Harold Rogers

Now imagine what a one-year old today will experience as he heads into the 21st century.

$140,000,000 for the COPS program--$117,500,000 for hiring, $10,000,000 for community prosecutors; and $12,500,000 for management and administration.

Yet, little William sits on that exciting threshold--filled with great opportunity and hope.

There were also a number of language provisions that changed.

I rise to explain the Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary portion of H.R. 3194, making consolidated appropriations for fiscal year 2000.

H.R. 3421 provides an additional $616,282,000 in funding, after scorekeeping adjustments.

the question here is fairness, purely and simply. Why not treat us fairly? Do not be fooled. We are paying twice to the United Nations for these peacekeeping operations. Number one, we are paying three times, almost, what Japan pays in…

If the gentleman will yield, and I will close with this, the one compliment, the one way that Bill Natcher found to compliment you when you did something that he liked, he would say, ``You are going to turn out OK in my journal.'' You…

Bill Natcher, of course before he came to this body, was in Kentucky a Commonwealth attorney, which is a State prosecuting attorney, which happened to have been my background as well, and I wish I could emulate Bill Natcher, but that is…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding me this time. Mr. Chairman, the gentleman who preceded me is accurate. He is very on target. I noticed the President the other day requested or is going to request $600 million for South Africa, for…

many of the speakers on this amendment this afternoon have no idea of the depth of poverty with which we are trying to deal in most of Appalachia. Mr. Chairman, I submit to the gentleman from Florida that the unemployment rate in Naples or…

due to a personal tragedy, the death of my closest friend, Dr. Stephen Kelley, I will be unable to cast my vote today against H.R. 4296, the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994, so that I may attend his funeral in Somerset, KY. While I loathe to…

Mr. Speaker, I think we all watched that light up there knowing that it would come on before the voting time expired because it always has. We have always known that, all but two Members of this body who came here senior to Mr. Natcher…