Karen Bass

My colleague may be aware of the fact that on the 26th of July, 1995, just a little more than 3 years ago, this House voted 223 to 204 to zero out ATP. We are also aware of the fact that only 40 percent of ATP funding goes to small…

I would not disagree it is the most competitive corporate welfare program around, but does the gentlewoman from Michigan (Ms. Rivers) believe that ATP funds should not be awarded to companies that say that they would have developed the…

We have an ATP that is much smaller than those other governments and we are doing so much better.

Is it not true that either of these two suggested changes can easily be corrected in the committee of conference under technical corrections? There is no need to worry if under the unfortunate circumstance we have a revote that these…

as a member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, I welcome the opportunity to speak in support of H.R. 3694, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999. I would also like to associate myself with the very good…

I know that my colleagues will join me in paying tribute to several New Hampshire Olympians who skated their way into America's heart last month. Their dazzling talent and can-do spirit and proud patriotism gave the world a glimpse of what…

What the media did in the Gulf war was to report what was happening and what had happened. What is key to intelligence and its effective service is to analyze all sources and to try to predict and provide the best possible advice to our…

I want to say a couple of things. First of all, from my perspective, from the perspective of a businessman, this amendment is nothing but a pig in a poke. The fact of the matter is logs do not fly. They will not sprout wings and fly out of…

I rise in support of this great budget plan. I had the opportunity a few minutes ago to listen to the distinguished minority leader express his opposition to this plan. In the course of his discussion, he exhorted us to look out for the…

between 1965 and 1994 $5.4 trillion has been spent on welfare. Federal, State, and local welfare spending rose from $158 billion in 1975 to $324 billion in 1993. Now, my colleagues may think that welfare is thought of as providing…

I'd just like to say that in response to my distinguished colleague from California, as he well knows, just prior to his arrival here on the floor we did exempt by unanimous-consent amendment the States of Massachusetts and Connecticut…

I bring to your attention an editorial which appears in today's New Hampshire Union Leader entitled, Rubber President, Here's Bill Clinton, Contortionist Extraordinaire. The editorial discusses the fact that the President has twice vetoed…

the article reveals that the same individual who drafted several complaints filed against the Speaker also helped raise tens of thousands of dollars for the campaign of the ranking minority member of the Committee on Standards of Official…

in the 104th Congress the new Republican majority has made great strides in reforming Congress and restoring America's faith in the honesty and integrity of this institution. Indeed, our accomplishments are a shining example of promises…

I am pleased to say that in the balanced budget or in the budget resolution, 1995, the Committee on the Budget identified over $95 billion worth of unnecessary spending on corporations. Mr. Speaker, I am going to be releasing today a GAO…

I regret the fact that the gentleman from Connecticut [Mr. Shays] and I and other folks that are from the North are supporting this amendment. Global warming is really going to have to take off before we see too much peanuts in Delaware or…

I guess the new buzzword we are going to hear now from the other side of the aisle is going to be the use of the word ``extremist.'' Everything we do is going to be called extremist. I would only ask that we return to the issues that we…

I rise in support of H.R. 1670. Before my colleagues vote to considerably weaken this bill, I would ask them to consider the reforms being offered here today by the chairmen, the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Clinger] and the gentleman…

I want to commend her for the courageous effort that she has made as a freshman Member of Congress to swim against a tide of incumbency. I said many times during my campaign last year that there are really three parties in Washington…

the Committee on the Budget yesterday heard from Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan, and when he was asked by the chairman of the Committee on the Budget why it is important that we balance the budget, he said, and I quote ``I…

I had planned to address the House today to talk about the fact that I cannot support a bailout of Mexico, that we have got to treat our neighbors to the south in the same way that we would treat our neighbors down the street. But I have…

Mr. Chairman, 10 years ago this year the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention passed a resolution which, in effect, prohibited unfunded State mandates. The people of New Hampshire approved that resolution in the fall of 1984. It reads…