C. W. Bill Young

We are in a position now that we are dealing with the White House. And we finally, just a few minutes ago, got an offer from the White House. The gentleman can stand there and raise his voice all he wants. We just got the offer from the…

I take the time to support the bill and to urge a very strong vote for the bill. But I wanted primarily to applaud the chairman, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Regula), for having led this subcommittee through some very difficult times…

Give us 81 more Republicans than there are Democrats, and we will show you a real whirlwind of activity here.

Mr. Speaker, an earlier speaker had mentioned that this bill was $2 billion over the original House bill. I think there was a mistake in addition or subtraction. Because the House bill that we passed on March 30 was $12.7 billion. This…

I would just make this one point, that I think all of us who pay any attention to baseball understand that we cannot go from home plate to home plate. We have to go to first base first, and then we go to second, and then we go to third…

I would refer all of the Members of the House to the adverse report that the Committee on Appropriations did report on H.R. 853, which would have created this lock box. It is a very good description of why it is not workable.

As the gentleman is well aware, he and I read every word and every comma of each report. I have not seen the name Mr. Lextra ever, and I doubt the gentleman from Wisconsin has.

Well, I understand what the gentleman is saying and, as I said earlier, all of the time so far on this bill has been spent on the amendments from your side. So there would obviously be time required on our side to offer amendments, but I…

I believe that the funds that go into a trust fund for a specific purpose should be protected and should be used by that trust fund only for those purposes. By the same token, I am strongly of the opinion that the trust fund or the…

I said directly to the President, ``Mr. President, there are budgetary problems for fiscal year 2000 because of the 1997 budget agreement that put caps on our spending at $17 billion less than it was the year before.'' And I said, ``Mr…

A question: Is the gentleman aware that just a month ago in the supplemental we did add an additional $600 million over and above all the budgetary figures? So we are not ignoring the plight of the farmer. We are trying to expedite this…

Let me explain where we are here. The House expedited the consideration of that first supplemental, and I will concede there has been some undue delay in going to conference on that bill. I want the Members to know it is not the fault of…

I support the Clinton Administration's request for $6 billion to stop Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic's campaign of terror, but I cannot support the $12 billion funding package proposed in H.R. 1664. The U.S. role in NATO must be…

I am not so much concerned about history as I am the young Americans who are serving in uniform, those in the Army and the Navy and the Air Force and the Marine Corps and the Coast Guard who go to war when America goes to war. Those are…

I support the realistic approach of the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Livingston) to this whole issue dealing with Section 907.

We agree that the Department of Defense should follow the law and obey the law. We appreciate the gentleman calling this to the attention of the House. We accept the amendment.

I hope the gentleman knows that we do support this program, despite the fact that it was not included in the President's budget. We did provide some $11 million for the program. We intend to support this program in conference. ... I…

I am going to support with enthusiasm the Traficant amendment. To lose the war against drugs is tragic, but to surrender to the war on drugs without even launching a fight is just inexcusable. I think that while it might be different than…

I wanted to thank him for reading from James Madison. That is what I was trying to say, but I would have to admit and concede that James Madison said it far more eloquently than I did. But we are saying the same thing. Congress and the…

What I was trying to say was the gentleman stood there just a few minutes ago and said no one came to the floor to talk about any weapons systems that were terminated or cancelled or stopped. That is not true. Because just a few minutes…

As the gentleman and I have discussed earlier, we are happy to accept this amendment as we did last year, and the new issue that he raises I think is a legitimate issue. We would be more than happy to address it during the conference.

As the gentleman knows, in each of the last 4 years, the subcommittee has supported additional funding to maintain the full fleet of B-52's. But I am sure that he is also aware that the Senate has included additional funds to keep all 94…

I would say that we agree completely with what this amendment is trying to accomplish. We do have a little concern about how this language might fit in with the President's signing of the bill. But we do appreciate the gentleman making…

My suggestion is, and it is something that I suggested earlier, that we set a specific amount of time, have it managed and controlled by the proponents and the opponents, so we can get to the end of this debate sometime today.

Every year since 1987, the VA medical and prosthetics research appropriation has been supplemented by funds transferred to the VA under a cooperative agreement between the DOD and the Department of Veterans Affairs. The DOD-VA cooperative…