it is with an abiding respect and great reluctance that I oppose the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton), my friend and colleague, but I support this legislation. I think a few things need to be said. First, this is not…

I do not think there is a wrong and right on this issue. I think there are two competing public policy objectives. One objective just focuses on the AIDS epidemic, on getting people who are using bad needles good needles so they can…

Just to continue, Mr. Chairman, in support of this bill, the Trust Fund dollars are like user fees people pay at the gas pumps to come back and improve our Nation's transportation system. This bill, instead of spending Highway Trust Fund…

this bill amends the Federal Charter of GHSMI, the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Plan of the National Capital Area. This bill is necessary in order to enable a letter of intent between the parties to combine to be subject to regulatory approval…

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…

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…

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 join with my friend, the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Kucinich] in being very disappointed and expressing our disappointment in the fact that this bill has come back from conference that repeals the cooperative purchasing program, which was…

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…

I very enthusiastically support H.R. 1903, the Computer Security Enhancement Act. This amends, of course, the 1987 act, because the world has changed since 1987. Last year the Department of Defense systems experienced as many as 250,000…

I think what we have is really competing public policy objectives, Members of goodwill on both sides trying to get at competing objectives. On the one hand there is conflicting evidence, albeit some good evidence, and this amendment would…

I note there are over 19,000 high-technology jobs available right now that we cannot fill in the greater Washington area. This amendment, with a donation from the House of surplus computers, we have over 644 PC's available today, plus a…

The schools in our Nation's Capital are in a state of crisis. The dropout rate in the school system is over 40 percent. We have a very low percentage of these students going on to college. There are safety issues and management issues, but…

we have heard other speakers try to explain in simple terms exactly why Medicare is going bankrupt. Today I would like to take the next step: Explain what can be done about it. First I would like to start with a fundamental principle, a…

later today this House will vote on the biggest transportation vote of the decade. The Shuster-Oberstar- Petri-Rahall amendment takes a small slice from the tax cuts, from defense, from discretionary domestic spending so the American…

Mr. Chairman, we have had over 60 continuing resolutions in this body since 1981, where we have had a Congress of one party and a President of a different party and the appropriation bills have not occurred on time. What happens with a…

If Congress is not the one to be investigating this, maybe some of my colleagues would join with us in calling for a special prosecutor on some of these areas, that we clear that up instead of Congress having to do the work. But let me…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 514 is straightforward legislation. It was part of H.R. 3664 which was approved by the Subcommittee on the District of Columbia and the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight last June 20. There are complications…

this bill is a very small matter for us, but it is urgently needed for the District of Columbia Council and two of its independent agencies charged with the important issue of water and sewer service and construction of a new convention…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 497 repeals the Federal charter of the Group Hospitalization and Medical Services, Inc., the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Plan of the National Capital Area. GHMSI, as it is known, is the only insurance company to have a Federal…