C. W. Bill Young

Mr. Chairman, last year a similar bill was introduced. The Committee on Appropriations asked that it be referred to the committee, and, after thorough consideration, we reported the bill with a negative recommendation. Some of the things…

I have a great difference with the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Gekas), as he said this is what the American people want. They want the status quo. Well, I do not believe that. The reason I do not believe that is that every Member in…

Mr. Chairman, I want to agree with the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Paul) that this is not an insignificant amendment. This is a major amendment. But here is what it does. It waves the white flag of surrender in the war against the drug lords…

Mr. Speaker, unlike my friend and colleague, the previous speaker, I am going to support this rule. We need to get this rule passed. We need to get this supplemental on the floor, and we need to get it down to the other body so that then…

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…

Mr. Speaker, I know there is a little confusion here today about which bill we are considering. We are considering actually a continuing resolution, and we are not continuing the several bills that the gentleman who just spoke had referred…

it has not been easy because of a small majority. And the 1997 budget accord which the gentleman from Wisconsin did not have to deal with, either, because he was Chairman before the 1997 budget agreement has not made it easy. But we made…

I want the Members of the Congress to know that we are getting our job done. When we pass the next bill today, we will have sent all 13 appropriation bills to the President, along with the two supplementals that the President had asked…

I had not intended to get into this give and take on the political argument, but I listened to this rhetoric about the farm emergencies, and let me tell you what the truth is, and here is the paperwork, the documentation that proves it…

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…

Mr. Speaker, I listened with great interest to my friend from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey), the ranking member on the Committee on Appropriations, and I agree with him that the wholesale use of the emergency designation would not be too smart, but…

Mr. Chairman, I wanted to say to the gentleman from North Carolina (Chairman Taylor) that he has done a really fine job on this bill. I was able to spend some time with the gentleman as he went through this process, and this is his first…

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…

Mr. Chairman, the bill we bring to the floor today was approved by the Committee on Appropriations just last week. The bill is designed to meet the emergency requirements of the War in Kosovo and to provide for other readiness-related…

Mr. Chairman, one of the big arguments here today seems to be the fact that the Congress is recommending more funding for our national defense capabilities than the President asked for. Well, the President's record on estimating the length…

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 continue my opposition to the amendment. The House has already voted on this issue. Every Member has had a chance to be recorded, and I think all of us agree that we would hope American ground troops would not be deployed anywhere unless…

This bill is a true, clean national defense bill that provides what the national defense establishment needs to protect our Nation and to protect our troops. The only partisanship that I have heard in this debate today has come from that…

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 was interested in listening to the minority leader's statement about agriculture, and I want to remind the Members that when we were developing the first supplemental that we dealt with, when we received that initial supplemental request…

We are dealing with a true emergency in Central America. Immediately upon recognizing the result of Hurricane Mitch, American armed forces were sent to Central America, and they did a tremendous humanitarian job. They saved lives. They…

reclaiming my time, I must respond that offsetting spending when we are trying to balance the Federal budget is not stupid. When we have a national debt that has debt service that is equal to or exceeds what we invest in our only national…

I am saddened by this day because we are saying an official farewell to a very dear friend and a very distinguished Member of this House, and the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Livingston) and I have served together on the Committee on…

I want to say first that it has been a real honor to serve as a Member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, this term for 8 years and in the previous term for 6 years, and to be entrusted with some of the most critical…