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I find this rule very disappointing. It effectively shuts down debate on an amendment to fully fund the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence's key counterterrorism operations. It is unusual for me to speak out like this, but 4 or 5…
I have mixed emotions that there is probably some reasons why we ought to be trying to get this accomplished; but I, along with the chairman, and as ranking member of the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture, have sat through more…
In my judgment it is unfortunate we are getting to this situation. But people need to understand that if we put the price of milk at a high level, dairy farmers are very good at producing and they are going to make milk; and they are going…
Today I rise as chairman of the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus that strongly opposes this amendment. On behalf of myself and the other leaders of the caucus who try to speak for the sportsmen of this country, we hope that our colleagues…
I would just like to give my colleagues an example of what will happen if we get rid of this program. The truth of the matter is this world market is a dump market. The Europeans are the biggest people that dump into the world market. I…
I also rise to oppose all four articles of impeachment. From the outset, I believed that any action the Congress chose to take to punish the President had to be bipartisan. If Republicans and Democrats could put the best interests of the…
Mr. Speaker, I come from an area, and I just spent last weekend out talking to farmers again, where they are telling me up in the north part of my district that 70 percent of the producers are not going to be able to get money to get in…
That is correct. The point I was making is any individual can only give under current law, and Shays-Meehan does not touch that. And we also have a limit that any individual can only give $25,000 to 435 people. He can only give to $25,000…
I ask us to support funding education in an evenhanded, fair way, that funds education all across America, not just to the President's friends.
Mr. Speaker, I too rise in strong support today of the Agriculture Research Extension and Education Reauthorization Act of 1997. As has been said by others, we are moving into a new era in agriculture, and research is going to be a more…
I offer a motion to recommit, on behalf of my colleagues in the Blue Dog Coalition, that provides tax relief to mainstream America, small businesses, farmers, and working families, and does all of that in a fiscally responsible way. First…
I just wanted to relay, I just got off the phone with the mayor and city leaders of East Grand Forks, which was entirely under water, and they are in the process of trying to figure out what to do. They are under tremendous pressure from…
as I indicated earlier, our entire town of East Grand Forks has been under water. This is the residential area, where it shows the devastation and all the belongings out on the berm. I would also like to talk about the business situation…
I, too, want to rise in support of this amendment because I also think that some of the rhetoric on this piece of legislation has been overblown. I think that the other side of the aisle is to be commended, in that they have moved in our…
Mr. Speaker, there has been a lot of talk on this floor about how this program does not cost any money. I would just like to read out of the committee report here, page 11, where it has got the Congressional Budget Office cost estimate…
I would like to know, the statement was made earlier this is all self-financing. What do you charge an F minus-minus company to make it a viable situation? How much do you have to charge a company like that? If you went into a bank and had…
Mr. Chairman, I call Members' attention to something that we just discovered this afternoon. Those of us that have been working on the Conservation Reserve Program, members of the Sportsmen's Caucus, the gentleman from Texas, Mr. Pete…
I am proud to stand today to offer this amendment with the gentleman from New York and the gentleman from Nebraska. On behalf of the Sportsmen's Caucus, which has made the Conservation Reserve Program the main focus of this Congress, we…
We have huge regional fights within this industry, and we have an opportunity finally with this compromise to end those fights and put this industry on a more level playing field, to move us to a more market-oriented policy... we are…
We hear a lot of talk tonight about this program being a subsidy program. Let us just talk about what this is about. This is about trade. We in this body, in the dead of the night, in a lame duck session, passed a GATT Agreement that we…
Mr. Chairman, as I said earlier, I represent an area that has a lot of wetlands, and I have been involved with this issue all of my political career in the State legislature, and now since I have been in Congress to some extent, and I…
Just to close this off, I have a letter here from just about every agriculture group, soil-water conservation groups that I know of in my State, they are opposed to this substitute. They support the chairman's bill, 961. I would urge…
Just to answer the question, why do we need a coordinating committee with all of these agencies, if we are going to give the power to the Secretary of Agriculture? I mean, the trouble that I have had out there is that we get everybody else…
Today we are considering property rights legislation, one of the most important pieces of legislation we will vote on this year. The right to own property is one of the basic doctrines of our Constitution. The fifth amendment requires the…
It is a straightforward amendment that lowers the threshold on private sector mandates in which CBO is required to file a report from $100 million to $50 million. This will equalize the threshold at $50 million for both the public and the…
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