Sam Gibbons

my colleagues and I have asked the Russian government to work constructively towards a resolution of the Balkans crisis, and I am happy to say that the Russian government has responded in the hopes of achieving a workable solution…

the Second Congressional District of Nevada is a vast area containing about 110,000 square miles and 1.2 million people, many of whom are spread out over a large portion of rural Nevada. So today I rise to support meaningful reform of the…

the Constitution, as I read and understand it, gives the House of Representatives the sole authority to raise taxes. However, now the nuclear industry wants to change this. H.R. 45, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1999, proposes to grant…

what a better way to celebrate Earth Day than to honor the great example of a public-private partnership known as the Yosemite National Institutes, an organization that provides award-winning environmental education programs in America's…

like my colleagues here, we all rise today to express our grief and sadness to the families of Littleton, Colorado, and once again the television sets across this country have flashed the words, ``breaking news.'' This is another incident…

just 3 days ago, I was in the war-torn region of Kosovo along with many of our colleagues from the House and Senate. And, as a veteran of two wars, I know the great sacrifice that our U.S. military men and women are making for our country…

there is going to be a $2.3 billion price tag for transporting nuclear waste across America. I guess the question should be, and the one we should be asking is, should it be the responsibility of the nuclear power industry who, by the way…

it was 180 years ago that Daniel Webster said in the case of McCullough v. Maryland that the power to tax is the power to destroy. Well, today this Federal Government has been destroying working families all across America with excess…

today I rise to recognize Lieutenant Colonel Manuel Fernandez, Jr., upon his retirement from the United States Air Force after 22 years of distinguished service to our great Nation. An American hero, a decorated military aviator…

on Thursday, the Federal Government will reach out its big hands and its sticky fingers and stick them into the pockets of every hard-working man and woman in this country. Two days from today, April 15, Mr. Speaker, the tax man comes into…

the security of America and its citizens has been seriously jeopardized because of the nuclear weapons and missile transfer of technology to China. The American people deserve to know just how our Nation's goose has been cooked. Newsweek…

H.R. 449 is a noncontroversial and bipartisan bill that would authorize the Gateway Visitor Center at Independence National Historic Park. This bill authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to enter into a cooperative agreement with the…

H.R. 154 is a bipartisan bill which repeals the existing regulatory prohibition on collecting fees for commercial film productions on lands administered by the Department of the Interior, including units of the National Park System and…

the Fallon Naval Air Station ``Top Gun'' school in Nevada recently had some important visitors. No, they were not the U.S. Navy cadets. It was the Chinese. Even after knowing their latest espionage tactics, our Government granted about 20…

Three out of four Americans, 75 percent, believe the United States already possesses the ability to defend itself from a missile attack. I think it is only fair to inform them that we cannot. Here in America we may have little or no…

the question of the day is can this Nation afford the cleanup cost of a nuclear waste accident under H.R. 45, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1999. Well, a 1985 Department of Energy contractor report concluded that a severe accident…

H.R. 45 is the nuclear waste lottery. We bet our homes, our property, the safety of our family, and then if one of these nuclear carnivals passes by our property, bingo, we get big bucks. This is a lawyer's dream. Thousands of innocent…

Republicans and my colleagues on the left know that the biggest and best investment we can make as a nation is in the proper education of our children. But one of the greatest debates that is taking place in Washington right now concerns…

let us talk baseball, for once. America's favorite pastime is upon us here in Washington, D.C. and the rich nuclear utility industry is striking out. Today, they are simply a backstop against common sense. It seems that Secretary…

today I rise to talk about our administration's foreign policy and the men and women in our Nation's military service. I have three words to describe the administration's strategy for deployment of U.S. troops to police Kosovo, and they…

H.R. 45, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1999, opens the door to the dangerous transportation of high-level nuclear waste and yet fails to address the concerns of the safety of millions of Americans. By mandating the construction of an…

General George Patton once said, ``There is no limit to what you can accomplish, if you don't care who gets the credit.'' This quote is very fitting for the 5,000 men and women of Task Force Aguila, who left their homes and loved ones…

today I rise proudly in support of House Joint Resolution 54, to prohibit the desecration of the American flag. I want to express my sincere thanks to my colleagues, the gentleman from California (Mr. Duke Cunningham) and the gentleman…

a new category of beast has come to plague and menace the American scene. That beast, of course, is H.R. 45, a bill that intends to ship 77,000 tons of high-level nuclear waste, the most dangerous, toxic substance known to mankind, across…

we often hear a lot about what Washington bureaucrats want to do about our children's education, but let me tell you what my Governor is doing about education at the State level. Last month, in his first State of the State Address, Nevada…