Hal Rogers

Mr. Speaker, I will be brief. This is a motion that we can agree to. It is not controversial, at least on this side of the Capitol. But the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) is correct. After the embassy bombings in Africa, the…

Mr. Chairman, let me close with thanking the gentleman from New York (Mr. Serrano). As I said, he is a new member of the subcommittee, as well as being the new ranking member of the subcommittee, and that is a heavy chore dumped in his lap…

And does the gentleman also admit that the current-year budget resolution that was passed by this body also did not anticipate a single penny being spent for the decennial census in 2000?

if we really want to create a crisis, an emergency in everyone's definition, then we will support this amendment and force us to go back and cut the FBI, the DEA, the weather service, foreign embassies and the like 15 percent, which will…

Do not be sorry for that. Does the gentleman agree, though, that the 1997 budget deal that was voted by this body ignored any expenditures for the 2000 census?

Let me remind the body that just today the majority whip said on the floor, and he is correct, this comes out of the on-budget surplus; it does not come out of Social Security. The emergency declaration that we have, the $4.5 billion that…

It is certainly not a very good way to lobby for funds for an agency to treat the Congress in that fashion, if, in fact, that occurred. Certainly, we will keep all of these facts in mind as we finally come to a conclusion later this year…

Dear Gentlemen: We are writing to ask you to restore funding for FY 2000 for the Violent Offender Incarceration/ Truth-in-Sentencing (VOI/TIS) Prison Construction Grant Program at the FY 1999 level without offsets, set-asides or earmarks…

I rise in opposition. Mr. Chairman, the provision in the bill that this amendment seeks to strike, Mr. Chairman, does one thing only. It prohibits Federal tax dollars from paying for abortions for Federal prison inmates, except in the case…

Mr. Chairman, H.R. 2670, making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for fiscal year 2000, provides funding for programs whose impact ranges from the safety of people in…

for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the judiciary, and related agencies, the conference agreement provides a total of $33.7 billion, which includes: $27.6 billion in discretionary funding, $5.5 billion in crime trust…

That was the plan, the gentleman is correct, that this House passed, and now we hit this brick wall of the White House saying, no, siree, we are going to shut the government down until we get our way on the census.

What we should do is fund the entire year of this bill for all of these agencies, keep them going, not hold them hostage to this fight over the census; fund the decennial census only for the half year, until the courts have time to decide…

Apparently the gentleman does not believe that a balanced budget is important. This Congress achieved a balanced budget for the first time in 37 years. Apparently the gentleman does not believe that cutting taxes to the American people is…

I mean, the budget agreement that the gentleman agreed to, the President agreed to, under which we are operating, sets caps for spending. We are spending up to the caps. Now the President says disregard the caps; give us more money for X…

As far as knowing what the White House offsets are going to be so that we can know where the money is going to come from to pay for these extra frills that the President seems to want, we simply want to know what the cost is going to be…

Mr. Speaker, I rise also to pay tribute to our friend, a true patriot, a true statesman, a man we are all proud to call our friend, the gentleman from Pennsylvania, Mr. Joe McDade. In his service for his district for 18 terms, a remarkable…

the bill includes no less than $2.6 million in NOAA for this initiative, including $1.3 under the National Marine Fisheries Service to continue ongoing activities. In addition, the bill provides a $5 million increase for NMFS for…

However, in light of the recent outbreak of school shootings this year, I ask for the chairman's support as we work to make this bill law, and create new ways to prevent youth violence in our schools and give our communities the tools they…

Mr. Chairman, the notion of reducing arrearages at the United Nations is a good idea. The only problem is that in the Gilman-Helms authorization conference report which we refer to, this credit has already been used to reduce the amount of…

does the gentleman also know that the Federal statute says, ``Except for the determination of population for purposes of apportionment of Representatives in Congress among the several States, the Secretary shall, if he considers it…

I certainly appreciate the significance of salmon problems which exist on the West Coast. In fact, because of these problems, funding for endangered species programs has been increased by almost 200 percent over the last 3 years…

This country has been rocked by the outbreak of violent shootings and the senseless loss of life in our schools this past year. My hometown of Springfield, OR is still struggling with the pain and devastation of one of those shootings…

the point is well taken, but again it is the same effort. It is the effort to eliminate TV Marti funding. This year the bill includes $9.4 million for TV Marti, which represents a continuation of just basic funding. The gentleman's…

I have a letter in my hands from the Department of Commerce of the administration dated July 31 in which they say that they cannot support, in essence, this amendment. They say that we cannot support further reductions in this account or…