Hon. Thomas M. Davis

This legislation, S. 550, increases the total number of judgeships on the Superior Court from 58 to 61. In response to reports of abuse and neglect in child family services cases pending in the D.C. Superior Court in 2001, Congress created…

I wish to clarify that amendments to section 424 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act are not intended to limit the authority granted to the District of Columbia's Water and Sewer Authority in the District of Columbia to maintain and…

I rise to bring to the attention of my colleagues the celebration of Food Allergy Awareness Week

What we are trying to do is assure a fair count for groups that have traditionally been undercounted. That is why this legislation moves from six languages that are included in the Census surveys to 33 languages, including braille, so that…

The Administration supports H.R. 858, which would extend coverage under the whistleblower protection provisions of the District of Columbia Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978 to personnel of the courts of the District of Columbia…

I thank my colleague for recognizing me on this. Let me just note this ought to take care of a number of concerns that were raised in the preliminary debate on this when we talked about the crashed ValuJet and so on, but language in this…

Mr. Chairman, DOD has competitively selected Anesthesia Information Management System, AIMCARE, that automates the collection of operating room data and clinical processes. This system offers DOD significant cost savings of over 70 percent…

Absolutely, with great pride. They either raise the money locally, or they do it just the old-fashioned way, with volunteer time.

Is it not also a fact that to actually dispose of this property, the GSA or the Department of Interior or whatever Federal agency would be given that task, that they would need to know what those environmental cleanup costs are before they…

Is it not a fact that there have been environmental cleanups and pipes breaking well off the correctional facility property, that have in fact leaked into the Occoquan River that flows through there and has polluted that water and there…

Alan Emory currently resides in the 11th Congressional District, in Lake Barcroft, where he is a pillar of the community there. His respect reaches across regional lines in New York. He is a well-respected member of our community in…

I just hope you take the experience, the knowledge and the history that you have been part of with you, to be able to share it with others. And maybe some of you will, like the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Kolbe) and myself, enter the…

I would just simply add that Federal employees are the greatest asset we have in this government. We need to properly compensate and incentivize this.

As we know, language was included in the House bill, H.R. 2400, which would have directed the Commonwealth of Virginia Transportation Board to resolve funding issues relating to rights-of-way acquisition and engineering overruns associated…

Well, let me just reply to that. We can do that, but CBO cannot really address anything but the fiscal costs. The benefits are really not within their purview. It is not within their expertise. This has not been something we have…

It is very much the same set of issues, but it does not mean that it could not happen and this body would be deprived of that. And so, for that reason, at this point I am trying to draw the gentleman out a little bit further in terms of…

But the burden would be on the Member who raises the objection to show the $100 million threshold as being met. They would have to come armed with those costs and do their homework ahead of time. This could not be raised in a willy-nilly…

I think this has the best of all worlds, according to the gentleman from Virginia. This has the Moran intellect and the Davis name, and when we put the two together, from what I hear the gentleman saying, it is a ``can't lose'' amendment.

The city needs this money. We have an appropriations bill that I would urge all of my colleagues to support. Our Nation's capital desperately needs this budget bill to be enacted now. Failure to do so would have major negative…

The inference of what we are saying is while we are fixing the public schools, while we are putting more resources into public schools with this bill, that some of these kids that are there now and will be there next year, they will only…

I generally do not support vouchers. I am a strong supporter of the public schools, where I have three kids. But the city's public schools today, as the gentleman knows, are in a state of disarray. There is a dropout rate of about 40…

This appropriated sum is significant because the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight has learned in hearings over the past year and a half that OIRA has not been implementing and coordinating the Congressional Review Act…

Is it correct that in this bill Congress has increased the Office of Management and Budget's budget by $200,000 in order to help OMB facilitate their oversight and coordination of both new and ongoing statutory responsibilities, including…