Mr. Chairman, I just heard the previous speaker say that the Republican position on the bill on the floor is extremism run amuck. After listening to him, I think his statement is hyperbole run amok. The fact of the matter is again we hear…

Mr. Chairman, the title 10 family planning program was created in the 1970's with the expressed mission to decrease teen pregnancy. Mr. Chairman, that mission has failed. I repeat, title X has been an abject failure. Unfortunately, more…

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…

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?

I personally supported the super collider as well, and think that the House and the Congress as a whole made a terrible mistake when it turned its back on that productive science and chose not to go forward with what would have reaped…

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…

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…

I support the Hoyer Amendment. I applaud the gentleman for offering it, and I support it wholeheartedly. His amendment unfortunately is just too extreme. The Burton amendment would cut 25 percent from the operating expenses of AID. A cut…

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 am very pleased to bring to the House what I believe to be an extraordinary--and I say to the gentleman from the Rules Committee [Mr. Dreier], nonmundane conference report to accompany H.R. 889, making emergency supplemental…

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 oppose the gentleman's motion, and I urge this House to adopt this bill. Postponing the will of Congress, delaying this effort for another 10 minutes, half an hour or whatever is not going to have any effect. The American people have…

we are going into the amendment process, a rather lengthy process, on this very important bill which cuts a net of $11 billion in spending, the largest rescission bill in the history of the country. It is a very important first step…

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.

Today we bring to the House our regular and emergency supplemental appropriations and rescissions bills, H.R. 1158 and H.R. 1159. These bills, the product of 10 subcommittees, were ordered reported by the Committee on Appropriations on…

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…

this bill only trims last year's appropriation by a net of $11 billion. Last year's appropriation in the total Federal budget ultimately amounted to $1.5 trillion. This a little item in the Federal budget. It was also appropriated when the…

Indeed, I would, if I can reclaim my time. The gentleman full well knows that the LIHEAP program was created at a time of highly escalating energy prices, when the energy prices in this country because of the energy crisis of the 1970's…

I have come late to this debacle on the floor today, but I cannot resist commenting on the irony of the concern about the much-vaunted Speaker's nonbook deal. Now, find me one American citizen who has turned down $4.5 or $3 million…

I rise today in strong support of efforts to revise our current Iraqi prisoner of war [POW] resettlement policy. It is difficult to imagine that the Government is currently resettling our former enemies--not in prisons--but in…