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Hal Dallas Rogers is a U.S. Representative for Kentucky's 5th congressional district, having served since January 3, 1981. A member of the Republican Party, he has been involved in various legislative efforts throughout his tenure. Rogers has focused on issues such as economic development, healthcare, and education, particularly in rural areas of Kentucky. He has also been known for his work on the Appropriations Committee, where he has played a significant role in federal funding decisions.
this bill contains $3.85 billion to continue operations and activities of the Transportation Security Administration for the remainder of fiscal year 2002. I am pleased to report that this is the same level as approved by the House in its…
Overall, this is a good bill. By establishing a demonstration program of limited duration and strict standards, we will be able to assess the benefits and risks of arming commercial airline pilots. The bill does not require pilots to carry…
Mr. Speaker, let me speak briefly to the motion that is before us insofar as it relates to parts of the supplemental that are not the military branch part; specifically, the Transportation Security Administration, which our subcommittee…
Mr. Chairman, we are prepared to accept the amendment. However, I would like this opportunity to just remind Members that what this amendment would do is increase the amounts available from the user fee trust fund for the purposes of…
Reclaiming my time, I fully understand that. But I am having some difficulty understanding that those earlier who objected to the use of trust funds for airport security and struck $466 million from the bill that was designed for that…
what is happening here is once the sections were stricken earlier, no longer will these expenses that we are talking about for the sky marshals and the screeners and the like be taken from the airport trust fund; it will be taken from the…
then perhaps we need to reduce taxes. If we are not going to use the trust fund monies for trust fund purposes, perhaps we need to reduce that tax; and perhaps we ought to ask the Committee on Ways and Means to address the issue of taxing…
I ask the gentleman, is it not true that there are unobligated, unexpended, surplus, noncommitted funds in the airport trust fund at this moment?
would they also be available for such things as bomb detection machines at the airports?
I have served on this subcommittee for 10 or 12 years at least. I know how difficult it is to balance the needs of the Members of this body and the needs of the Nation, frankly, and these vital programs that this bill covers. I have to…
That was under indictment, in fact pled guilty in Philadelphia. So if that company or any other company could qualify under the conditions that we set down, sure. But I have got a feeling, as far as I am concerned, that the standards would…
I would appreciate the gentleman responding and respecting my time, as I respected his. Of course, I did not say that. I would never say something like that. I did not say that it would be minimum wage employees operating expensive…
What you do need, Mr. Speaker, is a Federal agent there, with the proper authority, to receive information from our security agencies, the CIA, the FBI, the INS, the DEA, all of the Federal agencies that have something to do with learning…
Is there anything that would prevent the transportation authorization committee recommending to the floor and the floor passing this amount of money as a mandatory account immediately? Is there anything wrong with doing that? Why can we …
Mr. Speaker, I have never reflected on the meaning of America's motto before this time, I have to admit. But it says it all, I think, and that motto, of course, is ``E Pluribus Unum,'' Out of Many, One. America is united now as I have not…
does the gentleman also realize that, if the rulemaking that will be adopted sometime this early fall is not severe enough to ensure the safety of American citizens from Mexican trucks, that Congress can always address the question at that…
I am proud to inform him of the work the committee has done in our oversight hearings and in this bill to address the serious issue of airline delays. I am also pleased to report that the bill includes $8.5 million, which the Federal…
the highway cuts are rather severe, such as the $187 million this would cut from the highway construction account, and I would point out that with 75 percent of the fiscal year already expired, these monies are obligated. The monies being…
when they write the book on the model congressman, I think Herb Bateman should be chapter one. Here is a gentleman who, although soft spoken most of the time, when he saw a wrong-headed position being taken or he saw the Nation's interest…
I know of few districts that are impacted as significantly as the gentleman's district in Georgia. In fact, we included an additional $11 million in the bill which was not requested by the administration to expand this QRT program around…
Mr. Chairman, let me try to dispel some misunderstandings about peacekeeping and what we fund in this bill. For example, we did not fund in this bill the NATO mission in Kosovo. We fund the peacekeeping portion of the effort in Kosovo…
Well, reclaiming my time, I have already said to the gentleman that we may yet approve a peacekeeping expenditure for Ethiopia. There has been an accord signed since we marked the bill up. That will be forthcoming. We could reprogram money…
if, in fact, we can establish peace in Sierra Leone, we can reprogram money for them, as well.
No, I was not elected Secretary of State. I would not have the slightest idea how to be Secretary of State. What I was elected to do, though, by my constituents at home and by my colleagues in the House is to be sure that we are spending…
if the U.N. Security Council votes for a peacekeeping mission in Ethiopia, which they have not done as yet, as the gentleman knows, but if there is, in fact, a peace accord there and the parties are withdrawing, so that a peace exists and…
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