John Hansen

S. 434 would provide compensation for the Yankton Sioux and Santee Sioux Indian tribes for tribal lands condemned for the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin program project. The second title of this bill is the text of my bill, H.R. 4103…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 2099, introduced by the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Baird) and amended by the Committee on Resources, increases the funding authorization for the Vancouver National Historic Reserve to $15 million for development costs…

H.R. 5109, authored by the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Watkins), authorizes the Secretary of Energy, acting through the Southwestern Power Administration, to convey a 6.3 acre parcel of land in Tupelo, Oklahoma. The conveyance will be at…

You have a situation with the BLM and the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks) got up, he talked about show us a place where you can save money yesterday, he was talking of one, and here is one that comes out. The new director of BLM…

Madam Speaker, S. 700, is to amend the National Trail System to designate the Ala Kahakai Trail as a national historic trail. This trail, known in English as The Trail by the Sea, is part of an important national trail used by the native…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 5478 authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire by donation suitable land to serve as the new location for the home of Alexander Hamilton. The home is commonly known as the Hamilton Grange. The bill would also…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 4345 amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to clarify the process of allotments to Alaskan Natives who are veterans and makes a number of technical changes to the Alaskan Native Claims Settlement Act. Title I of…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 4389 transfers a small component of a much larger project. The larger overall project was built from 1938 to 1957 and called the Colorado-Big Thompson project. The water is used primarily to help irrigate 615,000 acres of…

Mr. Speaker, S. 366 amends the National Trails System Act to designate El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro as a component of the National Trails System. The bill directs the Secretary of the Interior to administer the trail, to encourage…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 2820 transfers the ownership of the irrigation works currently operated by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. Over the last several years, the subcommittee has moved legislation that has defederalized several…

When the President started this tirade, this was the first one he put in was the Grand Staircase Escalante. It has been there 4 years. Money has been appropriated for it. I would be happy, as I told the gentleman from Washington (Mr…

The gentleman and everybody on that side voted for two pieces of legislation to not repeal it but to take care of it. And what the gentleman has said and the other gentleman has said about law enforcement and other areas is just not true…

Let me say in response to what the gentleman from New Jersey was talking about, here is the emergency order here. It says, if I may read that: ``Under the emergency order, all public lands, including vehicle ways are closed to OHVs in the…

If I may reclaim my time and say to my friend, the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Udall), I would offer the gentleman and any of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, come on out, let us look at it, let us have input in this area, if…

I cannot believe how much people love parks. ... the thing that came out number one was the national parks. People love our parks. In fact, they love them to death.

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 171 introduced by my colleague, the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. LoBiondo), would authorize appropriations for the Coastal Heritage Trail Route in the State of New Jersey and also extend the authority provided to the…

Mr. Speaker, S. 2272 is a bill introduced by Senator Conrad Burns and supported by the gentleman from Montana (Mr. Rick Hill). Mr. Burns has crafted a bill that responds to a need to increase the size of a historic site in Montana. Mr…

S. 890 is a very important bill. It helps a small town in Utah, and it saves the American people millions of dollars. The Town of Dutch John was established in 1958 by the Bureau of Reclamation to provide housing and serve project…

Would the gentleman specifically tell me what the environmental community objects to in this bill? I have heard that for 2, 3 hours now.

I rise today specifically to express my support for the passage of H.R. 4284, a bill, as I think all of us know, to allow India to establish a memorial to honor Mahatma Gandhi here in Washington, D.C. This memorial is a positive reminder…

If I go to the Deschutes Forest and pay $25 for a trail head parking pass, it is not good in the next door Willamette Forest, and it is not good in the Siuslaw Forest. If I buy one in the Willamette Forest, it is not good in the Siuslaw…

We do appreciate that. I would hope that the task force would work with us closely on many of the things that are in our legislation which I notice the Speaker of the House on television the other night, I thought he was repeating our bill…

I wish to support H.R. 2186, a bill introduced by my colleague Congresswoman Barbara Cubin from the State of Wyoming. Mrs. Cubin has worked very hard for the citizens of Wyoming to help establish the National Historic Trails Interpretive…

I was impressed with how well he understood the legislation, how he read the bills, how his knowledge of figures and understanding was awesome. He could come into our caucuses or on the floor, he could come up with figures faster than…