| Stock Option Accounting Reform Act |
July 20, 2004 |
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Randy Cunningham, R-CA
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"These quite often are high-paying jobs. It is an investment in the future, not only of the company but for the workers on all levels of that company that do have stock options. For California, our job market is improving, primarily of those young entrepreneurial companies. There are some that want to tax those, put a tax on it, but we think that that is wrong. When we could create an environment that produces jobs on all levels of the scientists, all the way from the people that take out the trash, and that is good, and it means that the economy can recover; and in the State of California it helps us, and I rise in strong support of this bill."
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| Father’S Day |
June 18, 2004 |
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Robert Byrd, D-WV
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"Fathers do traditional things, such as mow lawns, take out the trash, pay the bills, and change the tires. But fathers are also cooks, launderers, and diaper changers."
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| Washington Waste Watchers |
May 5, 2004 |
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Jeb Hensarling, R-TX
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"In other words, it is time to take out the trash in Washington. Let me give a few examples of waste in just one government agency. The Interior Department’s Inspector General revealed that the Department now manages approximately 31,000 separate Web sites, presenting between 3 and 5 million pages of information with maintenance costs approaching $220 million a year. Now, AOL-Time Warner, who I believe is the largest Internet service provider in the world, manages in contrast about 50 sites, but the Interior Department manages 31,000 different Web sites. In an agency that employs 70,000, that means the Department of Interior has almost one Web site for every two employees."
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| Washington Waste Watchers Report On Transportation |
March 10, 2004 |
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Jeb Hensarling, R-TX
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"In other words, Mr. Speaker, 99 percent of the challenge in dealing with our Federal deficit is on the spending side. Clearly we have a spending problem, not a taxing problem in America; and I, for one, say when it comes to Federal spending, it is time to take out the trash. It is time to go after the costly waste, fraud and abuse that permeates every nook and cranny of the Federal Government."
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| Honoring Two Remarkable Individuals During Hispanic Heritage Week |
September 25, 2001 |
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Loretta Sanchez, D-CA
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"Miami? A big city in Florida? A river in Ohio? Or is it someplace baked and a little bleached? Is it where the sun is a presence, winds sometimes mutter and deer browse on the other side of the hill? Is it where you could read the day away in an outhouse with no more interruption than a buzzing fly? Rueben, the first of the five boys and two girls of Cipriano Marfinez and Rometia Rivas de Martinez, was born in Miami, Arizona, in 1940. There he grew to young manhood. His parents were transplanted Chihuahuenses. One took root. The other didn’t. The children attached their mother to that small copper town, but their father blew away on the notes of an alto saxophone. He made it big with Big Bands like the Glenn Miller Orchestra. By the time the road and that life got old and he got old, his boys and girls were men and women who remembered him no more clearly than he did them. Rueben came to love books during his school years. He took them everywhere. They took him everywhere. All in Miami, When he was 10, the town, like other Southwestern copper towns, was coming off its World War II-hyped mining high. By the time he graduated from high school, nothing was being hauled to the smelter anymore. At 18, he went to East Los Angeles. Beside what books taught him, what did Miami teach? What has stayed with him? “My grade school was segregated to Apaches and Mexicans, but the teachers were good. I loved shop,” remembers Rueben. “And Miami? It was so ugly, it was beautiful.” In California, he worked and read, got married and read, attended East Los Angeles Community College and read, had children and read and got divorced and read. Also, he raised three teenagers and read and lived to tell the tale. Then he read and read and looked up to see he had nine grandchildren. Rueben is more than 40 years a barber, more than 25 in Santa Ana. There were places and times in human history when barbers probably ran everything. They certainly knew everything that went on. If they loved reading, too, they were formidable forces in the life of their communities. Rueben is a formidable force in the Orange County Latino community and far beyond. Locally? Consider that most Latino candidates for any political office hold fundraisers in his Santa Ana bookstore. And now with a unique cross-the-alley emporium of children’s books he is reaching for youngsters. Far beyond? Six years ago, he suggested to Community Leader and Actor Edward James Olmos ideas that became the Latino Book and Family Festival. Wherever it goes—Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, San Jose, San Diego, New York—Rueben’s books anchor a “Book Village” that contributes directly to the goal of encouraging Latino parents to read to their children and children themselves to read. Families come by the thousands. Acting on his own advice, he reaches for future generations with a unique emporium of children’s books just cross-the- alley from his Santa Ana bookstore. It is full of color and lined with stories in Spanish and English … and Vietnamese, Cambodian, Chinese, and … It all makes you wonder. Which is its purpose. Rueben’s life is an open book he seems to read like a child. He turns pages, laughs and says, “What’s this?” Then he tries to tell you he knew it all the time … that he planned it. He is a strong believer we all should write down our goals. He writes his down. No one could have that many! And do credit to them, too. On a coast-to-coast TV program, he commanded fathers to be perfect husbands: “Take out the trash and read to your children!” He, is a sought-after motivational speaker, a consultant to publishers, a friendly prod to writers and artists, an energizer to teachers and a media personality. The biggest independent bookstore in Orange County, California, began as a few books for customers in a barber shop. Now he carpets the space next door with kids eager to be read to. Rueben’s life is an open book with one new chapter after another. He reads on and says, “Amazing!” And then, “That’s me, too!”"
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