money, at the same time killing our agents. We think it is being misspent and dangerously wasted in the intelligence operation.
No country without a revolution or military defeat and subsequent occupation has ever experienced such a sharp shift in the distribution of earnings as America has in the last generation. At no other time have median wages of American men…
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