this Ensign amendment would require that the Department of Energy undertake a risk assessment before it takes any action under the act. The amendment would stop the nuclear waste program in its tracks and would prevent the Department of…

I would note that this Gibbons amendment would bar the Department of Energy from planning for the transportation of spent nuclear fuel or high level radioactive waste through any State unless the Governor of the State certified that an…

I did not want to leave my friend from Massachusetts' comments unresponded to with regard to the thousand years. Here is what it looks like. Looks like the moon. I would like to propose that we might get a unanimous consent amendment to…

my amendment does not address how long these should be in effect. I would guess that if this amendment is accepted, as I think that it will be, it will be for the length of the bill, which--is this a 1-year authorization?

I would just note in terms of the cost, the cost of this amendment is very small. For the most part these foghorns, many were installed in the early 1970s, have required virtually no maintenance at all. As far as I know, all of these…

This amendment is about foghorns. As I was back in my district, as most of us were these last 10 days, my district is along the shore of Lake Michigan, the Coast Guard currently has a proposal to end the maintenance and in essence stop…

As I met with my boaters and some Coast Guard personnel even this last week in Michigan, I think that this is a very good effort to try and maintain safety along the shores of Lake Michigan. It has come to my attention that the Coast Guard…

Mr. Chairman, this issue is important not only because it is a matter of decency, common sense and compassion, but it is one that we need to pass this afternoon. Let me remind my colleagues again that this amendment keeps Legal Services at…

I might just say in response to the gentleman from Indiana, that in these cases where we have seen abuses, I would be delighted, and I am a supporter of this amendment and will speak a little bit later, but I would be delighted to work…

I spent most of my August break back in my district listening to my constituents, and many were pleased, in fact, when the President used for the first time the line-item veto. In fact, many wished that the President had had the authority…

it is time to stop this Federal subsidy of a crop that is both addictive and causes cancer. The passage of this amendment does not stop small tobacco farmers from growing tobacco. It just says we will stop one of the subsidies, one of the…

I am proud to be labeled as the deficit hawk because I know that deficits are harmful to our economic growth and our future prosperity. All of us in this body are heartened by the recent news that the deficit in fact is coming down. Who…

Most of us here in this body and citizens across the country were offended with some of the arts that were funded by the NEA in years past. We had a fellow colleague, Paul Henry, who led the successful fight to stop much of that abuse of…

it is my sad duty today to report the death of a very good friend of this House, Jonna Lynne Cullen. J.L., as we called her, was a special staff member who served this Nation for many, many years as a staff member to Trent Lott in the…

There are very powerful parts of this institution. One is the Committee on Rules, which meets behind those doors to my left. The Committee on Rules really runs this place in lots of ways. Every bill that comes to this House floor has a…

I rise in support of H.R. 1 and in opposition to the amendment offered by my colleague from California. I am a strong supporter of the bill before us, H.R. 1, and was pleased to support it in the committee earlier this month. Contrary to…

I would like my friend from Massachusetts to respond to the question that the gentleman from Iowa raised in his opening statement about the Heimlich maneuver. Does the gentleman think that that should be patented and get a bill for that…

I support the base bill, and I would say that I also support this motion to recommit, which does not delete, eliminate, or change anything in the present bill, as we will vote on final passage on this measure whether or not this motion to…

a few minutes ago I met with a number of high school students out on the House steps. They had a lot of questions, particularly as it pertained to the deficit. I reminded them about my record and I told them about my priority: Education. I…

I take the well today to remind my colleagues that you and I were not here in the House when the warning signals were up about the S&L debacle back in the early 1980's. Those scoundrels from Texas and California, Florida and Illinois took…

I care deeply about the deficit and maintaining a strong national defense. Next year we will be spending more just on the interest servicing the $5.5 trillion national debt than all of the Defense Department budget and foreign aid put…

there is no greater crime, I do not believe, than a child that has been molested, perhaps killed, or not killed but sexually molested by somebody else. I had a woman in my district talk to me in tears about her 9-year-old that was raped…

this has been a long and arduous process. Putting together the revised export provisions for drug and device exports would not have been possible without the help of my good friends and colleagues, the chairman of the Commerce Committee…

But, you know, back in 1980 when I first came to this town and worked for President Reagan, the baby-boom generation, our generation, was 30 years away from retirement. The deficit then was a lot smaller, the national debt was a lot…

we changed the House rules, but we are not living up to them. Maybe we should get the mace out.