I support this piece of legislation. It expands our national wildlife refuge system. It authorizes land acquisition in the State of Louisiana for the protection and conservation of wildlife. The administration also has given its support of…

H.R. 3568 would designate 51.7 miles of the Clarion River in Pennsylvania, as a component of the national wild and scenic rivers system. I would note for the Record that we are being asked to proceed to designate the Clarion River despite…

H.R. 3155 amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act by designating the Wekiva River and its tributaries in the State of Florida for study and potential addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. The administration testified in…

S. 1834 simply amends the Indian Environmental General Assistance Program Act of 1992 to change the authorization of funds available under the program from the current level of $15 million to ``such sums as may be necessary''. Funding…

I am unaware of any problems with this legislation, H.R. 3497. The bill would alter the boundaries of a national forest in the State of Washington to facilitate a land exchange that appears to be in the public interest. I understand the…

this bill would settle claims made by the Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indian Tribe against two irrigation districts in Southern California. Some 11,000 acres of reservation land has been unusable by the tribe due to flooding by the…

Mr. Speaker, I am a cosponsor of H.R. 3642 along with the chairman of the Subcommittee on Native American and Insular Affairs, Mr. Gallegly, and the senior Democrat of the Resources Committee, Mr. Miller. Enactment of this bill would…

I am pleased to support this bill, which was introduced by my good friend, Representative Tim Johnson. This bill rights an old wrong by compensating the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe for the massive and devastating impact of the Pick-Sloan plan…

American Samoa is in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean, and fishing has been the life blood of Samoans for thousands of years. While today's commercial canning operations bear little resemblance to my father's subsistence fishing, we…

It might be of interest, Mr. Speaker, that it was since 1844 that when the Mormon Church was founded that missionaries were first sent to the South Pacific in the South Seas. So the Polynesian people have had a very long and standing…

I want to commend all of my colleagues, regardless of position, for their heartfelt commitment on the issue of most favored nation [MFN] trade status renewal for China-- clearly the most pressing issue now facing relations between…

this is not a happy occasion for me to be standing here before my colleagues and to pay a special tribute to the late Congressman Bill Emerson from the State of Missouri. Bill Emerson, I think, can adequately be described as stubborn as…

I come before my colleagues and our great Nation today to state my strongest opposition to a proposal that some people view as nuclear lunacy. Some of my colleagues may have heard of this reckless initiative circulating around Capitol…

I have just returned from my district, and in doing so I always have to go through the State of Hawaii. Today, the State of Hawaii is celebrating Kamehameha Day, they call it every year, in honor of the great King of Hawaii, Kamehameha. I…

H.R. 848 would increase the amount authorized for the Federal share of the costs of relocating Highway 27 around the Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Park from $35 million to $51.9 million. A similar version of this bill was passed by the…

in 1978, Congress enacted the Indian Child Welfare Act to prevent ``[t]he wholesale separation of Indian children from their families * * * perhaps the most tragic and destructive aspect of American Indian life today.'' H.R. Rept. No. 95…

it is not often that I appear in the well to make speeches, but in this instance, I am compelled to do so, particularly to note the seriousness of the issue now before us. I feel it is very, very unfortunate that we are only given 7…

I have just returned to Washington form the South Pacific, where I was privileged to be part of the U.S. delegation to the signing ceremonies for the Treaty of Rarotonga. I want to take this opportunity to inform our colleagues in Congress…