Sidney Yates

The bill that I chaired that had sufficiency language goes back something like 8 or 9 years. There was no sufficiency language after that. It was done for one time only. Yet there is sufficiency language for the amendment that was…

Will the gentleman tell us why the Republican majority agreed to nullify the environmental laws by depriving the public of the right to protest the increases in the cuts?

Will the gentleman be surprised in the event that the cut went beyond the amount that he says will be authorized by, paid for by the 320?

The gentleman knows that the amount requested by the President was $1.9 billion. The amount that the conference approved and which is in this bill is $325 million less than the amount requested by the President.

If you cut the center by a million dollars, the opportunity to invite scholars from all over the world to participate in its activities will be forever lost.

The gentleman recalls; does he not, the truth of my assertion that previously four Republican Presidents--the truth of my assertion about the fact our committee has appropriated funds to reestablish the homes of Presidents Taft, McKinley…

How will these funds be distributed? If there is no longer an Office of Indian Education, who will receive the money for distribution to the various school districts that are to receive them?

Where does it go, then? If it is not to remain in the Office of Planning and Budget, who will have supervision?

Who will have the responsibility of supervising the territories, Mr. Chairman, until they have their freedom?

I am impressed with the chairman's argument. Why do you not do it for all the other places where you have banned the use of volunteers?

Does that mean that you have frozen the other body, you have compelled the other body to adhere to whatever you put into this rule?

I am opposed to this rule, because, among other things, the rule makes in order the Taylor timber salvage sale amendment which is a timber lobbyists dream. The Taylor amendment is a congressional gift to the timber industry at a time when…

The gentleman is a member of the subcommittee which I chair on the Committee on Appropriations, and the gentleman knows that Indian health has been cut by $250 million. Where are we going to get the money to make up that necessary sum?

Will there be a lessening of the amount of section 8 housing that will be available under any of the provisions of this bill?

I see. And will there be a diminution of section 8 subsidies in the future under this legislation?

Inasmuch as I have the time, I would say to the gentlewoman, I recognize it as having a very substantial effect upon the problems of the Treasury and of housing. It is a drain. But these people have no place else to live.

They will not be, under this legislation, there is no provision that will require them to leave their homes.

So the chairman is making a statement that the information that I had received that section 8 tenants would be required to leave their section 8 homes at the end of 2 years under this legislation is not correct.

Let me get this clear. It was represented to me, upon my calling the office of one of the members of the gentleman's committee, that tenants who now occupy homes under section 8 would not be disturbed for 2 years but, after 2 years, they…

May I say to the gentleman that I appreciate very much the words he has said about my interest in the problems of housing. Like the gentleman, who I know is very much interested in providing housing for those who can find no affordable…

I was visited this morning by a group of section 8 tenants from my district. I understand that such tenants have come in from various urban communities all over the country, very much disturbed by this bill. The way it was explained to me…

They have the oil in the ground, but they do not have any money, if this amendment goes through, to take that oil out of the ground.

This amendment would rescind all unobligated balances, approximately $323 million, from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve account. This would end all oil acquisition. It would take away the money necessary to withdraw oil in the event of an…