Sam Farr

The point is here is an election that is closer than the one that you were talking about in Orange County, a lot closer. There is no purge or going through and suggesting that the people in that election were all voting illegally because…

I am glad to comment for a minute and then yield here for a colloquy with my friends because I think why we are here tonight is to stand on the floor of the House of Representatives in defense of this institution and criticizing…

I rise today to point out something that I think is pretty obvious around here, and that is the President was here earlier this year asking that this House deliver a campaign finance reform bill to him by July 4. We did not do it. We have…

I say to the Members, hey, wake up and smell the coffee. What do Members think this program is all about? Members sit there and watch television, where Juan Valdez is wandering around the supermarket selling Colombian coffee, where the…

What? There is a restrictive use because you might measure the weather, because you might measure the rainfall?

I just disagree with the author of this amendment that the way of getting there is to rob Peter to pay Paul. I think when we rob an educational account to pay for a medical account we have no gain. However, as I am certain you will find…

Mr. Chairman, I think this debate is an appropriate kind of debate but not necessarily comparing AmeriCorps with the veterans. I think we all support both. The irony is that the gulf war veterans may have sons or daughters that are in…

Name one single property right issue that is violated by naming this as a biosphere.

I will give a very clear answer to the gentleman's question. The U.S. Constitution protects us on a takings issue, and most constitutions, including that of the State of California, protect us on a takings issue. There is absolutely no…

I rise in favor of this bill with the amendment, accept that because it is essentially a bottom-up process and we all got here from local government, and this is where people who live on the land take care of it, both sides of the issue…

We have a clear choice to continue along with cutting out the nuclear arsenal that the Soviet Union has built up. It would be foolish not to continue dismantling that. This program is the cooperative threat for reduction. It funds support…

I think that America believes and understands that it may be the land masses of the world that separate the peoples, but it is the oceans that bring us together. I co-authored the reauthorization of the Sea Grant program basically because…

I offer this amendment which essentially maintains the Sea Grant International Program authorization without limitation on the countries with which we can collaborate through the year 2000. We are now becoming more and more aware of how…

I support H.R. 1420, because: it clarifies that the mission of the refuge system, first and foremost, is to conserve fish and wildlife, with wildlife dependent recreation and education secondary, and other uses as its lowest priority; it…

I want people to take a look at what they are being asked to do. They are being asked to vote for a bill and the title of the bill is the International Dolphin Conservation Program Act. Now, what it is all about is the strength of American…

We are very blessed in this country to be surrounded by oceans and pay a lot of attention to it, but we really do not pay enough attention because the seas of the world are important to keep us alive. This is a water planet, we are, 78…

Mr. Chairman, we are here as lawmakers. I will not disagree with anything that has been said by the previous speakers, but I think they have failed to read the law that they are asking the Members to adopt. That law as it comes to the…

Today is National Tourist Appreciation Day, and this week is National Tourism Week. It is time to reflect that travel and tourism in America is our largest service export industry, the second largest employer in the United States and the…

Mr. Chairman, let us think about it for a minute. We would think that there was never a disaster in America before the Endangered Species Act. That act was adopted when Nixon was President in 1972. We wait until 1997 to get up and say that…

OK. Mr. Chairman, on my own time, the issue raised here is whether this amendment really does anything to the bill. Remember, we are dealing with the issue of flood control projects. Flood control and the purpose of flood control is to…

I appreciate that explanation. My point that I made to the gentleman from California was that I think the bill goes far beyond what he originally intended, because it goes into projects that are greater than levees. It goes into dredging…

82 years ago there began one of the most tragic events in modern history: the persecution of the Armenian population of Ottoman turkey, which led to the death or deportation of some 2 million men, women, and children--solely because of…

It is too bad we have to schedule a special order to discuss campaign finance reform. We ought to be doing this in a regular session, in a regular time, to vote on a bill, not just to talk about the bill.

Let me explain that by going back to the State that I represent, California. When I was in the California legislature we had to run for that office with very tough rules in the State, disclosure rules. Essentially those rules have been…

I am an author of one of the proposals for campaign finance reform, and I am not going to dwell on my particular bill. But I am going to point out that we certainly need to address this problem. The American public heard the President…