I have filed an amendment to H.R. 2159 to cut funding for Peru under the international military education and training program unless the President reports to Congress that the Government of Peru is working to provide timely, open and fair…

Mr. Chairman, the intent of the Miller-Schumer amendment is to kill an efficient U.S. sugar industry and send those jobs overseas. The sugar program was reformed in the 1996 farm bill. The sugar program retained only protection at the…

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…

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

I come here today because today or tomorrow we are going to be taking up the agriculture appropriations bill. There will not be a rule on this bill, and the reason there is not a rule is because the appropriators and the authorizers are…

I am here today, of course, to talk about most-favored-nation status. Much has been heard about our bilateral trade deficit with China. It is the same argument that protectionists use as a reason not to trade with Japan. These…

I would like to explain a sense-of-the- Congress amendment which calls on the Government of Peru to respect the rights of prisoners to timely legal action. My amendment was adopted by the House as part of Chairman Gilman's en bloc…

I come here with a happy face today because of the work that we have done this week on the budget agreement. We ought to all have a happy face and a big smile. I am a little surprised at the-world-is-falling attitude on the other side of…

nearly three decades of federal budget deficits have taken their toll on our nation's economy and America's working families. But today, we continue our efforts to produce a balanced budget. Rarely do compromises produce all the results or…

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…

I am concerned about American families and American children and health care, and I know that the one way we can achieve that is to balance our budget. We will not achieve it if we do not balance our budget. The President has sent down his…

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 as a Representative of thousands of small people that the last speaker missed. Those people are the farmers of America to whom trade with China is extremely important. It is indeed the fastest growing market. My colleagues may…

I rise in strong support of language included in the committee report on H.R. 3666, the fiscal year 1997 VA- HUD appropriations bill, concerning activities within the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to move toward Federal…

I want to talk about how we are looking at the file scandal that affects our Government. Many in the press and in this Congress have focused their attention on the actions of the White House staff with regard to the FBI files. They are…

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…

the Clinton White House is at it again. The most recent incident, involving the breaching of privacy of nearly 500 American citizens, reaffirms a disturbing trend throughout the President's tenure in office. The background check of these…

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 somewhat confused between crop insurance and rural utilities. I would have thought if the gentleman really wanted to fund this, he would have cut crop insurance for corn and soybeans, corn and soybeans in the gentleman's district…

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…

I feel that I have to rise in opposition to this amendment. When the gentleman says that he is going to put $3.5 billion at the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, I think we certainly should put a lot more thought and have a lot…

this is crunch time for this Congress. It is time for us to act on the farm bill. This will be the first important rewrite of the depression-era farm programs that have been on the books for decades. There is some very good news in the…

I think all of us come to the well today, I hope with some reason, to discuss the Government shutdown. Yes, it is devastating and, yes, there are people who should be paid. I support paying them. Yes, we must care about those single…