Steny Hoyer

It enunciates the policy of 43 States, I tell my friend from Illinois, and I think we should enunciate it as a Federal Congress as being the appropriate and right policy to preclude late-term abortions.

What I said was that an American citizen has the right to go to court to question the constitutionality under which someone is asking that citizen to do something. In this case, that citizen has done so. The court just 8 days ago…

I think we could make that observation. Obviously, the Senate receded in this instance, as the gentleman knows, I think wisely so. I would hope that this conference committee would pass based upon the merits of this bill.

I am saying to the gentleman that nothing in this bill will affect his salary one way or the other.

To the extent that we cannot get any COLA adjustment if Federal employees do not get it, that is accurate. It is not included in this bill. No, sir. Nothing in this bill deals with the COLA's of Federal employees; nothing in this bill…

This is not a back-door way to do anything. The amendment that the gentleman refers to... can be reported out. The fact of the matter is, we could add the amendment that the gentleman suggests to any bill being considered by this House. It…

I thought the amendment might be offered and withdrawn, but in light of the chairman's action, I certainly am not going to object to this amendment. We will look at it and work with the gentleman between now and conference to see if it is…

This funding will not be the entire solution to the problem. The CDC, however, will play a major role in this effort, specifically in the public health arena. Of course, as my friend, the gentleman from Maryland has just pointed out, the…

I suggest that the Castle alternative does what the American public wants done. That is, they want to encourage families to be involved with one another. That is obviously beneficial to the children, to the mother, the father, and to…

Critically important, I tell my friend the gentleman from Oklahoma who as a doctor I am sure has seen people injured in the workplace who are almost, if not in exactly the same condition because of a work-related injury, in similar…

I tell the gentleman, as he well knows, this cut will not affect the States. This cut will only affect the Federal agency.

The increase is directed in part to beef up the compliance assistance component of OSHA, yes.

As my colleagues know, I am a strong supporter of vocational education. Tonight, I would say to my colleagues that this amendment is being used not to help vocational education. If that were the case, then the $119 million cut in 1995 and…

One of the problems, Mr. Chairman, as the gentleman perhaps knows, is, first of all, the committee asked for all of Orange County, not just the 46th District, all of Orange County. That is where the 500,000 came from. So they have done a…

I believe for the reasons stated by the gentleman that we ought to reject his amendment, not reject his investigation, not reject going forward to find out whether there was wrongdoing here--that is appropriate and we ought to do it--but I…

I rise for a number of reasons. First of all, I want to congratulate the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. Livingston], my chairman, who, as he has said, has been working very hard to try to either resolve the supplemental as a whole or to…

I do not ascribe to the gentleman any disingenuousness by asking the question. He knows full well that the Government was never once shut down by Democratic policy. Not once. There were, clearly, disagreements and the President refused to…

I associate myself with Ms. Pelosi who has been a giant in the leadership on the issue of dealings with China, human rights in China, and in the Far East generally... The fact of the matter is, of course, our world is a better place…

I want to join the gentleman in his remarks that getting this disaster relief and getting this bill to the President as soon as possible ought to be our priority. Then he and I and others who want to make sure that the Federal Government…

I would hope the majority party, along with the leadership in the minority party, is considering the contingency to ensure the operations of Government for Monday and Tuesday, maybe only 48 hours or 72 hours. I know; I have been in some of…

I want to thank him for his serious treatment of this and his concern that, as far as I know, nobody on this side of the aisle has seen the completed bill at this point in time. I understand Mr. Cox, according to what the gentleman says…

I have one final point that needs clarification. The bill requires the IRS maintain taxpayer services at 1995 levels. I am concerned that this provision will require IRS to reopen walk-in taxpayer service centers rather than allow IRS to…

I share his concerns that we need to develop a very solid and clear definition of what operational TSM is, what is developmental TSM, and what is considered a legacy system. Mr. Chairman, I would also like to have clarified the issue of…

I will be pleased to work with the chairman on this very important issue. I would also appreciate a bit more clarification regarding the operational components of the tax systems modernization program. As the bill is currently written, my…

Because the budget that his side of the aisle offered, of course, does exactly what he is concerned about.