John W. Olver

Mr. Speaker, the conference report before us is little more than a repeat of last year's attack on rational national public policy. Tens of billions of dollars in overspending on defense, raising taxes on working families whose only sin is…

the Republicans then make extreme cuts in health care, in education, in job training, in environmental protection, in research and development, in public transportation and economic development, and they leave the Nation in the year 2002…

I just wanted to respond to comments made on the other side and, in fact, in part to agree with them. The gentleman from New Hampshire points out and agrees that the nature of the territory is quite different. Of the 2 million people…

today I rise as the Member of Congress who has had the honor of following in office one of the greatest Members of this body in this century on his legacy of environmental protection and conservation for the people of the first district of…

reclaiming my time, as a matter of fact, it is not that we are specifically putting money back into the program, but merely removing the language that requires that no money be authorized for the Global Climate Change Action Plan. I would…

the cold war is over, a fact which has changed our economy, so that civilian research is key to meeting our challenges under the new economy. We should be working to develop new technologies that will provide new opportunities to high-tech…

the President's budget is not perfect, but the President's budget does prove that we can balance the budget in 6 years without extreme cuts in health care and education and housing and law enforcement and environmental protection. But…

Last week 20 House Republicans introduced a bill to raise the minimum wage by $1.50 each over the next 2 years. They broke from their leadership and agreed with what we Democrats have been saying all along. People working 40 hours a week…

American families are losing their health insurance every day because of corporate downsizing. The original Kennedy-Kassebaum health insurance bill was bipartisan common-sense reform that gave families a few simple protections. It cut down…

Mr. Speaker, among the many provisions, hundreds of pages of provisions which the insurance industry added to the Kennedy-Kassebaum bill that passed the Senate with, God forbid, bipartisan support, the most insidious of those provisions…

as American workers and families struggle for economic security, the 104th Congress has an obligation to help. First, this Congress must protect the credit and good name of our Nation. Congress should pass clean legislation to avoid…

enough is enough. The extremists among the House Republicans are finally realizing the public's opposition to their hostage-taking tactics. So why are they still playing games? Mr. Speaker, the other body, the Senate, has already passed a…

I heard this bill described today as a careful consideration of priorities and elimination of useless Federal programs. Well, Mr. Chairman, I do not consider education goals for the year 2000 as useless, nor dropout prevention useless, nor…

the Republicans' defense appropriations bill earmarks $493 million to begin production of the first two unneeded B-2 bombers. But the Republicans' education appropriations bill which we debate today cuts funds for education. Safe and…

the labor title of this legislation really is not about money. It is all about legislating a return to the labor philosophy of the 19th century just as we are entering the 21st century. The amendment by the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr…

I want to tell this House today about someone who came to Washington to argue against this bill. His name is Jim Hale. He is a resident of Chattanooga, TN. He works in the construction industry. He is opposing this bill because his brother…

every senior citizen in this country needs to understand what is going on here. The Republicans are going to cut $270 billion out of Medicare. To make these huge cuts the Republicans will demand more copayments, raise deductibles, and hike…

the deadly bombing 2 weeks ago in Oklahoma City has had a chilling effect on our Nation. More than 100 Federal employees died. They died because a few used violence to express their hate for the American Government. We are angry. We want…

I am not trying to expend more money on any of the other places. We can make cuts in those, those places where it is appropriate to make cuts through the reprioritization of our expenditure programs which I think is what we are really…

Mr. Chairman, this is a simple amendment. It reduces the authorized levels of spending in H.R. 655 by a total of $36 million over 3 years. On March 1, 1995, the Hydrogen Technical Advisory Panel released its recommendations for the future…

Mr. Chairman, I rise in general support of H.R. 655. As a scientist I support hydrogen research, and one of the last research programs I worked on in my academic career was in fact a hydrogen fuel cell research program, and it was one of…

Now, the gentleman says that there are demonstrations allowed in the legislation, but I would point out, and I am sure he agrees with this, that the demonstrations allowed in the legislation and authorized by the legislation are limited to…

Mr. Chairman, under this bill, the rich get richer, and the poor get more numerous. But that is what you would expect from Republican fiscal policies. This bill hides the fact that more than half of all the tax cuts under the legislation…

Well, I am going to leave it to the American people to decide if it is fair to take $15 billion of financial aid from the children of middle and low income families, who would want to use that financial aid to go to college, and use the…

Mr. Speaker, the idea that you can increase revenues was very thoroughly debunked in the 1980's, when tax reductions were given and when the deficits went right through the ceiling during that period. And during a 12-year period we saw…