John W. Olver

I rise in support of MILCON veto override. Most of the projects on the President's cancellation list were in the Pentagon's future years defense plan. All of them are executable this fiscal year. Three of the projects were Air Force…

I rise in favor of the Castle substitute and against the Istook amendment. The Istook amendment mandates parental notification, tantamount to parental consent, for birth control services under title X. It is tough for a sexually active…

I have been in the Congress, now in my 7th year, and it is easy to become quite cynical. I often wonder how it is that people do make those, reach those conclusions. In this particular year in the tax debate that we have been going…

The crux is that we can look at the education tax proposals, we can look at the child tax proposals, and we can look at the capital gains tax proposals and the estate tax proposals and all the others. And each one of them has to be looked…

He wants very badly to sign legislation for a tax reduction, but he is going to make certain that it goes chiefly to the middle class. He is going to make certain that it does not explode deficits in the outyears so that we do not go…

I think the answers to the ranking member's questions, the answers to those whys, is that they really should not proceed until all of those conditions are met. In truth, we do need to have that kind of research done. But it ought to be…

let me just point out here that Citizens Against Government Waste, which held a number of hearings, a group that was invited to a number of hearings to put a focus on government waste during the 104th Congress, had put forward 7 criteria…

the Republicans say that they are for tax relief to help working Americans, but which Americans are they willing to help? The Republicans' tax plan gives two-thirds of their tax breaks to the top 20 percent of earners and absolutely…

life in America is always changing these days, but one thing that Americans know never changes. That is, when Republicans say cut taxes for the middle class, they really mean cut taxes for the wealthy. Of course, they want us to believe…

As a new member of the Subcommittee on Military Construction, I rise to support this bill, but particularly to commend the gentleman from California, Mr. Packard for his very effective leadership, and then also to commend both Chairman…

Now, Americans expect Republicans to be for the wealthy, but they are shocked when they come to realize how much the Republicans have helped the wealthiest Americans. The Republican Taxpayer Relief Act is class warfare--the Republican bill…

the fat is in the fire. Today this House passed, with an almost unanimous vote on the part of the Republican Members, a bill that is going to cut $115 billion out of Medicare, which is going to end up producing lower-quality health care at…

Let me go back and point out that, in the next few days, we are going to be entering into an extremely important debate; and in those next couple of days, we are going to learn a good deal about tax fairness in America and we are going to…

To follow up on that, Mr. Speaker, to go back to where I was, in fact, polling, which is something that is continually being done, the people at the top do not express with any strength that they need great tax cuts. They are already…

in the next few days we are going to learn something about tax fairness here in America. We are going to learn something about the heart and soul of the two major political parties, my party, the Democratic Party, and the other party, the…

I rise in favor of the Dellums-Kasich-Foley amendment. Mr. Chairman, restarting the B-2 bomber production line cannot be justified on any known grounds. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have testified that more B-2's are unnecessary. Just last…

today the President, President Clinton, vetoed a bill which he had said very clearly that he was going to veto. Very clearly he had indicated that that veto was coming because of a series of extraneous riders to an otherwise emergency…

As I was saying, under the section 601 of the bill, H.R. 1469, the emergency appropriation bill which we will deal with tomorrow, there is a change in the law proposed and promoted by my predecessor Silvio O. Conte which would allow the…

Tomorrow this House is going to take up H.R. 1469, which in its major part is an emergency appropriation bill to help the flood victims in the western part of the States, particularly North Dakota, deal with a very tragic situation. Within…

Mr. Speaker, the Working Families Flexibility Act is a misnomer, but it certainly clearly defines what the majority thinks about the struggle working families face. H.R. 1 does not help workers balance their work and family obligations…

this amendment offers American consumers exactly what we know they want. It took American citizens more than two decades to get the Congress to end the slaughter of dolphins and adopt dolphin-safe labeling of tuna. The terrible pictures of…

this week has been trumpeted as the great Republican reform week. But now, as we begin debate on these so-called reforms, what is the Republican leadership really thrusting on us this week? The only bill the Republican leadership is…

as Yogi Berra once said, it is deja vu all over again: another Republican dismantling of Medicare; a little smaller than before, but just as unnecessary, and still a bad policy. Doctors can charge thousands of dollars in bills that…

Mr. Chairman, with about 10 legislative weeks left in the 104th Congress, I think it is a good time to examine the priorities of the new majority. The Republicans have relentlessly attacked education and health care and environmental…

As the gentleman understands, the Senate of the United States was in the hands of the Republican Party, his party. As the gentleman also understands, the bill was also, was also passed in this House by the whole of the gentleman's party…