Timothy Roemer

I have opposed many of the gentleman's cuts in Head Start programs for children and Medicare for senior citizens.

I am in support of making rational, fair cuts in science as I am in the B-2 bomber, but I am not going to sit here and engage in a colloquy with the gentleman from Pennsylvania as to which national laboratory should be shut down.

B-2 cuts, CIA cuts; I voted for a host of cuts. We disagree on where we should cut.

I am sure the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Wamp] would identify Oak Ridge as a stellar laboratory. The problem around here, Mr. Walker, is everybody thinks they have a stellar one, so we do not cut anybody's anything around here, and what…

Actually, Mr. Chairman, what the Galvin report said, I would say to the gentleman from New Mexico [Mr. Richardson], was we should corporatize or privatize a host of laboratories. We are not in favor of that. The gentleman from Wisconsin…

I say ``thank you'' to the chairman for his support for this amendment, and to the gentleman from Tennessee who just spoke, I share a great deal of admiration for him. He was at many of the hearings where we debated the future of our…

Mr. Chairman, with that in mind, we are saying as 535 Members of Congress today, since the Senate did not put this in their bill, we have the opportunity to save the taxpayers one-half billion dollars, and $20 billion over the course of…

I have never voted for a legislative appropriations bill in the 4 years that I have been in Congress. But for the first time, in a bipartisan way, in order to balance the budget, in order to work together across aisles, and I hope this is…

this debate is not about who is for balancing the budget and who is not for balancing the budget. Many of us Democrats are going to make the right choices and vote to cut the B-2 bomber and not to kick children out of the Head Start…

But certainly we have the ability on the floor today to try to correct the bill that is kicking 48,000 children off of Head Start, and I know the gentleman from Arkansas would love to support those children. We do not want to go to places…

I am for a balanced budget, I am trying to make some of these tough choices to balance the budget for our children's sake and future generations. I am from South Bend, IN, where the weather can be 50 degrees below zero.

I was on the floor 1\1/2\ hours ago talking about how this bill is devastating and cutting Head Start children out of the program when even President Reagan, President Bush, talked about how much do we increase this bipartisan program that…

as medical students learn to become doctors, as they learn about healing, as they learn about hope, as they learn about improving the course of humanity, they learn very, very early about the Hippocratic oath: First do no harm. Mr…

If you cannot have the young people with the knowledge, skills and talent to work with this high technology, then you are going to have a problem.

I do not think the horse is in front of the cart or the cart is in front of the horse at all. I think the two are directly interconnected. If you cannot invest in your people and education----

world electricity demands are expected to triple in the next century--we will need nuclear power to meet this need. We need technologies that reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources--we now consume $1 billion in foreign oil imports…

it is the strong position of many people who support this substitute that we support such ideas as cost-benefit analysis, risk assessments, and the takings. I was one of the 72 Democrats who voted for that legislation. I hope if those two…

In our substitute on page 130 there are exemptions on the wetlands and activities that do not require the permits, and in general this section reads: (A) . . . Activities are exempt from the requirements of this section and are not…

I would just say, and I know the gentleman has much more experience upon this committee than I do, I have only been on the committee since 1991, but as a member of the authorizing committee, I would hope that we could get this bill out to…

I would just like to congratulate the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Walker] and the gentleman from California [Mr. Brown] for their hard work on this important legislation. H.R. 655 will support very, very vital work for us to look into…

last week we debated the Personal Responsibility Act. Today we are debating the Tax Irresponsibility Act. This bill is irresponsible for two reasons. First of all, this bill will cost over a 10-year period $700 billion; not million…

in the last 91 days here in the United States Congress, we have passed some new legislation to give the President and the Congress more ability to cut spending and reduce the deficit. I voted for the line-item veto; I voted for the…

This debate today is one about a fair rule to allow us cuts in corporate programs and subsidies, to help heat the kitchens and the bedrooms for senior citizens or to help pregnant women deliver healthy babies. It is about a rule that is…

The second point is that the gentleman used the rules in this Chamber as a member of the minority, or objected to those rules when they were not fair, in instances like A to Z. I assume the gentleman signed the discharge petition for A to…

I would continue along this path that we are debating here and say that it is equally shameful, not only not to provide us the opportunity to cut some of this waste and some of this pork, but to then pit great programs one against the…