Why, then, Mr. Chairman, I would ask the gentleman, is his party advocating the tax reduction bill? Will that not increase the deficit?

Personally, Mr. Chairman, I support neither tax cut, and I support reducing the deficit.

I suggested to the House today that if they gave the opportunity to this House for me to offer my amendment to reinstate NEA and give it some money to operate, I would be willing to bet, a substantial sum, in view of yesterday's very, very…

I asked NEA how much money is being allocated to the States; and I was told that by statute 35 percent of the program funds are being allocated to the States, but that in practice 37 percent of their program funds. I was told also that…

Mr. Chairman, we have the chance today to uphold a long and a proud Federal commitment to culture and to humanity in the United States. But we can only maintain strong national support for the arts by rejecting block grants and restoring…

I would tell the gentleman I would not have objected to his amendment had he included as well protection for the National Endowment for the Arts.

I want to pay my tribute to the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Regula]. He and I worked on this bill for many, many years. He knows it thoroughly. And, for the most part, I think that this bill reflects good judgment on his part. In view of the…

on this committee, we have been building those programs not only for years but for decades, and to take money that they want to take out of these funds would be catastrophic. I agree with the gentleman.

the gentleman from Wisconsin talked about a $15 billion excess in discretionary spending. The Defense appropriations bill is $13 billion over the President's budget. There is $13 billion of the gentleman's $15 billion, because defense is a…

Let us not talk about level playing fields. There is no more discriminated people in this country than the Indian people have been and still remain discriminated against. They talk about, some of the speakers who have spoken before talked…

I would say the same Founding Fathers, although they did not have or sponsor a National Endowment for the Humanities, would support the notion of a modest endowment that truly recognized the importance of the humanities to national life…

I planned to reoffer this amendment today but, in the interest of time, I will not offer that amendment if I can have the assurance of the chairman that language will be placed in the statement of the managers for this bill directing the…

I agree with the gentleman in opposing this amendment. This amendment is another form of the amendment that will be offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania later on. For the same reasons as the gentleman from Ohio so eloquently…

I did not sign the conference agreement because I am very strongly opposed to the bill. It is true that in many respects after the negotiations that have taken place over these last few days the bill is better than it was before the…

the gentleman is exactly wrong about the Tongass because the Tongass provision still contains a waiver of ANILCO and NEPO as far as environmental safeguards are concerned. All it has is the safeguards provided in a contract, which were not…

Mr. Chairman, I address my remarks to the Interior Department part of this bill. This bill contains the same unacceptable provisions that the first Interior bill contained. My good friend from Louisiana, the chairman of the committee, Mr…

Mr. Speaker, my good friend from Ohio is trying to continue a coverup. I do not understand, Mr. Speaker, why he does not come in with a good bill, a bill of which we on the committee can be proud, instead of trying to revive a dead…

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…

On the contrary, Mr. Speaker, it was put in because the amendment of the gentleman from Arizona was put in after the President's statement had been drafted.

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.

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?

what about the marbled murrelet provision? The marbled murrelet provision, is that not still subject to sufficiency language?

Mr. Speaker, just to reintroduce exactly what the gentleman from New Mexico [Mr. Richardson] said, because one of the most troubling aspects of this conference report is that it devastates programs for the native Americans. I just cannot…

30 years ago today, on September 29, 1965, President Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act into law. This historic act created the the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the…