John Hansen

H.R. 3480, the Upper Mississippi River Basin Protection Act of 2001, provides for the Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey to supplement, coordinate and manage data collection on sediments and nutrients in the Upper…

H.R. 3848 provides funding for the development and construction of recreational facilities for the Sand Hollow Recreational Area in Washington County, Utah. For several years, Washington County has been the fastest growing area in the…

H.R. 3928 would direct the Secretary of the Interior to assist the University of Utah by making a grant to the University of Utah Museum of Natural History in Salt Lake City, Utah, to help pay for the Federal share of the costs of…

As the author of H.Con.Res. 275, I am pleased to present this legislation to provide badly needed relief to millions of dove hunters throughout the United States. Mourning doves are the most widely distributed and harvested game bird in…

this is kind of a cherished thing in America, the hunting of doves. Many of us who hunt have noticed in our younger years that dove hunting was not a big thing. Deer season was always such a big thing in the State of Utah that they closed…

Mr. Speaker, this bill is a bill to encourage the negotiated settlement of tribal claims. S. 1857 allows Indian tribes to postpone the filing of lawsuits against the United States for either the loss of money held in trust for the tribe or…

I rise today to commend my home State of Utah for hosting, in the words of NBC sportscaster Dick Ebersol, ``far and away the most successful Olympics, summer or winter, in the history of the games.'' The State of Utah and their citizens…

The Bear River marshes in the northern portion of the Great Salt Lake have been a waterfowl oasis and an important inland waterfowl flyway for centuries, and I am pleased that the House is taking action to improve research opportunities…

even as I speak today, the Armed Forces of the United States are engaged in combat operations to ensure the security of our people. However, the continued viability of some of the very weapons systems being used now is threatened by a…

it was our friend, the gentleman from Texas, Mr. Sam Johnson, who served about 6 years in Hanoi as a prisoner of war. He states that on his cell wall he had a little statement that said, ``Freedom has a taste to it to those who fought and…

Yesterday America suffered a cowardly attack upon freedom itself. Today, our first responsibility must be to tend to the victims, and their families, in their hour of greatest need. This barbaric act is horrible in both its enormity, and…

I walked in this place in 1980, and I was asked to sit on the Committee on Ethics. Nobody wants to serve on the Committee on Ethics, but the ranking member of the Committee on Ethics happened to be Floyd Spence. Floyd served there for…

Mr. Chairman, it is time to take a long, hard look at what must be done to help our Nation meet its energy needs. It is time to look past the special interest groups, the people who feel they run this Nation, their letter campaigns and…

Mr. Chairman, America needs more energy. During months of national discussion over energy, I have not heard anyone challenge the fact that our Nation needs more energy. Our Nation's demand for natural gas alone has risen by 45 percent over…

I find it is very interesting that on September 16, 1996, the President of the United States went to Arizona and declared 1.7 million acres of monument in the State of Utah, and that people got up on this floor and all over America and…

This allows for the debate over several issues that are crucial to a successful, long-term and comprehensive energy policy. It gives everyone a fair shot at their amendment and an up-or-down vote on most of these issues. The Committee on…

let me point out that I have had an opportunity to look at the Sununu amendment, and I hope folks in their offices are listening to this because this is an interesting amendment. Mr. Chairman, this amendment, if Members are at all on the…

let me point out that for 8 years we have just kind of been Moses in the desert wandering, trying to find out where we are going on this thing. I think Mr. Richardson, who is the Secretary of Energy, made an interesting statement when he…

That is sad, in a way. Because if America is willing to say, all right, we do not want to drive our cars, heat our homes, we do not want power or air conditioning, we will just go back to the Stone Age, so to speak, then let us all stand…

Mr. Chairman, I come to the floor today on behalf of all the farmers and ranchers in Utah and other western States who are dealing with the devastating outbreaks of Mormon Crickets and grasshoppers. This outbreak, now under declaration of…

Folks in America, of course, Mr. Speaker, realize that today the Vice President of the United States was able to come up with an energy policy that makes an awful lot of sense, and tonight myself and some of my colleagues from the…

many years ago when I was a student at the University of Utah, I recall working at different jobs after class at night and weekends in order to make ends meet and pay my tuition. Money was tight. I was newly married. I had a wife and child…

This summer is going to be the biggest wakeup call that America has had for a long time. We have had 8 years of neglect on these things which is now going to catch up with us. We are asking, what does it mean to be a good environmentalist…

I asked this vice president the question, why is it that you resist managing the public ground? Why is it that you resist the idea that we can go in and do some cleaning, thinning, prescribe fires and take care of it and keep a wholesome…

today I rise in tribute to the Honorable F. Whitten Peters, the outgoing Secretary of the Air Force, who recently left office to return to private life. In his 4 years as Under Secretary, Acting Secretary and Secretary, Whit Peters led…