Mr. Chairman, this is not a common occurrence, but it does happen. When it happens, it is under tragic circumstances. For this Congress to prevent a woman from being able to make reasonable choices that influence the rest of her life is…

I hesitate to do this, and I will probably be the only member in this body to do so, but I oppose this resolution. I am sure that Paul Coverdell was a far more accomplished politician than I will ever be and that many in this body will…

I would urge this body not to force Washington's local governments to pay $400,000 with local funds to make a name change to a transit station. It does not fit in length. It does not fit with the policy of naming stations after places…

Tomorrow this House is scheduled to consider the transportation appropriation bill. Within that bill there is a provision requiring that the local governments in the Washington, D.C. area spend hundreds of thousands of dollars of their own…

If we leave the forests alone, our national forests, they are going to grow just fine, but if the most prosperous nation in the history of western civilization does not make an investment in the arts in this country, then a whole lot of…

I want to make note of a headline in the Washington Post today: ``Bomb's Fallout Sets Back Goals of Palestinians.'' It goes on to say that Chairman Arafat's call for a cease-fire was seen as the result of shifting opinion. It refers to the…

First, in terms of the process, it is important to bear in mind that the location and the design have already been decided. There have been three votes by the National Capital Planning Commission; all of them approved this design, and this…

this is not a perfect bill, the underlying bill; but I think it is an important bill to pass. It is a bill that received the overwhelming bipartisan support of this House and of the Senate last year. Last year, because this bill is almost…

the rest of the world will wake up tomorrow morning and read in the obituaries about Julian Dixon's leadership on appropriations and on the Intelligence Committee and the Ethics Committee. They may figure out that he had a 100 percent…

the United States and we, as Members of Congress, must not abandon our role as an honest broker and take a step that this resolution would do that undermines negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. We must heed the advice of the…

Mr. Speaker, the motion, as it was read, would instruct the conferees to accept the Senate version of the District of Columbia appropriations bill for fiscal year 2001. The reason is that the Senate bill is a superior bill. The Senate bill…

It is good legislation. It is essential legislation. It benefits a great many industries critical to the health of our economy. But foremost among those sectors benefited is the high technology industry. The reason for that is that in the…

H. Con. Res. 133 recognizes the severity of the disease of colon cancer, the preventable nature of the disease and the need for education in the areas of prevention and early detection. Colon cancer is the number two cause of cancer death…

I think that we ought to have privacy legislation right now, particularly with regard to the protection of medical records. No question. Let us do it. We will vote for it.

I was the author of the opt-in requirement on licensing and registration of automobile vehicles, and it is working. But it was done in a bipartisan way if the gentleman will recall and we had adequate information. I would suggest to my…

This was necessitated when a deranged terrorist killed two CIA officers in 1993. The reason that we are making this land exchange is for security purposes. It does not do much for the parkway, but it certainly has no damaging effect; and…

reclaiming my time, we have the opportunity to do the right thing. Vote no on this bill. Then we can get a bill that is acceptable to the Senate, to the White House, and, most importantly, to the citizens of the District of Columbia. We…

I do not know what Migo Miconi is going to do without Mary Porter, but she is going to be able to spend more time in my congressional district, I trust. She has been wonderful, invaluable, and, more importantly than what Migo is going to…

Mr. Chairman, I want to put into the Record the fact that the American Lung Association opposes the Bilbray amendment because it penalizes kids for the possession of tobacco products. Mr. Chairman, the American Lung Association opposes…

this rule should be rejected. Let me first say to the chairman of the subcommittee, I appreciate his feelings that are inspired by the Federal monuments, whether it be the F.D.R. Memorial, the Vietnam Memorial, the Washington Monument, or…

D.C. has the worst problem of AIDS infection of women and children, and the principal reason is the exchange of dirty needles. The exchange of clean needles works, but it is very restricted because of the Congress' intervention. This…

I offered this democracy amendment in the full Committee on Appropriations, and I appreciate the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton) offering it today on the House floor, because she is the democratically elected…

Mr. Chairman, the reason for doing this is we want to strike sections 128 and 129. The reason is that the District of Columbia is already on the leading edge of the charter school movement throughout the country. It is reforming its…

perhaps some people take umbrage at the passion of the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton), but I would expect that any of us if facing the same level of frustration and unfairness would react in the same passionate…

I support the Pelosi amendment very strongly and I do not support this bill. It is the wrong bill from a diplomatic standpoint, from an economic standpoint and perhaps most importantly from a moral standpoint. In many ways it is like…