William Tauzin

the gentleman asked a very legitimate question, how do you determine the fair market value before and after the regulatory action takes place on the property. The courts have well-settled this issue. As the gentleman has indicated, if the…

Just to point out that one of the reasons people oppose this is, they say the American public can not be in support of this. Let me point out, Nations Business magazine just did a poll. The question was, should the Federal Government…

The concern is now we are limiting the bill to these areas of wetlands takings and ESA takings or actions of the agencies here to deprive people of water rights, that to allow the State to duplicate the Federal proscription and, therefore…

absolutely. In fact, the legislation specifically says that the agency must provide money out of its own appropriated funds for the payment of these claims and give the agency the right to reprogram money within its budget to do that. If…

if the purpose of the government's action in denying the permit is not to protect wetlands in general for the rest of us, is not really to protect endangered species for all the rest of us, but if the purpose is to deny your right to…

The fact is that these regulations, these laws that are already on the books are going to continue to impede the use of property tomorrow and the next day. The right to seek compensation is already there; it is in the Constitution. All we…

Because it is one of the acts that has the potential of regulation to limit the value or the actual right to own water in the West, and because it has that potential, it is included as a regulatory action that could diminish the value…

I suspect an agency might try, but the law says they cannot, and I suspect that a lawsuit would lie against them for mandamus by some citizens, or perhaps even this Congress might want to do something with an agency that wants to violate…

Property owners are being described derogatorily tonight in this amendment debate as developers. Mr. Bowles in Texas was not a developer. All he wanted to do was build his house, and that was the filling of the wetland that was denied jim…

Mr. Chairman, I hate to think that we have just confused a metaphor with the circus analogy. But the point of the matter is that the bill as we have it before us today is very much like the bills that came before I think 33 of the 43…

This Congress could, if we wanted to, instead of appropriating in 13 appropriation bills or 11 or 3 or 1, we could appropriate in hundreds of appropriation bills. We could appropriate every single appropriation in a single bill, if we…

Mr. Chairman, just in quick answer to my friend, the gentleman from Massachusetts, no, the amendment does not act as Gramm-Rudman did to set caps and have automatic rescissions. It simply says that the authority of the President to line…

Mr. Chairman, the other day as we debated the issue of the line-item veto itself, I noticed to the Members of the House the likelihood of my offering this amendment in the Committee of the Whole. This amendment is called the glide path…

I was for the line-item veto long before being for the line-item veto was cool, and those who support the line-item veto, who believe that it really ought to work in this country to enforce congressional will power, to stop deficit…

the bottom line is if you are going to pass a bill that gives the President line-item veto, even when this Congress has been responsible, you are creating all of the problems that many have risen to the mike and spoken about today and…

Again reclaiming my time, my understanding is the bill we have before us gives the President the authority to line-item any item to reduce a deficit which, if my reading is correct, that means in effect if we send him a balanced budget, he…

You and I know something that the American public knows and that has been admitted in the balanced budget debate and admitted by Presidents who have served us now and have preceded us. That is, if we tried today to produce a balanced…

As the gentleman knows, we plan later on to offer an amendment that I think cures this problem, and that is if the legislature, this Congress, stays within the glideslope projections that take us to a balance budget, we are not going to…

Reclaiming my time, let me assure the gentleman the League of Cities campaigned that the opt-out provision applied to the former bill introduced in the last Congress by my good friend, the gentleman from California [Mr. Condit], who led…

Mr. Chairman, unfortunately, the issue of public and private sector competition under Government mandates has gotten awfully confused here. Let us look at the facts as they exist today. Today government at the local level and the Federal…

I too have read the Contract With America. I want to tell my friend on the other side, while it did talk about doing all of this in 100 days, it did not mention 100 nights; and this may take more than 100 nights if we continually debate…

yesterday as we began this debate on the balanced budget amendment, we heard a lot of discussion about alternatives, including the possibility of a capital budget amendment, the idea being that, ``Well, American families borrow money…

Let me first thank my friend, the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Hyde], for assuming my position as the second sponsor of the Barton-Tauzin amendment which has been an amendment before this body for many years. I can think of no finer…

If this gentleman had written the law, I promise I would have applied it to private mandates as well as public mandates. I think we should. I like the part of the law that says we are going to evaluate the effects on private individuals…

I do however believe that when pollution runs across State boundaries that you need a national law to regulate that situation and in those cases the people of the Nation benefit collectively as we all do when we clean the air of the Nation…