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I rise in support of H.R. 1832, the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act. I grew up as a young boy living in south Louisiana. The first television set in our community came to my grandfather's house, and some of my earliest bonding memories with…
Mr. Chairman, let me urge the Members to reject this amendment. While many parts of this actual bill are worthwhile, the bill is before our committee. The committee has filed a bill similar to this, I think, before the committee and…
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…
Mr. Chairman, let me first answer my friend the gentleman from California (Mr. Pombo). Look at page 31. It provides that the money may be not expended except for those acquisitions that are specifically referred to and approved in an act…
Mr. Chairman, let me say simply to my friend the gentleman from California (Mr. Calvert) that the line he refers to on page 33 is a notice requirement of the lands that are requested of Congress to act upon, the lands in which in fact…
Mr. Chairman, let me first assure my friend, the gentleman from California (Mr. Calvert) that his language was considered in the negotiations on this bill. Language protecting willing sellers was eventually adopted in this bill. It is…
let me rise in opposition to this substitute and recognize that the amendment of the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Thornberry) basically restates the Chambliss amendment, which would delay this bill for 5 years. The gentleman from Louisiana …
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…
Mr. Chairman, CARA is financed from the receipts of the Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas production. It is not coming out of general revenues. Since the inception of that OSC program, Congress always intended that a portion of these…
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…
Mr. Chairman, the business of the amendment limits Federal acquisitions to in-holdings, unless the property is within the boundaries of an existing Federal property an in-holding, there can be no new acquisitions. In doing so, of course…
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 CARA bill provides currently that Federal agencies using funds appropriated by this act may not apply any regulation on lands until the lands or water or an interest therein is acquired. CARA already does that. It says, in effect, that…
Mr. Speaker, the reason why the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) and I and so many others came to the floor in 1992 to try to create the capacity of direct broadcast satellite to bring television programming to America was because…
the objections to this bill are, in fact, process and schedule. The objections are that perhaps a better bill could have been written and, in fact, the Committee on Commerce I think has produced on occasion better language. The objections…
Mr. Chairman, let me be, perhaps, very clear about what this bill is not about so we do not get confused as we almost just did. It is not about zoning laws. Zoning laws under Federal court decisions are not takings. The reason they are not…
I am often asked when I am at home, when is the government going to live by the same rules and by the same procedures that it asks other Americans to live by? For example, if I wanted to get a permit from the government in an area that…
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…
I take this moment for very personal reasons. At this moment my mother, Enola, is recovering in a hospital in New Orleans, Ochsner Clinic, from her third very important cancer surgery. In 1960 she was operated on for breast cancer, and…
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…
What we learned in the subcommittee yesterday was that, with new FCC findings, some 220,000 American citizens who are scheduled to be terminated from network signal delivery are, in fact, qualified to receive those signals legally under…
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…
Mr. Chairman, let me first compliment the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) for his excellent cooperation and work and the spirit by which we bring this bill to the floor today. I thank the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Bliley), the…
In fact, so good was Bob at that effort, that I think it is worth recording and worth reporting today that just a few years ago when we passed what we thought would be a 5- to 7-year effort to balance the books of this government over that…
I take this special order tonight so that Members of the Louisiana delegation and colleagues from across our country can honor the service of a gentleman who will be leaving our body as a Member on the 28th of this month, just a few days…
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