John Chenoweth

I am happy to come before the House to express my strong support for S. 538, the Burley Irrigation District Conveyance Act, sponsored by my Senate colleagues, Senator Craig and Senator Kempthorne. S. 538 also resembles H.R. 1282, a bill…

as my colleagues know, education is a perfect example of an issue where liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans disagree. For a liberal Democrat education is about one thing and one thing only. It is more money, more money, more…

the Treasury Department will announce that the Federal budget is in surplus for the first time since 1969. Only 2 short years ago the President of the United States submitted a budget with a $200 billion deficit, as far as the eye can see…

I rise in great support of the Istook amendment. The tendency in these days is to interfere with that very precious relationship between parents and children... fully 66 percent of those polled said that they believed that parental…

Mr. Speaker, I am very happy to rise in support of House Resolution 144 submitted by my colleague, the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Bereuter). This resolution would express congressional support for the bicentennial of the Louis and Clark…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1659, introduced by the gentlewoman from Washington (Mrs. Smith) directs the Secretary of the Interior to fulfill a 1982 statutory requirement that the Federal Government acquire private lands and minerals within the…

I just want to say that this has been a distinct privilege for me to be able to help manage this bill through the floor. This Member lived on the Clearwater River close to Ahsahka, Idaho, where Lewis and Clark traveled on that waterway…

I rise right now in wholehearted support for H.R. 4166, a bill to amend the Idaho Admission Act. The most important commodity that we have, Mr. Speaker, is our Nation's children. By providing our children with the best possible education…

the liberals tell us that we should trust our national security to a piece of paper: the ABM treaty. It is a treaty with a country that no longer exists. The liberals are convinced that America will be safe with this piece of paper, but…

My concern is, is just keeping promises. The fact is, we have over $4 billion in new spending on HUD and EPA and CEQ, but we are not expending one new, thin dime in veterans' health care. The fact is that there will be about 3,413,000 new…

Madam Speaker, I wanted to address a point by the previous speaker about the fact that the Texas law preserves the right of a woman to more children; that is a higher choice than right to the life of a matured child yet in its mother's…

I find myself opposing the demonstration fee program, and having to find myself on the opposite side of my own Chairman. However, the fact is that I think that we have had sufficient time to see how the demonstration fee program is really…

Mr. Chairman, one of the oldest tactics of argument is the shotgun approach. In debate, they bombard their opposition with a flurry of arguments in the hopes that somewhere along the line one of their points will ring true. In football, an…

What are we afraid of? As my colleagues know, I trust the American people to make the right decision when they are well-informed. I have faith in my fellow citizens, and I urge my colleagues to vote for the Doolittle amendment. Do not…

as my colleagues know, it may seem odd that I would be standing up here supporting the Doolittle bill because I can tell my colleagues this Congressman, as a candidate, had millions and millions of dollars of negative campaign ads targeted…

I believe we should have truth in advertising in everything that is put across the airwaves, but the Shays-Meehan bill does not address that. So we need to leave it to the voters and their great discretion.

let me remind Members again of their views on free speech and healthy campaigns and a healthy democracy. They said it right here. They say, we cannot have both. And what we are hearing today in this amendment is, we peel off free speech…

it seems very clear to me, we have been trying to put the solution in the hands of the bureaucrats instead of letting the solutions rest with the well-informed electorate. When the electorate understands who is trying to give an inordinate…

H.R. 3520 is a rather simple but very important piece of legislation. With this bill, 88 acres of land is placed under one jurisdiction, that of the U.S. Forest Service. Additionally and more importantly, this bill fulfills a long-standing…

I do not think anyone in this body would want to see us reach that result. Douglas went on to write that ``We are a religious people and our institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. When the State encourages religious instruction or…

With the passage of H.R. 2604, there is no opportunity to have the Federal Government define tithes or to place a floor or a limit on the amount of tithes that a parishioner can give to his or her church.

Lastly, Mr. Speaker, in solving this problem between churches and the bankruptcy courts, we are not intending the Federal Government to be involved in any way in overriding scripture or taking away the autonomy and the free exercise of…

And, Mr. Speaker, it is my understanding of the intent of H.R. 2604 that we are not including churches in the same legal classifications as 501(c)(3)s, which are an artificial creation of the State, while the churches are a creation of…

H.R. 1021, introduced by the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Scott McInnis), authorizes an exchange of approximately 84 acres within the Routt National Forest for approximately 84 acres of private land known as the Miles parcel, which is…