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my State, Louisiana, is suffering the worst national ecological disaster in the history of this country. Every year we lose up to 35 square miles of the most precious wetlands in America. The comprehensive energy bill we passed yesterday…
This Nation is suffering. We are in dire need of a policy that tells the energy future traders on Wall Street to quit running the prices up and to begin thinking about a future where we are producing more energy at home for our own people…
I share your grief at the passing of former President Ronald Reagan and join you in remembering his remarkable service to our country. I was fortunate to have served as a Member of Congress during President Reagan's eight year tenure. At…
CBO's estimates now indicate that this bill makes oncologists perfectly whole in this first year of the changeover. In fact, for the first 2 years, it is a neutral completely, and oncologists will be getting something like 2 2 o 3 times…
Mr. Speaker, for the second time in just a few months, Congress is on the verge of passing watershed consumer protection legislation. Less than 2 months ago, we enacted, in record time I might add, legislation that codified the ability of…
Mr. Speaker, it is the season of Thanksgiving, and this House is about to say thank you to a generation of Americans who we ought to say thank you to, and we are about to say it in the most important way we can. We are about to pass a $400…
When we came out of the movie, I said, Son, what did you take from this? What did this mean to you? And he thought a long while and in the car with me he said, what I take from this movie, Dad, is that freedom is meaningless without…
I got a letter from the Congressional Budget Office indicating that they prepared a preliminary estimate of the impact of the Democratic amendment to H.R. 1, the Democratic plan; and the estimate of CBO of their plan is $1 trillion. So a…
That is why we built an ASP, Average Sales Price, plus a percentage to give the smaller oncology units a chance to buy, in case the larger units buy at a lower price, they could at least get coverage on top of the Average Sales Price to…
Mr. Speaker, again let me read the language of the bill that the gentleman just referred to, that terrible piece of language. It says in effect that in administering the prescription drug benefit program established under this, the…
let me first pay special thanks and appreciation to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Baker) who has worked tirelessly this week to try to find some rational amendment to this bill that made it somewhat better for those of us who represent…
Mr. Speaker, there may be no other bill the House considers this year or next that will benefit America more than H.R. 6, the Energy Policy Act of 2003. Let me tell my colleagues what this conference report is about. It is about America's…
yes, it does. And it is a little complex, so let me try to explain. Briefly the requester would, in fact, pay the same transmission cost as any other transmission customer. The embedded cost language simply clarifies that in the up-front…
Mr. Speaker, after a very long and important debate, the American people will finally, finally get a comprehensive energy policy worthy of the challenges that they face. Everyone on both sides of the aisle and both sides of the Capitol…
ETBE is included within the definition of a renewable fuel. The conference report attempts to provide maximum flexibility to the refining marketplace to achieve the goals of both the new renewable fuels requirement and, therefore, ETBE is…
Our purpose in requiring GSA to spread this incremental cost across the entire Federal fleet is, in fact, to remove the cost disincentive for some Federal agencies, to improve EPACT compliance, and to minimize the overall cost to the…
The conferees intend that section 231 of the conference agreement shall go into effect immediately upon enactment and be available to license applicants in all ongoing and future hydroelectric licensing proceedings under the Federal Power…
Paul Gillmor and I make the following joint statement. The Committee on Energy and Commerce exercises exclusive jurisdiction over the protection of drinking water and groundwater sources. As a result, we believe it is essential that…
let me first indicate that, of course, I am rising in strong support of H.R. 2898, the E-911 Implementation Act of 2003. House bill 2898 has already passed the House Committee on Energy and Commerce; and it did so unanimously, as one might…
I am proud to rise in favor of S. 313, the Animal Drug User Fee Act (``ADUFA''), sponsored in the House by my good friend from Michigan, Mr. Upton. This legislation, modeled after the successful Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA), is…
let me make the most important point here. Environmentalists for years have argued that we ought to have environmental laws that require the polluter to pay, that the polluter ought to be responsible for cleaning up his act and that the…
In summation, let me again thank the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) and the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Dingell) for their extraordinary bipartisan cooperation in moving this as rapidly as we have. It is the sort of cooperation…
Mr. Speaker, let me again emphasize this is extraordinary. The court decision came out yesterday. The leadership of this House authorized this bill to the floor today. We are about to pass this bill, I believe the Senate is about to do the…
In fact, we have been asked so many times, is this a free-speech issue. The United States Constitution gives you the right to speak; it does not give you the right to be heard. None of us have an obligation to listen if we do not want to…
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