John W. Olver

For most families in this country, the home is their largest investment.

While the recession technically ended over a year and a half ago, hundreds of thousands of families continue to struggle.

Well, now you have really opened Pandora's box, but I am not going to take the bait on this one, except to say that there is desperate need on Indian reservations.

This is a thoughtless and destructive amendment. I strongly oppose the underlying bill and believe it profoundly limits the transportation options for Americans and will damage our economy through hundreds of thousands of lost jobs. But I…

I want to commend again and congratulate the gentleman from Colorado for offering this amendment, and I want to support this amendment, though I realize the realities of the situation that we are in. In the recovery bill--and we could have…

the money is assigned to be used either for the payment for the service, the contract for the service itself, or the need for some subsidy on the service, which is a very small one, on the operation for the Northeast Corridor, if any at…

Now, we also have Amtrak, which was authorized for funding in the legislation, the rail safety legislation as signed by President Bush in September or October of 2008. For the fiscal year 2011, the authorization for debt service and for…

The underlying bill that we have before us profoundly limits the transportation options that are available for the American people and imposes deep cuts upon the very programs with the greatest potential for creating jobs and providing the…

Mr. Chairman, this continuing resolution clearly endangers the fragile recovery of America's economy. While I have the greatest respect for Chairman Latham, he has been saddled with an irrational task of cutting $15.5 billion, a 23 percent…

On Saturday, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, along with members of her congressional staff and constituents, were senselessly shot while attending a ``Congress on Your Corner'' event in Tucson. Those killed by the gunman--U.S. District…

This coming spring, tens of thousands of young people will graduate from high school, many of them at the very top of their class, only to discover that they have no hope of pursuing their goals because they were brought here illegally…

The amendment by the distinguished minority leader would cut the DOT budget office to below last year's funding level. Even though I believe that these funds are needed at the department and that we have added much new work to the load in…

I understand that this amendment will reduce funding for policy development and research staff at HUD by $2,978,450. Even though, as I've said earlier in comments to the distinguished minority leader, that I believe strongly in the role of…

This amendment would cut $1.8 billion in areas that include important increases above the President's budget. And let me simply remind people that our budget, as brought forward, is $1.3 billion below the President's request. This…

The bill before us includes $40 million for HUD to provide technical assistance to nonprofit organizations, cities, States on how to use HUD funding efficiently and effectively. The amendment removes every penny, every penny, of this…

The gentleman has made some comments. He is entitled to his opinions, but he cannot create his own history. He has said that history shows that you cannot raise taxes and have a growing economy. That is completely belied by President…

I would just say to my ranking member that I had exactly the same reaction to this and was all prepared to get very excited and oppose this one adamantly, but we were assured that a re-look at the HECM situation and the needs there…

I am glad to work with the gentlewoman from Illinois on grade separation issues which impact our transportation networks and communities across the country, all over the country. The problem you describe is exactly the type of project that…

I understand that this amendment is designed to draw attention to the national foreclosure crisis, which is still raging in too many communities, and which began more than 3 years ago--actually, probably the seeds were sown for the…

I would oppose the amendment, both as the gentleman has described it and also as it is written. As the amendment is written and in our hands, it is a straight across-the-board amendment of a couple of billion dollars difference from the…

This amendment provides a new wrinkle on what we have been dealing with earlier. Again, this is somewhat different from what the gentlewoman has expressed, but as written, it reads, ``Each amount appropriated or otherwise made available by…

The amendment is not a modest one by any means. It is a double ax taken to the legislation that is involved. It takes $18 billion out of only the discretionary amount of funding that is provided in the underlying bill. As such, that is…

I just want to express that this amendment for a program which is totally authorized, and we are not running above the authorization number on Amtrak by any means at all, but this is a killer amendment for Amtrak to remove all of their…

I am very interested in this conversation. The gentleman from Arizona, who is usually so rational about this whole effort that he puts forward, he is going to earn a reputation as a grinch for trying to take the one Member representing 4…

I understand that the distinguished minority leader has this amendment which will terminate the doctoral dissertation research program at HUD. Even though I believe strongly in the value of good research and what such good research can…