Jim Saxton

let me begin by thanking and congratulating the chairman and the ranking member for the great leadership that they have each shown in bringing us through this process beginning in January, working through February, March and April; and…

the last speaker from the minority I think misrepresented the situation. This process started in January. We have been through the subcommittee process. The gentleman went through the subcommittee process, had ample time to make his…

I take some exception to the polite assertion of the gentleman from California (Mr. Waxman) that the Congress of the United States perhaps in his view has not done enough or is not on a track to do enough; but at some point we have to…

Actually we have found that there are some very positive effects that have accumulated over the past several years in terms of a variety of good economic trends. For example, lower inflation that has resulted from various policies actually…

Mr. Chairman, the facts bear out that the economy is growing. Like the previous speaker, I wish that jobs were growing faster, and I believe they will. But the previous speaker's examples were not exactly examples that I would have used…

Mr. Speaker, I introduced the bill, H.R. 2408, to reauthorize the National Wildlife Refuge System Volunteer and Community Partnership Act, which I authored in 1998. There is no question that volunteers play an invaluable role in the…

Mr. Speaker, the Secretary of Commerce, through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, is responsible for the United States navigation services programs. These include the collection of hydrographic data, the production and…

H. Con. Res. 268 is a resolution expressing the sense of Congress regarding the imposition of sanctions on nations that are undermining the effectiveness of conservation and management members for Atlantic highly migratory species. The…

That is what this piece of legislation, this resolution is about. It says that, in effect, if the parties who go to ICCAT and make an agreement on the amount, the number, or the amount of tonnage of fish to be taken do not comply with…

The amendment that we are debating is, I think, a pretty commonsense amendment. The military, DOD, came to us and said, we need some limited relief from the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act. This gives them…

This amendment will repeal the statutory requirement that an officer in our Armed Forces, in order to be selected for assignment as the Defense Attache to France, must hold the rank of brigadier general, or, in the case of a Navy officer…

If you have destroyed them, show us where they were destroyed, show us where the remnants of them are, and let us talk to the people who did it. Let us talk to the people who destroyed them. If you do not have chemical weapons, show us how…