the next bill we introduce should be that we make this permanent. This seems to me ridiculous that we come before this body every 4 or 5 or 6 months to make a temporary increase in legislation in the bankruptcy law that is so important to…

I think probably the second greatest threat to national security is where we are going in our performance in science and math education in our schools. We now rank below any of the other G-7 countries of the industrialized world. We have…

I put the last chart up to show some of the accomplishments that we have achieved in the last 35-40 years especially in terms of increased energy efficiency. The top black line represents the energy use at constant 1972 GDP. How much GDP…

this chart shows, I think, something that we can be very proud of. The increase in gross domestic product in this country has been plus 147 percent, where U.S. coal consumption has increased 100 percent, but U.S. energy consumption in…

There is no question that making sense of climate variability is a hugely complex challenge, but one that we can make progress on, at least before we commit to onerous regulations. In a 1999 study, the National Research Council made…

the historical consequences of such a modest warming, I mentioned have shown to be beneficial. An example I was looking at was during the Medieval climate optimum. During that optimum period of slightly warming temperatures from 800 to…

Let me put that chart back up. Just to review, Europe and the North Africa area, the red indicates the amount of CO2 that they are putting into the air. The blue at the bottom indicates how much they sequester or capture of CO2. And of…

And the market system works. I think we have a responsibility at the Federal level to make sure as best we can that there is competition, and there is not the kind of gouging. But if last year, the crude oil prices got for a little while…

I think it is fair to at least mention the tremendous political influence that some of the environmental community has. We all want a cleaner environment. We are all going to move ahead to develop renewable-type resources that can minimize…

I think the gentleman opened the door to a short discussion as we conclude on energy. Let me briefly go through a couple of the charts that I think describe the predicament that we are facing in energy. This chart simply shows the top red…

I joined the gentleman from Texas at the Hague, and what the Kyoto Protocol did is it left a lot of the details of implementation to further negotiations. One of the questions at the Hague was the so-called ``sinks,'' the sequestration of…

In fact, in July of 1997, before the Kyoto Protocol was agreed to, the U.S. Senate passed what they called the Byrd-Hagel resolution, which says that the U.S. should not be signing any treaty that, one, would mandate reductions in…

I am disappointed that there was not an amendment addressing the Kyoto Protocol language in the State Department reauthorization bill. This language that calls for implementary the protocol will potentially have far-reaching ramifications…

the so-called transition cost for Social Security, if we do nothing, if we make no changes, is $120 trillion over the next 75 years. If we start now by developing the kind of bridge that will bridge the gap between expected revenues and…

how does one make the best decision on how much to spend and how high taxes should be? It would seem reasonable that the first thing policymakers might do is say, look, how much, how high, should taxes be for the American people? Right…

I would suggest many of us are very concerned that we are going to review a proposal that might not keep Social Security solvent for the next 75 to 100 years. I think it is important that we urge the President, that we urge this…

Mr. Speaker, I agree with my friend from Texas, there needs to be a balanced effort in where we go on research. Certainly all of the other agencies and Departments that do research depend, to a certain extent, on what happens with basic…

I am going to talk about Social Security, a little bit about the problems, a little bit about the commission that was appointed today by the President of the United States, George Bush, to try to come to a conclusion that is going to keep…

last night we heard a new President talk about some of the priorities of this country and some of the potential problems with the economy which could eventually affect jobs, not only the number of jobs, but the kind of incomes that are…

The first thing I would urge is for the United States Senate to try to immediately move this bill into effect. Let me tell my colleagues the predicament. Since last July, farmers have not had the availability of chapter 12 which was…

I am a farmer from Michigan, and I know that you are as well in your State of Florida. Agriculture today and the plight of farmers is one of the serious issues before Congress. Another serious issue that is sort of the overriding…

What is facing the United States Congress right now is a decision of where do we go to help make sure that the economy keeps growing. What do we do in terms of President Bush's suggestion on tax cuts? How far should we go on those tax…

we are now considering the question of tax relief: What kind of tax relief should we have? How far should we go to stimulate the economy? It strikes me, Mr. Speaker, that we have heard a lot of bragging out of the White House for the last…

I would like to call to all my colleagues' attention, to the attention of the American people, that this is not isolated to some other country; something that might happen someplace else. We have had serious earthquakes in the United…

the fact that the first piece of legislation this new body is considering is a firefighting bill helps demonstrate the esteem with which the Congress holds the Nation's firefighters. This bill, which corrects an inequity in the mandatory…