Joel Hefley

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…

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…

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…

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 to support H.R. 1588, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004. We are a Nation engaged in an ongoing global war on terrorism. American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are deployed all over the world in…

A children's health agency has reportedly diverted Federal funds to a study of the sexual predilections of aging men. Now, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development has provided more than $137,000 for a 3-year study to…

Let me just say, I am sorry about the procedure, but this bill has been sitting in these two committees for 2 years. We have a fire season coming up again, and we need to focus all the assets we can. When we have a war and when we have a…

I have an amendment in here that is trying to get rid of the bureaucratic difficulty we have of getting firefighting assets of the Air Force Reserve focused on a fire early on. The law right now, as it is being interpreted, says that you…

I rise in support of that House Resolution 495 which calls for the expulsion of Representative James A. Traficant, Jr. [...] These counts involved findings that Mr. Traficant engaged in the following acts that did not reflect credibly on…

I am aware we could do a reach-back amendment and do it later. However, I would rather do it now, when it is closer to the actual subject matter, than trying to amend it into the total of the overall bill. This would relate directly to…

The Forest Service tells us that they are $5 million short of being able to do the kind of program that is needed to meet the need. This would put $4 million of that $5 million in it. At the same time, it would not in any way destroy the…

I live in Colorado Springs and we love Fort Carson on the outskirts of Colorado Springs. It has a live-fire range and we are continually working to make sure that we do not build up around that live-fire range and impinge upon it, because…

Frankly I was outraged when President Clinton issued that executive order revoking President Reagan's historic executive order on federalism issued in 1987. President Reagan's executive order provided many protections for and reflected…

The gentleman may be absolutely right. It may be able to be worded much better, but if he and I believe the same thing, that we do not want a standing army, the way for us to assure that is to let this amendment go ahead and progress. I…

What this does is it removes the waiver system under which what happened did happen so no missile-related technology could be transferred to the Chinese.

H.R. 1522 modifies the existing Secretarial review of nominations to the National Historic Register as an option of appeal, rather than a mandatory stage in the nominating process as it currently exists, which speaks to what you just spoke…

I think we share the same kind of goals. You have had a very bad experience with it, and I think a lot of us have. We want to make it work right. We do not want to throw it out, because I think it does have merit, but I want it to work.

There is all kinds of pending out there that by the time we get through, it will change form many times. But by the time this amendment is ratified, we will have far more than enough time to do whatever the gentleman wants to do with the…

I think we were all absolutely dumbfounded when the President chose to veto these particular bills. Let me sum it up again. All of these projects would address validated requirements of the military services. We did not invent any of these…

I share the concerns that my colleague has raised and will work with the committee, and with him, and with the gentlewoman from California [Ms. Pelosi] to ensure an appropriate cleanup for the Presidio. We have this problem with a number…

In September of 1994, a nonprofit corporation in Alabama was awarded a $750,000 grant to create a revolving loan fund, and the community matching funds were to be $1 million, and the $1 million never showed up. The Inspector General…

Another provision that I am concerned about in the bill, it allows the Secretary of Transportation to obligate funds for runway construction even if the Committee on Appropriations has specifically prohibited the runway from being built…

I appreciate that provision and the improved safety it will result in, but I was concerned that reliever airports which do not intend to fly planes with over nine passengers may be forced to apply for certification. A provision has been…