David Skaggs

this amendment deals with what I suspect was really a drafting error, back in title II of the bill, having to do with the estimates that are required to be prepared by agencies pursuant to the new authorities in this legislation…

Mr. Chairman, we are engaged in particularly serious business this evening. In the 206 years of the Republic we have amended the Constitution some 27 times. There have been over 11,000 proposals. Yes, indeed, we need to bring the Federal…

Why does it not make sense for the owners of that dirty powerplant to pay the cost of controlling emissions?

Why should that publicly owned powerplant not pay for cleaning up its own pollution?

Then you fundamentally disagree with the proposition that the polluter should pay?

I appreciate the forthcomingness of the gentleman, who makes it very clear that he fundamentally disagrees with the proposition that those who cause pollution should pay to clean it up, and he holds to his position consistently and I think…

stated very simply, this amendment would exempt clean air laws and regulations from this bill. Without this exemption, the bill, I think, will hurt the environment and actually unwittingly promote a kind of socialism in this country, a…

I would assume then that the gentleman would make no distinction between the publicly owned and the privately owned powerplant that pollutes in the Midwest?

When the gentleman from California pointed out accurately a few minutes ago that there are publicly owned powerplants in the Midwest putting out what may be found to be excessive quantities of SO<INF>2 that are affecting the quality of…

Mr. Chairman, do I understand your position correctly--and I have great regard for the gentleman from Pennsylvania--that he believes that we should have essentially a presumption here that a municipal-owned power plant or a municipal bus…

But if the gentleman would yield further, we can assume, given the evolution of the science of air quality and air pollution, that at some point this Congress will consider in the future tightened standards, and that is really what we are…

included in the House rules package prepared by the Republican Conference being voted upon today are provisions to direct the House Oversight Committee to abolish all Legislative Service Organizations [LSO's], including the Democratic…

civilization depends upon civility, and civility rests upon an implicit trust that we each abide by a shared sense of bounds, of what is within the rules. Each of us must be able to expect of the others that we will play by the rules, and…

Yes. When I first arrived here a few years ago and realized that common root with Mr. Natcher, it was something that I particularly enjoyed being able to talk to him about, because we could talk about Short Creek and Caneyville and Falls…

One further comparison: I spent a little bit of time at the University of Virginia in my student days. They still refer to Mr. Jefferson down there as if he had just gone away for the weekend. It would be nice if we could have Mr…

a broad coalition of 3 million small businesses recently stepped forward to endorse President Clinton's health care reform proposal. Why? Because right now, four out of five small businesses provide health insurance to their employees, and…

I urge my colleagues to join me today in support of H.R. 4296, the Assault Weapons Ban Act. A vote in favor of H.R. 4296 is a vote in favor of a safer and saner society that will no longer tolerate the carnage these firearms have brought…

I thank the gentleman for yielding time to me Mr. Chairman, from time to time, under the duties and obligations the Constitution gives us, we revisit one of the abiding questions of this democracy, that is, whether the Constitution itself…

as we debate the budget resolution for fiscal year 1995, I can't help but recall a similar debate that took place in this Chamber less than a year ago. At that time, much like today, a lot of predictions were being made about the effects…

the one thing that each of us raises our hand and swears to at the beginning of each Congress is to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. Yet, I would speculate that it is a document that almost none of us fully…

I am pleased to offer an amendment to H.R. 6, the Improving America's Schools Act, that I believe will send a strong message about the importance of encouraging our young people to refrain from using violence to settle their problems. My…

I am deeply troubled that we are considering this resolution to condemn the speech given by Khalid Abdul Muhammad at Kean College last November. I am troubled not because the speech does not deserve condemnation, but because that…

yes, we should be worried about a hidden cost as we debate health care reform. But it is not the one that some are talking about today. It is not an esoteric question about whether something is off or on budget. It is something much more…

some people around here are saying to our health-care system: You're really not so bad off. Take two aspirin and call me in a few years if your symptoms persist. I say the problems are more serious, and we need tougher medicine. I recently…