John Doolittle

let me just say this is reasonable language that allows the maintenance and repair of levees without having to go through this absurd, years-long, multimillion-dollar process to protect people's lives and property. It is an extreme policy…

I would submit that campaign finance reform is not the issue. One of the previous speakers said, if we want peace, seek justice. Justice is exactly what we intend to seek. The question is, why is the Democrat leadership trying to turn the…

Mr. Speaker I rise today in strong support of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, just as I did a year ago. I would like to insert into the Record the following column by Charles Krauthammer, which destroys many of the myths surrounding…

I will just observe that there are other claims as well that the district in the settlement will forgo against the Government. If we delay this settlement, in essence not delay it but we will abrogate the settlement by failing to pass this…

Let me say I concur with the gentleman's sentiment. It is entirely appropriate that we have something named in honor of Senator Engel. This area was, generally speaking, the area from which he came. We would certainly support an…

Mr. Speaker, the changes contained in the gentleman's resolution are meritorious and desirable. They emphasize the principles of self-reliance and of the extended family, and I would strongly urge the House to approve this resolution. Mr…

the Water Desalination Research and Development Act of 1996 passed at that point on May 3, 1996. It was referred to the Committee on Resources and, in addition, to the Committee on Science and the Committee on Transportation and…

in 1992, before Bill Clinton took over as President, the overall chances that an adolescent used drugs was 1 in 20. In 1995, after 3 years of Bill Clinton, the chances an adolescent was using drugs had skyrocketed to 1 in 9. Mr. Speaker…

the ultra liberal Clinton administration is at it again. Yesterday Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt endorsed a plan to tax anything and everything having to do with enjoyment of the great outdoors. This plan would impose a 5-percent tax…

marijuana use for teenagers is up, but interdiction is down. Teenage cocaine use is up, but enforcement is down. LSD and heroin use for teenagers are way up, but prison time for drug dealers is down. Mr. Speaker, obviously what should be…

I rise in support of H.R. 1179, a bill authored by Mr. Clement to authorize appropriations for preservation of significant historic buildings on the campuses of black colleges and universities. This authorization provides statutory…

I would like to thank Mr. Radanovich for his diligent work on H.R. 3147. H.R. 3147 will result in an equal value exchange of lands between the Bureau of Land Management [BLM] and the Merced Irrigation District [MID] supported by all…

in October 1987, BLM sold 3.8 million board feet of timber within the Elkhorn Ridge area in Mendocino County near Laytonville, CA. As the result of a lawsuit filed with the Federal district court in 1989 by the Sierra Club, the BLM…

I rise in support of H.R. 2518, introduced by Mr. Hastings of Washington. This legislation provides for the transfer of 122 acres of National Forest System lands and a sewage treatment plant to Public Utility District No. 1 of Chelan…

I rise in support of H.R. 2292, a bill to preserve the Hanford reach of the Columbia River and for other purposes. Mr. Speaker, this is good bi-partisan legislation which provides for the preservation and improved management of important…

I rise in support of H.R. 2709, introduced by Mr. Riggs of California, to transfer ownership of 4.32 acres of national forest land in California to the Del Norte County Unified School District for the Gasquet Mountain School. The school…

I rise in support of H.R. 2438, introduced by Mr. McInnis of Colorado. H.R. 2438 corrects an encroachment into the Raggeds Wilderness on the White River National Forest, just west of the Town of Marble, CO. The encroachment, discovered in…

I rise in support of H.R. 3660. This bill would amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act of 1992 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the design, planning and construction of…

I rise to oppose this rule because it only allows two versions of campaign finance reform, both of which miss the mark. They are both based on the false diagnosis that campaign spending is out of control. They are both offering the false…

Different agreement but the same philosophy, the philosophy that returns power to the people and cuts their taxes, not bigger and more expensive government.

I say to the gentleman, suppose Pacific Lumber Co. jumped through all the hoops to get a habitat conservation plan, spent the hundreds of thousands of dollars and took the months or years to accomplish it. Do we have information that…

That was a bailout for Charles Hurwitz. That was OK in that day. Today Mr. Hurwitz is the subject of attack. I fought Mr. Hamburg on this, by the way. I just want to point out when you want to shoot the rich, Mr. Hurwitz, it is the working…

reclaiming my time, we have heard it represented and a number of very unkind things have been said about Mr. Hurwitz. I have never met Mr. Hurwitz. So I find it fascinating to see such intensity coming out of the other side. When Mr…

Yesterday the Medicare Board of Trustees, made up entirely of Clinton administration appointees, reported that Medicare is going bankrupt sooner than expected, now projected to be by early in the year 2001. Last year the Republicans led…

Mr. Speaker, the primary intent of H.R. 1743 is to extend the authorization for the State Water Resources Research Institutes. There are 54 of these institutes located at the land grant university in each of the 50 States and several of…