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 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…

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

we heard already this evening, the very clear differences between these two budgets. These two budgets, the one presented by the White House, by the Clinton administration, and that one which has been prepared by the majority in the House…

I can say from having worked with this class during the course of this year, they are not quitters. The class knows, as well as I do, that it has been a tough year. There have been some ups and downs within the page school group, but that…

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…

I said that I thought there was a difference in the direction of these proposals. I said the budget debate ought to be about the direction of this country, it ought to be about our different philosophies. In the various proposals we see…

I think if this were the budget that were proposed 2 years ago, we would all be up here enthusiastically endorsing it. But that was 2 years ago today, we think there is a better alternative that is available. The chief difference between…

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.

A budget is not really about numbers. It is not about whether we spend $1,500 billion on the Federal Government or $1,600 billion. It is not even about whether we cut a program, whether we increase a program, whether we add a program, or…

I rise today in a bipartisan way to speak about a program that I think is widely applauded by most people in this House, and that is Head Start. It is a program that has certainly worked well in my district. I think it has worked well…

I spoke this afternoon about the need to put fiscal year 1996 appropriation issues behind us. With today's momentous vote on H.R. 3019 we have accomplished this. I wanted to speak a little more about an amendment I authored during markup…

let us stop the rhetoric, misstatements, and half-truths. The current budget crisis this Nation is facing is not because Congress failed to do its job. We passed a bill. It is because the President chose to veto the Interior appropriations…

I rise to discuss the Labor-HHS-Education bill before us today. Although we are now on title I, my comments are more general in nature. Chairman Porter deserves credit for the outstanding job he has done in his subcommittee. He has been…

I'd like to commend the chairman of the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee and my friend, Mr. Regula, for his hard work and courageous action in putting this bill together. It has not been an easy task. But throughout the hearing…

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…

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…

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…

I just wanted to join with my colleagues in saying to the young men and women that are with us here today, many of whom will be leaving, some of whom will be staying with us for their second semester and the rest of this session of…

I rise today in opposition to H.R. 4296. This legislation will do nothing to curtail the violence that plagues our Nation. In fact, the military-looking semiautomatic weapons targeted by this legislation are involved in less than 1 percent…

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…

I do rise in my role as a member of the Committee on Appropriations, as well as a member of the Committee on the Budget. Frequently, we hear those who serve on the Committee on Appropriations say that 'We just really cannot make these…