Edward Livingston

We are dealing with agency versus contract for hire, contract for products. There is a real distinction, and to say to anybody who is a contractor who deals with the Federal Government that you cannot lobby is in essence, frankly, to deny…

I do not know whether he will win or whether I will win, but I hope that America wins, and I hope that America's children win, and I think they will with this bill, contrary to the statements of the gentleman from Maryland, who went before…

I point out, as regretful as that incident was when all those people died because of the heat, not one of them was saved by the existing LIHEAP program which is in full operation today. The LIHEAP program did not do them any good. Second…

I commend the gentleman on his position. I think he has been true to his word from the very beginning, from the inception of his support for the Super Collider project, throughout that project, and since then.

At this point, there is nothing really that the gentleman can do except to clarify the record that it was not the intent of the Congress when this legislation first went through in fiscal year 1995 that the $65 million would be used for…

But was that not the intention of the Congress when they decided to leave the $65 million with the State of Texas after the super collider project collapsed?

Then the State of Texas asked for the money, accepted the money, and was to use the money for the cancer research facility, but since that decision has been made and all agreements were expected to go forward, the State of Texas has…

The gentleman's characterization of the bill is not my own. I would only say that when one attempts to downside Government, nobody is going to be completely satisfied, but of course the purpose in referring this message to committee and…

Every day that goes by, the American taxpayer loses some $25 million in savings. That is one estimate that I have seen. The fact is that the bureaucracy continues to spend money. And if we are going to reap anything near the $9.2 billion…

I was very, very, pleased by the product of the conference between the House and the Senate on the last rescission bill when we provided the military with $3 billion in additional funds for their readiness shortfall, and at the same time…

I agree with his points. I would add, though, that the administration made a commitment to Jordan that there would be three tranches in response to the President's agreement to forgive Jordanian debt; that one would be expected to be…

I would only say that Federal firefighting alone cost $1 billion in 1994 and whoever sent this flier out that says Speaker Gingrich is for the Yates amendment and against this Taylor amendment is wrong. This is not true.

The bottomline is simple: The scant environmental benefits to be gained from these flawed programs fall way short of the costs involved in implementing them. By preventing EPA from enforcing these requirements through the end of the fiscal…