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I rise in support of the Berkley amendment. As most of you know, I have spoken at length to explain the reasons why nuclear waste should not be sent to an interim or permanent storage facility in Nevada. I have been asked many times what…
over the August recess I held nearly 20 town hall meetings across the great State of Nevada talking with constituents about the Republican tax plan and how it was going to help them and their families. Now this legislation is based on a…
the bureaucratic daydreamers at the International Monetary Fund are at it again. They are exploring the far reaches of reality and resorting to voodoo economics. My home State of Nevada is the largest gold producing State in the Nation…
let us have a reality check. How can we have a debate about tax cuts without discussing who pays the taxes? That is right, who pays the taxes? Now, many people might find this quite odd; bizarre, in fact, in circumstances in today's…
today I rise to address the claim of some of my colleagues that gold mines get a free ride because they do not pay their fair share of Federal royalties. Well, when considering a Federal tax increase on the mining industry, we must always…
on June 8, the Secretary of Defense, Bill Cohen, ordered three U.S. Air Force Red Horse Squadron combat engineer teams from Nellis Air Force Base to Albania. Their mission was to execute critical road and bridge repairs in this war-torn…
once again, the absolute greed of the Federal bureaucracy is pushing aside the common sense of local people on an issue in my district. I would like to share with my colleagues what can only be termed as an insensitive approach to a very…
as Congress prepares to debate the juvenile crime legislation next week, I would like to highlight the extraordinary efforts of an individual in the State of Nevada. Mark Marshall, of the Carson City Sheriff's Department, was honored this…
the Air Force has a motto of ``service before self.'' That is a fitting description of the 204 members of the 820th Red Horse Combat Engineer squadron from Nellis Air Force Base, who will be departing for Albania very soon. Their mission…
the Committee on Commerce recently amended H.R. 45, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1999 to exempt the $8 billion Nuclear Waste Fund from the Budget Enforcement Act. So what does this mean? Well, this move to take the nuclear waste budget…
I would hope that we can enter into the Record a copy of the agreement, the report of the meeting between the U.S. Congress and the Russian Duma that took place over the time frame of April 30 through the first of May that we have already…
I would hope that I can remind you that the level of distrust and mistrust of our Russian brothers and sisters toward the United States has never been at a lower point except for the time of the Korean War. We have an obligation, we have a…
I would like to be the G-8, if he wants to respond to what our agreement said. Let me take the first one. Number one, immediate and verifiable end of violence and repression in Kosovo.
Is the gentleman suggesting that through inadvertence or maybe intentionally disregarding the danger here, the FBI and the Justice Department failed to take an active role in the investigation of this espionage once it was found out in…
I guess they could not get more creative than to copy us word for word, could they? Let us look at number six. Number six says, a political process towards the establishment of an interim political framework agreement providing a…
there are those who would say that involvement by Congress or private citizens in U.S. foreign diplomacy in the Balkans is not necessary and we can only complicate matters. Fortunately, Mr. Speaker, we do not have to look very far to see…
I applaud my colleague who was just at the podium addressing the issue of Chinese espionage at our nuclear facilities and would, of course, like to engage the gentleman from Indiana, if I may. And certainly a question that would have to be…
Number four says, the establishment of an interim administration for Kosovo to be decided by the U.N. Security Council to ensure conditions for a peaceful and normal life for all inhabitants in Kosovo.
That is correct. And so all we did was broaden out a little bit the applicability and who would be in there helping to decide this very important objective. So it seems so far that, of the four we have talked about, we have almost got…
Identical. Number three, the deployment in Kosovo of effective international civil and (armed) security presences, endorsed and adopted by the United Nations, capable of guaranteeing the achievement of the common objectives.
Well, I do express the same concerns that my colleague has over this issue because once our nuclear weapons technology has spread to other countries, of course, as we know, there is a likelihood that that will even progress further in the…
Today I would like to pay my condolences to the people and the families that suffered from the powerful tornadoes in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas in the last few days. The thoughts and prayers of all Nevadans are with the victims of this…
No war, no conflict and certainly no humanitarian crisis has ever been resolved by bombing a country into oblivion. May I say that, as a veteran of two wars myself, that diplomacy is always preferable to war. And I am sure that we all…
a window of opportunity to find a peaceful solution to this conflict in Kosovo was opened this weekend in Vienna, Austria. For my congressional colleagues and my Russian Duma counterparts who participated, those meetings represent a real…
today on behalf of the great State of Nevada, I would like to personally thank the travel and tourism industry because of its lasting partnership and patronage. Nevada ranks sixth in both direct domestic and international travel spending…
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