Julian Bond

Is it the interpretation of the distinguished chairman of the Committee that the clear priority project purposes remain flood control, power generation capacity, energy production, Federal revenues, and those other purposes authorized…

HUD is instructed to use a three-pronged approach in determining whether the debt should be restructured. First, no tenants should be displaced. Second, the owners should not be forced to sell the project. Third, owners should not be…

The owner could be induced to continue to keep the property as an affordable housing resource by allowing the owner an adequate return on equity.

I emphasize that the mark-to-market demonstration is designed to ensure that HUD is particularly sensitive to the need to preserve existing low-income housing for the elderly and disabled.

I strongly support finding ways to encourage people to find means of self-support with a goal towards bettering their lives. This seems to me an excellent way to move people away from a state of dependence into one of independence and…

The committee encourages NASA to collaborate with other Federal agencies and private industry to pursue opportunities for public-private partnerships to apply Mission to Planet Earth data for environmental, agricultural, transportation…

This amendment provides supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 1996 for VA compensation and pensions. The department has just, today, notified our staffs that they anticipate being short $100 million in this current fiscal year for…

The legal link is merely that there are suggestions, there is not evidence, and this is one of the facts that would be brought out were there to be a hearing. Perhaps the minority leader could tell us what kind of services the potential…

Going back to the basic questions and assumptions, again I note the difficulty we have as we are asked on an appropriations bill to approve legislation to establish a new entitlement program. Did I understand the minority leader to say…

Well, Mr. President, I might say to the distinguished minority leader, this is one of the problems we get when there is a legislative matter on which there have been no hearings in the Senate. We are attempting to determine the basis of…

What is the basis of it then, the study, the basis of the assumptions that you are making?

I understand this is just an estimate based on an assumption from a study that if there is a connection, this number of offspring of veterans would have spina bifida, is that correct?

What is the basis of the number of children who have spina bifida, who are children or offspring--and I suppose now many are grown into adulthood--what is the basis of that number?

This deals with a problem the State of Utah has had, its Housing Finance Agency, with HUD. It is $755,000 that is in dispute. We believe this amendment is necessary to resolve the matter. As I understand it, HUD has no objection to this. I…

This is a measure dealing with the availability of CDBG funding in the city of Charleston. It makes changes in the boundaries of the city. This has been cleared on both sides by the authorizing committee, and at a time when the city of…

I would add my recommendation that NASA develop a work force restructuring plan to be submitted with the agency's fiscal year 1998 budget. This document should provide NASA's current plan for reaching the fiscal year 2000 FTE figure. In…

I agree that we should try to identify funds to keep the management conference in operation.

I assure the Senator from Wisconsin that I will certainly give this project every consideration in conference. Further, there are many additional options available for funding important projects such as this. For example, it is not unusual…

Senator Leahy, I know you have been a long time supporter of the Clean Lakes Program, and that the program has funded valuable lake inventory and restoration activities in Vermont and around the country. While this bill does not fund a…

I appreciate the situation facing the Senator from Alaska. I know he also appreciates the situation of our committee. We in Congress have tried very hard this year to address difficult issues that arise over implementation of our…

Let me add my thanks, also, to the Senator from Wyoming for allowing us to move past that particular amendment. We have worked very hard to avoid some of the controversies. We are not going to avoid all of them. But we did understand what…

Senator Bennett has been a leader in this area in attempting to develop adequate oversight of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight. He directs that the Comptroller General audit the operations to ensure that the office…

I do not believe this is controversial. It provides permissive authority to the Veterans' Administration to transfer lands to the city of Tuscaloosa, AL, for a recreational facility.

I will make note of the circumstances in Arizona. As you have mentioned, if a disaster had occurred in my State, I would expect FEMA to respond quickly. We recognize that FEMA has worked to help many areas around the country, but it…

I will certainly work to inform and convince the conferees that such language is important and may be appropriate.