Bruce F. Vento

It is provided that $50 million out of the $164 million is an obligation of direct spending, direct subsidy by this Congress to those timber interests.

my amendment is about setting priorities. Should be timber industry or the National Park Service get the preference when we allocate scarce Federal dollars. That is what this is about. The timber sales actually cost the Government money…

if this would result in a reduction of a billion feet of harvest, that means in essence we are subsidizing. If we were not putting the money in, that means those sales would not be sustained by their own credits, by their own revenue. That…

I believe that these programs ought to stand on their own. The fact is you go to that auction house, you do not start off with the Government giving you an extra $164 million in order to build the roads.

I just want to assure the gentleman that, first of all, I do not look for a banning of all timber harvest, and this is based more on economics than it is based on anything else. The fact is that I understand the gentleman's need for jobs…

If there were not a subsidy, we would not have the $164 million in the bill that we have before us. It is just economic sense. If these forests cannot pay for themselves, if these forests do not pay to cut these trees down, and I tell my…

during the past year, the majority has consistently advocated proposals to weaken programs and protections for our Nation's working families and seniors. As recent action shows, the majority has not been listening to the consistent and…

this GOP minimum wage bill is a hoax; it is really indecent. All year long the Republican House and Senate have refused to raise the minimum wage, even to have a vote on it. Now we know why: because Republican leadership, between Gingrich…

I oppose this legislation. It represents not only a continuation of the misplaced priorities but a compounding of missteps in last year's defense bill, of a much more extreme level. Last year, the Republican majority added $7 billion to…

Mr. Chairman, the proposition that is proposed here by the majority is that if we have safeguards in terms of limiting rent, that that is somehow going to hurt the tenants. That is what is being suggested. We agree, I guess, on the senior…

I support the amendment that the gentleman from Alaska [Mr. Young] is offering, which basically exempts funds provided under 12 units. The current Hayworth amendment did not do that. I think it may have been a technical problem, but its…

Mr. Chairman, I appropriately recognize the amendments and changes made have improved this amendment. I suggest to my colleagues who are interested in Native American housing the severe problems we have in this area. I hope this block…

Mr. Chairman, obviously there is an opportunity here with the acceptance of the modified Kennedy amendment I am targeting. I thank my colleague from New York for his work, and my colleague from Massachusetts. This is a simple amendment. I…

I think unfortunately what has happened is that low-income persons have ended up concentrated in the public or assisted housing programs. Frankly, as I said yesterday, the housing with most problems in my district is not the public and…

I think the Secretary makes the decision in this particular instance in the gentleman's amendment, so we agree on who has the authority. The issue is one of the findings that such variations are necessary, because of unusually high or low…

this is, I suppose in some minds, a technical amendment. What the bill has done is provides the flexibility for the Secretary, based on findings by the local housing management authority, to change the 50 percent very low-income definition…

I think that my colleague from Wisconsin mischaracterized the statement of the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Barrett] that Mr. Barrett is suggesting that this amendment or this language, which reiterates the 1937 and 1949 housing goal…

I rise today to oppose the bill and support the Democratic substitute on this important issue of health insurance reform. It is clear that there are serious problems with our current health care system. In 1994, Congress was working to…

I reluctantly support this measure, H.R. 3136, the debt limit package. First, we need to honor the debt which our Nation has incurred. The U.S. credit rating must not be in question, nor should the risk of default. For over 200 years…

Mr. Chairman I rise today in support of an amendment I drafted to address a fundamental problem being experienced by legal U.S. residents, the Hmong. This measure would expedite the naturalization of Hmong people who served in Special…

I just wanted to take a few minutes today to talk about something we are doing right, I think, in this Nation. Most of us know we were locked in a Vietnam conflict for many years, and in the process of that the United States, through its…

today, I rise to speak for American families and for the failure of this Congress to come to grips with dealing with the budget and fiscal responsibility. The fact is that the answer that was brought to us by this Republican Congress is…

I rise to support the Boehlert amendment which represents the only opportunity on this farm legislation to address the Conservation Reserve Program [CRP] and the Wetlands Reserve Program [WRP]. Under the rules of the House we should have…

this H.R. 2924 is about the most convoluted piece of legislation that I have seen in terms of what is going on. They say, the Republicans that they bring this bill to us, that they intend to extend the debt limit. Well, why do they not…

I support this legislation which restores limited local control over municipal solid waste. Local governments across this country would be burdened with enormous financial debts unless this Congress acts and approves legislation such as is…