I think that this is a matter that ought to come before the Members for another vote. Because quite possibly notwithstanding my tirades of the first half of business today, Members did not really understand that despite all of the good…

I realize that my friend, the gentleman from California, is not entirely happy with this bill, but this, for my friends on the Republican side, is a good bill. Members can always find reasons to vote against this bill: they do not…

Moving right along, Mr. Speaker, the bill directs the Architect of the Capitol to sell a House office building that has been declared excess and enacts into law $1.2 billion in legislative savings from the various housing programs under…

the gentlewoman is correct. Actually it goes a little bit beyond that. They can actually engage in providing grants up to 75 percent of previous monthly levels. So the fact is they cannot only service old grants, but they can engage in…

My friends, the hour is late and this will be the last time I will have a chance to address this bill... There is plenty to complain about in this bill, from the conservative side, from the liberal side, perhaps even in the middle.

my answer to the gentleman is that when the Democrats in the Senate will vote this bill through the Senate and we can go to conference and send the bill to the President, then we can get all the funding that the conference will allow.

this funding would be more than what was in that conference report. The gentleman is correct that while we provide for the conference levels of funding for most programs, several of those programs which were terminated or slotted for…

I would say it is a 75-percent cap as opposed to a floor. With that acknowledgment, I would say that the provisions of this particular legislation that we pass today do not affect programs that were addressed in targeted appropriations or…

However, I might add that, as the gentleman knows, for this year and in years past we have continued to appropriate within the discretionary budget limits which are being reduced more and more and more. The fact is that this Congress…

Mr. Speaker, I rise to urge Members to vote ``yes'' on S. 1124, the revised fiscal year 1996 National Defense Authorization Act, and point out that this is just another example of how Members on our side have reached out and tried to…

Mr. Speaker, it is important also to understand that throughout this very long first year of this change in direction of government for the first time in 60 years, we have passed seven appropriations bills, which encompass about two-thirds…

as a pro-life Member, I have to say that I have to address the concerns expressed by the gentleman from Missouri a few minutes ago. The fact is that this bill does extend the terms and conditions for Medicare-Medicaid funding from last…

decency, common sense, good-faith, all of those great words are nice but here is the agreement, in case we forget. But here is the resolution that passed the House of Representatives and the Senate and went to the President and he agreed…

I am pleased to bring to floor a motion to dispose of the Senate amendment to H.R. 1643. This bill originated in the House as a grant of most-favored-nation status to Bulgaria. The Senate amended this bill by striking all of the text of…

In fact, there have been Republicans and Democrats who have abused the travel rules. Personally, I think that we ought to take the travel abuse question before the standing committees, and thoroughly review the criteria under which travel…

it is simply not true. It funds Medicaid under the same terms and conditions that existed last year, and we did not do it that way last year.

I agree with my friend, the gentleman from Kentucky. This is, indeed, an opportunity for a real deal. Today we can vote to override the President. We can solve many of the problems we heard the President complain about just a little while…

I stand corrected, Mr. Speaker. I apologize for pointing that out. Mr. Speaker, I might add that on this bill alone, which is the real crime bill, if the President had not vetoed it, if he were sincere in his concerns that he expressed on…

I know that that represents a large sentiment in the minority, the minority. My colleagues, I address these comments to my friends on this side, we are the majority. We have been elected to set the agenda. One of the planks in the Contract…

I agree with the gentleman's conclusions. This Congress has made great strides in making deep cuts in the Federal budget. To date, the appropriations process has yielded net savings in fiscal year 1995 and 1996 of approximately $44…

I specifically would like the gentlewoman to express her intent, her individual intent, the author of this amendment's intent. Would a contractor who expressly uses his or her, or its own money, private money, be entitled to lobby under…

if the gentlewoman would allow me to clarify something, is it her intent with this amendment to say that no contractor will use Federal funds but will not be denied the right to lobby by using their own private funds?

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…

if it is the gentlewoman's express intent not to deny private individuals, private corporations, from using their own private funds for lobbying the U.S. Congress, and that her intent is exclusively to deny the right of use of Federal…

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…