for years radical antiabortion groups have been denying women's rights and endangering women's health by blockading family planning clinics. This past year they stepped up their attacks. Clinics were bombed with noxious butyrica acid and…

the violence that is ripping apart our families, classrooms, and communities is nothing short of a crisis. No one can feel good about society's collective impotence in lessening the impact violence has on our everyday lives--and the siren…

I rise to support H.R. 4250, the Head Start, LIHEAP, and Community Services Block Grant reauthorization. In a recent series of forums I held in my home district in Washington State, we focused on the importance of early intervention…

we are all horrified by the terrible senseless violence that is prevalent in our streets and our cities today, but while we are acting on the crime bill, we must remember that it is not enough to simply talk tough or even vote tough. We…

But a threat prior to the vote is probably exactly the kind of lobbyist influence to which the public objects and to which we should try to rise above as a legislative body representing those people.

I believe it is highly appropriate for people outside the doors or anyplace to be expressing their view. What I take exception to is the threat that a vote is about to be scored, and then he list of the organizations for which that scoring…

that is a local school and locally elected school board's decision, not the Federal Government's.

I am saying, Mr. Chairman, that the way his amendment is worded, it did not apply to that literature and its distribution.

But the Doolittle amendment imposes a Federal curriculum on how local school boards can use their own dollars. It has not been done before in our history, and it is not appropriate now for the Federal Government to dictate to local…

I rise in opposition to the Boehner amendment, striking the Innovative Elementary School Projects. In response to the question of the gentleman from Ohio as to what our priorities are, in my view there is nothing more vital to our national…

rhetoric flows freely in this well and throughout this House, particularly political rhetoric. Last year it foamed and flowed over the Clinton economic package. In August, Mr. Kasich said, ``We will come back here next year and try to help…

I fear that the sponsor of this amendment is not desiring to respond to his own colleagues about the need to not waste the $20 billion that is already being spent on Head Start and Even Start by failing to sustain the progress of these…

the gentleman from Texas has claimed the endorsement of a number of organizations. However, I would submit to the chairman that those organizations and their attorneys have not had the opportunity to study the language that has been…

when we talk about software, most people think first of word processing and spreadsheets and the other kinds of programs typically used in business. As a member of the Committee on Education and Labor and its Subcommittee on Elementary…