Jerry Lewis

I ask you and my colleagues to join me in congratulating Park Superintendent Dick Martin and his staff for creating a world-class national park in this unique natural environment.

Death Valley became the largest national park in the lower 48 states when it was changed from national monument status and expanded to 3.3 million acres in 1994.

We must urge the park service to make resolution of those inholder problems a top priority in the years to come.

I did not intend to speak during this discussion on the bill that is before us, but the comments made by the last speaker are of concern to me as well, for in those comments he presumed in the next bill there may be some across-the-board…

I appreciate the chairman being flexible here in terms of yielding. I think he made a very important point at the beginning that needs to be repeated. That is, we already had a vote on this amendment. There is an authorizing committee that…

Indeed, it is my view that the American public are themselves focusing at this moment on refugees by way of television cameras that are depicting this picture, which is the worst of the fallout from the Milosevic effort here of ethnic…

I rise with great hesitation in opposition to the amendment. Mr. Chairman, as I said at the outset, it is with great hesitation that I oppose my colleague's amendment for I know that his interest and concern are sincere. My concern is that…

Let me respond first by expressing my deep appreciation to the gentlewoman for the professional way she is not just handling this matter, but the effective service she always provides in the authorization committee connected with our work…

there are three American soldiers who are celebrating freedom today. These young men have now been reunited with their families and are receiving needed medical care in Germany. America is very proud of Steven Gonzales, Andrew Ramirez, and…

I simply wanted to rise to let the House try to remember the good old days of the House of Representatives. It was just after the election of 1978 that the real bomb-throwers came to the Congress. I mean there were the likes of Newt…

I could not help but pay close attention to the comments of the gentleman from California, for he was expressing concern about report language in the bill, and we have discussed this before. He knows the relative impact of report language…

Mr. Speaker, there is one matter that I do want to bring to the House's attention. It concerns my good friend Louis Stokes. For 24 years, the gentleman from Ohio has served on this subcommittee, what is now called the VA, HUD and…

This conference report involves all of the funding for programs that are very important to the American public, those that relate to veterans' medical care, for example; all of the many public housing programs, the funding for the…

I had the privilege of being the author of the Child Development Act of 1972 in California. Congress has discovered child care 25 years later.

I hope my colleagues who are not on the floor but listening from their offices will make note of this passing, for we have heard today some of those words which will be the last words we hear from a man of the House, the gentleman from…

it is a very special moment for me to come to the floor and express both my appreciation for and my disappointment in Vic Fazio, for I do not believe we have ever sent from California a finer Member of the House of Representatives…

Mr. Speaker, it would be very difficult for the chairman of the subcommittee to object to this amendment, for essentially the amendment confirms that which was the direction of the House. I must say that I am both a little confused and…

Mr. Chairman, both the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Stokes) and I have prepared a very extensive response to this amendment but, frankly, because of the pressures of time and otherwise, let me suggest simply that the National Science…

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.

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…

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…

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

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 think we all from time to time step back and wonder what is the view of the American people of this great Capitol and the work that is done in both bodies. Ofttimes the shrill voices displayed on C-Span dwell upon the negative, those…