Wayne Gilchrest

I would like to work on legislation to change the threshold of the requirements to designate something wilderness. The gentleman from Utah (Mr. Hansen) had an eastern wilderness bill that was percolating through legislation that would have…

Mr. Chairman, I think the last couple of days has been an extraordinary debate about a profound issue about the future of conservation for this country. This legislation, in my judgment, is as profound and may be more so than the concept…

Mr. Chairman, we just heard some eloquent remarks about small little jewels being preserved and not being able to wait a few more years for lack of funding because of the advancing concrete. If we could picture in our mind the East Coast…

Andy Rooney, a number of years ago, wrote a book about war, and he revealed in that book a little known phenomenon that is very rarely, if ever, discussed about war. That phenomenon is in essence this: The combat soldier in combat is…

there is annual dredging that takes place in the Chesapeake Bay, millions of cubic yards behind the three hydroelectric power dams in the Susquehanna River that have right now over 200 million cubic yards of sediment that eventually within…

I will say the rubble fill operator stood to make literally millions of dollars on the property, but it would have damaged.

this morning I rise publicly to honor the memory of a true hero, a woman who gave her time, patience, experience, knowledge, and love to the young adults at Northeast High School in my district. In 1996, Linda Aschenbach-Hackmann, a former…

As a young soldier in Vietnam, I like to speak to my colleagues through the eyes of many young soldiers in Vietnam where we would every once in a while help corps men deliver babies, some alive and some dead. We as very young men saw…

My compliments and gratitude to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) and the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer) and the gentlewoman from Maryland (Mrs. Morella) for their effort in moving this legislation through and for taking the…

I too want to make some comments about the water bill of 1999, sort of a retroactive process. There are a lot of good projects in here. As the previous speaker mentioned, there are a number of positive environmental provisions in here…

I would like to start with a quote by a man called Jacob Brownoski that I think is apropos to this situation. In it he says there are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means, that deliberate…

I want to add my full support for this legislation and the amendments that will be proposed here in the next few minutes. I also want to thank the chairman of the full committee for his support of this legislation, the full ranking member…

I think we can further spread the idea that our coastal waters are worth saving. The Coast Guard does a great job in dealing with the fisheries issue, the illegal immigrants issue, the whole maritime safety issue, the environmental…

Jerry, I guess some decades ago when you occasionally were barely able to hold up your M-1 rifle because you were holding it for hours in the rain with sand fleas on that glorious place called Paris Island you did not really dream of…

This bill will go far to preserve and restore Blackwater Refuge on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and to provide a base of information and experience to help other States devise ways to deal with this little critter we call nutria. The…

Our intent with this legislation is to ensure that all participating parties improve the quality of the Great Lakes Basin, not to give one any more advantage over another.

I would like to make a very quick comment to the gentleman from Ohio who said that Mark Twain made a comment that the early demise of the Great Lakes is greatly exaggerated. I think in order to continue to make that statement humorous…

I, too, share the reservations of the gentleman from Missouri about interrupting the normal committee process with a major new initiative. However, the normal committee process, in my judgment, was a part of this task force from start to…

I know the difficulty of transferring money from one account to another account, and I realize and understand the $8 million would account for close to, if not including, $15 million from these various accounts. It is my understanding…

the main discussion here seems to be, on both sides of the aisle, the question of human rights violations, the question of religious persecution, immigration policy, and the issue of the POW and the MIAs. So how best do we deal with that…

Our hearts collectively here in the Nation's Capitol reach out to the families of Mr. Gibson and Mr. Chestnut, to comfort as best we can their sorrow. These two brave men have not only saved our lives, but these two brave men have changed…

There are some good public housing projects that work well and there are some bad public housing projects that work terrible. What is the difference under the present regime? It is good management. It is not the people that live there that…

Is it the same? Wal-Mart or General Motors can operate if they have 11 or 15 or 20 days of rain, but if you have 11 or 15 or 20 days of rain during the haying season, you lose a large crop, or you cannot plant our corn.

Reclaiming my time, my interpretation of the bill and that section of the bill is that if we take that out, then what the gentleman is trying to do becomes more ambiguous. I think the specifics of the Shays language offers a concrete…

I would agree with the interpretation of the author of the bill; that the statement the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Shays) just read in no uncertain terms protects the brochure that the gentleman is holding for the Christian Coalition.