let me compliment the gentleman from California [Mr. Miller] for raising these concerns regarding law enforcement needs in the Northern Mariana Islands. We will work during the conference to include language to address the issue in the…

I support community-based initiatives to crime prevention and urge the Department to give favorable consideration to continue funding this program.

Mr. Chairman, the INS is checking every voter in that election, not one particular group. They are checking every voter to see if they were naturalized and what the date of naturalization was, whether you are of German descent or Irish…

Mr. Chairman, of course, I rise in opposition to the gentleman's amendment. Here we go again. Two years ago, this House overwhelmingly defeated a similar amendment. With all the talk of the exploding economy around the country, I have to…

Madam Speaker, I rise as well as the others to pay tribute to this great man. In this age of candidates and officeholders blown dry and buttoned down, much of us looking alike, Jimmy Quillen stands out. He is of the old school, and I say…

obviously, I stand here in support of a good, fiscally sound bill that provides for the national security, as well as for important comfort to small forgotten communities that are flooded routinely. I support the bill very strongly. Mr…

this morning I pay tribute to Ralph Gabbard, a friend and a servant to Kentucky. Ralph passed away Tuesday night at the young age of 50. Ralph was a radio and TV broadcaster all of his life. And from his teenage days as a radio disc jockey…

These steps are in addition to the funding we already voted out of the House for antiterrorism in fiscal 1997. We voted for an additional $210 million as a part of our bill just last week including $171 million more for the FBI alone. This…

Mr. Chairman, as I said yesterday, the EEOC is handling the case load, the backlog, in a very efficient way. They are beginning to reduce that backlog, not as much as we would all like to see, but nevertheless the backlog is being reduced…

I have heard from several of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle who are concerned about funding for the State maritime academies. As the gentlewoman knows, there are 65 ships ready to scrap and if a way could be worked out to allow…

The committee intends that NOAA make El Nino research a priority and use some of the funds within this account to expand the program to include regional application centers, like the proposal that the gentleman has mentioned and has been…

We have plenty of money in this bill for the information infrastructure grant programs for rural areas. I come from a rural area, and as chairman I saw to it there was sufficient funding in this bill for that purpose. We provide the same…

the debate here has demonstrated what I just said. This is too complicated for us to deal with in an appropriations bill times 10. We have biotechnology involved, doctors' rights, medicine, and technical advice in every aspect. The…

with respect to the $25 million included in the committee report under the formula funds of the Byrne grant program, it is my intention to see that these funds be made available under the formula distribution. Under the bill, States and…

Congress has made it a national priority to help States in the safe recovery of endangered children, and in addition to the $6 million in funds already provided as an earmark under the justice assistance account for the missing children's…

They have a huge increase. This will not be a problem. There is $20 million in the bill for technology programs and $10 million related to anti-terrorism. This amendment would simply ensure that $10 million of that must go for this purpose.

I think the gentleman has offered an excellent amendment. We are in favor of the amendment. I urge its adoption and commend the gentleman for his career-long work on this project.

what the substitute does and it has been discussed with the gentleman from New York [Mr. Schumer] and the gentleman from New Mexico [Mr. Schiff], is provide $10 million rather than $20 million for counterterrorism technology and take it…

we would think that, from the debate from the other side, that we were shutting down the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. As I have said before, we give the EEOC the same amount of money in this bill as they have this year. They…

Reclaiming my time, that is just not correct. We already have reduced the amount they requested by $70 million, as I said, for that very reason. Some of the prisons were slipping on the opening time. We are accounting for that. We reduced…

this amendment represents a compromise reached with the authorization committee chairman, the gentleman from Pennsylvania regarding the use of funding provided for the Advanced Technology Program under NIST. The bill funds ATP at $110.5…

My colleagues from Virginia have been tenacious in bringing the problems at Lorton prison to my attention. It is certainly a situation which needs to be addressed in the near future. As the gentleman have requested, I will work in…

Mr. Chairman, this $29.5 billion appropriations bill for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for fiscal 1997, opens a new chapter in our effort to bring crime and drugs and our borders under…

My amendment adds language to the bill which specifies that the funds provided in the bill are only for the purpose of closing out all commitments under the ATP program.

the wound of this loss is so fresh for all of us that it is difficult to place into words the kind of love and respect and admiration that we held for our friend, and truly Bill Emerson was a personal friend. He was not just a friend, he…