Victor Fazio

I have been reading the gentleman's amendment, and I think that I can come up with a number of phrases that would apparently be permitted but which, under his amendment, would be very questionable. Think of words like ``Think Joe Smith''…

I think it makes a bad proposal less bad, but I understand that the gentleman has the votes on his side, so I certainly will not oppose it. In fact, I encourage him to offer it. But I do think that when we begin to think about those things…

Does this make them permanent in their status if they served and then leave the service, or do they lose their right to vote after they have left military service?

Now, Mr. Chairman, if the gentleman will continue to yield, as I remember the gentleman's comments from that earlier debate, he was also talking about people who were taxpayers, as many legal residents are, who are not citizens.

I think this is a very, very difficult concept to administer, and let me give my colleagues some examples as to how difficult it would be. If a Member is from Kansas City, Missouri, this places a much higher value on funds they would raise…

Mr. Chairman, I want to ask the author of the amendment if he would explain to me what is different from existing laws. As I understand it, we have always required that every President, going back as far as I can remember, reimburse part…

There may be another approach taken, if the gentlewoman will yield further, that I have not mentioned but still a way in which these growers would not be discriminated against vis-a-vis other agricultural producers?

It is my understanding that crop insurance was not part of the legislation when it passed these individual Houses and was added simply on the same basis that the food stamp provision was. There is some inconsistency.

In addition, if I could ask of the leader, the Speaker has promised a vote on campaign finance reform by the end of March. I note that we have what appear to be four individual bills; I do not know the content of all of them. But is this…

Mr. Speaker, I am very sad that this House and this Nation has lost a decent, caring and thoughtful Member. Walter Capps ran for Congress and won for all the right reasons. He stood for something. He cared passionately about issues. He was…

Mr. Speaker, Walter Capps had a keen intellect. He had a kind heart, and, most of all, he had a gentle soul. I know we will all miss Walter. But for me, my service in Congress will never be exactly the same, because Walter was my friend.

This is not a personal attack on Bob Dornan. This is the result of Bob Dornan's career and reading of the voters of Orange County, CA.

I am concerned that this conference is going to engage in some fundamental changes not only in the Medicare law----

I wonder why the gentleman is concerned about a recorded vote on something everyone has just agreed to.

I would like to inquire a bit about reconciliation and the tax bill. It has been my understanding and I think the understanding of many Members that we were going to have separate votes on the reconciliation package and the tax package…

My concern is not so much with the Department of Veterans Affairs as it is with the Congress. Do we have to take action within the next year and 3 months in order to bring about the immediate appropriation of that fund, and if we do not…

I would simply say, before briefly yielding to my friend from New York, that the Senate voted 96 to 1 to support the troops. That is all we are talking about. We are not talking about the need for better consultation or any further action…

It seems to me totally inappropriate for us to allow events that may be taking place even as we speak to get in the way of an effort to resolve as a group, bipartisanly, that we want to support the American men and women who are engaged in…

The gentleman indicated that this Republican bill bans soft money. I think that is a gross misstatement. The bill does not change existing law as to how soft money would be transferred among committees, nor does it limit it, but it does…

Let me conclude simply by saying that I think we are talking about research and development. This is not a bail-out for developers, it is research and development in other areas of solar energy.

I am sure that was not really the intent of the gentlewoman. The concern, obviously, is great, but I would not want to typify it as anything more than a disagreement on policy.

I concur. I think this is a 1- year effort to surround this funding for purposes of Member investment in computerization, telecommunications, simply because I do not think the CAO has spent his money wisely. But I agree with the gentleman…

I want to maintain, very clearly, that the minority is very anxious to participate in the discussions, whether we take them up as a package or individually, and we look forward to providing an alternative. I want to find out from the…

I think the key is to come up with a definition of dead and dying trees that would warrant a salvage operation. The gentleman from California had proposed, for example, 70 percent. If we had that kind of clarity in the law, then we would…