Daniel Schaefer

I call it revolutionary, and if we started the revolution today, I am proud of it. It is going to take people all across this country joining us in this endeavor to get this Tax Code out of our hair once and for all and go to a very…

S. 1505, the Accountable Pipeline Safety and Partnership Act of 1996 reauthorizes the Natural Gas and Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Acts both of which expired in September of last year. Natural gas and oil pipelines play a vital role in…

Mr. Speaker, last spring, Congressman Bart Stupak and I introduced H.R. 3391, the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Amendments Act of 1996. The bill's objectives are to give States more financial stability in operating their…

H.R. 2988 was introduced by the gentleman from California, Congressman McKeon, and has been endorsed by the Bipartisan Speaker's Advisory Group on Corrections. It has the support of both the majority and minority of the House Commerce…

I truly thank the gentleman from New Mexico, and it has been a great pleasure working with him on this particular situation. I do appreciate his concerns. A timely opening of WIPP is very important. It is equally critical that the facility…

Mr. Speaker, I would like specifically to address section 334 of the defense authorization conference report... I will introduce legislation next year to correct this.

this bill reauthorizes certain provisions contained in the Energy Policy and Conservation Act. Specifically, this bill assures that if there is an energy emergency during the August recess, the President's authority to drawdown the…

Mr. Chairman, I am introducing an amendment which I feel is very, very important, not just for the current generations that we have in this country but for the future generations that we have in this country. The aim of the amendment is…

Mr. Chairman, in closing my part of this, we are talking about a total budget here of $2.6 billion. We are talking about a .04 percent overall cut, $11 million out of $2.6 billion. I think for the future of our grandchildren, as has been…

I really also rise in very strong support of the Hefley amendment. I think that he is certainly on the right track as far as trying to get into some of this heavy bureaucratic money that we have and really push an environmental issue that…

I am also pleased to be an original cosponsor and encouraged that Congress has taken another step forward in fulfilling compliance by the Federal facilities in this country the same that private industry does.

as sponsor of the balanced budget amendment which passed this House last year, my concern for the financial future of our country is well known. I support a balanced Federal budget because we owe it to our children and grandchildren. It…

H.R. 2967 reauthorizes the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act, the 1978 law which has been cleaning up the radioactive contamination created by uranium milling operations. The program has been a valuable and generally successful…

I would like to urge Members to visit the Renewable Energy Expo 1996, taking place today from noon to 3 p.m. in the Cannon Caucus Room. This exhibit, being sponsored by three dozen trade associations, industry groups, and businesses…

these bills extend the deadline for construction of hydroelectric projects in the States of Illinois, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Under section 13 of the Federal Power Act, project construction must begin within 4…

H.R. 2630 as amended directs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to extend the deadline for construction of a hydroelectric project in Illinois. This 78-megawatt project would be located at an existing Corps of Engineers dam on the…

This plan will bring some commonsense to our country's product liability laws. Sadly, frivolous litigation has become a fact of American life. Too often, bringing people to court has taken the place of personal responsibility. People treat…

in my last 1 minute, I just want to make one point that has not been made at this point in time. That is, of that $100 million that we have been talking about from the sale of the 7 million barrels of oil, which by the way is in the…

Mr. Chairman, I am offering this amendment today to protect a valuable asset of this country, and that is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. This reserve has been in operation since the 1970s, and this in one case here, we are, in essence…

Reclaiming my time, the committee report on H.R. 1905 also states the Department should anticipate enactment of expanded authority to accept waste for interim storage and should refocus the civilian radioactive waste program accordingly. I…

this morning I rise in strong support of the contract version of the balanced budget amendment and that three-fifths vote requirement for tax increases. The Federal budget can and should be balanced through spending cuts and not through…

in the years I have watched this body at work, I have concluded that only a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced Federal budget will force the consensus necessary for real deficit reduction. Opponents of the amendment are pressing…

I know the gentleman understands the fact that the NRC has absolute authority over nuclear facilities, and the thing that I have been certainly concerned with is if an independent nuclear operation is moving in a different direction from…

However, with the NRC, whenever we are looking at the construction or the safety aspects of nuclear facilities throughout this country, they have certainly done a good job. We have not had one single death attributable to nuclear power in…