Anthony Beilenson

Mr. Speaker, we are particularly troubled by the provision in the bill limiting the President's ability to negotiate issues related to the ABM Treaty that are so important to the national security of the United States. We believe that that…

Mr. Speaker, we support this modified open rule for H.R. 3259, the Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal year 1997. Our only concern about the rule, and it's only a modest concern, is the preprinting requirement, which we are not…

But we urge a no vote on the previous question. If the previous question is defeated, I shall offer an amendment to the rule which would make in order a new section in the rule. The provision would direct the Committee on Rules, as the…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 2202, the Immigration in the National Interest Act, which this modified closed rule makes in order, is one of the most important pieces of legislation we shall consider this year. There is no question that U.S…

The principal point here is that if the $99 million is provided for in the bill, in the authorizing bill passed by this House, then that money, whatever eventual amount of money is decided upon can in fact be appropriated so long as it is…

If I may further pursue this, why are we treating this in a different manner than we usually treat appropriations? Ordinarily at least, a lower authorization would appropriate a certain amount of money if the Committee on Appropriations…

I think it is different from the understanding we had last night and the arrangement you folks on that side of the aisle worked out. In other words, if the authorizing bill provides for any amount less than the $99 million, even if it is…

Continuing my inquiry, if I may, the report on a block grant bill from the Committee on the Judiciary, House Report 104-24, does not discuss whether the block grant bill will have an inflationary impact on the Nation's economy. There is a…

That quotation simply was from the gentleman's own chairperson, the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Hyde], who said in his view this was the most controversial of the bills. It was not we who said it; it was your own chairman who said so.

Not at all, and I appreciate, as I said earlier, the gentleman's remarks that were most helpful. I want to respond to one more just so the Members will not be too terribly concerned about this either. The gentleman alluded to the fact the…

If I may reclaim my time, the gentleman makes a valid point except to say, in fairness, I think the members of the Committee on Rules were not aware of the gentleman's problem or, in fact, that the proper gentlemen were not spoken to with…