The Coast Guard is a sea going service. Our personnel are trained and equipped to operate in the maritime environment, which poses very different challenges from those faced by shore-side responders. For the Coast Guard to take on the…

In the meantime, I want to clarify the Record. The Senator from Montana suggested that the State of Alaska does not support this road. Let me read a statement from the Anchorage Daily News, Wednesday, June 7, 1995. It reads as follows…

The U.S. Weather Bureau notes that Cold Bay is the third most windy city in the United States; the third most rainy, with 226 inches; and it is the cloudiest; and for 305 days a year it is cloudy in King Cove-Cold Bay.

I am sure that will send a strong message over to the House on the merits of addressing the needs of the Aleut people of King Cove who seek what we enjoy every day--and that is access.

The point is, Mr. President, to question the motivation of the Senators from Alaska on the question of commercialization is without any foundation and without any feasibility regardless of what some study or report suggests as a potential…

May I thank my colleague from Tennessee for coming over and sharing his knowledge and experience in the area of not only telemedicine but as a trauma surgeon, and we have seen the Senator's performance when called upon here in this body in…

So, Mr. President, where we are today is we are fighting a battle to maintain an industry on a substantially reduced basis. As I have indicated, that industry has declined dramatically over the last 10 years. And the Forest Service clearly…

I also wanted to note that it is important that the report provide a comprehensive analysis of the security balance in the Taiwan Strait. In addition to the traditional force-on-force analysis, I understand that it is the conferees intent…

I rise to address two matters that are of importance to me. The first is the issue of national cancer awareness. Mr. President, for the next 3 days, hundreds of thousands of cancer survivors, families, care givers, and friends, whose lives…

Section 1110(a) of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act provides an express and affirmative right to air access to federal lands in Alaska. Section 1110(a) provides as follows: Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act…

I fully support the objective of this resolution in reaffirming the right of our fellow citizens in Puerto Rico to express their desires on political status through popular referenda and to communicate those desires to the federal…

first of all, in the concluding minutes that we have before our vote, let me recognize from the House of Representatives our good friend, Carlos Romero-Barcelo, who is with us watching this historic action of the U.S. Senate. It is a…

I rise as chairman of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. I would like to advise my colleagues that we had an oversight hearing in June on the MMS oil valuation issue. The results of that hearing indicated that we should…

last Friday, Congress and the American people were finally able to read the 445-page report on the investigation of the independent counsel, Judge Kenneth Starr. It is now, of course, the constitutional duty of the House of Representatives…

That letter that has just been made part of the Record is highlighted here relative to the detailed expense associated with the Monica Lewinsky incident, expenses from January 15 to August 31, 1998, including categories of expenses…

following the current debate, let me point out a couple of things that I think the Senator from Arkansas may have overlooked with regard to his general statement that we have 557,000 sites in the abandoned mine category. I think it is…

To what extent, if any, should the Federal Government regulate political free speech in America? The campaign finance debate is not just about politicians and their campaigns. At the core of this debate are the values and freedoms…

There was some discussion yesterday on the floor with regard to the issue of advocacy about a case called Furgatch. And the supporters of McCain-Feingold spent a lot of time trying to interpret the Furgatch decision as allowing the kind of…

The letter does make it clear that Congress should not expect to hear anything substantive from the new Secretary of Energy on this matter until the end of the year, well after the election. This concerns me, as a signal that the…

this is a picture of a gentleman, Walter Samuelson. Walter Samuelson was 60 years old when he died February 1, 1992, as a consequence of a heart attack from complications he suffered in February of that year. Because of the weather in King…

this is legislation regarding the State of Alaska's sovereign right to manage its fish and game resources. The legislation will extend a current moratorium on the federal government from assuming control of Alaska's fisheries for two years…

With the expectation that all the parties to the Adak exchange will sign an agreement within the next few weeks, it is also my hope that the Conference Committee on S. 2312 would consider the inclusion of the language ratifying the…

I rise to pay tribute to the memory of the two Capitol Hill Police officers who gave their lives in the line of duty Friday afternoon. Jacob J. Chestnut and John Gibson were dedicated officers whose deaths are mourned by all of us on…

I rise to share some of my concerns regarding H.R. 1151, the Credit Union Membership Access Act. First, let me state that I support the concept of H.R. 1151; that is, to prevent a current credit union member from being forced to…

this amendment will delay for one year the application of the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System, abbreviated as GMDSS, to fishing industry vessels. The purpose of the delay is to allow the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)…