John Doolittle

The problem we have had is, frankly, the authorizing committees, for whatever reason, have chosen not to act. And in that vacuum we've been faced with a crisis of what do we do with the teacher being laid off or in Oregon's case with…

the most critical crisis in rural America, where there are large tracts of public forest land, is to deal with this issue of funding for the Secure Rural Schools. The funding did finally come this year, but it came too late, at least for…

Actually, I want to ask you one too, so I'm glad you're both up here. Mr. Chairman, you have worked with us and tried to help us, and I would agree with Mr. Walden on that. You were kind enough to offer something a minute ago that I'd just…

I do hope something can be worked out here, because hydropower is the original renewable resource. And there is starting to be a bias in this country against hydropower. There is also starting to be a bias in this country in some quarters…

Thank you to Ranking Member Ros-Lehtinen and Chairman Lantos. I'm very happy to see the strong support for Afghanistan manifested here by the statements on the floor and, obviously, by a bill like this with unanimous approval out of the…

the underlying bill makes numerous references to public infrastructure. We feel this, indeed, is public infrastructure, and that it deals with roads and schools. There are certainly needy counties by virtue of being included in this Secure…

I thought I made clear, the bill allows for foreign investment in the country. The student, under the provisions of this amendment, himself would not be able to buy the home if he were a student not able to work, therefore not having a…

You would have to be entitled to have a Social Security number, which, as I understand it, would be someone who is employed here.

I was, like many of my colleagues, shocked and deeply saddened to hear the news about Juanita. Grace Napolitano had just brought by a nice card for Members to sign on Friday, I think it was, and here I realize that she has passed away. I…

five and a half years ago, our Nation was attacked by terrorists opposed to freedom and individual liberty. Our President vowed to keep Americans safe by taking the fight to the terrorists, and holding the regimes that support them…

And the increase in mandatory spending, and two-thirds of the budget is mandatory spending, we slowed the growth rate of mandatory spending for the first time in 9 years. 1997 was the last time that happened. Those are two huge…

This is something I find that is very, very encouraging. Young people in general do trust the free market, and that is something that I find as a beacon of hope as they are coming up, because they are going to be the next generation that…

You make a very, very good point, and I have occasionally seen a talented government official who is a problem solver. And so they get out of the adversarial mode where they are doing inspections and levying fines, and they are actually…

And one of our former colleagues, Frank Riggs, has been a real leader in this charter schools movement, and he continues to be involved these days in the private sector for education now, and is still involved in a nonprofit involving…

Talking about one of the big differences that we have between the Republicans and the Democrats in this House and in this Nation in terms of what goes on nationally here in Congress, there didn't used to be such a difference. In fact…

And yet they talk about it all the time and blame us for being antihealth care and antieducation. And yet all the innovations that have occurred in the last dozen years have occurred under Republican leadership.

We do. We have some friends that lived in Germany, and when they would come over to the United States, one was an American citizen married to a German national, they would come over and they would spend the first day or two at the…

Osama bin Laden said the center of the war on terror is in Iraq, yet we hear Democrats asserting Iraq has no connection to the war on terror. Osama bin Laden declared that, and that is why we need to understand it is important that we…

legislating for partisan gain is all that campaign finance regulation has ever been about. Who are we kidding? Let us go back to 1974. Watergate, Republicans are under heavy fire. Democrats took advantage of that, demanded reform, and one…

everyone remembers the schoolyard bully who pushed the smaller kids around and took their lunch money just because he was bigger and stronger. Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the…

I know the theme of the minority is the Republicans abuse power and they are corrupt; but I think this example is absolutely ludicrous, given that it was recommended by a prominent Democrat member of the House Administration Committee who…

as I recall, it was the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Zoe Lofgren) who thought this would be an appropriate procedure to bring it to the floor on suspension. So there was no abuse of power. This is strongly supported by both parties. I…

the inevitable insolvency of Social Security is not a new problem. Since the program began in 1935, the number of workers per retiree has slipped from 40 to just three today. And unless Congress acts, the system will be completely bankrupt…

in crafting Social Security legislation, we must offer workers the ability to own a portion of their retirement through personal accounts. President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to…