Bruce F. Vento

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…

Minnesota was very quick to pick up on the assisted housing program that was enacted and put in place in the early 1970s. The consequence is that we have a significant concentration of assisted housing, and this assisted housing program…

I think that the House bill was much more clear with regard to some of these bend points. I think the gentleman from North Carolina raises a good point in terms of the complexity that is added to this and hopefully we will not see the type…

the Republican led Appropriations Committee has once again produced a substantially increased military spending bill that reneges on the Balanced Budget Agreement of 1997. When all the accounting schemes are pushed aside, we find that it…

A strong labor movement helps all Americans. It is our job as elected leaders to ensure that national and state laws allow our constituents to enjoy the fundamental values of democracy, freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. That…

as President Reagan said, ``Here you go again.'' Once again the Republican majority party is demonstrating how out of touch it is with the American people. In 1993, the American people sent a message to Congress that they wanted the budget…

I rise in support of the Telemarketing Fraud Prevention Act. This legislation represents a positive step in combating the growing problem of consumer and telemarketing fraud. Unfortunately, illegal telemarketing often targets the elderly…

The gentleman from Minnesota does not want it all, but he wants a level playing field to permit banks that are national to have the same rights of banks that are State. And this bill does not do it. And it is intentional. I understand it…

I rise in support of this manager's amendment, which include the Vento amendment antitrust provisions with respect to the required ongoing GAO annual reports, the different cultures that exist within the financial entities, insurance…

I think this bill, frankly, for many of us simply reregulates rather than unregulates what is portrayed as being a modernization bill. It is grudging in a sense to the point of fencing in many activities and not being responsive to the…

I rise with concern for this rule and significant concern for the outcome of this product, based on the amendments and status that exists. We are really facing here a bill that was not written in the Committee on Banking and Financial…

I simply want to rise and support this resolution. As we have said that the founding of the modern State, of course, is predicated on the fact that, for 2,000 years, without a physical presence and a nationalism which has come to…

I think this is a bill that the Members should overwhelmingly record their vote in support of. The fact is that this remedies the court decision of about a month ago that had been a long time considered by the courts in terms of the field…

For months we have had floating around here a bill called H.R. 10 that deals with modernization of financial services and, lo and behold, next week, in that week when we do not have time to deal with campaign finance reform, we have this…

I recognize that reports are required, but the fact is that this is a less precise way and a less effective way in terms of attaining accountability from the program. We do not do that through the regular process. Regular appropriations…

I would want to point out that this is a good bill, but one of the major ways that we gain information here is by consulting with the indigenous people of these areas from the rain forests that in fact have used many of the products, the…

I commend the sponsors, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Gilman), the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Hamilton), the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Kasich), the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Portman), the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Bereuter) and others…

it is ironic that on the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Leadership in the House of Representatives is bringing to the floor a proposal that says if you are African American, if you are Hispanic American, if you are Asian…

Mr. Chairman, this bill seems to follow in the footsteps of Forrest Gump. That is that it seems to be in a state of denial. I am not qualified to participate in this debate, because I have taken educational measurement courses and have…

Mr. Chairman, this is a compromise of sorts. I object to it, because I do not think it is a compromise that embraces the major flaws in the bill. It does eliminate the restructuring of the RAC's, and that is good, but the fact is that some…

Mr. Chairman, I believe that no matter, the Taylor Grazing Act, as the gentleman from Oregon [Mr. Smith], our chairman and friend, related to us, obviously did not anticipate that foreign nationals would indeed be awarded the Federal…

this amendment would change what is in the bill. In other words, an AUM, an animal unit month, which is defined as a cow-calf unit in terms of providing feed for a month, historically under the law has provided for the equivalent of five…

I appreciate that. I was about to explain that I was catching up with what is to be offered beyond that. What was in the bill I was accurate about. What was in the amendment right now I am accurate about, right now with regard to…

Using ERS's most recent data for the total gross value of production and projecting changes in cattle price and interest rates, CBO estimates that the proposed new formula would result in grazing fee averaging about 20 cents more per AUM…

this amendment was described in a Dear Colleague. What it attempts to do is to differentiate between the family rancher, providing that the existing fee formula that is in this measure would prevail, which is, as I pointed out, a…