Steve Buyer

Mr. Chairman, over the last 30 years the availability of abortion services at military medical facilities has been subjected to numerous changes and interpretations. In January 1993, President Clinton signed an executive order directing…

Mr. Chairman, I would ask Members to permit the eyes of their minds to see a greater vision here and to not be so narrow to think of this as Kosovo and Kosovo only. What concerns me most is that this is about funding a national military…

let me ask the gentleman from California (Mr. Hunter) this question: I have the sense that the military planners in the Pentagon, in order to maintain readiness levels to their comfort, they have taken money that should have gone to…

If we do not have access to some of our high tech munitions such as laser-guided munitions, where an aircraft can stay miles up and drop a laser-guided munition through the front door of a target, I have heard comments, the hall comments…

The large request that I put in was in excess of $800 million. My district: Agricultural. A lot of corn, soybeans, wheat, a lot of pork, cattle, chickens, duck production, automobiles. I do not have the big defense contractors. So those…

One of the examples the Chief of the Army Reserve put on the list, he requested fire trucks. It would be very easy for someone who does not know anything about the military to look at the list of equipment necessities under the emergency…

Well, I will close this tonight and reclaim my time that on May 13 we will mark up the Subcommittee on Military Personnel's Chairman's mark and we are going to address the increase in military pay. We are going to change the pay tables to…

I would like to advise America that I have held the line on the increase, the demand for the increase out of the Pentagon on general officer strength. The force that fought World War II, that military force, is completely different from…

I rise in support of H.R. 1376, the bill to extend tax benefits to our brave American military personnel serving in support operations in Yugoslavia. Historically this benefit has been applied to designated combat zones. Let me be very…

So if we have a B-1 bomber, a B-2, a B-52, an air fueling mission from the United States that goes over and they come back, if they find themselves in the combat zone, they are covered by the gentleman's legislation?

on February 25 I testified before the Subcommittee on Trade panel of the Committee on Ways and Means regarding the crisis of the United States steel industry caused by the flood of illegal imports. At the hearing I stated that imposing…

Mr. Chairman, I rise here in support of the base bill, I rise in opposition to the Fowler amendment, and I rise in opposition to the Gejdenson amendment. Now I need to explain myself to my colleagues, and let me do it in this manner…

You do not blame others for your mistakes. Unfortunately, the President did not follow these principles. His criminal misconduct and dereliction of his executive duties do meet the constitutional threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors…

While I appreciate the intentions of the supporters of censure, I, nonetheless, urge Members to oppose it, because it is a fraud and assault upon the Constitution. Censure is not an authorized alternative to impeachment. Congress has the…

these issues about whether Ms. Lewinsky, in her statement, the President never explicitly told her to lie, the President and Ms. Lewinsky did have a scheme to mislead and deceive the court through the use of cover stories and the proffer…

I am here to also speak on behalf of steel workers across the country, and particularly those in Indiana, who are in the midst of an unprecedented flood of foreign steel. The steel industry is an industry fueled on the backs of…

Throughout the entire presidency of Theodore Roosevelt our forces were never ordered into battle. Theodore Roosevelt understood that the ultimate purpose of military power is to deter conflict and he, in fact, achieved that goal during his…

Mr. Speaker, on September 28 I chaired a Subcommittee on Military Personnel hearing that examined the evidence supporting the award of the Medal of Honor to Theodore Roosevelt for his valor on July 1, 1898, during the Battle of San Juan…

Americans take their medicine in pills, shots, sprays, solutions, drops, creams, and suppositories... but no medicine in the United States is smoked. Proponents of marijuana argue that our compassion for those suffering physical ailments…

I rise to state that obedience to criminal law and fairness does not recognize special treatment as being requested.

I rise tonight to mark an important historical event for the Armed Forces, and indeed, for our Nation. On July 26, 1948, just over 50 years ago, President Truman signed Executive Order 9981 ordering the racial integration of the Armed…

I would like to extend special compliments to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Regula) and the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Yates) not only for this bill, but I appreciate their willingness to work this out. Right now in northwest Indiana and…

I have no intention by this amendment to prevent the Fish and Wildlife from extending funds in the planning function of its proposed project to protect the biodiversity.

They can go ahead and do the planning. They cannot go in and designate and purchase lands.

I include for the Record my statement in support of the fiscal year 1999 energy and water appropriations, and thank both of the gentlemen for their contributions to this bill and their service to our country. I would like to thank Chairman…