Bruce F. Vento

The Roseville girls hockey team has demonstrated, once again with an undefeated season, that hard work and dedication always lead to success.

I rise today in support of initiatives that provide flexibility and accountability in the administration of federal education programs. However, as we consider legislation such as the Education Flexibility Partnership Act of 1999, we must…

H.R. 350 is misguided legislation that could delay and handcuff this Body to prevent the passage of sound policy and laws. H.R. 350 ignores history and dooms Congressional ability to respond to a crisis. Many of my Colleagues have only…

I rise in bittersweet support of this colossal final budget package. This omnibus appropriations measure funds a total of $486.7 billion for fiscal year 1999. This represents the largest single legislative measure in recent history…

I think a well-crafted law on concessions here, very prescriptive, not leaving a lot of room obviously could present some problems to any administrator, including Secretary of Interior Babbitt or his successors. But most of these laws are…

after doing half a job, this Congress for the past year has been coasting. Here we are, almost 15 days beyond, two weeks beyond the fiscal year and the budget matters are not being addressed. For these 10 months, bills and proposals that…

I rise in somewhat qualified support. I know that some provisions in this have received a lot of work. I think it is obvious when we are not going regular order, it makes it very difficult to, in fact, try to digest all of the aspects of a…

I support charter schools. In fact, I call my colleagues' attention to the fact that the City Academy, the first charter school in the Nation, existed and was developed in my neighborhood community on the east side of Saint Paul where I…

I just want to comment. I think it is regrettable. At the end of the session we do not need this type of polarization. I appreciate the gentleman from Utah attempting to mollify some of the provisions in the bill that are troublesome, but…

I do not object to the gentleman from Utah, the chairman of the subcommittee, trying to improve this product. It needs a lot of improvement. That is for sure. That much, we can agree upon. I think he has made a step forward to improve it…

I would say that this half trillion dollars of illegal money that is washing through our society through our banks needs to be regulated, needs to be addressed. We need to provide the law enforcement and Treasury and other specific…

I rise with some concerns about this measure, S. 314. I was not aware that it was scheduled for the suspension calendar. I am a little surprised to see it here because it takes on a profound policy. I know my colleague from Tennessee and…

I rise with specific concerns regards the Energy and Water Appropriation measure. When conference with the Senate was sought the full House accepted my instruction which put the House on record in opposition to the Senate provision regards…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in certainly strong support of it. I would just point out to my colleagues that Alaska under the land use laws that were passed in ANILCA and in other land use laws is already treated special by permitting airplanes to…

I was one that voted against the transfer of this money, because I am concerned about housing and the problems that we have had with the ownership and the goals of ownership of housing in the Nation and did not want to take away from the…

I do not favor it for New Mexico. I think it does have applications for the other States. In spite of the fact that we offered the amendment, we cannot prevent the standards and precedent. I think it would be a bigger problem if all of the…

we are giving this commission the dollars and I do not think the proper guidance. It is actually seven out of eight States that are not included in this, only the State of New Mexico is the focus. This is a 10-year commission we are…

this settlement of the treaty that is 57 years old I would just point out has never been successfully legally challenged in court. I am talking about the clouded titles that occurred with Native American lands, because there was a clouded…

I mean, legally I think there is no substance and basis, and morally I think we do have a responsibility. But this is an open invitation, and if something is presented to Congress that is going to cost hundreds of millions of dollars…

I rise, as many of my colleagues have, to pay tribute to the two fallen Capitol Police officers Detective Gibson and Officer Chestnut that so valiantly have demonstrated, I think more than anything, the importance of their work and the…

I wanted to point out that I have two amendments, amendments No. 10 and 11, both of which would have restored nearly $30 million to successfully yet consistently underfunded FEMA emergency food and shelter program with an offset for…

Mr. Chairman, I think that my colleague, my friend from Pennsylvania who preceded me, points out by example the reason we should not have the type of language in this bill. In fact, I know it is a time-honored tradition of the Committee on…

I rise in favor of withdrawing normal trade relations with China. Does anyone really think that this is going to be the norm, this is the type of norm we want? We want a country that uses its platform, a very large country, for nuclear…

I will join the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Kolbe) reluctantly in opposition to this. I have heard some discussion here about authorizing this type of program. The fact is, when I served in the capacity of subcommittee chairman, we tried…

I appreciate the gentleman reserving his point of order. There is a similar amendment that has been passed to mine which provides 1 year notice for persons residing in assisted housing where there is an exercised option by the owner to, in…