Bruce F. Vento

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…

the formula is completely arbitrary in terms of what the costs are with regard to BLM. It looks at what the revenue is raised by beef over a 12-year average and then what the 12-year average is for a 6-month T bill and then multiplies it…

I did not misstate the record with regards to the Committee on Resources. There have been many oversight hearings in grazing but not on this bill. If this bill was introduced after the hearings, I think that the record would be clear with…

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…

I think the Klug amendment is an improved amendment to mine. I would urge the Members to vote for it and then to vote my amendment up, as amended, or as it is. It gives us some options in terms of looking at family and ranchers. And I…

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…

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, this is an enormously important bill. I appreciate that my colleague, the chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, has worked with various groups, but the fact is at the end of the day, all the environmental groups are…

today we have a chance to vote on a good amendment, the Vento-Rahall amendment. We have the so-called American Land Sovereignty Protection Act which breaks really two treaties and repeals a protocol with hundreds of nations. The United…

I rise in opposition to this. I commend my colleagues for trying to work out a compromise for his legislation, which he realizes has some problems or is flawed, but the fact is that this is just a perfect political solution: The President…

The fact is that when there is an instance where there is a conservation action that may take place with regard to wilderness designation or park designation, we have a group of individuals in this country that will go on seeking mineral…

The fact that President Carter, the fact that President Clinton used this action was precisely because there were imminent actions. And my colleague from Alaska, our chairman, surely knows that the protection of the D-2 lands, had it been…

The concern is and the reason is that there is no urgency in terms of this matter, the issue of this matter has been before the Congress, an introduced measure since the beginning of this Congress. It has been over 3 months actually since…

I rise in support of this 4-year reauthorization and the tied aid program that is also being reauthorized in this measure. Mr. Chairman, this measure is necessary because so often in the markets in which we are exporting in an increasingly…

I rise in support of this Clinton tax package. It is build on the hard work of the 1993 vote. Quite frankly, voting for tax breaks is one of the more pleasant tasks or the easier tasks that Members of Congress have to perform. Everyone…

today I rise to speak with regard to the matter of personal privacy and the absolute vulnerability and risks and abuses that are taking place with regard to personal privacy. I specifically want to reference the use of the Internet, the…

I must say that this program has been in the starting gate and hardly has gotten started because it has been fighting sort of a rear guard action since its passage...these programs are enormously important, they are in place, they should…

I opposed the amendment offered by Representative Tiahrt to reduce and or defund AmeriCorps but not because I do not care about our U.S. veterans as my colleagues on the other side of the aisle might have you think. On the contrary, I have…

I did submit this amendment for the Record yesterday. What it seeks to do is to reduce funding for the manned space program and transfer some money in the FEMA emergency food and shelter program.

we have spent so much time going through this that, in other words, to keep the option open on the dollars available. I agree generally with the gentleman that is the impetus of this, but I think there is concern about the crafting of it…

for many years prior to enactment 1987, I worked to create new Federal programs to provide assistance to homeless people in shelters and living on our Nation's streets. It is the 10- year anniversary of the enactment of the McKinney Act. I…

I think we concede that nobody is going to defend the fact that somebody began to put it on paper after the Oversight Committee chairman properly asked for some materials. But the fact is that the contention that there has been no…

The demand for the program is very great if we looked at the 2 elements of it, the Bank Enterprise Program. The demand there has been very significant. On the CDFI, community development organizations have $300 million and requests were…

This deals with the Emergency Food and Shelter Program and the public/private partnership. It is a public/private partnership that works. Since the program began in 1983, $1.6 billion has been appropriated to the FEMA Emergency Food and…

I appreciate it, and let me just say that I from the onset I think helped set a tone here with regard to not attempting to defend actions where individuals manufactured papers to present to the subcommittee, and I think we are of one mind…