Bob Wise

We also believe we have to get accountability right. That means the State-led efforts to develop common standards so now there is an overarching set of standards that the States have agreed to, internationally benchmarked.

But I have to point out, the enormous costs of restructuring the financial institutions, the banks, the auto industry, even AIG, total all of those up, it is still less than the combined cost of 5 years of dropouts in this country.

And so, all of this is to say we know and you know what to do.

Before we go home from this hearing today, the human capital market will have dropped 7,000; 7,000 kids will have dropped out of high school before we go home.

I believe even the GAO studies, and it has been a few years since I have looked at it, but even the GAO study has trouble making the direct statements the gentleman wants it to make. And saying a job is directly caused by anything is…

I agree if the gentleman's amendment passes, that will be X amount of jobs that will not be created. The gentleman will want to put it into drug courts. I am trying to keep people out of drug courts by giving them a job in the first place.

I want to say that apparently the gentleman may not be aware, that raised the question, that the EDA has cut its overhead at least 25 percent, I believe as much as one-third of the number of jobs in the central office over the past few…

I am one of the one-third of the Democrats that voted for the bill, but it seems to me it is the Republican leadership that is responsible for appointing conferees and moving it to conference. Why has that not happened?

I support parental notification, I support the West Virginia statute which requires parental notification except in very limited circumstances... I happen to believe that the case cited, the Joyce Farley case, by the proponents of this…

If I may say to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Hefley) and the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Hansen), I never thought of either of you friends of overarching and overreaching government, so I am quite confident and I am pleased you are moving…

I believe that the greatest responsibility that a Member of Congress can face is the question of whether or not to go to war, to commit men and women of this country to armed conflict

The issue is whether or not we want to save Amtrak... If we want to save Amtrak, we have to pass a bill that can immediately be approved by the Senate... If we leave this House today or tomorrow or Friday and there has not been Amtrak…

The gentlewoman makes a good point that the Economic Development Administration is a linchpin in the base closing legislation that this Congress is passed and is often the lead agency, the one that communities contact first to assist as…

I simply want to say that, for those who would feel that it is hard to make progress sometimes when there is only an option of more prosecution or more regulation, then this board, I think, meets those concerns because the information…

This is like if someone knows they have a problem and they want to clean it up but the only person they can invite in is the policeman and the prosecuting attorney.

I want to just note about Andy Jacobs, he was often a study of contrasts, and he was someone we needed to have in Congress and we need to have. He was a combat veteran who understood how awful war could be and always worried about sending…

The Speaker himself stated in 1989 the 435 Members of the House should look at all the facts, should have available to them all the reports and all the background documents, and the American people should have the same. It is clear the…

Any report dealing with an investigative body that has had at least 9 months of investigation and may have cost as much as one-half million dollars I think should be released before the Congress goes home.

Taking my time back, I appreciate the gentleman's remarks. The gentleman and I have talked before, and we are interested in building corridor H in West Virginia. If the gentleman chooses not to build it in Virginia, that is fine. We think…

I am from West Virginia and the gentleman is from New Jersey. Both are centers for the chemical industry. If you want to start a race for the bottom, pitting us against each other, each State having to set its own standards, as opposed to…

By March 1, this country will default on its debt, that is right, for the first time in 209 years, this country runs the risk of defaulting on the national debt. Now, I might express, Mr. Speaker, this is not debt, this is not voting to…

Mr. Speaker, certainly I would hope that the general conduct of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct would be a proper subject for discussion here on the House floor.

I do feel that these changes, assuming they are coming about in this way, show the power of grassroots pressure. I think it has been the reaction. I think we are going to need to talk about this some more, because we can agree on this…

Where do you make up your $10 billion? Mr. McKEON. OK. $1.2 billion comes from the termination of the direct loan program. $4.9 billion, and this is what is really interesting, because the other night the President in his speech said that…