may I express my very profound thank you to my good friend the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) the chairman of the Committee, to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi) and to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Porter) for many…

I join in the amendment to close the school. Closing the school would go a long way to dispel the perception that the United States only supports military juntas in Latin America. By a strange trick of fate, Mr. Chairman, this bill…

we just do not know what the figures actually are, according to what the staff tells me. The gentleman has certain figures. We are trying to get the figures from the proper authorities so that we are in a position to do justice to the…

According to the letter from the Congress of American Indians, we are going to need approximately $300 million to take care of all of the needs of all of the tribes under this program. Mr. Chairman, $26 million, of course, as the gentleman…

what the gentleman is asking to do is take care of his tribe and take money away from the other tribes, because the committee, has not put enough money into this bill. What the gentleman ought to be doing, I think, is asking for more money…

may I say that I do not consider it a big windfall. I think that the tribe, on the basis of the explanation given by the gentleman from Mississippi, deserves that money, but to do so at the present time without having all of the figures…

the law does not permit the K-V Fund to be used for any other purpose, certainly not for the administrative expenses. And what the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks) has said is true, that if we do not use this money from the K-V Fund…

I think what ought to be done is for the chairman and for me to take this problem into the conference and see if we can get more money, rather than to rearrange the way it is distributed; let us try to get more money so we can provide the…

I just wanted the additional time so I could advise the House that I intend to fight the previous question when the rule comes up for a vote. We have prepared an amended rule with a waiver for NEA that will be presented to the House, to…

I want to commend also the other members of the Subcommittee on Interior, who are really outstanding members of this House. It was a pleasure to serve with them and to work with them, particularly the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Joe…

1998 marks the centennial of Guam's relationship with the United States. As the gentleman knows, during World War II, Guam was the only American territory occupied by the Japanese. The people of Guam were steadfast in their desire for…

The government does not actually control the giving of the grants. That is in the hands of panels, of civilians who are expert in the field. They are the ones who make the original selections. It is true that there has to be a censorship…

when the gentleman from Ohio and I came to that agreement, I had the impression that the effort for the vote would be led by the Democrats, as it has been over the last several years, and I was unaware of the convoluted structure that the…

it is not my request. It was my understanding that the request was, would I agree to it? If the gentleman wants to continue at another stage of the bill, it is all right with me, but to place this in my pocket is the wrong approach. I…

I think that does not vitiate the error that took place in not having waived the rule of the House for NEA, as was done for the other programs. For 10 years we have brought our bill to the Committee on Rules asking for a waiver of all the…

this is a strange rule. In almost 50 years in the House, I have seen a lot of strange rules, but I think this is probably the strangest and probably the most political. The Committee on Appropriations had gone out of its way to approve the…

I do not know how many women Members there are of the House at the present time, but I think there must be about 50. And I believe that the House has made and the country has made progress in that respect, because I consider that the women…

the gentleman from Guam has expressed his interest in having $300,000 of those funds allocated to establish a War Restitution Study Commission to verify claims from the people of Guam for the purpose of determining amounts of individual…

I certainly agree with the statement made by the distinguished gentleman from Illinois. My district also will suffer from the lack of Section 8 housing. As the gentleman said so eloquently, there is no shortage in the need for Section 8…

I want to commend Chairman Regula for the job he has done on this bill. It was a very difficult bill. In all the years I have been dealing with Interior bills in this Congress, I have never participated in one that had as many…

Mr. Speaker, this is a motion to instruct the conferees on the Interior appropriations bill, to accept the provisions of the Senate bill improving funding for the National Endowment of the Arts. The House, my colleagues will recall…

I rise as a do-gooder to support the amendment. Mr. Chairman, American values are based on doing good for people. That is the purpose of this bill. This bill proposes to do good for the less fortunate people of the world and for less…

Croatia's role during the Holocaust was a most despicable one. The Ustashe, Croatia's soldiers, were Hitler's shock troops to exterminate the Jews, with whom they came in contact in Croatia. Literally hundreds of Jews were killed and their…

It was a most despicable act that took place today and certainly our Government must make clear to the PLO that our Government will not tolerate such actions.