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Mr. Speaker, this rule, although touted by the good chairman of the Committee on Rules, as exemplifying yet another instance of reform is this place, really is belied in that regard. It is yet another example of cover and camouflage with…
I would like to return for a few minutes to this 13-page piece of legislation that is buried in the Labor, Health, and Education appropriation bill that the House will be taking up shortly. It is labeled political advocacy, and it is…
Bosnia is a profound tragedy, a political, a moral, a military, a human tragedy. The brutality and depravity of Serbian aggression not only murders innocent Bosnian civilians, it defies the ability of words to express our outrage and…
actually, this goes even farther and includes some of the groups that the gentleman from California mentioned. Now, it would not affect defense contractors, for instance, but the way I read it, somebody getting Burec water at a subsidized…
this amendment would move $5 million from the operation maintenance account dealing with, in particular, travel, and shift that $5 million into the account for intelligence community management. Mr. Chairman, the purpose is to provide…
later this week the House will take up consideration of the appropriations bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education. I want to call my colleagues' attention to the fact that not included in this…
this amendment would add into the weatherization program the available monies now existing underneath our 602(b) allocation budget authority of about $3.5 million that has been freed up by virtue of earlier amendments adopted this evening…
I support this, especially in connection with the Mt. Evans area in Colorado. There the State has been working with the forest Service to try to reach an agreement for sharing some of the management responsibilities there, including fee…
I am afraid that the new Republican majority in the House is carrying out what is in effect a sneak attack on public health, on environmental protection and on our national park system, among other things. Following the unfortunate example…
Mr. Chairman, I rise in vehement opposition to this year's Interior appropriations bill (H.R. 1977). By slashing the amount of money the Nation spends on protecting various species and their environment, this bill will set back many of the…
This amendment would add a modest amount, $146 million, in order to partially correct a serious mistake in this bill. That mistake is a reduction in funding for the Energy Department's environmental management program--the program to clean…
I understand and share the Chairman's interest in promoting greater efficiency in this area, DOE. As the gentleman knows, the department has taken some important steps itself. I hope the chairman would agree with me that while greater…
I simply disagree with the way the gentleman characterizes the ultimate impact of what he is proposing. I think it really would be a default to the executive on the powers that we must hold. I think the gentleman makes a good argument for…
Mr. Chairman, I have great respect for the gentleman from Illinois and believe that he has offered what is almost a good amendment. In a debate like this about one of the most significant powers that the Constitution grants to the…
the Oklahoma City bombing has left Americans looking for ways to prevent other terrorist assaults on innocent victims. One thing Congress can do is refuse to let the gun lobby blow away the landmark gun control laws passed during the 103d…
one further point I think needs to be made on this. During the debate on opening day, it was touted that this rules change was remedial in nature. It was to be viewed expansively as remedying a propensity of the House that needed to be…
Four trillion eight hundred seventy-three billion, four hundred eighty-one million dollars. That is the Federal debt. And we should be doing all we can to keep it from growing. The tax cut we are debating this afternoon will explode the…
today the Democratic Study Group released it second report on the real meaning of the Republicans' so-called contract. The report describes the way the Republican tax bill--the so-called crown jewel of the contract--will result in an…
anyone needing evidence that the Republican Contract on America is a public health accident waiting to happen need only look at a recent study on the effects of air pollution. The news in the study, the most comprehensive ever, is that…
I would like to commend to all Members of the House a striking series of articles from the Los Angeles Times. They provide a poignant rejoinder to current House Republican doctrine that we can somehow cut school lunch and breakfast…
last Thursday the House Appropriations Committee met for 6 or 7 hours to prepare for floor action a bill that will cut some $17 billion from this year's appropriations. It is a lot of money. It can easily pass as merely a statistic in the…
Mr. Chairman, this bill might be better known as the National Security Retribution Act instead of the National Security Revitalization Act. It is a travesty of sound defense policy, wasting tens of billions of dollars on a revived star…
is the issue Henry Foster's nomination to be Surgeon General? No, that is not the real issue. What is really going on? This nomination has become the battle ground over abortion rights. President Clinton could not have put it better…
Yesterday 15 Members of this body, including myself, 6 private citizens, and the League of Women Voters filed a lawsuit to overturn as unconstitutional the new House rule requiring a supermajority of three-fifths to pass any legislation…
Mr. Chairman, the question is, majority rule, or minority rule? This is my voting card. Each of us is privileged to possess one of these. We worked hard for it. It represents a sacred trust, not just between us and our constituents, but…
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