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With the understanding I have just reached with the ranking member and the spokesman on behalf of the majority, it is my understanding that we will all work together to assure that CMAQ funds can be used to address PM-10 pollutants as they…
With that understanding, and I have always had a good working relationship with the gentleman, if the majority will also commit to work on the PM-10 issue and to work with me to ensure that funds can be used to clean up PM-10, I would be…
As I understand the offer that is being made by the ranking member, the gentleman agrees to work in conference to address the importance of being able to fund the cleanup of PM-10 particulate matter and ensure that the law continues to…
As I understand from discussions with the gentleman's staff, the concern he has is, I guess, two points. One is not with PM-10, which I think the gentleman would agree with me that funds be used under CMAQ to mitigate PM-10 pollution at…
And this reconstruction aid is a way for us to illustrate that we are on their side, and for them to come to realize we are on their side, and for them to decide they need to be on our side and not on the side of the terrorists who want to…
I have been saying now for lo these many weeks that this has been on the discussion table, America, that the $20.3 billion for so-called reconstruction is as important to our military's success as the $60-some billion for the military…
I know that he believes deeply, as I do, that we have an obligation, having thrown out Saddam, as was needed to be done, a terrible dictator, to now help the Iraqi people. I think his illustrations of what we have done have helped. Quite…
I think he has made the point very clear that if we back away from Iraq right now, all those people in the country who are helping us right now, their lives will not be worth a penny.
The goal of this sense of Congress amendment is, in fact, to direct the resources that we have for disabled children to those disabled children, and to make sure that we are putting into the program those kids, those young people, those…
I would simply argue that when this committee draft was put together, I do not know that we appreciated the dimension of this year's problems. I know this report was prepared very, very recently; and I know that the fire in Arizona…
My only question is, this does reduce the amount of money for land acquisition, but it does not zero it out. I mean, the intention of the amendment was to say let us leave some money there and to recognize that we need to acquire some…
I certainly concur with the gentleman that the place for firefighting money is in the supplemental, which could become law literally next week.
So just to make clear, Mr. Speaker, a taxpayer decides, once this bill is in place, I am going to give $500 to help low-income children in my neighborhood or in my State. They give that $500 check. Come the end of the year, they get either…
Secondly, a company may continue to make contributions to such an employee stock ownership plan, an ESOP, for purposes of meeting the safe harbor provisions of the nondiscrimination test established by section 401(k), and that such…
First I would like to clarify that the diversification requirements in the legislation do not apply to privately owned corporations, but only to those corporations whose securities are tradeable or traded on an established securities…
No. Well, read it right now, and read these words, Chris. Would you read these words? It says ``retire outstanding debts.''
For those of you who have been here a little less time than I have, I came in the 104th Congress and joined this body in 1995, and for years after that we grew the economy at three and four times the rate of inflation, grew the size of…
They not only do nothing, but what they are demanding is pieces of this bill, large portions of it, their latest demand is that half of it not go to stimulus at all and the other half go to stuff that will not actually stimulate the…
The Senate bill is very confusing on that issue. It says that overall transportation safety goes to a Deputy Secretary of Transportation, but says that airline safety or airline security goes to the Attorney General, and it fails to sort…
So the notion that we have never delegated this kind of authority to anyone other than a Federal employee is simply wrong?
So when somebody attacks the current system in the debate later tonight or tomorrow and says, well, the other side, our side, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure majority side wants to retain the current system, on…
I know he has thoughtfully studied this legislation and cares very much, as we all do, about airline security, about making sure we have the safest system, and not about doing a quick and easy fix of just saying well, if we make them…
I would simply say it was impossible to stand there and not be stricken with grief and embroiled in rage. The survivors of this tragedy, the victims and their families, deserve our thoughts and our prayers. It was brought home when we went…
Mr. Chairman, I wonder if the gentleman has read page 167 of the bill which provides to certain health care plans sponsored by very large group providers absolute immunity for nonmedical injuries? The language of the gentleman's bill says…
Poll through demand. We advertise to the American public a prescription drug, a drug that they can only get with a prescription, the goal being those of us sitting at home feeling some of those conditions will go to our doctor and demand…
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