William Tauzin

Mr. Chairman, for a year now I have been fighting tires that kill. I am on the floor today fighting an amendment that will kill. If the Boehlert amendment passes, the National Academy of Sciences says that this kind of an increase in CAFE…

Let me assure Members, they need to be afraid of this amendment. My mother, my 82-year-old mother, is a three-time cancer survivor and needs to be afraid of this amendment. This amendment effectively repeals an important consumer…

I too rise in support of H. Con. Res. 170, which calls for increased support of faith-based charities by U.S. corporations. The United States is blessed with an industrious people and great wealth; we are the envy of the world. But a great…

The wetlands, the pristine wetlands in many cases, in my State are precious to me, and the waters of Louisiana are precious. They produce 28 percent of this Nation's landings and seafood that all of us enjoy, and we do it simultaneously…

Mr. Chairman, section 181 is located 64 miles from my district. It is much closer to my district in Louisiana, and much closer, by the way, to Alabama and Mississippi than it is to Florida. That is point number one. Point number two, right…

I wanted to quickly address a subject in support of this rule that has arisen on the floor regarding California. Our committee, led by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Barton), did a marvelous job of producing a set of solutions that could…

as a former chairman of the Subcommittee on the Coast Guard and Marine Transportation, I want to admit a prejudice. I have a huge incredible appreciation and admiration for the work of the young men and women of our United States Coast…

let me first acknowledge, as did the ranking minority member of the Committee on Commerce, our extraordinary disappointment in the jurisdictional transfer from the Committee on Commerce to this new Committee on Financial Services. It is…

Let me say on behalf of many members of the Committee on Commerce we, of course, are extremely disappointed in this transfer. While we would, of course, like to retain that jurisdiction, we would like to retain it for a simple reason and…

this matter involves two things: the first is the facts, so let us get the facts straight. We are talking about a whistleblower lawsuit on royalty valuations that amounted to about a $400 million claim. It was not brought by POGO. This…

Americans were shocked this morning to realize that today public radio is beginning to air political advertisements. It seems that public radio has interpreted their mandate to include reasonable access to Federal candidates to allow the…

This is indeed an important statement by the House of Representatives about our interests and the Nation's interests in finding better cures, therapies and, hopefully, preventive techniques for this awful disease. I also want to say that…

I rise in support of H.Con.Res. 271, which expresses the support of Congress for activities to increase public awareness of multiple sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis is a chronic, often disabling, disease of the central nervous system…

I rise in support of H.R. 2592, a bill introduced by the gentleman from California (Mr. Rogan), to remove unnecessary regulation of electric bicycles. The bill has benefitted from a full dose of regular order and enjoys a support of my…

Mr. Speaker, let me close very briefly. I do want to make a few comments. First of all, I want to say a word to the investigators on the Committee on Commerce. I think the Nation owes them a debt of gratitude. The investigators on the…

H. Res. 575 is pretty straightforward. It is indeed a good resolution, introduced by the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Goode) and it is designed literally to improve Internet safety awareness. As we have seen in the last few years, the…

Of course, if we have the time, we could perhaps resolve all the problems in pipeline safety. But this Senate bill, passed by unanimous consent, is what we have. It is a strong and effective bill. It makes some very important steps in…

I rise in support of H.R. 3113, a bill which, for the first time, puts in place meaningful consumer protections against the receipt of spam or unsolicited commercial e-mail. It is important, first of all, to recognize this is a truly…

Mr. Speaker, let me read the bill without the Markey amendment. It says that these licenses are reserved to people who prove ``that their organization serves an educational, instructional, cultural, or religious purpose.'' We have not…

Let me point out that the problem is that the FCC got into doing that. It got into trying to say which religious content was educational enough to please the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) or anyone else in this country. That is…

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…

I rise in support of H.R. 4201, the Noncommercial Broadcast Freedom of Expression Act of 2000. While this is indeed a good bill, I am frankly disappointed that it is necessary. It is necessary to correct a gross blunder by the FCC and to…

I simply want to clarify for my friend from New York that this is not the low-power FM bill dealing with the Commission's decision to authorize the expansion of radio broadcasting to FM low power. This bill merely deals with the…

I do not particularly like characterizing motives. I do not like it when we do this on the floor. I do not like it when my side does it or the gentleman's side does it. However, if the gentleman wants to ask about motives, let me explain…

Today we held the second of a series of hearings on the issue of broadband deployment in the Subcommittee on Telecommunications. And in completing that hearing today, we arrived at a point where over 200 Members of this House, I think 207…