Thomas Ewing

Number one, the Blackbird Institution is not regulated by this bill. It is not regulated now. We believe that this bill exempts them from any regulation so long as they are trading in the manner in which they have indicated they are. The…

Most of that sugar comes from programs around the world that are subsidized much higher than we do in this country. They cannot use it; they cannot keep sugar. They dump it on the world market and take pennies on the dollar.

I understand that is what the GAO report said; but sugar prices are low, and I have not, and I just wonder if the gentleman has, seen any reduction in candy bars or soda pop or any other commodity that the gentleman claims will be such a…

The gentleman knows, I am sure, that sugar prices are at an all-time low; they have not been this low in years.

Mr. Chairman, let me try to clear away some of this smoky rhetoric that has been put out here to mask the problem here. This bill is an intricate interlocked bill that affects the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, and the part…

School violence and violence in society concerns all of us. What do we do about it? Well, we have tried gun control. We have insisted on parental control. We have suggested the schools could control more. I do not believe our young people…

The last speaker talked about the census. There is one overriding requirement for the census, that it follow the constitutional mandate for an actual count. Now, all the great things that have been said about doing it the other way really…

I am wondering if it is the understanding of the gentleman that under this bill there is no general prohibition of exports to a country which is deemed to contain responsible entities who are committing religious persecutions, as defined…

So there is no provision in this act that would punish the farmer or exporter if the product exported eventually reached a responsible entity?

So, then, if I understand the gentleman, if a farmer exports grain to a country that the director of the Office of Religious Persecution Monitoring deems to contain responsible entities engaged in religious persecution, and exports that…

This congressional session conclusion reminds me of the wonderful changing seasons on the Illinois prairie. Each year we are amazed by the God-given change in seasons, which works so well and even survives the most intense of storms to…

September 25, 1996, 1 year ago, Jennifer Davis was in Peru. She was arrested on drug charges. She has admitted her guilt and has cooperated with authorities. For this, she has been put in an inhumane prison, has never received her rights…

In the appropriation process, has the gentleman found that just large expenditures and new money make a program better?

The gentlewoman talked about a 27.5-percent commission, and I think in all due fairness to the insurance agents, the average commission for Federal crop insurance is about 10 percent to the agent. The other money goes to cover the…

Would it also be correct to state that there is nothing in the airport technology section of the FAA Research, Engineering and Development Authorization Act of 1997 that would preclude the FAA from fully funding the Center of Excellence…

The Republican plan for welfare reform has five pillars: Welfare reform should not be a way of life; we should have work, not welfare; we should not pay welfare to noncitizens and felons; we should return power and money to the States; and…

I come here today because I need to express my grief and my loss for this friend, and I say to all of my colleagues. Let us look at what Bill Emerson has given to us. He has shown us the way, love of country, love of family, love of each…

I think we ought to make it absolutely plain, at least unless my memory is totally gone, that smoking on airplanes was legislation that came through the Public Works Committee. It was not done on an appropriation bill. We may have had it…

I am here to make a point about that. I think it is inappropriate that the bank was subjected to unusual, or it should be unusual, political pressure from the Clinton administration to turn down the request of American companies for…

I missed all votes today because I was in my district with James Lee Witt, the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to visit several of the areas in Champaign County which were devastated by tornadoes last weekend and to…

I thank the chairman for a job well done. I would just like to say a couple things about the peanut and sugar program, which were under my subcommittee. First, these programs will not cost the taxpayer one dollar. Yes, without these…

The time has long passed when we should have balanced our budget. The last speaker is absolutely right, enough is enough. I do not see any sense in what is happening. At the White House, the President has refused consistently to live up to…

I would ask the gentleman, then, why the objection to do it? We need to do it, get it out there is an individual bill so it will not die as part of some other legislation. The people of this country cannot understand how we can be so…

Mr. Speaker, it is so simple, we should not have to be here. Yet we are here today because it has not been done. That is what the American people are unhappy about: Two Congresses, multiple bills, and we still have the regulatory rock…