Jasper Packard: “I am personally incensed at these comments. My father was a civilian and fought with the Marines on Wake Island and…”

The Ryan amendment would take $74 million from the National Ignition Facility and terminate the project; that is premature. We are aware that the project has not run smoothly, and that it has had its problems both management and fiscally…

I understand the idea of an interbasin transfer has been discussed in Northwest Georgia, and I assure the gentleman from Georgia the subcommittee understands the serious nature of any interbasin transfer of this magnitude and would be very…

Should the committee receive a revised 302(b) allocation which increases our funding level, then our effort will be to consider increasing funding for the ARC to at least the fiscal year 2000 funding level.

Funding should not be withheld, and this project should not be delayed. Issues raised by the opponents to the project have been adequately addressed during the planning stages and appropriate analyses and project modifications have been…