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?

Mr. Chairman, NEH and the National Endowment for the Humanities is a unique organization. It fosters democracy in this country; it fosters all of the elements of democracy in this country. Every year the National Endowment for the…

Mention has been made, Mr. Chairman, of the fact that this is an unusual memorial in that the memorials to Presidents Taft, McKinley, Garfield, and Harding did not make grants to scholars; that is true, but this memorial takes the form…

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.

Mr. Chairman, here again, like the swallows that return annually to Capistrano, the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Stearns] has made his annual return to his attack on the NEA. This time, he wants to cut it by an additional 10 percent. The…

I want to talk about family values briefly tonight, because we are going to vote on them later in the evening. Love of family, respect for our fellow man, a well-educated and ethically minded people is our ideal and our goal for all…

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…

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?

The heavy hand of the full chairman of the committee was felt immediately by the Interior Subcommittee. Our 692(b) allocation was cut by more than a billion dollars on the first go-around. On the second go-around on the 602(b), we were…

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?

by my standards, the interior appropriations bill for this year is not a good bill. Our current national resources will suffer. The Indian people are going to take a big hit. The protection of our environment will be diminished. Our…

Mr. Chairman, here we go again. All we have to do is mention NEA and my friends, the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Crane] and the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Stearns], go into orbit. They are determined to immortalize Maplethorpe and…

For too long the extremes in the debate over western forest management have dominated the stage. On one side there are those who oppose any timber harvests in our public lands, even if it is necessary to improve forest health and reduce…

this is an amendment to strike the so-called Taylor amendment. The Taylor amendment is a timber lobbyist's dream. It deals with salvage sales, and under its definition the salvage amendment will salvage our forests. Among the phrases in…

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…

I rise in support of this very important bill. Mr. Chairman, I can remember well standing in this Chamber talking about gun control. That was back in 1968. My how time flies. It's 26 years later and we are still talking about gun control…

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?

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…

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

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…

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

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.