John W. Olver

I do not expect the Committee on Appropriations to do anything. I was merely pointing out that it is a responsibility of the majority to solve America's problems.

I have only time to focus on one of the reasons for voting against this bill. My distinguished chairman of the subcommittee, the honorable chairman and good friend, has a couple of times, several times, pointed out that the NIH budget, the…

I fully agree that it is not under the jurisdiction of the Committee on Appropriations to do, but this is passing the buck from one committee to another. This is a year when, in very good economic times, we could have extended the life of…

Mr. Speaker, here we are, 29 days past the day that started the fiscal year 2000. Only 8 of 13 bills have been passed, so here we are debating another continuing resolution to get us one week deeper into the process, and a week from now we…

The problem in this instance is that we need to extend social security. They really cannot pass the buck from one committee to another when it is a matter of all the committees.

Now, the Republican leadership says that their tax cut is for the middle class, but that is clearly not true. The House-passed version of the bill passed here, passed this branch 2 weeks ago, and in that version the 6 million highest…

Mr. Speaker, we are told that this is the week that the main business is going to be, for this Congress, is the final passage of an $800 billion tax cut. The Republican leadership says that their tax cut, at least that one which passed the…

Mr. Chairman, the reason we are here today is that the President submitted a request for $6 billion for the Kosovo operation, which would bring us to the end of fiscal year 1999; and that was clearly an unforeseen and unforeseeable…

I come to the floor with an overwhelming sense of sadness that we be debating constraints on America's ability to lead in this world on a most profound issue of human rights. We are a people and a Nation whose very creation was to protect…

Mr. Chairman, I rise at this point to speak in favor of the Gejdenson amendment but also to say that I think the original amendment, the Gilman amendment, is an acceptable alternative. I would prefer that we were not doing this. I think…

I hope in that process, I think everyone hopes in that process, if an agreement can be reached, that it will be possible to see if those people can live together, can live and coexist together. After all that has gone on, all of the…

the United States is right to take forceful leadership to stop the systematic destruction of homes and villages and the slaughter of civilians in Kosova that has been ordered by Slobodan Milosevic, the Communist dictator of rump…

Thousands gathered last night at the west steps of the Capitol to mourn the loss of Matthew Shepard. The vast majority of us did not know Matthew personally, but we were united in our belief that the hate that took Matthew's life is…

the President's personal behavior was morally wrong and deeply disappointing, but this investigation has gone too far and is hurting the country, our families and our children. Congress is getting nothing done and has now embarked on an…

What this people's House is doing today is the most cynical action I have seen them take in 7 years in Congress. H.R. 4250, the so-called Patient Protection Act, is based on deception and a big lie. The only thing protected is the…

The people in our area and the people in Connecticut and the governmental authorities in both Massachusetts and Connecticut are deeply concerned about making certain that this process is not slowed down, that it goes forward. All the…

Mr. Chairman, I agree, as the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) has already said, that no rules, no regulations that relate directly to the implementation of the Kyoto Protocols should be done in any direct way prior to the ratification…

Mr. Chairman, I am somewhat taken aback by the distinguished chairman's belittling of the importance or impact of the report language here. I have to think that if he really believed that, that that language was so weak, that he ought to…

reclaiming my time, surely, over a very long period of time. We plant at best not for our own generation, but for our grandchildren's generation. So it takes a very long time to grow back.

In essence, it really does not matter. If every time we build another road into that area it costs more to build the road than the value of the timber cut that we get, we are costing the taxpayers every time more than we are getting back…

in my part of the country we depend upon things like the Economic Action Plan, the Forest Stewardship, the Forest Legacy Program, and yet each year, especially this year, the chairman and the ranking member have to struggle very hard to…

the very points that the gentleman is making, the gentleman is saying 500-year-old trees that are there, that have taken a good portion of that time, certainly they were probably merchantable, timberable a good number of years ago, but not…

I am surely not meaning to infer that we are cutting the last piece of rain forest that is the size of this Chamber or any such thing. Rain forests and the continuous convergence of cutting all around rain forests, whether they be in Costa…

I just want to say here that there is no one in this room, whether they are on one side or the other side of this issue, who can claim that the family dairy farmers in dairy farms in their part of the country are somehow prospering under…

This bill is as good as I think it can be, given the allocation that has really been foisted upon the subcommittee by the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, and I certainly urge its very quick passage. I must send up a couple of signals, which lie…