Jim Kolbe

The law as it written down as relates to employers is an unenforceable law because it says that employers have to have three pieces of documentation.

It's completely unrealistic, just unrealistic to assume that those people are going to leave with some kind of incentive that's being offered them.

It's obvious that enforcement only isn't going to work.

On November 17, I missed the vote on H.R. 500, Recognizing the 60th anniversary of the disappearance of the 5 naval Avenger torpedo bombers of Flight 19 and the naval Mariner rescue sent to search for Flight 19 (#597). I intended to vote…

To close, I yield such time as he may consume to the chairman of the full committee.

I will abbreviate my remarks. I just want to be able to say because Arizona has been at the forefront of this problem for so long and had more than 50 percent of all the apprehensions in our State that this is extraordinarily important…

I am completed with my remarks and I am prepared to yield back the balance of my time, if the gentlewoman is prepared to withdraw the amendment.

If the gentlewoman from New York would continue to yield to me, the House report for the House bill is completed, but in conference, yes, we could work on language in conference.

Though I am not in opposition, I will claim the time in opposition. The Acting CHAIRMAN (Mr. Hefley). The gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Kolbe) is recognized for 5 minutes.

Continuing this colloquy, just so you have the numbers correct here as we see them here: in 2004, total appropriations for international AIDS programs was $2.4 billion. In 2005 it was $2.9 billion; and in 2006, the current year that we are…

I take the time this evening to rise on a subject that we have just heard a great deal about this last hour... Nothing could be more like gutting Social Security than to do absolutely nothing.

I have to say that I find that these are very troubling charges, but we have only been recently informed of the issue. I intend to ask the State Department for further information regarding the situation, and I can assure the gentleman…

I think we all support the promotion of small business. We certainly need to have small enterprises get a fair shot at getting contracts and getting every business opportunity. And one of the things we have been pushing through AID is to…

I think many of us are haunted by the fact that decades ago we stood aside when genocide took place in Cambodia. Before that, of course, we had the Holocaust in Europe. And just a decade ago we had the genocide in Rwanda, and now we are…

Reclaiming my time, if that indeed is what the gentleman is after, which is certainly not apparent at all in reading this amendment here, we have already dealt with that in an amendment that was accepted. The DeFazio amendment prohibits…

I agree with him that our foreign assistance dollars ought to be spent in a manner that is not only efficient but that is inclusive of all peoples including those with disabilities. I agree that the needs of people with disabilities ought…

Clearly, it has been United States policy to recognize this nation as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and I know that our State Department did not intend to change this policy through this article 98 agreement, which was…

That statement does not come from the administration. There is an individual with one of the think tanks here in town who has gone through this proposed set of criteria, proposed set, because it is not in the law, the proposed set of…

Reclaiming my time, since I think my time is limited at this point, I would just say that it is in litigation, but it is not exactly the first time that the Congress of the United States has stepped in when there has been litigation to try…

Yes, I would say that the current process of extradition certainly is a very troubled one and needs to be reformed.

The Salvadoran people are wonderful people. I have known many of them in my own community and had one of them who came as a refugee from Salvador as an intern working for me and is today one of my very close friends. They are wonderful…

We are facing a pandemic in this world in HIV/AIDS unlike anything that any of us in our lifetimes have experienced, unlike any kind of plague that has beset this world in the last several hundred years. We need to be focused on that. We…

I would use the word ``direct'' rather than ``allocate.'' We do not earmark. We have a direction that they make this money available, and they look carefully at the mitigation issues in South Asia. I believe it accomplishes exactly what…

I would note that in our report in the account for the International Disaster Assistance, we do have a recommendation to USAID that they use at least $1 million each for India and El Salvador for disaster preparedness activities. So we…

I am also concerned, as is the ranking member, when Ethiopia is cited for human rights violations. And I can assure the gentlewoman from Texas that we will continue to monitor the situation in that country.