Steve Buyer

I wish to issue a statement in response and in disagreement with the position of the gentleman from Hawaii (Mr. Abercrombie) that only the Democrats' budget has a response to military health care. That is false.

This is a great bill. This is a bill that really would, in bold neon lights, focus on people. A lot of times we focus on buying, whether it is the aircraft carriers, the munitions, the weapons systems. This one focuses on people. This one…

I understand that, I understand that. I am just saying that what I most fear about is, in Kosovo shots can be taken and that has not happened in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The gentleman's point is well taken. Let me also compliment the gentleman…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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?

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…

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

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

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.

Let us stop and pause for a moment in where we are. This is a motion to recommit saying we are going to tell the President of the United States that he has to bring the troops home and we have to do it now. I have been before this body and…

Reclaiming my time, what makes me uncomfortable is the fact that we are going to set forth a process that when the Attorney General notifies the Department of Defense, then they have to provide, and it becomes very bothersome to me.

Mr. Chairman, I guess I would share with some of the speakers, the proponents of this amendment, they should bring the amendment to be the proponents for those who are diabetic and fight for the diabetes or fight for someone that is…

I reclaim my time to say I respect human life, yes, on my set of values, on the set of values that is the proponent of life as opposed to killing a human being.

But the sensitivity about the duality of the purposes, saying that this is a rocket system that could only launch a satellite, in essence is the same rocket system that it would take to send a nuclear warhead anywhere in the world.

This is not solely about rockets that may reach U.S. cities. We also have allies in the Pacific Rim for which we have responsibilities within that security of the world. And to think that China, when they had threatened Taiwan and the more…

Thirty seconds? Well, in 30 seconds, let me just say, let us do the right thing. I am a Member that is very disturbed about the transfers of technology. Just pause for a moment in this body. We serve a greater cause than corporations…

If many of my colleagues are sitting here somewhat confused and scratching their heads and trying to follow this debate and they think this is a bunch of lawyers speaking lawyerly language, I kind of agree with them

There have been many who have come to the well today and they have been requesting that this body take up the issue of censure of the President

I say that the censure resolution that was offered has specific findings of guilt and therefore makes it unconstitutional in its form

I am disappointed that coming out of the conference with the House and the Senate, the language that the House adopted has in fact been changed. We were seeking to have an independent commission to review what I find to be the very poor…

Just on the point on Bosnia, Mr. Speaker, part of the purpose I brought that legislation to the House floor is that I did not make up that day, that was the President's day. We sought to extend the time for him to fulfill that commitment.

And you plused up the budget over and above last year's number even though the President reduced his VA research?