The fact is, Mr. Speaker, that this delegation was the highest-ranking delegation ever to appear not only in Taiwan, but it is the highest ranking one that I have ever been engaged in where the Speaker of the House, the dean of the House…

I believe that we had an enormously successful 2 years on the Committee on Appropriations, and that would not have been possible without the close advice and consultation with Mr. Obey. He has indeed been a friend. We have been…

I will be brief but sincere in my remarks. I thank my friend for taking out this time. Mr. Speaker, we are here to say bon voyage, good luck, and best wishes to our good friend, the gentleman from Iowa, Jim Ross Lightfoot, the…

I rise in favor of the rule and in support of the bill and would point to some of the change in my pockets, which the saying is on some of our currency, e pluribus unum, out of many comes one. The fact of the matter is that America is…

I am very, very pleased to rise along with all of the members of the New York delegation who have spoken, and I think it is testament to the character of Ham Fish, Jr., that he has had such a strong bipartisan show of support for his…

This Congress has chosen to cut back on the role of Government and fulfill the pledge of the President of the United States when he stood before this body several months ago and said to the American people that the era of big Government is…

Mr. Chairman, this is a cute way to avoid the Budget Act and appear as if we are throwing money at education and saying the children need education dollars. The fact is, if we look at President Clinton's own budget, we see that in 1996 the…

I would call the attention of the Members to the charts beside me. First, a chart depicting the expenditures of the U.S. Government in 1962, Jack Kennedy's heyday, when the Federal Government in that fiscal year spent $106.8 billion with a…

I have to say that I am compelled to set the record straight. We have just completed six bills in the appropriations cycle. We are going to complete the seventh tonight, the seventh, I remind the Members, before the July 4 recess. And how…

I rise in tribute to a great guy and a good friend, Bill Emerson, the third of my friends to pass away in the last 2 months, all under 58 years of age. We would all like to think we can make a difference in this world when we go. Bill…

today I wish to honor an exemplary public servant in my district, my good friend, Paul Spitzfaden, in recognition of 12 years of meritorious service as a visionary and remarkable successful mayor of the great town of Mandeville, LA. Paul…

First of all, the gentleman that preceded me is talking about the use of existing technology, which means we could deploy that right now. We have that equipment. That is not the issue. The gentleman is trying to substitute existing…

when we look at the advances of a hostile world out there, we begin to understand that if America does not prepare for what threats might develop in the future, that we may well find ourselves underprepared and not ready for those threats…

I think it is interesting just to listen to that conversation that just preceded us. The two gentlemen were talking past each other. One was talking about the ground-based system and the other was talking about some system that is out…

Mr. Chairman, while I take no position on his amendment, I would say to our colleagues that if his amendment succeeds, it would be my intention to take the full amount that has been deleted from title III and move it into title I so that…

Whether one supports aid to Turkey or not, one should agree that this is not the forum for such rhetoric. The substance of this amendment has been defeated time and time again in years past, and it should be defeated again. I urge the…

I know the gentleman from Indiana is schooled on foreign affairs and I know that perhaps he has the answers to these questions, but the thought has occurred to me, we have just, at the behest of the President of the United States, opened…

And perhaps the gentleman could tell me, has there every been any condition on Boris Yeltsin to own up to the terrible genocide imposed by the Stalin regime against 30 million Russian people and perhaps no telling how many Polish people…

As a matter of fact, was there any precondition on any assistance that we might have sent to our allies of today penalizing the French for what Napoleon might have done or for the British or for what the British Empire might have done…

I know that the gentlewoman is concerned about the genocide, as we all should be, by an event that happened almost a hundred years ago. But does the gentlewoman feel that the country of Israel, whose constituents suffered greatly at the…

my home city of New Orleans lost a great leader and a good man on Sunday when my friend Donald Mintz died in his sleep. Donald was a civic activist who worked unceasingly to improve living conditions in his city and a national Jewish lay…

I am not going to deny that abuses by various States around the country took place in the Medicaid Program years ago. They did. Two previous administrations of the Louisiana State government frankly abused the Medicaid Program; there is no…

Mr. Speaker, this conference report on H.R. 3019 wraps up all the appropriations matters for fiscal year 1996. I hope that this is lucky No. 14, because that is the number of temporary funding bills that we have had to get to this final…

I simply rise to point out, as chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime, that there are three contract with America crime bills that are incorporated in this today. The three that are in this bill that were contract with America bills are…

So much so that we would also get the government out of competition for American dollars. We would cease to borrow money. And if we could cease to borrow money, that means interest rates would come down, and by Alan Greenspan's estimates…