Hal Rogers

Then I am not so sure we need to agree to this amendment. If there is going to be an objection on the time allocation of this strict a nature, then perhaps we need to renegotiate the whole thing, so I withdraw my approval of the amendment.

The provision in this bill the amendment seeks to strike does one thing only, it prohibits Federal tax dollars from paying for abortions for Federal prison inmates except in the case of rape or the life of the mother. The bill requires…

I rise in opposition. The perfecting amendment and the amendment both would do away with the funding for TV Marti. The gentleman from Colorado, a friend and member of our subcommittee who has served so well in this Congress and in our…

H.R. 4276, the Commerce, Justice, State and Related Agencies appropriations bill for fiscal year 1999 provides the funding for a multitude of programs that directly benefit the people that all of us represent and that we are sworn to…

I rise today in honor of Officer J.J. Chestnut and Special Agent John Gibson who were tragically slain in the line of duty this past Friday. Words do little to reveal the sense of gratitude we feel for their heroic actions or the sense of…

Mr. Speaker, today I am introducing legislation to overhaul and dramatically improve the Nation's immigration system. The bill would enact the reforms proposed by the bipartisan Commission on Immigration Reform, headed by the late Barbara…

the gentleman from Wisconsin and the chairman of the committee is correct. Just on the Commerce-State-Justice bill it will take 12 or 13 hours of staff time just to read through, to proofread, that one bill. So we need a lot of lead time…

my colleague on the committee is exactly right. The motion, if passed, would insist upon the House position, which is zip, nothing. In order for us to be able to compromise, the gentleman's motion should have been a motion to disagree with…

I think he and I more or less agree on what should be the final result: No permanent extension. I believe sincerely that the gentleman's motion, if successful, would prevent that.

the bill now includes $3 million for the women's business centers and $194,000 for the National Women's Business Council. Given the strong support within the Senate and the worthy goals of both programs, I am committed to working with the…

the bill provides $642 million for the National Weather Service, and including a $15 million increase over fiscal year 1997 appropriated levels for base operations, and a $17 million increase over fiscal year 1997 appropriated levels for…

I am not aware that the Justice Department is studying the medicinal uses of marijuana. If the gentleman knows about that, I will be very interested to know about it. But, Mr. Chairman, I have no objection to the amendment, and in fact…

And, of course, we do not appropriate for the office of the drug czar in the White House. We appropriate for the Justice Department. Now if the gentleman has information that the Justice Department is studying the legalization or medicinal…

Mr. Chairman, I state that I am in opposition only in a very technical sense in order to be able to speak to the gentlewoman's concerns. Let me say first off that the gentlewoman has raised a very troublesome matter to all of us. I think…

I am aware of the problems with alien smuggling in Nebraska and Iowa that the gentleman from Nebraska has raised. It is for that very reason that the House report includes language directing INS to review the requirements of State and…

the bill currently states that payment of U.N. arrearages is subject to passage of an authorization. If the Bartlett amendment fails, that will be the position of the House going into conference. It is my intention to press for the House…

this is new law. This is a new procedure. We are trying to respond to the criticisms that LSC has had in the past that they did not have the authority nor the interest in debarring and taking away the contract of a grantee that violates…

I am well aware of the gentleman's concerns on this issue, and he raises valid points. As the gentleman is aware, I have been working to improve the efficiency of the State Department, and this is another example where the State Department…

So we make it illegal for them to waive the criminal check by the FBI before they grant citizenship, as they did last year in at least 180,000 cases, and we have 10,000, at least, felons walking the streets of America today because the INS…

I will not take the full time. However, since the gentleman has brought up this subject, it requires me to say a couple of words about the problem at INS. One of the problems at INS last year, when we discovered that INS had granted…

I am very sympathetic to the needs of Texas and other States that have the highest criminal alien incarceration populations and believe that the additional $100 million the House provides for in the program will alleviate most of the…

We believe this program has merit and is a good amendment, and we have no objection to it and support its adoption.

I agree that every effort must be made to ensure that victims are not forgotten in the criminal justice system. The measures included in this year's appropriations bill send us in the right direction to meeting the needs of victims of…

INS at this very moment is processing 5,000 revocations of citizenship because they are criminals; 5,000, and they have just started counting.

I think the gentlewoman has brought up a very, very salient point. Her amendment is well-deserved. I am prepared to accept it.