Jim Kolbe

With a heavy heart but a clear conscience, I will vote today to authorize the House Judiciary Committee to proceed with a formal inquiry that could lead to the impeachment of President Clinton

This fulfills a commitment that this body made several years ago when we created the Udall Foundation, to provide for them an authorization for them to do mediation on environmental disputes between Federal agencies and other Federal…

So they were paying a tenth as much in Mexico. They moved the production back to Connecticut. The answer is because of the productivity that they have.

The bottom line is we add all these up and we have a cumulative effect of nearly $5 trillion, just in these areas of negotiations. These are not just fantasy. These are not wannabes, these are not maybes. These are things that are…

I am prepared from the majority side to accept this amendment. I know that the Committee on Ways and Means has expressed some concerns about some of the language, and I would advise the gentleman that I would certainly protect those…

I also accept the amendment. I would like to reserve the option to review the resource requirements that OMB has when this bill proceeds to conference with the Senate. I realize it does not create any new money, but it earmarks money…

I believe that we should reject this amendment. I understand why the gentleman has proposed the amendment, because it was the only way that it could be brought to the floor, but it is too broad. It does not do what it is intended to do. It…

To all of these pages, let me say that we thank you. We thank you for the service that you have given, we thank you for the confidence that you give us in the future of our country. I began, as I think most of the pages know, I began my…

It is clear that our relationship with China is one that is extraordinarily important, and as everybody here acknowledges, extraordinarily complex. There is no doubt we have a lot of contentious issues that surround our relationships. We…

I think the gentleman has heard the very legitimate concerns that have been expressed about the possibility of antidumping. The gentleman has also heard the concerns on this side about the possible violations of law that may be involved…

The Forest Service should undertake fuels management actions which are done in conjunction with larger management strategies, integrated into national forest plans, and which include treatments such as timber harvest and large-scale fire…

I would just point out the difference between the domestic price and the export price of peanuts. It is clear that the reduction of the quota is designed to keep the domestic price at an artificially high level.

The price fixing that is going on has been going on in this program, as we know, since the 1930s when we created this program. The reason for this amendment is because the Secretary has chosen to use the other provision of the law, the…

No one who would be under the quota program would get a price in excess of $640 a ton.

The answer is ``yes.'' I guess I have a naive belief in market systems that there will be some passing on of that price. And if the gentleman is correct about this being the floor, then why do we have to lower the quota 100,000 below the…

I rise today to make this special order as the vice chairman of the page board, a former page myself. I do so with making my remarks on behalf of myself and the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Emerson], whose therapy for his illness has made…

No, Mr. Chairman, that is simply not true. Mr. Chairman, reclaiming my time, student loans are not being cut. First of all, Pell grant will go up, the total dollar volume of student loans will go up under the Republican budget. The only…

I want to respond to what the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Roemer] said about the Republican budget cutting school lunches and student loans. That just simply is not true.

The National Trust has, indeed, even before our subcommittee's action, had started work on a 5-year plan for eliminating Federal funding, and what we are doing is insisting we are going to speed it up slightly, and that it will be done in…

I would certainly trust that in a 50 percent reduction, that the National Trust for Historic Preservation would indeed be looking for those kinds of reductions, to reduce those things first. We have had considerable discussion in our…

Reclaiming my time, without commenting on the specifics of the litigation because I am not familiar with each of them, my answer to that would be no. What we seek to do by this reduction of 50 percent and terminating it in the second year…

I will rise in support of this amendment. We have previously with the Gallegly amendment made a reduction in some of the funding so that the dollars are available for this purpose, and as has been pointed out, there has been a commitment…

Basically, when we transferred the functions of the NBS, National Biological Survey, to the U.S. Geological Survey, we put in language which prohibited the use of any funds to conduct surveys. USGS does do surveys, always with written…

Reclaiming my time, Madam Speaker, I would just point out these are cuts, but we are not cutting into some of the basic programs here. We are talking about cuts that can be made without cutting into the fundamental social service programs…