Wayne Gilchrest

let me make this one last point, the question is should campaign ads escape finance laws simply because they are crafted to masquerade as something else? I do not think so. So I strongly urge my colleagues to vote for Shays-Meehan.

I think this bill does the same thing. Very quickly, I would like us to look at the big picture here. This country was founded on four very positive things: democracy, character, an endless frontier, and an abundance of natural resources…

this debate is about the principle of equal justice under law, as the gentleman from Illinois (Chairman Hyde) so eloquently stated in his sad and magnificent speech

H.R. 1604 by my colleague on the Committee on Resources, the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Kildee], would provide for the division, use, and distribution of judgment funds of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan pursuant to the four…

I too would like to take a minute to address the House on the words of Sara Lister, the top personnel officer at the Pentagon for the U.S. Army, in her remarks about naming Marines as "extremists." What I would like to say is that I am a…

One of the previous speakers made mention that this legislation, and I support this legislation, was a radical idea. Let me just tell Members some of the radicals in this Nation's history. Thomas Jefferson was a radical, and he broke with…

this is a 2-year authorization. I will say that I as well accept the gentleman's amendment. I think what we will do, though, between now and the conference committee and beyond is to look into the issue of navigation concerns. I know that…

this amendment was developed and agreed to on a bipartisan basis. The amendment contains miscellaneous amendments, many of which are technical or clarifying in nature. The amendment includes a requirement for the Secretary of…

I want to assure the people in the Great Lakes region, Lake Michigan, that the Coast Guard is there and they are continuing to work there and they are going to do the best job they can and they will continue to work with local hospitals…

I want to say emphatically that the issue that the leadership has been discussing in recent times are the issues of what the Coast Guard needs in the Arctic Ocean in February. They are discussing how the Coast Guard has more influence and…

I do not take any PAC money, no money unless a person can vote for me. I did that in 1992, when I ran against an opponent, an incumbent of this House, who spent a lot more money than I did. It is still possible to win.

I may not look like a Member of Congress, the Scotch-Irish descent, but I have been stopped many times questioning whether I was a Member of Congress. We are debating here tonight. It is a positive thing that we debate the issues. Oliver…

The question is not whether fish have memory loss. The question is that it has been confirmed that humans that come in contact with this micro-organism not only have memory loss but have other severe neurological problems that can lay…

I would say the hallmark of the Nation, of this democracy, is human initiative using good judgment. It is not the Government dictating any policy. I say that as a general rule of thumb for individuals across this great Nation, in the…

again reclaiming my time, I understand that $4.3 million in a $1,600,000,000,000 budget is minuscule. But for those parents that are listening, the discussion of the positive nature that we want to protect their children, teach their…

the reason the label does not change until March of 1999 is a compromise worked out on the Senate side to pursue a very scientific study of what the dolphins go through under this new regime. Now if the scientific study shows that there is…

First, I have a great deal of respect for the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Wolf], and I think he knows that. I do look forward to working with him on this particular issue on page 6, but I look forward to working with him on this issue in…

In the State of Maryland, as in many other States, it is common practice for school boards to contract out school busing services to independent contractor schoolbus drivers. Nearly every school district on the Eastern Shore has operated…

I do have a lingering concern about the Maryland school districts' problem. Under the December 31 effective date of the independent contractor safe harbor contained in the bill, many school districts will be forced, since they have this…

I am not going to take a position on the Jones Act, but what I would like to describe to the gentleman from Michigan is that there was a ship in Baltimore that was loading cargo, helicopters. One of the helicopter blades that was just…

I also want to reemphasize the participation of the gentleman from California, Duke Cunningham, in this legislation. His efforts started back in 1992. It has been mentioned on the floor here a number of times that the United States only…

I will take a little more time later to explain all of the accusations by the other side of the aisle, but very quickly now, the reason there are fewer dolphin deaths in the eastern tropical Pacific is precisely because of this…

There are a lot of people from California here. I think that we all have to recognize that yes, there have been some extremes, and there are some examples. And the gentleman from California [Mr. Herger] described an example where some…

Everyone here wants to save the lives of people, and everyone here wants to put people out of harm's way, and I would assume that everyone here wants to understand the natural mechanics of the flow of water and the mechanics of creation…

the Boehlert amendment deals with the existing emergency, which is to repair the levees up to 1998.