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I would like to address this Chamber as well as all America on an issue that is extremely important to all of us, and that is the issue of nuclear waste. In a recent advertisement, in fact, an advertisement paid for by the nuclear energy…
the Republican Congress has done what many of our liberal colleagues have thought impossible. We balanced the Federal budget while at the same time providing much-needed tax relief for hardworking families of this country. To top it off…
is there a relationship between how much money is spent on education and how well our students perform academically? After all, if I look at a graph showing the SAT scores since 1960 and spending on education since 1960, I might be tempted…
if polled my guess is that each and every Member of this body, regardless of their political philosophy or party affiliation, will claim to be deeply concerned about education. Well, the President's latest national education standards…
the rhetoric surrounding H.R. 1270, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1997, is often technical and rarely illustrative in a personal manner, where the impact will be the greatest. Many American cities around this country are going to be…
What is the secret to getting a great education? Brandnew classrooms, the latest computers, a teaching staff trained in the latest pedagogical methods, record spending on school budgets? Of course not. Common sense alone suggests that a…
while Members of this House were in their districts during the August recess, ABC News reported to a national television audience just what I have been saying in this very well for the past 8 months, that despite numerous scientific…
this is the dawn of good news for the hard-working taxpaying Americans. Madam Speaker, I rise today to commend the budget team, the negotiators from both sides of the aisle, both Democrat and Republican, for reaching a tentative budget…
first I would like to join in my colleagues in the previous speaker's comments about the accolades and plaudits of my colleagues on this bipartisan freshman task force, the gentleman from Maine [Mr. Allen], of course, and the gentleman…
Mark Twain once described Lake Tahoe as the fairest picture the whole Earth affords. But with an estimated 30 percent of Lake Tahoe surrounding forests that are dead and dying and the lake losing a foot of clarity each year, many vital…
there is a new dawn in America for working men and women. The Republican tax cuts will enable all hardworking Americans to keep more, not less, of the money they earn, giving them more freedom to grow, more freedom to prosper, and more…
every parent wants to leave their children better off than they were. But as our Government makes it more and more difficult for people to leave the product of their hard work to their loved ones, this American dream is becoming almost…
our liberal colleagues have used every trick in the book to avoid giving the American people a tax break. After failed attempts at scaring welfare recipients and working taxpayers, now they are trying the same on senior citizens. Well, the…
this is the end of the week. By now we have heard all the exhaustive cries of our liberal friends over here that the Republican tax bill provides tax cuts for the rich and, as they will have us believe, the rich do not deserve a tax break…
This amendment simply is a small technical amendment which changes a phrase on page 14, line 14, to add the word ``surface'' to ``water rights,'' and let me explain by way of this. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department, the Department of…
I have not been listening to Rush Limbaugh this week, but I can only guess how much fun he is having making fun of the other side right now. I am not sure if we could make up anything more ridiculous than what I have been hearing from the…
a new scheme is emerging. Under H.R. 1270, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, American taxpayers will be forced to pay for the transportation of nuclear waste across this country. At a time when we are trying to reduce the burden on taxpayers…
Mr. Chairman, I also rise today in support of the Intelligence Authorization Act. As a new member of this intelligence committee, I have had the unique privilege to participate in the development of this act. The gentleman from Florida…
Mining is one of the most important and needed industries in the United States. However, the Bureau of Land Management's decision to enforce a final rule on reclamation bonding of hardrock mineral operations is having a negative impact on…
here we go again. Wake up America. The headline news from a June 20th New York Times article reads: ``Doubt Cast on Prime Site as Nuclear Waste Dump.'' The article states that ``researchers have found that rain water, which could dissolve…
in the preamble to the Constitution, the people of the United States declared that one of the purposes of having a constitution was to ``promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings and liberty to ourselves and our posterity.''…
I am told in Texas they have a saying that means ``All talk but no action.'' In classic Texan, they say, ``Big hat, no cattle.'' To me that means there is not much behind the rhetoric. Mr. Speaker, I am from the great State of Nevada, but…
recently the White House announced the dates for the President's Forum on Lake Tahoe. At this conference, both the economic and environmental challenges that face the Lake Tahoe Basin and its surrounding communities will hopefully be…
I have been in this well many times to discuss the facts surrounding the nuclear waste debate. I have largely concentrated on the issues of transporting nuclear waste across this Nation's highways and rail system. Over and over I have…
I rise today, on the eve of Flag Day, in strong support of House Joint Resolution 54, a constitutional amendment to prohibit the desecration of the American flag. More than 1 million men and women have sacrificed their lives defending this…
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