Michael Castle

I think that the Homeowners Protection Act is just good common sense protection for homeowners across the United States of America to protect them when they have paid down their private mortgage insurance sufficiently so that there is…

In accordance with the responsibilities placed on Congress by the Constitution, I support House Resolution 581 to authorize the Judiciary Committee to conduct an inquiry to determine whether the actions of the President of the United…

I hope the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Barrett], who is one of our most distinguished members, will consider filling that, and we appreciate his kind words today. We do believe this is good legislation, we do believe the interests are…

We do need, as has been indicated, a multistate surveillance system. We do need case control studies and we do need a biological test of human exposure. Here is the basic problem. So far we have been dealing with this issue as States, been…

Let me reclaim the few seconds that are left. I believe in the case of responsible parents in most instances we are going to find those children are never going to go to any of these clinics or receive that advice, they are going to go to…

May I say as strongly as I can, Mr. Chairman, that it is not the intent of the committee to allow the corps to move ahead with the plan for the demolition of the St. Georges Bridge. In the bill we are considering today, there are no funds…

I am clear that if we pass the budget enforcement mechanisms here that we are going to have better protection of the programs, such as Social Security, than if we do not. We are facing crises in Social Security sometime in the near future…

Very briefly, this is an important point. I understand from talking to the chairman that the community work that we are talking about is very open-ended in terms of what it is. Is it work or is it volunteerism or whatever it may be. It may…

My amendment provides for greater disclosure of franked mass mail costs than is currently provided. It requires that the statement, ``this mass mailing was prepared, published and mailed at taxpayer expense'' be printed on each mass…

Mr. Speaker, the next bill of this series is H.R. 2026, a bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint 100,000 $5 gold coins in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the death of George Washington. The beneficiaries of this…

I admire the Agriculture Committee chairman greatly, but the Castle-Tanner bill requires all able-bodied food stamp recipients to work within 6 months of receiving benefits. Unlike the Republican leadership bill, Castle-Tanner does not…

I would like to thank the head of the Committee on House Oversight for what I think is an extraordinary job of dealing with this issue of franked mail. I think we really have in a bipartisan way responsible addressed this particular issue…

I want to ensure that well-run housing authorities are rewarded for running fiscally sound and physically safe housing facilities. Mr. Chairman, will changes made in the funding process reflect this goal?

I worry a little bit when I read in the press that some of the leadership here in both houses and even the White House are beginning to say, ``I do not think we can get to a balanced budget.'' I certainly have not given up on that. I think…

The costs; I think satellites have a tremendous place in intelligence and security for this country. On the other hand we all know that the cost of satellites and the whole space costs are tremendous, and I think we have to work diligently…

I will be brief, but I could not support this colloquy more, and all Members should. Mr. Chairman, this panel has ultimately set goals for America which are extraordinary. The Governors support it. It is across all of the States. Just…

But the bottom line was it was a deceptive approach to how that motion to recommit was handled. Maybe we have problems with motions to recommit, maybe they need to be filed sooner, maybe we need to have a longer time in order to digest…

We attempted to find a number in which the local communities would be involved but would not be such a high hurdle that they could not do it. And after a lot of discussions with a lot of local officials, we came out with a number of 10…

The answer is it is a cash match. It is not an in-kind match in any way whatsoever.