Jerry Lewis

I do feel this is a very serious issue. I would really regret it if we paint an issue like this in partisan terms.

If we were in a position of having this item considered as part of the report language, I could tell the gentleman that I would work directly with him between now and the time we go to conference to try to find a way, with our colleagues…

Let me say to the gentleman I appreciate where he is coming from. It has been my intention to oppose the amendment as it is presented. If we go through with this process of amending amendments, I am not sure the chairman is going to be…

I am having a bit of difficulty swallowing all of this, and, as a result of that, I read the amendment carefully and I believe my colleague and I are ready to accept the gentleman's amendment.

I know the gentleman did not mean to even suggest that the Senate would know more about the process than we might, but this is the first time this year that we have had this kind of responsibility in our bill. I must say that the other…

The gentleman is correct. As I said in my opening remarks regarding this amendment, it concerns me that this cut could undermine all the work we have been doing all year long on FHA accounts.

I do appreciate where my colleague is coming from. We have had this discussion a number of times on the floor, as the gentleman knows. And the gentleman certainly knows that our committee is doing everything we can to adequately fund those…

I do not only acknowledge but state flatly that this is an unauthorized program, and I want my colleague to know that I intend to make certain when we go to conference that both the House and Senate are very clear on this matter.

I am very well aware of your concerns; and if you recall, I shared them with the administration on several instances during the past year. It is not my intent that the report language be a base for funding.

My colleague is raising a very, very important point; and this issue is one that has been around for a while and yet it needs some serious oversight and review. It is a problem that I would like to continue to explore with my colleagues…

Is it not correct that the city of Lakewood, California, paid for a new survey and found that almost 5,000 homes and businesses were mistakenly included in the floodplain and, thus, would have been required to purchase insurance when it…

The gentlewoman probably does not know this, but my first grandchild, being born some years ago, the kids named her Katelyn Rose, and since that time I have been in the gardening business. So I want the gentlewoman to know that not only do…

Speaking for myself, I tell the gentlemen from Maine that we will carefully examine the GAO report and will take the GAO's recommendations in due consideration as we go through the conference.

One of the needs for this report language is that it would appear as though the agency is cherry-picking the way it will interpret the very law that your committee wrote, and it is a comprehensive bill. Remember, Mr. Brown, that this is…

I think he heard my comments earlier that the chair is going to support this amendment. But I must say that I do have some understanding of the reservations by some on both sides of the aisle, I assume because this is an agency that has a…

I do intend to vote for this amendment and I would urge my colleagues to support it.

Mr. Chairman, I believe the brownfields program is a good program and the committee supports efforts to turn abandoned and possibly contaminated properties into thriving commercial areas. On the other hand, both the GAO and the Inspector…

I must say to the body that our colleague, the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Tiahrt) has played a very significant role in dealing with this problem, for there is money in the pipeline now pushing forward that research on the part of the…

I might mention to the gentleman that his district and mine have this identical problem, for our territories involves open spaces where people have to travel many, many miles for this kind of service. As the gentleman is aware, the VA's…

I will be urging the EPA to take this into consideration and expedite the remediation of the remaining Ottawa sites as soon as able possible, consistent with the agency's priority listings.

Mr. Weller, I understand that there is a very high rate of cancer in areas surrounding these Superfund sites.

The agency must include a formal protocol proposal as part of their fiscal year 1999 operations plan before implementing any security protocol.

Yes, the EPA has been working closely with FBI and other law enforcement and security experts to develop a system limiting inappropriate access to such information. That system is expected to be completed by the end of 1998 as the…

I want to at the outset mention to my colleagues that beyond the substance of this bill, which is considerable, during the day today I expect that we will have a good deal of discussion of the reality that there is another piece of…

I do not mean to take much of the gentleman's time, but I was away at that hanging as well, and I must say, at the Library of Congress they had this wonderful ceremony where both the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Jim Sensenbrenner) and the…