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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, S. 698 requires the Secretary of Interior to examine the suitability and feasibility of recovering the costs of high altitude rescues within the Denali National Park and requiring proof of medical insurance for climbing…
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…
S. 2345, introduced by Senator Chuck Schumer, directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special study to determine the potential inclusion of sites associated with Harriet Tubman in the National Park System. Harriet Tubman is a…
last week Vice President Gore mislead every American again. I am not talking about raising chickens. Al Gore claimed that our military is the strongest in history. Our military is the best in the world today, but it is simply not true that…
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…
on October 6 last week our former colleague K. Gunn McKay passed away due to complications of cancer. Gunn served in this House from 1971 to 1981 and was chairman of the Subcommittee on Military Construction of the Committee on…
H.R. 150 is a good piece of legislation that will help school children in rural communities throughout the country. The Education Land Grant Act was designed to alleviate a problem that many small western communities face. These towns are…
I rise in support of H.R. 4828, the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Act of 2000. Today we have the opportunity to protect Steens Mountain in Oregon, one of the most beautiful areas in the West. What brings us here…
Mr. Speaker, this bill was brought about by the 1973 Endangered Species Act. When that was passed, they found in southern Utah the desert tortoise. Out of finding the desert tortoise, we then had to find a place for the habitat for the…
let me point out that, as I looked at this and finally got the inspired version of what was in it, I would have to say there are awfully good things in it. People have worked very hard on this bill. I have the greatest respect for the…
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…
H.R. 5212 was introduced by the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Kind) and the gentleman from New York (Mr. Houghton) and has 230 cosponsors. The bill creates a recording program within the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress…
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. 5331 is a bipartisan bill that was introduced by the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Davis). Mr. Speaker, Frederick Douglass was one of the most prominent leaders of the 19th century abolitionist movement. Born into slavery…
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…
Mr. Speaker, H.R. 5036 was introduced by the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Hall) and amends the 1992 Dayton Aviation Heritage Preservation Act by adding three properties to the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park. The Historical…
Mr. Speaker, H.R. 4613 was introduced by the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Souder) and amends the National Historic Preservation Act for purposes of establishing a National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Program. This legislation has been…
Mr. Speaker, H.R. 3745, introduced by the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Nussle), authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to purchase two tracts of land from willing sellers for addition into the Effigy Mounds National Monument. The gentleman…
Mr. Speaker, H.R. 2267, introduced by the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. McInnis), amends the National Trails Systems Act to clarify Federal authority relating to land acquisition from willing sellers. The gentleman from Colorado is to be…
H. Con. Res. 345 introduced by the gentleman from California (Mr. Rogan) addresses the need for a cataloged list of the many different public war memorials of the United States. Thousands of public memorials dealing with the United States'…
Mr. Speaker, H.R. 4583 extends the authorization for the Air Force Memorial Foundation to establish a memorial in the District of Columbia or its environs. In December of 1993, authorization was given for the Air Force Memorial Foundation…
H.R. 3632 expands the boundaries of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area to include 12 parcels of additional land. Most of the parcels are south of San Francisco near the City of Pacifica, California, and total approximately 1,200…
S. 1117 establishes the Corinth Unit of the Shiloh National Military Park in the vicinity of Corinth, Mississippi, in the State of Tennessee. The purpose of S. 1117 is to protect and commemorate areas associated with the Civil War battle…
I rise in support of H.R. 4115, a bill to reauthorize the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum introduced by the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Cannon). Mr. Chairman, H.R. 4115 reauthorizes and establishes the United States Holocaust Memorial…
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