Anthony Beilenson: “Mr. Speaker, the dolphin protection bill has created a great deal of controversy within the environmental community…”

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…

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…

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.

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…