Timothy Roemer

I would add that while there is not necessarily a need to return to the 1984 staffing levels, there is concern that the basic functions of the manufactured housing programs, such as issuing interpretations and updating even…

Mr. Chairman, one of the primary purposes of the bill we are discussing today is to provide affordable housing for Americans. Certainly one major source of affordable, quality and unsubsidized housing is manufactured housing. At an average…

In this body we all talk about putting our families first and about balancing the budget. But I find it very difficult to understand how Republicans have cut $38 million from the WIC Program when the WIC Program is the single best…

I just hope that we are not doing too little too late. That the Russians, if they are going to be genuine partners, that they pay their bills on time, that they genuinely perform the services that they are contracted under, and I would…

I support about 80 percent of the NASA budget. I do not support a space station that started at $8 billion and now has costs of $100 billion over the lifetime of the contract. But I do support so many good things that are taking place in…

Mr. Speaker, I rise as the proud sponsor of H.R. 3576, to designate the new Federal bankruptcy court located at 401 South Michigan Street in South Bend, IN, as the Robert Kurtz Rodibaugh United States Bankruptcy Courthouse. This bipartisan…

Oftentimes over the last 2 years in this Congress we have not been bipartisan and we certainly have not looked out for the best interests of our children. Tomorrow, with the partial-birth abortion ban vote, we have an opportunity to be…

I am a strong advocate for MFN. I seem to disagree with Mr. Wolf and Ms. Pelosi on this particular issue, but it is not because I am not outraged about MFN, or that I am not upset with the Chinese Government for orphanages and abortion, or…

But within NASA there are probably only 100 higher priorities than this sending monkeys into space for the Russians. There are only probably one million higher priorities within our own budget with $15 million, and certainly there are…

My statement would be that the American taxpayers work very hard for the money they send here, and they probably would like to see it spent on shuttle safety or on science like the Galileo program, but not on Russian monkeys going up into…

In relation to wind standards, that he very articulately discussed on his time that the gentleman from California and I were in Congress before the gentleman from Indiana, and we worked very closely with the industry and very closely with…

I think that the budget that we came up with, the blue dog coalition budget, balances the budget by the year 2002. It cuts wasteful spending out of Washington. But we did not cut a dime out of education. We did not cut a nickel out of…

I voted for a line-item veto for President Bush. I voted for the rule to give the line-item veto immediately to the President 2 hours ago. This motion will say, do not wait until 1997, do not play politics, do not do what the American…

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

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…

We should not delegate our tough choices to a committee or to a commission to make the choices to close national laboratories. We are elected to represent the people and the taxpayers. We should make those choices right here right now.

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…

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.

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----

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…