Frank Riggs

I want to briefly respond and point out to the gentleman, as we have already said on this floor this evening, only 7 of the 50 States have said that they will participate in these tests, which begs the question, if these tests are so…

I do not follow the comments of the gentleman from Wisconsin because it seems to me perfectly plausible that a poor and educationally disadvantaged child could also be gifted and talented.

The fact that we have now added language saying that these funds must be spent, shall be spent to help children meet challenging State content standards and challenging State student performance standards will have the effect of bringing…

I understand that the allocation provided to the subcommittee...has required making some tough choices in the bill, but I do hope that the subcommittee's allocation might increase during conference with the other body.

I just want to point out we can export our products or we can export our jobs, and I rise in strong opposition to this amendment.

Under the alternative secondary formula, they can drive all of their money to areas of greatest economic need and high poverty areas, if in fact they can demonstrate that the formula will do just that to the satisfaction of the Secretary…

The language in the bill allows, and again, I believe encourages, the States to use up to 10 percent of the money to drive those funds to the areas of greatest economic need and highest poverty, and again, that is very consistent with what…

And a locally elected school board, it seems to me, is accountable to and responsive, we hope responsive, to the local community, not a federally funded work force development coordinator who is not an elected official and therefore really…

Colleagues, let us apply the commonsense test here for a moment. Will one work force development coordinator, paid through Federal taxpayer funds, be able to do what the locally elected school board cannot?

We urge the court to use the rural exception carefully, and these criteria should provide the court with some assistance in rendering a decision on this issue. The committee believes it is important that the court consider the criteria in…

I actually despair listening to the debate that sometimes I think there are those Republicans, my Republican colleagues, who would be inclined obviously to vote for a punishment bill but against a prevention bill, and perhaps it is the…

Should a State want to commit its educational resources in this area, and I think the gentleman is correct, that is the course his home State of Texas would like to take, it would be free to do so under the Gallegly amendment, because the…

As our committee's report points out, the goal of the vernal pools task force, which has been in existence and continued their work since the 102d Congress, is to develop a general permit application that will identify a finite area of…

I call again on the minority to tell us and the American people how much per pupil funding has increased for public education over the same time period, as used by their charts.

Yes, the gentleman is correct, if the gentleman will continue to yield. If we do not permit any new roads into roadless areas, if we do not permit new sales, then obviously timber sale receipts are going to decline and the distribution of…

I notice that our friend, the gentleman from New York [Mr. Boehlert], when he was talking about the environmental organizations that have endorsed my colleague's amendment skipped right over the Sierra Club, and yet I am looking at an…

You do not come to us. Instead you rise on the floor in a very high-minded fashion, but you do not consult those of us who represent these districts which are disproportionately impacted by these well-intentioned amendments on the House…

Would that be roughly equal to the 1.3 billion that the gentleman from Florida just claimed was the actual outlay by Federal taxpayers for this program?

I will simply point out that my colleagues, I know they are sincere about this, my colleagues who are behind this, they have not come to those of us who represent these congressional districts to discuss this. You might talk to inside the…

The gentleman is aligned in the green scissors coalition with the Sierra Club which has now taken the position of favoring a complete ban on all foresting on Federal forest lands.

Did I understand correctly the Sierra Club, the most moderate mainstream environmental organization, the one that enjoys the most moderate mainstream image of all environmental organizations, voted recently two to one to completely ban all…

Is it not a fact that a lot of the timber that we are attempting to harvest on Federal forest lands declines in merchantable value, or loses its monetary value altogether because of our inability to get these sales out, because of our…

Is it not a fact that some of our friends concerned about so-called below costs sales and concerned about taxpayer subsidies are the same people who are opposed to allowing any kind of expedited logging on our forest lands, including the…

A position so extreme, that says we should not even harvest a dead, dying, or diseased tree?

This is not an endangered species debate. Instead, it is about the core differences here between those who seek to protect the rights of private property owners, including some longtime ranch families, and those who have little concern…