If a family loses income, a family loses their job and they go on unemployment, the budget they started when they had a full job is not going to continue spending as usual. Maybe we should even reduce it below the budget.

Today the Committee on Appropriations marked up and passed out the agricultural appropriations bill. That will be on the House floor next week. In that effort this morning, there was an attempt to put language into that appropriations bill…

today I rise to discuss the farm bill that will be up in full Committee on Appropriations tomorrow, and I suspect the plans are to bring that legislation before this Chamber next week. I would like to discuss my and many others' beliefs…

Congress is faced with two difficult votes coming up. One is to start a prescription drug program for seniors. The other is to increase the debt limit. I see a certain degree of irony in the fact that, while we are increasing the debt, or…

one challenge that we have in the U.S. House of Representatives, in Congress, is the overzealousness to spend more money. Of course, the money has to come from taxpayers throughout the United States that pay taxes into the Federal system…

I would like to call to my colleagues' attention to a meeting I had yesterday with Senator Grassley. We talked about the fact that there is no limitation on payments in the farm bill. We talked about the danger and the inappropriate farm…

I just want to suggest that some of us agree with the President in where it is appropriate to have the Sea Grant Program administered. I just would like to reinforce for our future consideration the possibility and the logic of having this…

passing on to my colleagues and the American people a predicament that Congress is now facing related to spending. How big should the Federal Government be, how much should we tax the American citizens in order to accommodate what we think…

Mr. Speaker, I think the question is, when are taxes too high? We have a system in the United States that has made us successful, I think, based on the fact that those that work hard, that save, that learn, that try, that invest, end up…

I am informed that the language of the gentlewoman's amendment limits the amount that can be spent on this effort, and who is to say it should be more, and I just suggest rather than let politicians deciding, let us let the scientific…

reclaiming my time, to make it clear, it is somewhat of a different amendment than the gentlewoman submitted in the Committee on Science, but even more and above that, it seems to me like we should agree that if we can leave NSF and the…

let me just say, this legislation is named the Investing in America's Future Act because that is really what it is. Basic research is what is needed to develop new ideas for products that the world demands. It is how we develop ways to…

the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Gutknecht) might also be relating to this, but in the bioterrorism bill that we passed a couple of weeks ago, we did include over $190 million to USDA, additional funding to the Department of Energy…

Mr. Chairman, we must reluctantly rise in opposition to the amendment from my very good friend from California. I certainly agree with the gentlewoman that the National Science Foundation should conduct basic research that will enable us…

In support of this bill, I would like to relay to my colleagues my personal experience with the National Transportation Safety Board. Last week, there was a train wreck in Potterville, Michigan, in my congressional district. Thirty-five of…

Mr. Speaker, let me offer an analogy, a Biblical quotation, and I paraphrase: Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach that person to fish, and he will have food for a lifetime. This is the kind of venture that has not only…

Mr. Chairman, there is a lot that the gentleman from California says that I agree with. We came here in the same year, in 1993. I have been working to try to hold down the increase in spending and thereby hold down the increase in the…

first may I compliment the gentleman and his committee on his efforts to get needed support to our first responders, our firefighters, so they can better prepare for any terrorist attack that may occur. Mr. Chairman, as the gentleman…

with the passage of welfare reform back in 1996, we moved from a welfare system that bred dependency to one that offers self-sufficiency, and probably even more important, allowing those individuals to regain some of their self-respect…

The plant genome and gene expression centers will take plant biotechnology research into the next phase, beyond simply mapping and sequencing genes and toward a better understanding of gene expression. We have got the Aradopsis plant. We…

the language in the bill was not for-profit companies, it is for nonprofit organizations to be involved, so the nonprofits that are interested in something beside profit.

What it calls for is more research. More research is going to include not only what it can do for people but also to increase the safety of any resulting product. The gentleman mentioned that a lot of the private research so far in this…

The tremendous potential of plant genomics is limited only by the creativity of the scientists and this body and Washington allowing them to do the research. This bill will help create the next generation of plants that will provide…

But it seems to me, and I would suggest to my colleagues, that our goal in farm policy should be that we develop and help the mainstream family farmers in this country. And you can argue how big is a family farm, but if you are talking…

while I agree with the sentiments expressed by many of my House colleagues about the need for Israel to defend itself, I do not think that this is the right time for Congress to take sides in the Israel-Palestine affair. In foreign affairs…