John Doolittle

I support the opening of the mainland Chinese market to American exports. It is in the best interests of the American people and the Chinese people. I feel strongly that the Communist government on mainland China is tyrannical, aggressive…

We already have one-third of the entire land base in the country owned by the Federal government. Now they are asking us to appropriate $900 million or more annually to buy more of it. We are not good managers in the Federal government of…

Mr. Speaker, Congress passed the Ak-Chin water settlement in 1978. It was amended subsequently in 1984. And then in the 1992 amendment, off-reservation leasing of the Indian community's water entitlement was allowed, but the period of the…

tonight marks the third installment in a series of special orders begun last summer that Members of the House have held on the record and views of Vice President Al Gore. The Vice President is fond of attacking the work of the majority in…

But the Vice President apparently does not want to open up ANWR because that will take us away from this which he seeks, a wrenching transformation of society. I guess in his vision we are all supposed to suffer a little. Somehow that is…

I remember reading these figures. At the time of the Gulf War, we were only 36 percent dependent on foreign oil. Under the Clinton-Gore administration, we have now slipped over the line to the point where now we are 56 percent dependent on…

I ran across an interesting quote here. This is by our President, very recently as a matter of fact, March 7, speaking at the White House. "Americans should not want them," referring to oil prices, "to drop to $12 or $10 a barrel again…

this is an important bill. I know the other side is trying to portray this as helping big developers, but the fact of the matter is, this bill is designed to help the little guy and anybody else, including a big developer, who seeks to…

Mr. Speaker, the city of Vallejo, California has tried to use its water supply facilities more efficiently, but has been limited by a provision in Federal law that prohibits the city from sharing space in an existing Federal water delivery…

I hate to talk about myself as an example but I think I will, just to illustrate the point of view that I have about this. I could talk about Eugene McCarthy, the Senator who was able to run for President, was not subject to this because…

I just love the circuitous reasoning here. The gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Shays) just said they have no impact whatsoever on these voter guides, and then he went on to talk about sham issue ads and how those are bad and, of course, we…

Mr. Chairman, this is why debating this issue with these folks is so maddening. They tell us about all the problems of soft money. It is clear that we have these problems because of the limits that they refuse to adjust on hard money. Then…

Mr. Chairman, this is a corollary to the last amendment that we took up. This is the aggregate for what large donors can give, adjusting it for inflation, as the last amendment adjusted the individual limit. This is important. I hear…

I find it fascinating to hear these same canned speeches given again and again identifying the so-called problem as a lack of adequate regulation. These people that are bringing to us today Shays-Meehan, it is these very same people and…

Your remedy is not to bridge the freedom of speech but is to raise the limits on hard dollars so we do not have all this pressure for soft money issue ads.

today we come to the floor with a very important bill, the water bill. I am very, very pleased to be able to support it. It contains many important projects across the country that can be developed with the passage and enactment of this…

I support the resolution by Representative Campbell to remove our troops from action in the Balkans. I'm opposed to applying American military force on behalf of Kosovo because our goals are unclear and the risks are too great without any…

I am not a supporter of the disastrous proposal by the Clinton administration and the minority party in this House to do statistical sampling, for a number of reasons. I think it is clearly unconstitutional. I think we have a recent…

I know that something jumped out at me that I did not realize, and that was that he was a graduate with highest honors of Golden Gate University in San Francisco, where he received his Bachelor's Degree in the administration of justice…

I do not think I know of any harder work than campaigning in a hard fought election, and Frank Riggs has had nothing but a steady diet of that in the elections he has run, and it has never been easy. They have always been huge races where…

I thank the gentleman. Recalling our early days together, I must say, every now and then, back in those days, it seems like we had a lot of late nights here. Every now and then, we would go over to the Pentagon City Mall and have ribs and…

a former Clinton adviser, George Stephanopolous, was right. Mr. Stephanopolous predicted a whisper campaign waged by the White House against Members of Congress who would eventually be forced to consider the independent counsel's…

Mr. Speaker, the primary purpose of H.R. 4079 is to authorize the construction of a temperature control device on Folsom Dam. The dam is located about 20 miles upstream from the city of Sacramento, California on the American River. A…

we must end federal support for disastrous bilingual education programs. Federal complicity in stifling English learning in the name of politically correct multiculturalism is just one more example of elitist bureaucrats thinking they know…

Well, I assure the gentleman, there is lots of room for debate in this. The Buckley case, of course, is completely consistent with prior cases on the First Amendment and has been upheld repeatedly, dozens of decisions since then, so it is…