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I stand today opposed to the rule. Let me say that all of us in this body today are working frantically to try to do what we can to balance the budget of this country. Both my Republican colleagues and my Democratic colleagues are working…
this culminates over a decade of work by many Members of Congress, and without their leadership this would not be happening today. I want to single out a few people: the gentleman from Kansas, Chairman Roberts, the gentleman from Virginia…
by the end of the fiscal year, nearly 150 Hmong refugees will be reunited with their families in the 18th Congressional District of California. It is morally right for us to allow these families to be reunified after decades of separation…
I rise in support of the coalition budget, I ask all my colleagues to vote for it, and I commend the gentleman from Utah [Mr. Orton] and the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Stenholm] for the work they have done.
a few short weeks ago the Congressional Budget Office [CBO] estimated the budget deficit for the current fiscal year, 1996, to be $145 billion. At that time CBO also estimated that the deficit, without some intervening action by the…
Basically, the problem exists with EPA's interpretation of the Clean Water Act. The EPA has interpreted constructed water conveyance facilities to be waters of the United States and therefore subject to the same Clean Water Act standards…
Let me just remind the Members that are listening that what H.R. 961 does, some of the things that we have been working and fighting on for a long period of time. It provides comprehensive wetlands reform, which we have worked on and taken…
I am excited and delighted to be here today. This is a long time coming. What this really does, I think, across the country is give us a ray of hope, because a couple of years ago when we started with the unfunded mandate issue, we were…
I feel compelled today to rise and just make a couple of brief comments. I first would like to state that we have heard some discussion this morning about this bill, and this amendment, as though this is one of the first times we have…
Mr. Chairman, we do not change the law for last year at all. It stays the same. The year 2004 in entitlement would kick in automatically for full reimbursement. I would expect that having done what we are doing out here today and tomorrow…
Whether you are liberal or conservative, Democratic or Republican, from California or elsewhere in the country--you always knew where Ronald Reagan stood on any important issue. One of his greatest achievements was restoring to our people…
Reclaiming my time, that is only the point I want to make. I am not speaking to the issue of the amendment. I just simply want to say that some of us believe this is good for the country. We believe it is good for local government, for…
Mr. Chairman, I rise to make a general comment. I heard a few minutes ago one of the Members make reference to this is as a 100-day agenda, and what we are doing here today is doing what is not necessarily good for the country in the long…
I too, rise, reluctantly opposed to the substitute amendment by the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Moran]. I want to tell my colleagues that the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Moran] is an example of a long-term effort, that he has not agreed…
I just rise to hopefully once again add a little perspective to this debate in the quick 1-minute time I have here. This amendment I oppose and all amendments that come on this floor to weaken this bill I want Members to know, I oppose…
I understand there have been times that local government has been slow to respond to things, and the Federal Government frankly has not been perfect in responding to certain things as well, but I have much more faith than some of these…
Let me assure you this bill does not eliminate all unfunded mandates. What this bill does is it requires us to have some accountability, for us to have the courage to come to the floor and to waive a point of order if we think it is…
Today marks the culmination of years of work by both Democrats and Republicans to put accountability back in Congress. I want to pay special recognition to several Members, the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Clinger], the gentleman from…
Mr. Chairman, first of all, let me say a word of thanks to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for allowing me the time that they did and for allowing us to speak in favor of H.R. 5. I think that will be a positive and constructive…
the Beilenson-Berman-Condit-Thurman amendment is not the amendment that I would like to be considering today. It is a compromise. It is the strongest language that was allowed to come to the floor. While I strongly believe that the…
I rise today to honor the 1.5 million Armenians that were exterminated by the Turkish Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1923. On April 24, 1915, hundreds of religious, political and intellectual leaders were rounded up, exiled and eventually…
I rise today to express my strong support for an amendment offered by myself and my colleagues from West Virginia and New Mexico. The purpose of our amendment is simple, but the message it sends is profound. Our amendment specifies that…
I would like to explain the reasons for my vote on H.R. 6, the Elementary and Secondary Education Reauthorization. During the course of the debate on this bill, I have become very concerned with potential unfunded mandates that may result…
I rise today in support of the Miller- Johnston amendment to increase the fiscal year 1995 authorization level for the emergency immigrant education program from $40 to $100 million. The Federal Government implements and enforces…
I have today introduced the Fair Health Information Practices Act of 1994. The purpose of this bill is to establish a uniform Federal code of fair information practices for individually identifiable health information that originates or is…
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