Steven Gunderson

the gentlewomen who just spoke is one of the leading advocates of choice in the U.S. Congress. Apparently, she is for choice for everyone but the American worker because, and, no, I will not yield, I do not have time; because of the fact…

I offer this motion today so that I might ask a question. Why are we so mean? Why are we so motivated by prejudice, intolerance and, unfortunately in some cases, bigotry? Why must we attack one element of our society for some cheap…

I am a traditionalist. My entire life's environment and upbringing have created within me a respect for traditional values. Theology interprets marriage as a union between one man and one woman. Random House Dictionary defines marriage as…

it was our intent on behalf of the Rural Health Care Caucus, and I apologize for the confusion on timing here to offer an amendment which would do two things. The amendment would increase spending for rural outreach grants and for rural…

I join my friends from Missouri and thank them for giving all of our friends in the Congress and the friends of Bill Emerson a chance to say how much we loved and respected our colleague. I had the privilege of coming to this Congress with…

I think if I have one reputation around here it is a reputation of being a fairly bipartisan sort of guy. But I wanted to share with you an experience I had in my early legislative days in the 1970's, when I was speaking at a welfare…

I, frankly, do not understand what all the fight is about. I have consistently voted for the increase in the minimum wage I think every time it has come up, the three different times during my tenure here in the Congress. Let us get that…

let me begin by saying I am delighted to be on the floor dealing with a school nutrition issue other than milk. The fact is, however, Mr. Chairman, that I rise in strong support of this bill but I think it is important as I do so that we…

first I rise in support of the conference report; to the commitment tonight continues. Second, I rise to extend my deep and sincere appreciation to the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Bilirakis], the chairman of the subcommittee, to the…

This is the first farm bill we have ever put together in the post-balanced budget era. This is the first farm bill we have ever put together in the post-GATT era. This is not going to be business as usual. This is totally changing the way…

Mr. Chairman, Members, tonight we bring forth a comprehensive, the most comprehensive, reform of the dairy program in 45 years. We bring it forth on a bipartisan basis, and we bring it forth as a national compromise. I find it rather…

I was going to withhold my discussions on the dairy title until we got into general debate on the amendments later today or tomorrow, but as I listened to the rule debate, I think there are some things that need to be fully understood. The…

It can be, but there is a priority within the District. The reason we did not totally exclude it is because there are going to be some kind of special needs students that are already served outside of the District.

We have total prohibition on any kind of discrimination, and we require that any private school has to take an academically representative group of students that apply.

I would say the gentleman mentioned the word ``children'' and would also say the gentleman from New York [Mr. Walsh] is the only one that said let us talk about what is good for the children of District of Columbia rather than what is good…

what we tried to point out earlier is that the scholarships generally do both have a priority for District of Columbia. There are two kinds of scholarships, a tuition scholarship and an enhancement scholarship.

we do not need 21 Republicans. We need one President, just one President that will offer this country a balanced budget. That is all it takes, just one President to keep his word to offer a balanced budget, and we will get on with the…

we cannot today dictate the moral compass of civilized society, and we cannot today dictate the moral compass of even the United Nations or our NATO allies. But I think today we will determine the limits beyond which the American people…

I come to the floor today as one of those Republicans who has consistently supported the arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. I happen to believe that in an increasingly intolerant and polarized society, the arts are playing an…

Mr. Chairman, I want to make three or four quick points that people need to understand. The difference between AIDS and every other disease that has been mentioned is AIDS is the only infectious disease of all of these that was mentioned…

I want to thank our friend and colleague from Illinois, like everyone else has, for doing this, because I think it is only appropriate that we take time to remember someone who was such a valuable part, both of this institution, of service…

we spend a lot of time in this House talking about crime, anticrime legislation. I would like to suggest to my colleagues the bill in front of you now will do more to prevent crime in this country than anything we did during that 3 weeks'…

I rise in strong support of the conference agreement on H.R. 2884, the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994. Similar to legislation that my colleague from Pennsylvania, Mr. Goodling and I introduced last year, this bill is designed to…

Let me take that one further. There is a recent study out, I think it was actually a study by the Department of Health and Human Services under the Bush administration, a 1989 report of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, a task…