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I rise today as national cochair to honor the outstanding work of the National Youth Sports Program in my home State of Wisconsin and the 200 programs throughout the Nation and to recognize the essential role NYSP plays in children's lives…
Mr. Chairman, in a few minutes, I am going to be offering a very important amendment to highlight an incredibly valuable program that affects the Upper Mississippi River basin, the Environmental Management Program. It has been in existence…
United States leadership in pursuit of peace in the Middle East is essential if we are to help bring about an equitable and fair peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians and end the bloodshed. The situation in the Middle East is a…
Charlie, they say that politics is a sea of conflict. If that is true, then you have been the steady hand that has guided this ship of state, our democratic process, through so many years of calm and troubled waters. You will be missed. We…
Mr. Speaker, these are budgets with pay-as-you-go rules. These are budgets that do not have pay-as-you-go rules, from 4 years of budget surpluses to record setting budget deficit. What is hard to understand here? Mr. Speaker, this Congress…
Mr. Speaker, again, this debate really is about two very distinct and different options: one that, again, through independent analysis and review, indicates could lead to an increase of 1 million more uninsured in this country, as opposed…
my home State of Wisconsin has sensible medical malpractice laws that make the State attractive to doctors and safe for patients. The components of this successful law include a cap on non-economic damages of $442,000, which is indexed…
the acts of abuse against Iraqi prisoners by American service members are abhorrent and sad. This is not behavior reflective of American values; it is not behavior that helps our cause, and it is not behavior that will be tolerated…
I strongly support providing relief to middle-income Americans from an encroaching Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). Without action this year to extend the current AMT exemption levels passed in 2003, millions of Americans will feel the AMT…
Mr. Speaker, I hope the body tomorrow when it comes up for consideration will adopt this resolution. This is a very serious matter in regard to some of the practices and the abuses I feel that are currently taking place in Laos. The…
as a member of the House Education and Workforce Committee, as well as co-chair of National Charter School Week, I strongly support the H. Res. 600, legislation honoring the fifth annual National Charter Schools Week. Public schools are…
I rise in support of making permanent the marriage penalty tax relief Congress passed in 2003. I believe that we should eliminate the tax penalty that some married couples incur because, simply, it is the right thing to do. The marriage…
we had our own form of March madness last night, and I am here to gloat, I mean to report, that the Democratic Slamming Dunking Donkeys defeated the Fighting Elephants by a one point blowout margin. It came down to a last-minute shot by…
the President and majority party in Congress have presented budgets that continue down the path of fiscal recklessness and misplaced priorities. Their plan continues to fail working families, continues to fail seniors, continues to fail…
Just to be clear, the Democratic substitute is offering close to 10 billion more in additional funds over the next 5 years to fund No Child Left Behind and special education; over the next 10 years, $50 billion more than the President's…
Mr. Chairman, unfortunately what we have before us today by the majority party is a status quo budget. It is a budget that continues the failed economic policies which have not been working for American families. It has been failing our…
Mr. Chairman, just to wrap up this debate, I would love to have a national referendum asking the American people what economy they would more likely adopt today, the economy of the 1990s or the current economy that this majority party and…
This motion speaks to a fundamental problem that has existed in rural America in particular for many, many years; and coming from western Wisconsin, the Third Congressional District that I represent, I have devoted a lot of my time to try…
By freezing the Pell Grant award in regard to the funding level that is established, there has been a score indicating that 86,000 more students who would otherwise qualify for Pell Grant funding will not qualify as a consequence. This is…
This is a very important program in regards to higher education funding... freezing Pell grant awards at $4,050. If this goes through, this will affect adversely 86,000 more students who would normally qualify for Pell grants, but will be…
Mr. Chairman, last week I had the opportunity to travel to Iraq visiting our troops in the field, and they are doing an incredible job under difficult and dangerous circumstances. Clearly, our Nation is paying a very high price in both…
a person once told me that only silly people have heroes in their lives. If that is true, then this silly person rises today to congratulate and thank a hero in my life, my high school basketball coach, Tom Manchester, who is being…
tonight I rise to honor my good friend Oscar Peterslie who received the Outstanding Older Worker award in the State of Wisconsin for 2003 by the Experience Works Prime Time Awards Program. Experience Works, a nonprofit focused on…
That is why I reluctantly rise in opposition to the Head Start bill this evening. The recommended changes are wrong for the children of the Head Start program. The story of Head Start is that it works. It is a highly successful program…
to a farmer, `erosion' is the progressive loss of some of the best means to robust and sustained production from their lands. It is one of the most expensive and difficult problems threatening their liveliehood--but, fortunately, it is a…
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