Jerry Lewis

it is a privilege to yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Ginny Brown-Waite).

I appreciate the point that is being made. I think the listening public, the interested public, should know that the Federal funding for programs like Sesame Street, the popular children's programs, frankly only 2.5 percent of that comes…

I rise to yield time to the gentleman from California (Mr. Dreier); but before doing so, I just want to mention that the previous speaker had a constitutional amendment regarding the issue of continuity in the last Congress, and on that…

by way of suggesting that the leadership on both sides of the aisle made the decision about building our visitors center and that process has gone forward, and many a fit and start, but nonetheless it is going to be the largest expansion…

There have been, and I very much appreciate the gentleman's interest in this matter. He and I will be pursuing it as we go forward in the months and, indeed, the years ahead.

I would be very happy to join with the gentleman in that discussion. I think I probably will discuss it with my wife as well; but in the meantime, you and I work together on the committee, and I am happy to work with you on almost any…

I must say I understand the points that the gentleman is making. I believe he has a constitutional amendment that proposes an alternative approach. I must say the Speaker has been most concerned, and he asked me to put this in this bill…

I certainly appreciate both of my friends yielding and having this discussion. But, this extended kind of dialogue and exchange we had on the floor today was one that was a very healthy discussion. I have had many experiences here of late…

I rise only to express my strong support for the Dreier-Kolbe amendment, which recognizes that Congress has a long-standing understanding of the fact that the difficulties of immigration, the challenges of illegal immigration especially…

I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to our majority whip, the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Blunt).

I rise to notify Members of the House that the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) and I are sending out invitations by way of an event that will take place in the Committee on Appropriations on May 16. The title is ``Celebrating Charlie…

I appreciate my Appropriations colleague yielding me a moment just to say that my colleague, the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey), and I have spent a lot of time together discussing these questions and the schedule and otherwise. The…

I join in this celebration of our friend Bob Matsui. All of us who care about public affairs and the Congress absolutely know that fundamental to our success in solving people's problems involves our understanding of just how important…

I have little doubt that the people of Florida know just how significant the work that the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young) has been about all this night on behalf of all of them. To have the chairman of this committee be that responsive…

regretfully, I rise in very strong opposition to the Menendez amendment, for this substitute does not reflect the real word that we must deal with when we are trying to make certain that our intelligence activities positively affect our…

But I wanted to take a moment to express the House's deep appreciation for the work being done every day by the men and women who make up our security agencies. We all know that during the 1990s, much of their work was disrupted by…

I intend to go home and work and communicate to my constituents all of that which we are doing for the men and women who are serving us in this country. It is very, very important that we not suddenly decide this may be an issue whereby I…

Is it not interesting we could have a crises like this, a crises like this that affects so many thousands and thousands of lives, men, women and children, a tragic circumstance, and, yet, ofttimes in this country the inane things that we…

I asked for this time to simply express my deep appreciation to the chairman of the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations of the Committee on Appropriations, my chairman, for his leadership on this issue. The responsiveness of both the…

Doug Bereuter is one of the classiest people to have ever served in this place. As my friend, the gentleman from California (Mr. Thomas), suggested, there are few and far between those who have his kind of class. Doug Bereuter is one of…

There appears to be developing here a level of kind of partisanship that I am not used to seeing when we discuss intelligence. There is absolutely no question that intelligence work does not know a partisan divide, if things are happening…

we understand my colleague's concern, and we can tell the gentleman that we believe that there is adequate funding.

The problem in Sudan is very real, and we are going to do everything we can to work with the gentlewoman. I appreciate not just her expressing her concern but helping us with this very serious difficulty.

I am very empathetic to the Member's expression of concern in this arena. There is report language in the bill that says the following that I would bring to his attention: ``The Defense Science Board and the General Accounting Office both…

the gentleman from Vermont and the gentleman from Connecticut have both been very active in the fight for a cure and treatment of Gulf War Illness for many years, and the committee will work with both of them to increase funding for…