David Obey

I would simply note that OSHA has a long way to go in meeting its objectives, with over 6,000 Americans still dying each year. We ought to help them meet those objectives, just as we ought to help the responsible agencies in meeting their…

I would also note that during that time this Congress and this administration working cooperatively have greatly improved the performance of OSHA. I find it interesting, for instance, that much of the criticism these days leveled at OSHA…

I would simply say that it certainly would be disruptive for many States. If dramatic changes are implemented in 1 year, States will not only lose large amounts of funding but would lose them overnight. It would seem to me that certainly…

Let me simply say, Mr. Chairman, these are not Washington bureaucrats who enforce the laws to protect workers' rights in this country. These are Federal workers who died in the Oklahoma City Murrah Building. Those people are not Washington…

my point was not that this money is a small amount of money. My point was simply that a $4.3 million impact on a $600 million budget is infinitesimal in comparison to its effect on a budget which is only one-sixth that size. I would make…

it just seems to me that there are so many examples where OSHA has not been able to reach where they needed to in time to protect workers' health and safety and for that matter the public health and safety. I think this amendment ought to…

However, Mr. Chairman, we think it is very important to have this fundamental debate about these spending priorities within this bill, and we think that it is important that all of the Members of the House understand the decisions that are…

I would point out that this is one of those amendments that will determine whether or not this Congress really cares about the conditions under which Americans are expected to work. Mr. Chairman, the gentleman is asking us to add $4.3…

Let me simply say that this debate is supposed to be on the Evans amendment. We have already accepted the amendment on both sides. There is obviously a little filibuster going on here. As long as there is, let me correct some of the…

Let me simply say, the gentleman can define whole school reform any way he wants. So can any local school district.

I support family planning both at home and internationally because I think it is the best way to prevent abortions. The last time the Smith amendment was before the House, I supported it because I thought that he was right and I was…

I doubt that the Parent-Teachers Association of America, I doubt that the School Boards Association of America, I doubt that the School Administrators Association of America, I doubt that the title I administrators in the various 50…

One principal in Maryland explained that what he was doing under his, and it is a Comer school; he explained he was spending about 30 percent of his time simply in the parking lot getting parents as they bring their kids to school every…

I would simply like to make one point about the term ``whole school reform.'' We see some people in this country who say the only answer is to bring in computers. We see other people who look at a school and they say the only answer is to…

Mr. Chairman, in politics and in governance, there is a time to define differences and there is a time to reconcile those differences. Over the last 2 years, on this bill perhaps more than any other, we have certainly defined our…

Let me speak very frankly about this. I have had some considerable difference with my own administration on the issue of testing, as has the gentleman from Pennsylvania on the issue of Goals 2000. There is great debate about the value of…

as I said, the money is to continue as the existing funding level, the community-based family resource and support grant program.

Mr. Chairman, this is the only, only Federal money that goes directly to support State, local, and private coordinated efforts to prevent the growing epidemic of child abuse in this country. We had 1.4 million reported cases of child abuse…

I would much rather be a ``do-gooder'' than a stand-byer, while a school which is supposed to teach American values instead consistently produces graduates who defile the very values that that institution is supposed to support and…

I would urge the House to adopt this motion. I think there is absolutely no reason why joint committees ought to be allowed a higher level of funding than was approved for any other committee in this House when the committee funding…

this is not a fight about whether there should be a tax cut. It is a fight about who gets it. There is much in this bill I support. It is a far better bill than the House originally passed. I was an original sponsor of the child tax…

I have no idea. All I know is that this distribution is not fair. We can do better. Mr. Speaker, the other problem with this proposal is that it is based upon promises that in the next 5 years we are going to cut the Social Security…

I wanted to vote for this bill, as I indicated earlier. There is much in it that I would like to support. I was one of the original sponsors of the child tax credit, for instance, with Vice President Gore some 5 years ago. I certainly…

I very badly wanted to vote for this budget deal. I had expected I would be able to because I thought that the White House would hold out long enough to have a package that would truly be fair to average working Americans, and I am sorry…

I rise to express dissenting views to those which apparently generally prevail in this House on this legislation. We are about to vote on the largest appropriations bill that comes before us this year. We will do it in very little time…