I can only say, Members may not know that George is a person that can speak three different languages. He served in the military with honor as an officer. He has probably the greatest knowledge of anybody I have ever met. To have George…

I do not do this lightly. In my period of time being in the majority, I have never rose opposing a rule, so this is a very serious moment for me. I want my side to understand why I am doing this and this side to understand also why I am…

However, we cannot be certain that Congress will move quickly to enact appropriation bills in January. In fact, with reorganization activities and a new majority in the Senate, there is a high level of uncertainty about timing for the…

As the sponsor of the original bill for allowing the pilots to be armed in the cockpit, this is neither a mandate to disrupt schedules nor a requirement that either the Federal Government or air carrier compensate any crew member for these…

If my good friend will yield, I can suggest to her respectfully, under the bill they have to have the training; and I would rather have my pilot be armed and defend that cockpit as against an F-16 to be shot down. That is the whole intent…

I rise in support of the Real Interstate Driver Equity Act of 2001, H.R. 2546, as amended by the Senate. This legislation has been under consideration for more than 3 years now, and I am glad that we have been able to find a fair and…

Absolutely. I heard and I agree if we were working under a continuing resolution that would happen, and by August we would not be able to spend the money at $31 billion; but that is not going to happen.

What is fact? The fact is we are going to spend money at $31 billion which we did not have prior to this until August if we work under a continuing resolution. We are not going to work under a continuing resolution, and the gentleman knows…

the information I have, and again, I do not have anything in writing, they have testified in favor of my amendment, have written in favor of the amendment; and I think it is up to the Congress and I talked to the gentleman from…

I want to compliment the staff on the minority side but I also, because I pay their bills, would like to compliment Graham Hill, especially, for his work and his outstanding dedication and perseverance; Levon Boyagian, who has been with me…

This legislation, H.R. 3048, introduced by myself, ratifies a land settlement at Russian River on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. Section 14(h)(1) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act authorized ANCSA corporations to make selections…

This bill was sponsored by the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Hansen), the chairman of the Committee on Resources. Mount Naomi is located in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest near Logan, Utah in the gentleman from Utah's (Mr. Hansen) district…

What I am suggesting here is I do not want to see this happen, this to go on and on and on, and never be settled. If we can get the money from 1985 and not preclude the money beyond that and the earlier years, then I think we have achieved…

I think there are different alternatives. I think it can be done a different way. I am not convinced that this is the perfect way of doing it, as I mentioned to you. As long as, in fact, I have the opportunity to see a different way, I am…

There are two reasons. One is I am not terribly fond of what originally this Congress did about the Florida Everglades. This is one of the largest pits we have ever created as far as dollars and expenditures. And we have some difference of…

We have to address that issue, maybe not in this legislation; I will be honest with the gentleman on that, I am not sure this will do it. But I am saying somewhere along the line we have to solve this problem. Create a grand master, make…

our Nation is stronger and better prepared today than on September 11. We have enacted numerous reforms which will make a repeat of last year's terrorist attack highly unlikely. However, no system is perfect. We must remain vigilant in the…

I would just like to ask my colleagues to think a moment. Do we really think that 9-11 would have happened if our pilots had been armed as they should have been armed, as they were armed in 1984? Do we think that those terrorists would…

I like the idea of possibly studying a taser weapon or futuristic weapon like what we see in movies, but I personally want that pilot to have a lethal weapon on board. If I had a terrorist trying to take my ship, I want to have a lethal…

This legislation will not change everything overnight, but it will expedite the process of building airports, we think, in a more expeditious time period. As the gentleman mentioned, the airports built in the Asian market were built in a…

I do believe this is, in fact, a stimulus package. It is not as large as we would like to have it. ... I am extremely pleased that 317 Members of this Congress decided in this case that it was more important to, in fact, restore the…

I rise in support of H.R. 2538 as amended, and wish to clarify how the program authorized in this bill operates with respect to my Alaska Native constituents. H.R. 2538 as amended does not differ in substance from the bill as reported by…

This is the language negotiated with the Senate side. It is not everything I wanted. I had 60,000 pilots sign a petition asking for permission to carry a weapon on board with proper training. I supported that. I talked about that in…

I again would suggest that the House did itself proud today. And I have never been prouder than now, being a House Member. And the more I am around this body, the prouder I am about the quality of the people that work here, the…

Mr. Speaker, I cannot understand it because I can hear them perfectly well, and I think they can hear me. Maybe sometimes when there is a lot of noise, maybe there is, what I call a cumulation of facts. Our bill says nothing, nothing about…