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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.
My question to the leader is I hope he realizes this is new law. Never before in the history of the United States have we assisted people who lost cattle during a disaster. So we are making new law. It is not just an appropriation. It is…
I understand the Senators' concerns. The administration has expressed similar concerns about this provision. We will certainly look carefully at this provision in conference and do what we can to provide an appropriate level of funding for…
The Senator from Virginia wanted to change the law. The President wanted to change the law with the $318 million. If the Senator wants to delete the $318 million, the $475 million would come out. But the $139 million that the President did…
The additional funds provided by the Appropriations Committee hardly give an unfair advantage to 29 States.
That is not so. The $475 million is tied to the $318 million. If we grant the administration's requested $318 million, we must put in the $475 million. The $139 million is to correct totally for the original error. The $318 million asked…
We provided $318 million as requested by the administration. The $139 million that the Senator from Virginia references was to correct the basic error. The additional $475 million was to make whole the States in 1997 whose obligation…
I ask the Senator if he would kindly do us the favor and not turn this into a motion to instruct. It merely says ``no funds can be spent after June 30, 1998.'' I say to the Senator from Delaware, there are no funds available after…
The amendment, as modified, would provide an additional $5 million to the Fish and Wildlife Service to pay private landowners for the voluntary use of private land to store water in restored wetlands. These funds were not provided to any…
The original amendment would prohibit the expenditure of funds after September 30, 1997. There are no funds in the bill for defense to be spent after September 30, 1997. The amendment of the Senator from Texas would prohibit spending funds…
I am surprised there are only 3,000. After all, all they have to do is press a button, and say, ``Send out another 3 million direct mail pieces to all of these people that are involved in this extreme environmental movement in this…
Hodel did not consult with these Senators because the management of the Congress was under the party of the Senator from Arkansas at that time. If there was any complaint about what Hodel did, that should be in the Record. At the time, the…
That sounds like something people accuse me of. I have been threatened with death.
Hodel approved a series of papers that were presented by those agencies, and said--his statement is a one-page statement, which the Senator has been reading. So the words that the Senator was reading were not Hodel's words. The Secretary's…
All Hodel had to do was sign his name to one page. He did not do it. It was the Department that developed this policy after consultation with a series of States and a series of agencies.
No, he doesn't. The law is the law. There were laws in place in 1976 which defined those rights. He is now going to try to redefine the law to determine whether they were existing rights in 1976.
There is no sensible way for an edict to come from Washington denying the right of a State under Federal law. I am not seeking a more sensible way. I am telling him No! No! No! You cannot do this. If we cannot get that between us, then you…
That is the very basis of the western highway system today, those rights-of-way that went across Federal lands. The whole West was Federal land.
In Title III, Chapter 10, add the following new section. Sec. . After the period for filing claims pursuant to the Uniform Relocation Act is closed, and from amounts previously appropriated for the Center for Ecology Research and Training…
This is a direct use of funds that are already available. There is no budgetary impact on it. It deals with issues that the corps has informed us it needs authority for in three States. It has been cleared on both sides. I urge adoption of…
But I do want to say that, as a result of the amendment of the Senator from South Carolina, there have been a series of pharmaceutical groups that contacted us concerning the inequities of the long delay in the processing of Federal…
As Senator Wellstone has indicated, the effect of this amendment will be to dedicate a portion of the moneys that are available to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make LIHEAP-type assistance available to victims of flooding…
The Senator's amendment mandates the Secretary to make this available from the moneys that the Senator has mentioned. The Secretary has current authority to do it. It is discretionary. The effect of his amendment is to mandate that, of the…
As a democracy, Israel has both the burden and the glory of a vigorous public square. We as Americans must be the truest and best kind of ally--both forthright enough to say what we think--and steadfast enough to stay the course during the…
It is not an easy position for me to be opposed to friends with whom I normally stand shoulder to shoulder. But I believe we must be motivated by what we believe is in the best interest of the country as a whole. I believe if we took a…
I want to acknowledge his leadership as well as his cooperation. Both he and the staff of the full committee have assisted us in every way. I do thank him. And Senator Hollings has done the same for Senator Kerry. So it was with the…
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