Patsy T. Mink: “The need to supplement the Fish and Wildlife Services work is critical.”

Wonderful. We had the opportunity to hear from Secretary Tommy Thompson the other day. He came and testified about the importance of child care. I want to say that I was very impressed with the passion with which he made his comments about…

Mr. Speaker, there are many others who wanted to be here, but because of the advance of the time that we had informed the offices that they would be heard, many are not here. But I wanted to say that the most important message that I…

I must say that going into this, I did not expect to be able to reconcile all the various differences that we held on the majority and the minority side. It took an amazing amount of work on the part of the gentleman from Ohio (Mr…

Both of these amendments go to the Agricultural Research Service. One has to do with the earmarking of $950,000 for the Hawaii Agricultural Research Center. The other is an earmark of $1,603,000 for the Oceanic Institute. Both of these…