the agricultural industry in the United States over the last 100 years has contributed a great deal. As we develop this year's farm bill, we are now trying to decide, number one, how much should we pay in terms of tax subsidies to farmers…

the conferees on the agricultural bill in both the House and the Senate are now meeting to come to an agreement on what should the agricultural policy be for the United States for the next 5 yrs. The Senate put in provisions in their bill…

Just to emphasize the point, we talk about the magic of compound interest. I paid my grandson to come in and paint the fence. And I said, Look, will you put this $36 in a Roth IRA? He said, Geez, Grandpa, I want to put this in an account…

we are going to increase the debt limit of the United States in the next several days. Already, the debt limit of the United States, set at $5.95 trillion, is being apparently violated by having a debt greater than the debt limit set by…

I wanted to make some comments today on how everybody in America probably should do a little more in helping their fellow man in contributing some community service, either at the community or national level. I was this past week deciding…

we learned from the September 11 attack and from the information gathered in Afghanistan to expect the unexpected. Part of the new commitment to homeland security is improving the security of our Nation's computer and networking…

I urge you to submit a budget in February that recognizes and addresses the rapid increases in deficit spending. The need to raise the debt ceiling within the next few weeks and the new CBO projections showing budget deficits in 2002 and…

One aspect of the bill that is especially important to me are the provisions for math and science education. In the Subcommittee on Research that I chair, we held several hearings on how to improve math and science education, where we have…

I just returned from the Presidential Commission on Social Security meeting. This morning they released their plan that they will be reviewing and presenting to the President on the 21st of this month. They presented three proposals…

let me just express my concern at scheduling a bill that requires taking $15 billion out of the general fund to be on the suspension calendar. I am concerned that this is going to end up being a disadvantage to railroad workers, because…

everybody talks so calmly about Social Security. Let me just stress that the greatest danger is doing nothing. I would suggest to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Levin) that everyone that criticizes anybody else's plan should come up with…

Yesterday I introduced a bill, H.R. 3400, that I think moves in the direction of establishing spending priorities. That legislation provides for beefing up the kind of research that is going to stimulate economic growth. A companion bill…

I just wanted to bring something to the attention of the chairman and the body that an engineer and pilot in my district suggested that we have a separate entrance for pilots and a solid bulkhead, doing away or reducing the need for…

I suspect that a lot of us become a little impatient in light of the terrorist threat, and I rise this morning with a little impatience to scold the United States Department of Agriculture, maybe request that they give consideration to a…

the service in the Armed Forces for all American men has been an experience that has I think unified us in this country. It has been a common experience of getting up early in the morning, eating mediocre food, but mostly understanding how…

One idea to increase airplane safety would be to create separate entrances for pilots on aircraft and eliminate access between the cabin and the cockpit. This would make it impossible to take over an aircraft from the cabin, reducing the…

with this resolution we honor those who on September 11 paid the ultimate sacrifice--the firefighters, emergency medical personnel, and police who are the first to arrive at the scene of an emergency, and the last to leave. According to…

Hopefully we are not going to bump up against this limit, because it is going to be very complicated however we do it, if we bump against a WTO provision that says we have got to pay back and somehow reduce the subsidies that have already…

It is generally agreed that the 21st century brings with it a new era of biological sciences, with the advances in molecular biology and biotechnology that promises longer, healthier lives and the effective control, perhaps elimination of…

this relates to the amendment that I had yesterday in terms of giving a greater advantage to the average, the medium-sized farmer, giving a lesser advantage to the very large farms in the country. This amendment relates to a WTO decision…

I think one area that we might want to reconsider looking at once this gets to conference or maybe even amendments today is an issue that relates to terrorism, and that is, our potential worst problem that we have in this country is the…

I just want to say that what USDA suggests on implementing this amendment, it would be simply, instead of a nonrecourse loan that means you can forfeit, it would be a recourse loan. So you can still borrow the money, but eventually you…

The $150,000 now only applies to the marketing loans and the loan deficiency payments. This would expand it to also include the other benefits from price support of the forfeitures and the certificates. This is a new CBO estimate that they…

each one of these individuals is eligible, if they go to the local FSA office, to be a separate producer entity, each available to that $150,000 limit.

This is going to come back to harm the average farmer in the United States. We have farm organizations that support it, and some of the big ones do not support it; but we are looking at a situation where the President has indicated to us…