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today the New York Times ran a very interesting article but a very sad article. It is entitled ``U.S. Overpaid $2.3 Billion Last Year'' in Medicare and it reads: ``In the first comprehensive audit of Medicare, Federal investigators said…
Mr. Chairman, in these difficult times when we are trying to balance the budget and establish the priorities that this body must adhere to because the American people adhere to certain priorities, those priorities will fall time and time…
Mr. Chairman, I want to very briefly identify with the remarks of my colleagues. This has less to do with the United Nations, but it has more to do with the fact that we as Congressmen must abide by the constitutional responsibilities that…
the 1998 appropriations bill will fund the reconstruction of 160 miles of damaged Forest Service roads. Through the purchaser credits program an additional 2,000 miles of roads will be reconstructed. Reconstruction will protect riparian…
I just want to make it perfectly clear and back up what the gentleman from Alaska [Mr. Young] said, that this issue has far less to do with the forest health and jobs. What the debate from the gentleman from California [Mr. Miller] was…
H.R. 1119 provides funding to continue the development of field emission, full color, high resolution flat panel display technology for military applications. It also provides funding to the Army for integration of that technology into the…
Our soldiers need dependable, high resolution flat panel technology in order to display the rapidly growing quantity of battlefield information. These displays are an essential interface between man and machine to permit rapid, efficient…
one of the reasons for America's strength and her rise in economic ability is because of the wise use of her rivers and waterways for irrigation, travel, recreation, power, flood control, and all other uses. Mr. Speaker, through the wise…
H.R. 1019 provides for a boundary adjustment and land conveyance involving the Raggeds Wilderness, White River National Forest in Colorado, to correct the effects of earlier erroneous land surveys. This bill is identical to legislation…
Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1439 introduced by the gentleman from California [Mr. Doolittle] of the committee authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to sell 35 acres in the Tahoe National Forest to Placer County, CA, for the purpose of creating a…
H.R. 1020 adjusts the boundaries of the White River National Forest to include all national forest system lands within Summit County, CO, which are currently part of the Dillon Ranger District of the Arapaho National Forest. The White…
I thought this was a House that put together laws that represented the people. I thought there was a phrase once said that laws were to be made of the people, by the people, and for the people. It seems that this debate is trying to tilt…
The Boehlert amendment simply codifies into law that which is already being used by rules and regulations, and it is not working. The issue is, when are we going to put humans and human property above the lives of a beetle or a snail or…
I just experienced my mother passing away. And you know, it is very interesting that, while this was a tragedy in our personal life, there was a silver lining to this cloud; and that was the discovery of hospice. While this Nation has…
I come forward today to express my strong support for a bipartisan alternative to President Clinton's resolution. The President's resolution will release an additional $123 million for population control programs for fiscal year 1997…
Mr. Chairman, term limits are what we need to give government back to the people. Limiting the service of Members of Congress will result in new people with better and more innovative ideas who have been out in the real world working hard…
there are few people in this Congress that I have more respect for than the chairman of the House Resources Committee, Don Young, and some of the other hardworking members of the Committee. But I must oppose this so-called Presidio…
when President Clinton vetoed H.R. 1833, the Partial-Birth Abortion Act, he claimed he was trying to protect women's health. The President was distorting the truth. Medical facts show the President's claim to be completely false. Mr…
I want to quickly clarify my position. If the President puts our sons and daughters in harm's way and under the United Nations control, he must get congressional authorization. Chairman Spence's manager's amendment does clarify that and…
2 weeks ago, the Department of Health and Human Services released a shocking report on teenage drug use. Here are some of the findings: Overall drug use for 12- to 17-year-olds, from 1992 to 1995 is up 78 percent; marijuana use up 105…
I am often asked by women in my district if there is a glass ceiling in this Congress for women who serve here, and I tell them no, there is not a glass ceiling as far as I am concerned. I tell them that I am reminded of Fred Astaire and…
2 weeks ago Bill Clinton and his liberal partners held a stand for children. Now, this march was to demonstrate their commitment to instilling values in America's children and to focus the Nation's attention on the need to raise moral…
This issue is not an issue that is antiwoman. I am a freshman woman, and I want the Record to show that this is not an antiwoman issue. This issue is plain and simple. This is an issue that asks the question do we want Federal taxpayers'…
in what has been called a desperate distraction of men uncomfortable with women in the workplace, two Democrat male Members of Congress verbally assulted two female congressional aides yesterday in a committee hearing. What was the reason…
Mr. Speaker, it is with a fair degree of hesitation that I rise in opposition to this bill, not that I am not fully committed in my opposition to this bill, but because of my deep and abiding respect for the chairman, the gentleman from…
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