John Myers

This is exactly the position the committee took. We have long supported TVA but we realize with the limited resources you spoke of, we just cannot continue all of these. But we would be glad to work with the Tennessee Valley Authority and…

the gentleman from Arkansas [Mr. Dickey] has very accurately described the conditions on the McClellan- Kerr Waterway and it is a very severe problem and we are well aware of that. We have been trying to tell the Corps that we intend it to…

what the gentleman speaks he speaks firsthand, because Rocky Flats in his State is one of the worst in the country as far as environmental cleanup. The committee has been well aware of the problem there. We have been trying to clean that…

First off, Mr. Chairman, I would ask the gentleman, are his children and grandchildren going to have power, the electric energy we are using now to cool this building? The light water reactor has been the workhorse for the past 40 years…

this subcommittee did support the SSC up to its final blow. It is not quite as simple as has been presented here today. In settlement for the SSC, the Federal Government agreed to a two-pronged approach, which this subcommittee opposed for…

The committee is well aware of the innovative ideas and work that the Pinellas County Board of Commissioners is doing in Florida. We hope this will be a model that more industry can take over where the corporations or the government moves…

this appropriation bill that is for water and energy development in our country is a bill that touches every congressional district in the country, and it was a difficult job this year, but, through the leadership of our fine staff and the…

I hope his analogy is not analogous of what happened in Texas, but yes, we have provided $6 million as requested.

Mr. Chairman, this goes to the ultimate commitment of $700 million of Federal taxpayer money. The Committee on Appropriations in its wisdom saw fit to add $5 million to the administration's request on the Animas-La Plata project. The…

the committee has worked with the gentleman from New York on this erosion problem for a number of years and is well aware of the problem. We certainly shall be working to make sure that the reconnaissance study is done and be working…

I join many friends of the Mikva family in welcoming Rabbi Rachel. The Mikva family and my family became friends many years ago when they first came to Washington. We lived in the same neighborhood. Little Rachel and our youngest daughter…

I rise this afternoon with sorrow to announce the passing of a former Member of Congress and a good friend of many of us, Richard L. Roudebush. Dick was a veteran of World War II. In 1953, Mr. Speaker, he was elected the State VFW…

Mr. Speaker, I rise just briefly this evening to talk about this issue and particularly the motion to recommit that is about to be made by the gentleman from Delaware. Mr. Speaker, I respect greatly the gentleman from Indiana and what he…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of this compromise worked out by our chairman, the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Clay], with strong help from the gentleman from Maryland [Mr. Hoyer], both of whom have worked very hard, not only…

Mr. Chairman, I certainly support the thrust, the intention, the direction that we are talking about here, reducing in force the number of employees for the Federal Government. Nothing new about that. We have heard for years from our…

I do not know of anyone in this House or anyone in the country who does not want to help the victims of this earthquake in California. Unfortunately, some of us have some difficulty about how we are going to accomplish this without doing…

Last month we were all shocked to learn that there had been another earthquake in southern California, and we were saddened and further shocked when we began to realize the magnitude, the thousands of people that were affected, the lives…

I do not know of anyone in this House or anyone in the country who does not want to help the victims of this earthquake in California. Unfortunately, some of us have some difficulty about how we are going to accomplish this without doing…