Cliff Stearns

Since the rule was last revised, the local media marketplace has undergone a breathtaking transformation. So I think this is important. Also, has the gentleman, the subcommittee chairman, had the opportunity to read the statement…

Further I would like to state that broadcast stations are important sources of local news, public affairs programming, and other local broadcast services. This category of service should be an important part of the public interest…

last evening the President gave his State of the Union. As I listened, I said to myself, it sounds like the Republican agenda. It is like the President has had a Damascus experience. He was reborn again. Sometimes he is reborn every 3…

I rise today, 1 day after the 23d anniversary of Roe versus Wade, many people were up here to recognize this fact, to address one of the most important and divisive moral issues our Nation faces. Abortion clearly stands as America's…

we are all concerned about our Federal workers and the need to find a way to end this shutdown. While no one wants to see this situation continue, there is an even more overwhelming concern that is being voiced by the majority of the…

I did not intend to give a 1-minute speech, but I thought I would reply to the gentleman before me, because I think he knows and I know that his party shut down the House of Representatives, shut down Congress, shut down the Government…

As we press ahead with the most important business before this Congress, strengthening Medicare, the American people need to understand just how much waste can be cut out of this program for senior citizens. Last Thursday I was home in my…

I fully endorse the concept of a lockbox and believe this is a good first step toward fulfilling our pledge to the American people. We made a promise that we will spare future generations from being asked to bear the brunt of paying for…

let me ask this question: If you asked the American people, do we need to change the way Congress works, I think you would get a large percentage that would say yes. There is another question. Shortly we are going to see on this voting…

A poll done by the Los Angeles Times in the early part of this year showed 69 percent of Americans felt the NEA should be reduced drastically. A poll done by CNN in June said 54 percent said it should be eliminated. Let me just tell the…

These are all rhetorical questions. You can use your time. You worked as hard as you could to represent a 2 percent cut as the maximum the NEA could take, The gentleman from Illinois said 1 percent was all he could accept. By golly, now…

I also am sorry that you were not able to offer the amendment because I think it is an important amendment. People in rural counties like Lake Country in Florida which is part of my congressional district often use this assistance to make…

This is about a reduction to the National Endowment for the Arts. I rise today to offer this amendment to H.R. 1977. It cuts an additional $10 million from the fiscal year appropriations for 1996 for the NEA. I want to recognize, of…

last night, NBC News did an expose on AmeriCorps that proved what a lot of us have suspected for some time-- the program is way over budget and wasting taxpayers' money at a phenomenal rate. AmeriCorps may have worthy goals, but is has…

just prior to the Memorial Day recess, in introduced legislation to establish a bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. The goal of the Commission would be to find commonsense solutions to reforming and strengthening our Medicare…

I just wanted to advise and introduce to the Members that we had a telecommunications press conference today offered through the Committee on Commerce a new deregulatory bill which will allow mass communications to change dramatically, and…

I came down just to say this is the 25th day of captivity for David Daliberti and William Barloon. [...] I ask all Americans to recognize that this is the 25th day of their captivity.

for this amendment to pass, it is going to require conservative Democrats to help out with the Members on this side of the aisle. The question is can we cut a Federal Government program by 9 percent, realizing that within $167 million, $26…

my friends, in politics as in humor, timing is everything, and the timing of President Clinton's $20 billion bailout of Mexico could not be worse. At the very moment, the American dollar is taking a beating in world currency markets. The…

The gentleman, perhaps like myself, has heard the arguments if we do not give this money to Mexico, there will be a financial catastrophe in Mexico and we hear that oftentimes here in the halls of Congress and we have heard the…

perhaps the most amazing aspect of the Clinton administration's $53 billion loan bailout of Mexico--$20 billion of which comes straight out of the pockets of the U.S. taxpayers--is that it's a bailout that should not have happened. As the…

history was made on the opening day here in Congress. We passed sweeping reforms to not only change the rules of the House but also to make Congress adhere to laws governing the rest of the country. But now the question is, Mr. Speaker: Do…

I stand here to talk to my colleagues about base closure. I think many of us realize we just went through a base closure operation not too long ago and I was involved with it. We are having another one in 1995. I want to point out to my…

What we are saying is that it will not be business as usual around here, and we intend to make Congress operate in a more fair and open manner. Thomas Jefferson said, ``When a man assumes public trust, he should consider himself as public…

I introduced a conservative health care plan in November 1993. This was a plan that was developed by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank here in Washington. They developed this plan over a 7-year period. What it does is to…