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Think about it, there is no other place in America, not even our Federal courts, where you go and you are presumed guilty. Even in Federal criminal court you are presumed innocent, and until the State proves you guilty you walk out a free…
Indeed, to go back to taxes, the Kemp Commission reported that the average small business in America spends $4 complying with the Tax Codes for every $1 they send the Federal Government. Think about that, when our forms and our regulations…
You know, the freshmen, Jon, all of you guys, have taken a lot of heat in the press, being too hardnosed, too rigid, inflexible. The truth is, the freshmen came to this House with a very refreshing concept. It was a concept that the…
the tax man cometh tonight, and if there was ever a more abominable tax system than the American income tax system, we have yet to see it on the face of the planet. It came to use by a two-thirds vote. It did not come to this Chamber, to…
I am a former trial lawyer. I still hold a law degree. Let me also disabuse you all of a notion: This House is not composed of a majority of lawyers. Only 170 Members of this House admit or believe they have a law degree; 435 Members, 170…
In fact, Mr. Speaker, not only are we not doing the right things, the law encourages landowners to do the wrong things, as the chairman of the committee pointed out. We heard the testimony of one landowner whose father left him this…
one of the things the gentleman from California [Mr. Pombo] has talked about at a number of our hearings was the fact that, overall, there are 4000 species waiting to get listed right now under the Government command and control system…
You mean a biologist could nominate a species, and on the basis of his information could get listed and impact millions of Americans?
a perfect example, this black bear deal in Louisiana. Not only was the conservation program working without any mandates from the Federal Government, not only was the black bear recovering nicely, but, believe it or not, the Department of…
I thought of something else that really does not make any common sense. Under the law, the way it is written today, interpreted by the Supreme Court, if I own a piece of property that may harbor some endangered species and I want to alter…
the biggest absurdity in my mind though, it is a fact that all of these decisions are being made without the benefit of good science. The law right now says that a listing can occur with what is called best available data, B-A-D. Bad…
I want you to think with me, if we were able to change the law, if we could get something past this Congress and signed by the President to bring some commonsense environmentalism to endangered species laws, and we had a situation where…
If I own a piece of property that I thought was mine and I want to enhance it for wildlife conservation, if there is an endangered species on it, I cannot even do that. The Government will not let me even enhance my property.
as the principal author of section 365 of the conference report, I rise to amplify the limited description of this provision in the statement of managers. In essence, this provision will permit a large ocean-going American-flag vessel…
let me see if I can help set the record straight. Our bill does not give away spectrum to the broadcasters to do anything with other than to broadcast over the air in this transition from one technology to the other. And then it requires…
several years ago in this House we debated a thing called program access in connection with the cable industry. It was a grand debate. It produced an override of a veto on that cable bill that year. But more importantly, what it produced…
I'd like to commend the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Oxley] and the gentlewoman from Arkansas [Mrs. Lincoln] for their bipartisan cooperation on this bill. To paraphrase Mark Twain, regulatory reform is a lot like the weather. Everybody talks…
as we meet here on the eve of a new year, as we begin 1996 with the budget still unresolved, I think it is important to speak of the situation in historical context. In the 15 rac{1}{2} ext{ years that I have been in Congress, I only…
we are in this crisis on this bill I think for one reason. It probably was summarized in a letter the President sent to the Senate committee considering the bill on property rights. His letter said, ``I don't care how you modify the bill…
the letter I referred to, I will tell my friend, is a letter the President sent to the committee considering property rights legislation, one of the environmental reforms we have been fighting for on this House floor. The letter I referred…
the President said that when he vetoed this bill. When he vetoed this bill, he said I would rather have 133,000 out of work than sign legislation that has modest environmental reforms.
to hear the rhetoric in this debate one would think that most of the Government is shut down. That is not true. Most of the Government is up and running. It is about one-fifth of the Government that is not open for business today. And most…
One out of four. Mr. Kim, you have put your finger on it again. Every time I go to a townhall meeting, I am always asked by someone in the audience the same question. Why do not you Members of Congress spend our money as carefully as you…
It is important I think for us to answer some of those accusations right up front. First, are we forcing anybody out of Medicare? The answer is no. Our plan says if you want to stay under the traditional Medicare fee-for-service, you…
Again, you have put it so well. Here we are talking about a family that cannot even afford to buy their own health care they are at such a low income, struggling. Yet our law now requires them to subsidize, through their taxes, the health…
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