I have just returned to Washington form the South Pacific, where I was privileged to be part of the U.S. delegation to the signing ceremonies for the Treaty of Rarotonga. I want to take this opportunity to inform our colleagues in Congress…

Mr. Speaker, the amount of gambling has increased considerably in the United States over the last two decades. While before many Americans were confined to gambling in the States of Nevada and New Jersey, or to parimutuel betting, today…

I take this special order on behalf of some 200,000 French citizens living in French Polynesia who all oppose President Chirac's ambitious plan to explode now six nuclear explosions in the South Pacific. I take this special order also in…

India may stand as the biggest obstacle to American hopes for the completion of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty this year. France, having conducted six nuclear tests the past five months, now favors an early conclusion to the CTB talks…

I think one thing that I want to add, and also for our colleagues to know, this is not a Pacific issue. I think this is something that we need to kind of widen our perspectives and think just because you and I are from this region of the…

as I have spoken earlier concerning the issue now before this body, the question of privilege, in terms of the tradition of the House and whether or not the President of France should be honored or be given the privilege of addressing a…

Do you think, in my good friend's opinion, that our Republican friends have a high esteem for education as part of this proposed budget plan that they have in mind.

Is it the gentleman's understanding also that our Republican friends did make a request to our President, come up with a 7-year budget plan and we will consider it, and did not the President issue a 7-year budget plan?

What were the objections that our Republican friends now have with the President's proposed 7-year budget plan?

So now what are our Republican friends trying to do to off-balance what the President set out? ``Here is your 7-year balanced budget plan.'' What are they going to do now?

on Monday, January 29, 3 short days before he is to arrive in Washington, President Chirac of France announced, in a formal news release, the end to nuclear testing in the South Pacific. Though he makes a pretty speech, just in time to…

I offer my apologies to my colleagues and to the American people, for these somewhat rough sketches of limited artistic value in terms of what they represent. On my immediate right is a picture of what an atomic nuclear explosion looks…

Let me add to my friend, yes, we did conduct in the Pacific, but something did happen afterward. There was world outrage what our country was doing in testing in the Marshall Islands for one obvious reason. Do you know what happened? We…

now that it's almost certain that President Chirac of France will be making a state visit to our Nation's Capitol next week to meet with President Clinton and the leadership of the Congress, this will be a sad occasion for me, Mr. Speaker…

I would say to my friend, I have made this observation earlier. It is bad enough that we cannot even harness and control the situation that we have in harnessing energy from the nuclear power in providing electricity and for other good…

If it is so safe, why not test it in France? I will tell my colleagues the reason why: The French people will not allow it, and all the peoples in Europe will not permit France to do such a thing. They had to pick on the most innocent…

One of the things I want to add to my good friend, the gentleman from Washington, is sometimes our own people here in America do not realize we are also a Pacific nation. Our country may be situated a little closer to Europe and the…

As if nothing happened, and simply to say Well, it is OK to us, because it is done way out there in the middle of the Pacific, and somehow that will not affect us. The gentleman is absolutely correct, when that stuff goes up in the air or…

I think we can make a case on the morality of it in the social-political sense, but I must confess to you, Mr. Speaker, and do so quite freely, that the gentlewoman from Hawaii [Mrs. Mink] and myself are among the few people that have…

What is really funny about this, there was an article that appeared in the New York Times yesterday. The French are masters at doing this kind of thing. They leak some things here. They leak some things there and tell you what, they have…

since September of last year, France has resumed detonating nuclear bombs in coral atolls in the South Pacific, defying worldwide protests against this crime against nature and against the lives and welfare of some 27 million men, women…

this bill would approve an agreement among the Resolution Trust Corporation, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of Arizona, and the city of Scottsdale to divide 701 acres of land known as the Saddleback Mountain property. In…

This is the man with tremendous arrogance and disregard for the concerns of some 170 nations. He totally disregarded the concerns of the health and welfare of some 27 million men, women, and children who live in the nations of the Pacific…

again in the spirit of bipartisanship, I commend my good friend, the gentleman from California [Mr. Gallegly], chairman of the subcommittee, for bringing this bill to the floor. Mr. Speaker, the bill before us today, H.R. 2726, contains 19…

on Sunday, October 1, 1995, France detonated a second nuclear bomb in the South Pacific, thumbing its nose at over 150 nations that have called for France to stop its reckless and irresponsible behavior. I find it deplorable that France…