As I said, that is just one small portion of the total, I would point out to the chairman of the subcommittee. There are further fiscal hardships on Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks. These parks need adjustment. How can we add 30…

I thank, the gentleman. As a matter of fact, we have hundreds and thousands really of people all over this community who are affected by this.

But for just the South Algodones, if we have to appropriate additional funding, that is no problem for this body because we do spend money that we do not have, but I guarantee that the check will bounce. The Bureau of Land Management and…

Today I rise to discuss two important provisions of H.R. 4301. The first provision is the military pay raise. The second provision concerns the cost of living adjustments [COLA] for military retirees. On the subject of the military pay…

while I have concerns about the C-17 program, Deputy Secretary of Defense John Deutch and Secretary of Defense William Perry have addressed them, and so I rise today in support of the amendment offered by my colleagues from California, Ms…

I have never heard such bunk. I have a paper that when we go into the full House I am going to submit on what a joke the conversion is. Conversion dollars is a liberal's way of cutting defense. We do have a couple of good programs. There…

there are some of the Members who got up and said they need to cut defense. We have cut defense $177 billion. Candidate Clinton said $60 billion would put us into bone marrow; $177 billion. Let me tell you how the administration and the…

I would like to clarify from our side of the aisle that when speakers say the Members on the other side of the aisle, there are a lot of Members, including yourself, Mr. Speaker, who help us on defense issues and realize what the needs are…

I would like to go through several different ways in which this administration is attempting to kill defense. First of all, there was a $50 billion cut under the 102d Congress, and candidate Clinton said $60 billion would put us into bone…

a lot of us do not support rules that are not open, but I would like to speak on behalf of Head Start. As an original cosponsor of the Head Start Quality Improvement Act, I am very happy to see that most of those recommendations went into…

I empathize with folks who are not aware of the problems we have or what the real issues are. They are talking about weapons of war. Not a single 1 of these 19 weapons was used by any military in any war. They were not designed as weapons…