Wayne Gilchrest

I would like to invite Mr. Farr from California to ply the placid waters of the Sassafras River and enjoy either a dawn or sunset in a canoe as we go past the marsh and beautiful forested areas along the coastal Chesapeake Bay. I want to…

I am not sure if I have any other speakers on the floor. I would simply say that, out of about approximately $16 billion that is spent on NASA and less than $4 billion spent on ocean issues, that is a pretty big disparity. We need to spend…

Greenland is an interesting place because you can go back several hundred years. People were tracking the increasing or decreasing glacier ice cap. So there is a very accurate record. We saw some 20 years ago that the ice cap really…

I thank the gentlemen from Utah for yielding me time. Mr. Speaker, I rise to support the rule and I rise to support the underlying legislation. Mr. Speaker, what I would like to speak to at this point is in the underlying bill there is a…

I would like to talk for 5 minutes on this issue known as climate change. Are humans affecting the climate or is it the natural influence of natural variabilities? Mr. Speaker, if people will look back into their middle school and high…

this is what I would like to conclude with. Dubai Ports World will have no administrative authority over any ports. They will have no security responsibility over any ports in the United States. That is retained by the Federal and State…

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Bartlett and I a few years ago traveled together to the Antarctic to McMurdo Station and the South Pole. It is a fascinating, majestic place, a little harsh, but nature in the raw seldom mild. I will say it is an…

We have held hearings on those issues. We have. And we have developed from your bill legislation that is moving through the subcommittee, that many of them have already passed the subcommittee and the full committee and are awaiting floor…

I will tell you this, Mr. Farr: The aspects of Oceans- 21 in your bill that is subject to the jurisdiction----

I would like to remind the Member what the focus of our attention should be: David Branning, Dale Burger, Robert Guy, Jason Mileo, Adam Mooney, Bryan Nicholas Spry, William Allers, Samuel Bowen, Jarrett Thompson, Patrick Adle, Neil Prince…

I think we are here in some sense, past all the clutter of people articulating their most emotional feelings, is a bill set aside some 30 years ago to have an understanding about how we as Members of Congress, the government, can restore…

I am only going to speak for just a couple of minutes because the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Bartlett) has a fascinating story to tell, one that richly deserves everybody's attention. But, just briefly, I want to thank the gentleman for…

the Republicans have been in the majority for basically 10 years, and we have done a number of very positive things. What I would like to speak to this august body about tonight is an issue of oceans. In 1994, when the Republican majority…

Madam Speaker, H.R. 3479, the Brown Tree Snake Control and Eradication Act of 2004, introduced by the distinguished gentlewoman from Guam (Ms. Bordallo), has wide support. This particular species, the brown tree snake, has been an awful…

America mourns these past few days the passing of a true American, one who reflects not only the values of the country in the 21st century or the 20th century, but Ronald Reagan had inherent in his body and his soul and his mind and his…

What I would like to do to the Members assembled here tonight is to give a perspective on whether or not to some degree the climate on the planet is changing based on observational techniques by U.S. scientists. What I would like to do as…

Mr. Chairman, I reluctantly urge a no vote on the gentleman's amendment. Every State in the Union gets an increase in Federal dollars in this bill. The distribution of all these Federal dollars depends on highway traffic on Federal…

I would like to present what I hope you will find as fascinating facts about the carbon cycle. There has been a great deal of discussion over the last several years about climate change: Is human activity causing the climate to change or…

what I would like to do this evening is give the Members some ideas of a phenomenon that is occurring in the oceans that is clearly observed by the scientific community that is having an effect on the Earth's climate. Ocean currents that…

I think if it were a year from now and we were debating further supplementals for Iraq, it would be very appropriate; but it is not a year from now. We have tens of thousands of American soldiers in Iraq. Many of us have visited them…

I recently went to Iraq with the delegation of eight Members. Four Members on this delegation voted against the resolution to give the President the authority to use force, and they were going to vote against this $87 billion package…

I want to quickly make a comment in reference to the gentleman from Montana (Mr. Rehberg) and praise him for all his efforts to deal with this issue I think in a very comprehensive, competent way. I come to the floor on this issue from a…

I rise to engage the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Taylor), the chairman of the subcommittee, in a colloquy regarding the eradication and control of exotic, invasive nutria through a partnership of Federal and State agencies and…

as the author of H.R. 274, I am pleased the House is considering this legislation to expand the boundaries of the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, which is located in my congressional district. Garrett Island, which consists of…

This is not the perfect bill. There are very few bills that come before the House that are perfect. I think there is a recognition that within a 20-year time frame the administration would like to relieve ourselves of the burden of fossil…