Richard Pombo

I thank the gentleman, and conclude by saying that the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) and the ranking member from Indiana (Mr. Visclosky) deserve to be commended for crafting a sound bill, and I want to thank them for their tireless…

I rise today with my fellow delegates to celebrate and honor the 150th birthday of the great state of California. I have the honor of representing the 11th district of California, which includes the San Joaquin County cities of Stockton…

Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has intentionally ignored the direction from the Congress and commitments made to myself on this issue. The Service has been actively seeking and approving…

I wish the property rights language in the bill did what he says it does. Because he knows that we both worked extremely hard to try to get to that point and, unfortunately, that is not where we are. The language that is actually in the…

Mr. Chairman, we just had a vote on an amendment that I offered which would have protected the property rights of those in-holders that we are talking about in this particular amendment, unfortunately that amendment was defeated. My…

the 4,000 or 5,000 or 100,000 that the gentleman has on that sheet, none of those people are badgering for more Federal land acquisition. That is all the State side money, the $2.8 money in State side.

What this bill is all about is protecting the constitutionally guaranteed rights of the individual and that is what we are trying to do. ... The truth of the matter is, there is nothing in this bill that in any way takes over local…

I rise today to introduce into the Record a resolution that was recently introduced and passed unanimously by the Portuguese assembly dealing with the recent events in East Timor, and I would like to briefly state one part of that…

I will assure the gentleman that this is a very important issue, not only to his dairy farmers, but to mine back home, and that we will move through the hearing, the markup process, and move legislation on an expedited manner through the…

I come to the floor reluctantly opposed to the bill and reluctantly opposed to the manager's amendment. It takes a lot of things out of the bill that I care about, it takes things out that I think made this bill better than it will be…

This bill, H.R. 2508, is the culmination of many years of work that we have put in in trying to address the educational needs of the community that I am from, Tracy, California. The city and the school district have come up with a very…

has this policy that has been proposed, not even enacted, but a proposed policy by the administration, is there any consensus out in the gentlewoman's area or anywhere throughout the West?

I would answer that by saying at least we are having debate and a vote on that. The gentleman from California (Mr. Miller) has no clue, all of the policies and proposals that the Boehlert amendment would include. We cannot even debate that…

I would ask the gentlewoman, how many policies and proposals are there out there that the administration has that this could possibly impact?

if we are going to have some kind of a national forest policy that takes care of our forests, that ensures that we have healthy forests that are full of wildlife and all the things that in our mind's eye we think of when we think of…

so the people that are affected by this directly, those people who have chosen to live and work near our national forests, are opposed to it; and yet this amendment, if adopted, would adopt this policy?

Unfortunately, I am familiar with the San Bernadino forest and I know it would be an excellent place for a recovery area, because it does need some help. But in trying to recover that particular forest, they would be limited by this…

just to explain this amendment, what it does is it takes the refusal rate from 2 percent to 3 percent. Under that change, there are 2 countries that would currently qualify to be included in the Visa Waiver Program, those two countries…

I would just like to close the debate by bringing us home to what the issue is that we are debating. We are debating going from 2 people in 100 being refused a visa to come to the United States as a tourist or on legitimate business…

I quote: On January 20, 1993, William Jefferson Clinton took the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States to faithfully execute the office of President; implicit in that oath is the obligation that the President set an…

Basically what we have here is the age-old debate, the debate of whether or not we have power to the government or power to the people. We get down to this basic debate many times over different issues, especially over private property…

Today, Madam Speaker, we are considering H.R. 1789, the reauthorization of the dairy indemnity program. H.R. 1789 was introduced by the ranking member of the Committee on Agriculture, the gentleman from Texas, and I am glad to be an…

First of all, neither I nor the city of Galt is opposed to affordable housing. As a city councilman, I worked hard to establish affordable housing in the city of Tracy, which I had the pleasure of representing. Also, the city of Galt…

I rise in support of the Everett amendment. This amendment embodies many of the ideas that we all claim to stand for: open competition and smaller government. While this amendment does not require privatization, it merely ensures that the…

the gentleman has said that the Boehlert amendment does not address maintenance. The gentleman's amendment is asking for a GAO study. So neither one deals with the real problem that we have of preventive maintenance.