last year a single group of veterans in my district, the 6th District of Ohio, volunteered to perform military honors at over 60 funerals. They perform this solemn duty out of the kindness of their hearts and with the deepest respect for…

Mr. Chairman, I think this issue is in the larger scheme of things, as we talk about our national budget, certainly not a huge sum of resources or money, but the most important thing we do in this Chamber is to decide how to use the…

I practiced psychology in a maximum security prison, working with mentally ill inmates; I worked in a community mental health center; I worked in a large psychiatric hospital; and I have worked with emotionally disturbed children. The fact…

Tonight in Hillsboro, Ohio, in Highland County, Ohio, there is a constituent of mine who is 31 years old. Her name is Patsy Haines, she is a wife and a mother, and she has chronic leukemia. This Saturday we are going to have an auction. We…

Their profits are enormous. The supplies are there; otherwise we would not be able to go to the pump and buy the gasoline. I know of nowhere in this country where there seems to be a shortage of gasoline at this time. There is all of the…

I think his actions indicate that he is happy with the high prices. To say that the answer to the high prices is just for the American citizen to get a tax break so he can then take that tax break, use it to pay these high prices so that…

the fact is that the oil companies are recording record profits. The oil companies are getting the profits which they ought to be using to invest in new technologies and in new resources. We ought not to feel sorry for the oil companies…

just 2 weeks ago, the United States Enrichment Corporation made the devastating decision to close its uranium enrichment facility in Piketon, Ohio, where nearly 2,000 dedicated Americans work. This is devastating not only to my community…

I rise this evening to inform the House that I am introducing a major piece of legislation which would make it possible for this Government to once again assume the ownership of the nuclear fuel production industry in this country. The act…

I have addressed this House several times in the last week and a half regarding a matter that is of great importance to this entire Nation, and that is the uranium enrichment industry which was privatized, an industry which was privatized…

we all know what happens when we are too reliant on foreign sources for oil; and, as a result, in my district in southern Ohio and across this country, consumers are paying outrageous prices for a gallon of gasoline. But there is another…

In the early 1950s, this Nation constructed two large uranium enrichment facilities, one in Paducah, Kentucky, and one in my district near Portsmouth, Ohio. In the early days, those facilities were used to create the materials that enabled…

the hour is late, but I think it is important that I share with my colleagues the headline from the Columbus Dispatch today, which says ``Piketon Plant to Close: 2,000 Workers Will Lose Jobs Because of Shutdown.'' And then it says, ``Less…

a very sad and tragic thing happened today, and I think the American people need to know about it. But before I explain that in detail, I would like to give a little history regarding this occurrence. From the mid-1950s, there have been…

I serve a county where the unemployment rate is 17.1 percent. I serve multiple counties that have double digit unemployment. That is why I rise today in strong support of the Jackson amendment to restore funding for programs that help…

My people who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own, these are salt of the earth people, people who want to work, who want to enjoy the American life as we enjoy it here in this Chamber. Yet they are being deprived oftentimes…

today we are going to make an economic decision, but we are also making a moral decision. I believe that being an American means something. The thousands of men and women who have sacrificed their lives for this country did so out of…

I have here in my hand a cloth filled with coal dust sent to me by a principal from a southern Ohio school saying: Congressman, this is what our teachers must use to wipe the coal dust from our desks and the computers before our students…

I would like to take an opportunity to thank my colleagues, the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Whitfield), the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning), and the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Baesler) for working with me to make this unanimous…

Last weekend in Marietta, Ohio I had a chance to talk with the newly appointed Chinese ambassador, and I raised with him the issue of Christians and others of religious faith who are imprisoned in China. He denied that that was the case…

today's financial services marketplace is an increasingly complex web of interconnecting products and service providers. In the 1990's, consumers are going to their bank not just to deposit money in a traditional passbook savings account…

as we envision the American soldier of the future, we imagine that soldier with state-of-the-art equipment, weapons, and training. Would it surprise us to see that soldier wearing a uniform made of Chinese fabric assembled in Taiwan? Would…

I was walking down the sidewalk in a small town in my district recently, and an older woman in a wheelchair called to me. I went over and sat down and talked with her for a while. During the course of that conversation, she said to me…

John Gardner has written that ``some people strengthen this society just by being the kind of people they are.'' Walter Capps was such a person. I would like to say that some Members strengthen the House of Representatives just by being…

I stand today to speak about a silent crime that victimizes 1.8 million individuals annually, most often in the place where they should be the most safe and secure, in their homes. This criminal act is multifaceted and nondiscriminatory in…