Debbie Dingell

The staff of this committee has been very good in changing the language of the bill in the report, something which regrettably they are not capable of doing. What we have here before us is a very simple matter. They are interfering here…

Mr. Speaker, I want to, first of all, urge my colleagues to support this legislation. It is a fine piece of legislation. It is a strong piece of legislation. It will protect one of the Nation's most precious resources, our national…

I would just observe that during the time that the States prepared their ratification, Members could, of course, prepare for the consequences of the amendment on which we are now voting. In other words, if it took 7 years for the States to…

Mr. Chairman, term limits; if Members are for term limits and they really mean it and they want it to take effect immediately, this amendment is for them. If Members want term limits to take place in 19 years, 7 years for ratification, 12…

The answer is the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure thoroughly bollixed up and botched this matter. Airline safety is adversely affected because the committee did not talk to the Committee on Commerce and because the Committee…

I just want to note that because the Republican leadership delayed the consideration of this bill past the Wednesday deadline to accommodate the gentleman from Pennsylvania's taste for pork, his State lost $26.4 million which would have…

It is with concern that I cast my vote in favor of most favored nation status for China. Without MFN, I believe much would be lost, not only in the area of trade, but in our ability to continue to coerce China to address its labor and…

The gentleman is a fine chairman, and all he has got to do to get us a Superfund bill to the floor which is really meaningful is to see to it that the subcommittee convenes, writes a bill, and reports it out and excludes paying the…

I know it by the old name, and they are still up to their old practices which is pork, pork at all costs, pork at any cost, pork without responsibility, pork without need, pork. We perhaps should change their name to the committee on pork.

The State of Louisiana is going to increase the budget deficit in the following fiscal year, the next fiscal year, and the year after that by $300 million each year, and God knows how much more after that.

I would like to direct the gentleman's attention to the term compatible use. Under section 3 of the bill, concerns have been raised that the definition of ``compatible use'' will alter the intent and administration of the Refuge Recreation…

I am concerned and I want this clear on the Record. It is correct that the Secretary will retain significant discretion regarding the authorization of such activities on existing refuge lands?

I have some further questions of the gentleman from Alaska, and they relate to the question of open until closed. Mr. Chairman, since the Resources Committee finished consideration of the legislation before us, considerable confusion has…

Finally, I am concerned that section 5 could be interpreted in a way which may limit or prohibit future Federal action to protect the system by its call for acquisitions under State law. Could the gentleman inform me how this provision…

Therefore, it was the intention of my good friend that the exclusion of reserved water rights in the definition of the word ``refuge'' in section 3(a) of the substitute bill was designed to limit the geographic boundaries of a given refuge…

Second, this subsection contains another disclaimer stating that nothing in the bill should be interpreted as affecting any refuge water right in existence on the date of enactment of H.R. 1675. I interpret this provision to mean that…

Section 8(a) of H.R. 1675 would establish a new subsection 4(n)(1) in the Refuge System Administration Act to address the general question of water rights within the refuge system. This subsection appears to contain two important…

The spectrum will come back to the Government at the conclusion, either the digital or the analog, and the citizens will during that time have a chance to change over to the new kind of television sets. The broadcasters will be able to…

Reclaiming my time, again with great affection for the gentleman, it would serve him and this body well if he were to seek more suitable subjects for making a claim that reform has accomplished anything of merit. I would conclude by making…

I want to reiterate to my colleagues the process under which we are considering this legislation is no different than we have ever done wherever we have had differences between two committees, and the process of working out an amendment…

I plead with my colleagues, and I say this with respect to my good friends on the Republican side, let us clean up these sites, let us spend the money, let us do what has to be done now. The money is here. The appropriations arrangement…

That is rather peculiar, and it is not in conformity with the intention of the House and the Senate when they passed the original Superfund legislation or the amendments to it, because that was supposed to be a trust fund for the cleanup…

I am not talking about my amendment; I am asking a question to find out how this money is being spent. I am told that we are going to spend a billion for cleanup. We have $1.6 billion in Superfund, but we are spending General Fund moneys…

The amount of the sale is $200-plus million. The amount which is wasted in selling at half the cost the government paid for it is over $100 million. That is the economy we are practicing here tonight.

The gentleman's kindness is extraordinary, but it is not adequate, nor does it do the things that have to be done to make this rule the kind that a responsible legislator may support.