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Mike Levin is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 49th congressional district since January 3, 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, Levin has focused on issues such as climate change, healthcare, and reproductive rights during his time in office. He has been an advocate for policies that promote access to in vitro fertilization and has emphasized the importance of bipartisan cooperation in Congress.
In short, then, this legislation neither expands or contracts the authority of GAO in reviewing an agency's rule making nor does it expand or contract a rule making agency's authority to develop or issue a rule. The legislation establishes…
Finally, I would like to address section 6 of the bill, which requires a determination by the President that, among other things, the Government of Russia has demonstrated a sustained commitment to seek out and prevent the transfer to Iran…
The second point that I would like to address is the use of the word ``timely'' in the managers' amendment. It is my understanding that the intent is that, whenever appropriate, the President provide notice to foreign persons, or to the…
I will vote for the most recent version of the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2000. It advances the process further, and it is essential that the promised and paid for disposal of nuclear waste from Michigan proceed. There are a…
One way to deter such misconduct is to say that you cannot avoid that accountability by filing for reorganization in bankruptcy any more than you can evade a judgment for damages resulting from drunk driving. Sound public policy also…
Shays-Meehan is clear about voter guides. What the Doolittle amendment does is to essentially gut Shays-Meehan in terms of sham issue ads. The gentleman from California says he wants a bright line so only certain words would be covered. In…
Mr. President, while I favor the thrust of the resolution before us, I do not favor its timing, and I will vote to table. I want to just take a few moments this evening to explain this. The stakes are tremendously high in Kosovo. We simply…
Last year, the Republican leadership tried to thwart action on campaign finance reform. This year they are trying it once again. Why? Because they know it will pass the House on a bipartisan vote, because they fear public pressure will…
Let me just thank the Senator from New Mexico. He has raised a very important issue which was the subject of major discussion at the Armed Services Committee the other day; that is, the importance that any weapon system, before it is…
To my good friend from New Mexico, I say there is no prohibition in this bill against them using the regular procedures. So it is my assumption they would use those procedures given the absence of any prohibition. Secondly, the word…
The discussions between us and the Russians relative to the demarcation line, for instance, between a theater missile defense and strategic defense, the defense against strategic missiles has, indeed, been going on a long time.
I think those negotiations began just a few weeks ago. And I was urging the administration in the middle of last year to begin those discussions and those negotiations. So the actual preliminary discussions I think began in February. As…
I did. I believe that our leaders have denied such an agreement with Mr. Gorbachev, and we would be happy to dig up the difference relative to that.
In January, 1998, Michigan moved to lower the poverty threshold statewide from the 50 percent poverty level in title I to 35 percent. Would either the Wellstone or Kennedy amendment prohibit Michigan from continuing to allow these waivers…
Let me commend our friend from Georgia for this amendment. He has made a number of major contributions already to this bill, most particularly in the transferability provision of the education benefits under the GI bill. That is a huge…
Let me also commend Senator Hagel for his speech. He inevitably is on the floor when we have a defense authorization bill or an item related closely to it, as this bill is. He is here, fervently urging support of our men and women in our…
I happen to support the thrust of that, which is that we would not be putting our active duty retirees at a disadvantage compared to our Reserve retirees. But we are also creating, in a sense, another inequality because the executive…
We think it is an important effort. Health care for themselves and mainly for their families is the number one concern of our uniformed military. This amendment would be very, very helpful. I want to commend both Senator Hutchison and…
I oppose the Largent amendment. Whatever my personal opinion in this matter, decisions about who can and cannot adopt a child should be left to the states and not the Federal government. Americans do not want the Federal Government…
Secretary Cohen and General Shelton said it well. I agree with them--Congress should not mandate troop reduction by arbitrary dates. Mr. President, I also disagree with other sections of this amendment dealing with exceptions to the…
This amendment is directly aimed at the independence of the Federal Elections Commission. It is aimed at no other commission. Its purpose is obvious--to eliminate a general counsel who has taken an independent position, following the…
But, if the gentleman will continue to yield, that could be 120 days before, it could be any time and something that is subject to a vote that could be a year away. So I just urge that the gentleman read the amendment. Number two, in…
My point is not that the DeLay amendment is in there. The way it is drafted, it refers to all of these sham ads, whenever they are produced, whether 60 days in advance or not. If you read section C, it applies to subsection A and B and all…
I urge that anyone who is thinking of supporting this amendment read it. It applies to all of the provisions on express advocacy, whenever an ad would be launched, whether it is 60 days, 90 days, 120 days or whatever. It destroys the…
I think it would help if the gentleman could cite any noncriminal statute in this country that uses the term high probability; any civil statute that has the term high probability in it.
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