Frank Riggs

the most effective way to preserve threatened species is by improving and expanding their habitat. One might expect that an endangered species law would reward people for creating habitat. It does not do that. For example, it could pay…

I wanted to conclude by saying the Market Access Program is not corporate welfare; it is a valuable resource for America's small farmers to compete in highly restrictive foreign markets. In fact, this program is pro-trade, pro-growth, and…

Mr. Chairman, let me just say, first of all, the 5 largest recipients of market access promotion funds purchase over 90 percent of their grapes from small independent grape growers. This is a program that is working. It is a public-private…

to listen to the rhetoric from some of my good Democratic friends and colleagues this morning, one would think that they were prepared to vote for less spending and lower deficits, when nothing could be further from the truth. We are going…

I was born and raised in Louisville, KY, and I have never used these a day of my life. Yet, as I listen to this debate, I realize that there is a tremendous contradiction, a dissonance that surrounds this debate, because right on the side…

I wish the gentleman from Massachusetts could devote so much time and energy to helping us address the competitive and trade disadvantage that our wine exports have against Chilean and European wines. But the gentleman was correct when he…

I want to point out to our Democratic colleagues what they have described here on this floor in the last few minutes as pure political partisanship, opportunism on our part, is not limited to Wisconsin. It also, to use their definition…

I very much support the Goodling amendments that deal with the tip credit, the opportunity of training wage and the computer professional changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act. The first two items, I think, go a long ways toward…

this has been, I think, an enlightening and constructive debate. I want to point out that I expect the vote that will occur on this floor will be very much a bipartisan vote. About an hour ago we had a procedural vote, with 76 Republicans…

first of all, I want to point out to my colleagues, since I was preceded by one of my colleagues from California, that according to economists, motorists in California, Texas, Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania bear the brunt of the Clinton…

I just wanted to point out again, so as to not deliberately mislead our colleagues and the American people, following this debate, this 4.3 cents per gallon gas tax increase imposed by the President and congressional Democrats does not go…

our plan to save Medicare from bankruptcy, while increasing Medicare spending and increasing Medicare health care choices, increasing Medicare spending per senior citizen from $4,800 per citizen per year in 1996 to $7,300 per senior…

Mr. Speaker, let me first of all point out that our plan very clearly says right on its face that no older American who is currently receiving Medicare health care benefits will be forced out of the traditional fee-for-service program. It…

I think I can answer that one, even though I do not pretend to be any kind of mathematics expert, but obviously the $300 billion figure is much larger.

I get the last word because I control the time, and I will just conclude this section of our special order, before we turn our attention to the budget, by quoting from the nonpartisan American Academy of Actuaries form December 21 of last…

I want to make is that House Republicans and Senate Republicans have acted responsibly in this session of Congress. We sent the President a viable piece of legislation known as the Medicare Preservation Act and he vetoed that legislation…

Let me reclaim my time and state to the gentleman again so he is absolutely clear on this point, we have made, I think emphatically clear to the American people from day one that anyone presently in the Medicare Program under the…

all the attacks in the world on Mr. Starr are not going to distract attention from the fact that 16 indictments and 9 convictions later, the Whitewater investigation proceeds. Mr. Speaker, today is tax freedom day. It is the day Americans…

The principal reason that I support the increase in the minimum wage is so an entry-level minimum-wage job will ultimately pay more than welfare benefits do currently in the aggregate for those folks who want to make that difficult…

I simply want to stand before the House and point out that we are on the verge of a truly historic vote here over the next couple of hours. I believe that this body, in a bipartisan manner, will vote later this afternoon to approve House…

I want to thank and salute the gentleman and the chairman of the full committee for their tremendous work on this bill, especially in his efforts in this bill and the conference report to prevent unnecessary regulation and unintended…

Am I also correct, Mr. Chairman, that Congress intends, under this legislation, that the Fish and Wildlife Service protect the private property rights of parties affected by critical habitat designations by using Federal lands to the…

First of all, let me say with respect to the minimum wage issue, I am a little unclear why this has suddenly become--except for the possibility that it is being used now as a political football by the National Democratic Party--why this…

I think so, and I thank the gentlewoman for her comments. Again, she is so right. She is basically describing the so-called mediscare campaign that has been launched by big labor, the major Washington-based labor unions back here which…

I wanted to rise to address the minimum wage issue for just a moment as one of seven Republicans who a few weeks ago voted for a procedural motion on this floor that would have allowed the House to then consider actually a vote on…