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…

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…

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…

reluctantly I state that I cannot support the Harkin amendment. The amendment, as has been recognized, is directly in conflict with the McCain amendment we adopted yesterday, which the Senate approved in a 79 to 18 vote. I am very…

as cochairman for the National Guard Caucus I rise to comment on the process of funding our Nation's military construction needs. The Senate, in the past years, has voted to appropriate necessary military construction funds to offset the…

we have had a lot of debate, a lot of heated rhetoric, and a lot of stirring stories of personal tragedies during this morning's session and tonight, and there is a lot of emotion involved. I think it is reasonable to understand why there…

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…

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…

I think we have now seen why this is such a difficult question, because there is no arguing with the fact that individuals suffering from disabling diseases, particularly such as spina bifida, which is a congenital birth defect, which, in…

I can assure my friend and colleague from Oklahoma that the committee will continue to work with him and the people of Oklahoma in recovering from this terrible tragedy. As the Senator has noted, the committee was pleased to provide $39…

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…

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…

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…

I must note that our first priority for HUD is demand that it more adequately address its principal responsibilities over loan and grant programs for housing and community development. We have worked to drastically cut back on the thicket…

more than a month after the Committee on Appropriations reported the pending fiscal year 1997 VA-HUD appropriations bill, the Department of Commerce announced that it would undertake an investigation of the alleged below-market bid made by…

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?

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?

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…

Yes; the agency has informed me that it will be using the 1997 appropriation for both increased health effects research and, in addition, more than $2 million will be for initiating an emissions monitoring program. In addition, it is my…

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…

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…

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…

As the Senator from Hawaii knows, I support efforts to improve controls on disaster relief expenditures. However, I am sympathetic to the concerns raised by the Senator. I understand that the county of Kauai and the State of Hawaii are…