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Let me conclude by thanking my dear friend, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Dingell), for the extraordinary cooperation shown on this bill. Speakers have said this before, but I want to emphasize this: this may be the most important thing…
The bottom line is this resolution condemns Americans taking advantage of other Americans in the middle of a crisis, when there is no need whatsoever to raise gasoline prices. There is ample fuel out there for every American. This…
Mr. Chairman, on behalf of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, I am pleased to open this debate on the Patient Protection Act. A concern of all of us is the needs of American families for health coverage and health care. Let me make a…
Mr. Chairman, I compliment the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Traficant) for this amendment. Oil shale may contain the oil equivalent several times the amount in conventional oil reserves and this is an important resource in America. It is…
I give the gentlewoman my commitment to do that. As the gentlewoman knows, we lost nearly 100,000 oil field jobs in my State alone, and more than that in her State during the oil crash of the 1980s. We desperately need well-trained workers…
Mr. Speaker, again, to correct the Record, without the Markey amendment, the legislation, standing as it is, does not create any new standards to judge these licenses. The legislation codifies the words and the status quo, the old…
The problem is that the amendment specifies entities that are incorporated and counties having a population of 100,000 or more. So I think the problem is we have got a situation where one has got to be incorporated and be a county of…
The only reason it is there is to make sure we all get notice so that Congress knows if any agency wants to take any property and there is an unwilling seller. That way the Congress ends up making that decision under the bill. We end up…
Reclaiming my time, it is exactly what I just said, that it certainly does not limit future Congresses to change CARA. It does not limit future Congresses to make a special appropriation for an in-holding if it wants. It sets down as a…
CARA says right now, Federal agencies using funds appropriated by this act may not apply any regulation on any lands until the lands or water or an interest area is acquired in effect by the government. Until it is acquired, no new…
The understanding of the gentleman is correct. As long as a station does not refuse to deal with any particular distributor, a station's insistence on different terms and conditions in retransmission agreements based on marketplace…
The bill goes beyond prohibiting exclusive contracts in only one respect. In order to prevent refusals by a station to deal with any particular distributor, the FCC is directed to bar not only exclusive deals but also any other…
Mr. Chairman, today we are here to protect the privacy of the near 68 million Americans who use wireless telecommunications services and the countless millions who will use those services in the future. Privacy is important to all of us…
I just want to add one personal thought. Bob and I have been friends for a long time. We contested each other politically. We have been on different sides of the fence occasionally. At the end of the day, we have always been friends. And…
First, let me commend the gentlewoman for an excellent statement and, indeed, to confirm her statement. We have been very careful about using the language that the courts have already approved on the standard, the one approved by the…
Just to make everyone clear on the fact that the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) is the principal author of these on-line privacy provisions, and they come, as he has pointed out, with full recommendation of the FTC and many…
Here is what the administration said. It said that even if a fresh look at INTELSAT and Inmarsat services, ordered hypothetically, were to allow the signatures and direct users to get a better deal, it is unlikely that consumers would…
To Africa, to many countries in Africa. They have fiberoptic services to many countries that compete with the satellite services.
I am confused. I just heard from the chairman of the committee that this was like that meal on the British airlines, he either had to eat or not eat; there was no other option. Is my colleague telling me that the people who signed these…
Let me summarize by pointing out that the Morella amendment simply says, do not do anything that is going to take private property that the taxpayers of America are going to end up having to pay for. Now, the opponents say, well, the fifth…
I wanted to take a minute to compliment the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Stearns) and his efforts at our subcommittee level indeed to make sure that our bill did not interfere with the rights of the legal standing community, the amateur…
Mr. Chairman, I think it is time we faced an ugly fact, and that ugly fact is that the ethics process over the last several Congresses, perhaps reaching back even beyond the last several, has become heavily politicized. It is one thing for…
I rise in defense of this institution. If my colleagues think this institution already belongs to special-interest groups because of the money that flows into politics, then dare they turn this institution to outside groups, who can hold…
Today in the Cannon Caucus Room, the third floor of the Cannon Building, all of the various technologies of the satellite industry are on display. These demonstrations will give Members a great look at the world of communications, of…
The gentleman left one thing out, the thing we just talked about, the fact that not only will that tax bill come down, every American at every income level does better under this plan, but the fact that the cost of American products also…
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