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I have grave concerns in one particular area... this practice is inherently inhuman and barbaric. The handlers of these fighting birds drug the animals to heighten their aggression and to clot the blood. They affix knives or ice picks like…
The key word here is ``may.'' We do not believe that it does that. We do not intend for it to do that. And I do not intend for it to do that when we have the opportunity to get into conference.
I stand by the fact that if an insurance company does exactly what they are told to do by a group of physicians in the external review model, then we have to encourage them to offer the treatment and not put them in a position so that they…
Because there is no way that you can make it exactly the same between the physician and the HMO, I do not believe. If the gentleman is talking about the rebuttable presumption, and I presume he is, what I would say to him there is that I…
I do not look like I have been rolled, and I do not feel like I have been rolled; and we will get a patients protection bill out. But it will not do any good if my colleagues allow this standard to go through that OSHA is trying to put…
I just want to point out this does not repeal anything. This is us standing up as the Congress of the United States and saying this Federal agency wrote a bad rule. We have let them get away with this over and over again. This does not…
Once the benefits of the plan were denied, she would have been able to get to court immediately. Because her case was not just routine care, it bordered at least on urgent and perhaps emergency. So she could have gotten into court…
One of the things I keep hearing is that under our bill, patients could not sue an HMO and under the Democratic bill they said you could sue an HMO. I believe that is incorrect information. Under our bill, you can sue HMOs, but, in fact…
There was another bill before us in Congress, those from the left had a managed care reform bill, too. Did they have a threshold in their bill?
Let us try to get this straight. The Federal law known as ERISA is what preempts State laws. It is not this bill; it is the ERISA law that preempts State laws.
I hope he has seen a peanut plant since last year, because last year he had never seen one. Since then, since the gentleman has tried to give the children of Georgia powdered milk today, now they want us to buy Chinese peanuts. They are…
I strongly rise to support the amendment of the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Traficant). I think the gentleman is precisely right. It is time this country did something about drugs. If we think the border patrol is doing it, then let us ask…
I will be very brief. We put $1 in at the time until we build it up and finally get IDEA funded. But the point here is we know what the $11.25 million would do in IDEA and we do not know what the $11.25 million would do in OSHA. There is…
In 1997, we spent $325.7 million, and if our amendment passes, in 1998 we will spend $325.7 million. I would just like to point out that is not a cut of anything, that is just not giving them a raise.
Let me point out to my friend from Wisconsin [Mr. Obey] that I am absolutely sure the gentleman does not know why I am doing this. I know the gentleman just told the Members why I am doing this, but I am confident that the gentleman does…
I do think OSHA has been improved. That is something we all should be proud of. Has OSHA moved far enough yet, to the point where we are doing a better job in the workplace, where most of the catastrophes occur? The answer would be no.
Yes, I do, because they made a deal saying that if we will do that for 1 year, ``The committee will refrain from any further restrictions with regard to the development, promulgation or issuance of an ergonomic standard following fiscal…
OSHA insists that the manual is not for educational purposes, but on enforcement of a new standard. It is widely regarded as constituting guidelines which are enforceable under the general duty clause. They are not kidding. Too many of…
No. What I favor is repealing the law and not having us fund it at 40 percent or change the law or either fund it.
I just want us to also recognize and ask the American consumer to recognize, do you want Mexican peanuts or do you want American peanuts? None of us disagree totally with some of the things they are saying. I say to my friend from…
What is nuts is people from Delaware and people from Wisconsin getting up here and talking about something they do not know the first thing about. My good friend, the gentleman from Wisconsin actually saw a peanut plant one time. I have…
I rise to tell my friend from New Jersey, the problem with that Georgia policeman is that he most assuredly will receive some tax relief on this, because you have raised taxes so high over the last 20 years that I guarantee you his wife is…
Well, how should we rank before we start saying that the American people should spend more money on education? Should we come in second in math before we do the rest of what the President says? We are not going to ask the American people…
The question is, does the gentleman agree with the President when he says since we do spend $120 billion a year over 760 programs, over 39 different agencies of Government, does the gentleman agree with the President that we cannot ask the…
We know we have about 760 educational programs spread over 39 agencies in Washington that spend over $100 billion a year on education. Yet the gentleman has just read out some statistics in math and science and reading that frankly scare…
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