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Mr. Skelton, thank you so much. You have been such a good friend over the years. And I also would be remiss if I did not thank Mr. Ortiz, Solomon Ortiz. He and I have been teammates leading the Readiness Committee but before that leading…
there is an old saying in the gentleman from Texas' home State, when you have struck oil, stop drilling. And you have struck oil here, and we are not objecting. Trying to take care of our veterans in the best way we possibly can is not a…
I come from cattle country out in Colorado. I can tell you that one of the things that has gotten our cattle producers worked up more than anything in recent times is this animal identification program. They are very, very worried about…
I thank you very much. I thank you, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Skelton and Mr. Ortiz for the very kind words. You kind of went over the top when you said I was the best rodeo cowboy. The truth is I was and still am a rodeo cowboy, still enter some…
I won't belabor the point any more, except to just simply say there was a lot of good opportunity here, I think, to really strengthen the ethics process. And I know there are some who would like to do a commission to that again. The ethics…
I will keep my hands up here where you can see them. Mr. Chairman, I have enormous respect for you and the committee, and you know that I do. But I am not happy with this rule. And I am not happy with this rule because I think it doesn't…
You said one side of the aisle is not interested in the Ethics Committee proceeding and working. There is enough blame to go around, I have to say. Both sides of the aisles have fouled this process up now. And we need to work together to…
I just lost my $5 here. I don't want to take any more time because I know this is going to, we need to go ahead and get on with this thing. But I think we do have a serious opportunity here to do some really good things. And there are some…
a reporter from a major news organization in the United States who is now stationed in Iraq made the statement the other day that if he wrote a single story that was positive about what was going on in Iraq, he would have to fight with his…
I apologize for interrupting the progress here. I know all of us want to move forward and conclude as early as possible today. I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to Mr. Walsh for working with the authorizing committee so well…
we have just heard from two giants of this body, men that we are all very, very proud of. If we had any sense, we would all sit down right now and take the vote; and I will give up my time if everybody else will give up theirs, and we will…
this bill attempts to right a great wrong. The Supreme Court's June 23 ruling in the case of Kelo v. the City of New London struck at the heart of American liberties, effectively eliminating the pursuit of happiness or property as a basic…
reclaiming my time, we did, following the introduction of the BRAC process, but we did close that. But we basically do not have the power to do that, because if I have the power to close Mr. Skelton's base, he might vote to close my base…
I do not intend to take 2 minutes, but I just wanted to say that in committee the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Andrews) introduced this amendment. I thought it was an excellent amendment and that we ought to follow through on it. We had…
I would just encourage an ``aye'' vote on this amendment. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Hefley). The question was taken…
Madam Speaker, once again we find the Boy Scouts of America under attack from the American Civil Liberties Union. This time the ACLU has set its sights on the Department of Defense, challenging its longstanding support of the Boy Scouts…
I rise in support of H.R. 4837, the Fiscal Year 2005 Military Construction Appropriations Act. As is the usual practice, each project appropriated in this bill was authorized by the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act. In…
let me correct just one thing. The gentleman makes a very good argument. By the way, we should have dealt with this at budget time; there is no question about that. The way this amendment is crafted, it does not reduce high-priority…
I rise again to offer an amendment to cut the level of funding in this appropriations bill by 1 percent. This equals about $5.6 million. This is not the biggest bill that we deal with. However, the increase in the bill is over 3 percent…
I do rise today to offer an amendment to reduce the budget for the Census Bureau by approximately $174 million. And the reason for that is that this is a particular thing, and let me read from the bill. $173,806,000 is for the reengineered…
I rise today, as so many others have, to pay tribute to one of our Nation's finest sons and political leaders. Former President Ronald Reagan is worthy of respect and admiration both as a man and world leader, and his passing this weekend…
today the U.S. military is deployed around the world in support of the war against terrorism, the efforts to rebuild Afghanistan and Iraq, and defense of the American homeland and U.S. interests abroad. H.R. 4200, the National Defense…
Few things boast morale in a war zone more than receiving a card, a letter, or a care package from a loved one from back home. And, unfortunately, as more and more men and women in uniform are deployed in support of operations in…
let me tell my colleagues this is a good bill. This recognizes needs that have gone unmet for in some cases seems like generations, and I am not going to go through and describe the bill in its totality because other speakers have done it…
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