John W. Olver

I rise reluctantly, because this bill is an excellent bill, and I respect very much the work of the chairman of the subcommittee, the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Rogers), as well as my ranking member on the subcommittee, the gentleman…

In section 331, it refers to a limitation in the use of funds in this legislation to implement in a broad way, in any kind of way, the Kyoto Protocol, which has never been ratified by the Senate of this Nation, nor by any of the other…

I will always be grateful to Joe Moakley for helping to define my role in Congress. Like everyone in our delegation, I looked to him for guidance, and he reminded all of us to be true to our roots. Joe Moakley is gone, but he will never be…

I wanted to point out to people today that the President's energy plan utterly ignores a key fact; that if we are to put limits on global warming and the inevitable resulting climate change, we must cut back on burning fossil fuels that…

in Greenfield, Massachusetts, a town of 20,000 people, the middle school was closed because walls were literally crumbling, threatening the safety of students. Now the middle school students are crammed into the town's overcrowded high…

I would just say there are no white hats in this operation, and there are neither on the Albanian side nor on the Serb side when one considers what happens in Kosovska Mitrovica. It is not easy to turn organizations which have grown up in…

This has been, at times, an ugly debate; but then we should not expect anything else. This is an ugly bill. There are multiple reasons to oppose this legislation, and I do oppose it. But the utter callousness of the cuts in what is really…

Mr. Speaker, this agreement, negotiated in a fair and bipartisan spirit under the leadership of subcommittee chairman deserves our support. It was not an easy negotiation. The bills produced by the two parties were miles apart. Therefore…

I oppose the rule because this bill is a sham. It covers only the poorest senior citizens whose incomes place them near or below the poverty standard. It deliberately creates another division in America: us who are wealthy enough to take…

the Republican plan is designed to fail because it is a little more than a request for insurance companies and HMOs to provide insurance for prescription drugs for senior citizens. But, in fact, those HMOs and insurance companies that…

Mr. Chairman, I am really surprised by the argument that the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Knollenberg) is making here. The proviso is precisely the same proviso that was in the VA-HUD bill, and the amendment, as I have offered it, is…

Mr. Chairman, last week Members will remember that as we were debating the VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies legislation, that the exact proviso that exists in section 107 was in that legislation, but attached only to the EPA title of the…

Mr. Chairman, we were apprised last night that the language as the gentleman has read it, in fact, left a question of interpretation as to what the words ``activities related to the Kyoto Protocol'' would mean. And the Clerks advised me…

It is voluntary, and it is one that anybody who has a better plan should keep their better plan.

If they have a better plan, surely they will keep the plan they have, rather than take a plan which is inferior, if they have a better plan.

I strongly support the Obey amendment. The Republican leadership wants America to believe that adding a prescription drug benefit to Medicare is one of their top priorities. That simply is untrue. They have done nothing to seriously…

Mr. Speaker, this is a simple motion. It should not be controversial. These United States are on the verge of embarking on what could be a $60 billion National Missile Defense program. This House included more than adequate funding to…

the so-called Death Tax Elimination Act should be called the Multi-millionaire Protection Act. It does tell America what Republican priorities really are. Before anything else, the Republican leadership would give a huge, reckless and…

Mr. Chairman, the major function of this military construction bill deals with the training and housing facilities for the men and women who serve us in our military forces, but also with the education, the health clinics and hospitals and…

everyone here recognizes that sustained economic development in sub-Saharan Africa depends upon successful trade with and foreign assistance to sub-Saharan Africa, but there is a crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. The HIV/AIDS epidemic in…

I am in strong opposition to the Kasich/ Shays/Condit amendment, which threatens unilateral withdrawal of U.S. forces and resources from Kosova.

We and NATO were right to intervene, and we still have a job to do.

This amendment would assure no peace. I urge a 'no' vote on this amendment.

The need in Kosova for peacekeeping, reconstruction and development of civil and judicial administration is greater than all of the promises by NATO and the U.S. together.

Mr. Chairman, we have been dealing with a war on drugs all the years of this past decade that I have served in the Congress, and quite a few years before that. And I doubt that any single one of us, reading the evidence, could say that we…