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Haley Maria Stevens is a U.S. Representative for Michigan's 11th congressional district, serving since January 3, 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she has focused on issues related to education, technology, and public health during her time in office. Stevens has a background in education and has worked to advance policies that support innovation and economic growth in her district. She has been vocal about the importance of scientific integrity and public health, often addressing critical issues that affect her constituents.
Respectfully, Mr. Leader, there have been meetings all over this Congress for the last 2 weeks and I have tried to get into them and I was not allowed in. Now, we are going to have a meeting of our committee to find out how this affects…
Not one. You had my staff's estimate of that run. I asked repeatedly for a copy of it and the Senator from Rhode Island will tell you, he told me the other day they were not available yet. We had an estimate of the run, and it was run on…
As I understand, no one lives further from the Senate than I do and I have a wife waiting for me halfway home. However, I am also a conferee. I have not seen the conference report. I was not given even the privilege of deciding whether I…
I strongly urge all my colleagues to vote in support of this bill, which addresses urgent funding requirements for the Department of Defense, and many agencies responsible for dealing with natural disasters. The conference report provides…
I have no intention, if the Senator will yield further, to cover the issues--he is talking about the one that puts a cap on the 1998 expenditures--unless authorized by law. The other one is intended to cover those costs where I believe the…
I am more than happy to put into the second amendment, which is 2065, the phrase, ``other than common funded budgets of NATO.''
I am not asking for people to sign off on the amendment. I am only asking for time to debate it and have a vote.
I stand corrected by the staff director. It is the total spending that is over the caps. The defense right now is under the cap, although before the year is over it will be right up to the cap.
When I was informed that we were running out of money, according to the projections for FEMA, and would be out of money if they met all of the disaster requirements for fiscal year 1998, I said we had to do something about it but we would…
In the bill being reported by the House today, the House of Representatives has included additional funds for damages incurred from these storms. This amount is based on updated figures that have become available, subsequent to the…
It is counted in the budget. But when they spend it for real emergencies, we relieve them from accounting for that as far as sequestrations are concerned because it does not count against this year's allocation or the allocation in any…
I am not sure the Senator is understanding me yet. The money that we appropriate to FEMA, we just put in FEMA.
Does the Senator understand, first we have to declare a disaster for that not to be accounted?
Some money is already over there in FEMA, but when it is spent, it is emergency money.
So that the cost of repairing the levees in Georgia or Alabama or fixing the frozen trees in New Hampshire, wherever they might be, that money, if it is not spent this year, will have to be charged against the regular bill for that purpose…
Does the Senator mean to say with regard to disaster money that is in this bill, that only the money that is spent this year will be treated as an emergency?
This amendment is necessary because of the problems we had with the Bosnian money in this bill already. Many people oppose Bosnian deployment, as the Senator from South Carolina has just stated. I want to make certain we are not going to…
We do need this bill. We need it for the men and women in the armed services who have already been deployed. I, too, have trouble with some of these deployments, but I never have any trouble voting and asking people to vote for money to…
On page 15, after line 21, insert: Sec. . Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of the Army is hereby prohibited from moving forward with civilian personnel reductions at all Army Test Ranges resulting from proposed…
The leader has always been with us. But I have to find a way out of this hole we are in right now, both on building ferries and building roads. I don't have that answer yet. I will be here again and again, Mr. President. Thank you very…
I have checked, and since we have become a State, we have built very few new bridges. We have replaced the ones destroyed in the 1964 earthquake, with one exception. The reason we have not built new bridges is we haven't had any new roads…
I call the attention of the Members in the Senate to this article because I think it makes some very good points about NATO expansion. I particularly want to quote this one provision. These writers said: The Senate would be wise to link…
I concur with Senator Inouye that this is a critical problem for Alaska and Hawaii. I would suggest that it is in the interest of all States to ensure that no State is left behind as we enter the digital age. Researchers in Alaska and…
The conference committee intends for the $6 million to be allocated to extend the south jetty at the Grays Harbor project to provide a permanent solution to the ongoing erosion problem.
It would be very hard, Mr. President, to figure out the net amount. The actual savings would be determined by how much of the projects fall into this year by reprogramming and then how much more money has to be requested next year to pay…
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