Today I would like to congratulate and honor two outstanding Alaskan students who have achieved national recognition for exemplary volunteer service in their community.

I am confident that this Congress will pass the American Land Sovereignty Protection Act.

section 06(a) requires the Secretary to allocate ten percent of the total allowable catch (TAC) of pollock in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands area as a target species to the western Alaska community development quota (CDQ) program…

I rise in support of S. 1132 and urge my colleagues to pass this measure. S. 1132 is a bill introduced by Senator Jeff Bingaman and has a companion bill, H.R. 3936 which was introduced by Congressman Bill Redmond, both from the State of…

I support this resolution on the centennial of the Spanish-American War to recognize the loyalty of the United States citizens of Guam who have become part of this Nation due to that conflict. This resolution serves as recognition of…

There is a lot of work that has gone into this legislation. There is a lot of, I hope, hopeful signs that we will not address this issue too soon unless there is some misapplication of the legislation by the Department of Interior. I have…

I am presenting to the House a modified version of S. 1677, the Wetlands and Wildlife Enhancement Act. This measure was approved by the other body on September 30th. The first two sections of the bill extend the North America Wetlands…

this is a good rule that should be adopted. First of all, I want to commend my colleague, the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Hansen). He has done an excellent job. In fact, he has done more than I would have done in the realm of trying to become…

With all due respect for my good friend from Virginia, this is about recognition of American Indians who were here long before we were. We have seen delays, and yes, there may have been some that maybe have been misused, but that does not…

slow, cumbersome, and enormously expensive.

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 2000 is legislation I have introduced in consultation with the Alaskan Federation of Natives. Considerable time has been spent to resolve the Calista land exchange issue, and I want to thank all parties involved for their…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 4068 would make certain technical corrections in laws relating to Native Americans. This is an extensive bill, and I will be as brief as possible. It corrects typographical errors in existing laws. It extends the leasing…

H.R. 3903 authorizes a conditional land exchange between the State of Alaska and the United States. The purpose of the exchange is to enable the construction and operation of a small, 800 kilowatt hydroelectric project for the community of…

That was done by the administration. That was done by the Forest Service rightfully due. I am saying that was rightfully done. We had a TLUMP process. We were told it followed the TLUMP. That is the planning program. We were told that. We…

The Forest Service spent 53 percent on administration last year, probably more this year, including law enforcement personnel. A lot of money replacing their newest vandalism, which is the fee signs. The amount of money collected by the…

as I have said, I have left the Tongass, as the gentleman from Washington will say, out of this bill. We have reached an agreement on our side with those people that do not like road purchases of credit, et cetera, et cetera. We reached…

in answering the question of the contractual agreement of the forest, it will affect the ability to take trees off that forest. There is no doubt about that. With all due respect to the gentleman from California, I do believe his legal…

I want to stress that again. This issue I thought had been put to bed. The good Senator, bless his heart, never does sleep. But to be frank, I would suggest to the gentleman from California, if he wants to open up the Tongass, and he has…

I am not yielding. I am telling the gentleman now that this is a deal this Congress made in 1971 to the Chugach native people. They had to go to court. In 1982, they had a decision from the court that said, yes, they had a right to 78,000…

in fact, I encourage the gentleman to withdraw the amendment and let this thing go over to the Senate side without the mention of Tongass and see what happens. But if the gentleman leaves it in there, I want to tell him, Katie bar the…

some things never change. This Tongass fight has been going on for a long time. In all regards to my good friend, the ex-chairman of the committee, I can remember in 1989 that the gentleman from California worked very hard to solve the…

93 percent of the forest is left. Ninety-three percent is left, and now, get this, of the 93, that is all 500-year-old trees. But do forests grow back?

So if a dead tree is dead, a dead tree is dead, and there is no harvesting of trees. Of the 93 percent, that means there will be no new trees. So, for future generations, that is nothing but dead trees.

this is a relatively simple bill. It is the proposed Advisory Council on California Indian Policy Extension Act of 1997, to extend the life of the Advisory Council on California Indian Policy, ACCIP, until March 31 of the year 2000. The…

I speak in support of H.R. 512, and I can only suggest that this is just a small step forward in the right direction. The reason I introduced this bill, we did have cases where the Fish and Wildlife Department... do it by action of the…