Martin Sabo

In our previous continuing resolutions we were told we had an obligation limit of $31.8 billion.

Mr. Speaker, first let me compliment and congratulate the distinguished gentleman from Kentucky (Chairman Rogers) for his outstanding work for bringing to the House a conference report on the fiscal year 2002 transportation appropriations…

all the funds that I speak of and all the funds that the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) speaks of in his amendment, as I understand, are declared to be emergency funds, so they could only be spent, even after they are appropriated, if…

I rise to support the continuing resolution and to speak about the supplemental appropriations bill. Yesterday in the Committee on Appropriations, the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) offered an amendment to increase funding for a…

This motion to instruct is vital. The House of Representatives in the 7 weeks and 1 day since these terrorist attacks has yet to directly appropriate one dollar for enhanced aviation security or consider one piece of legislation, no matter…

I think this debate is very useful, because it highlights the importance of housing. Over the last several years, I have been disappointed to the degree that housing has been off the agenda for both parties, and if there is any area where…

I thank my colleagues for including in the bill a $4 million increase for transmission reliability and to direct the Department of Energy to initiate field-testing of advanced composite conductors. I just want to clarify that these…

As I was saying, I have here a letter from the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, which is an association of State, provincial, and Federal officials responsible for the administration and enforcement of motor carrier safety laws. They…

This one simply prohibits funding to process the applications of Mexico-domiciled motor carriers for either conditional or permanent authority to operate throughout the United States beyond the current 20-mile commercial zone. Let me say…

the committee has also increased funding for the Federal Aviation Administration's environment and energy budget to research aircraft noise mitigation to $27.6 million, an increase of $24.1 million over fiscal year 2001, in order to speed…

I would just say I find this amendment inappropriate. I do not know how Louisiana governs. I do not know how the city governs. In our area we call them counties. I guess the gentleman calls them parishes. Twenty-five, thirty years ago we…

this is a good bill and it should be passed. Let me commend the Chair, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wolf) on his 6 years of chairing this subcommittee. He has done an outstanding job in that role, and I have enjoyed working with him…

I support the fiscal year 2001 Transportation appropriations bill. Mr. Chairman, the transportation bill historically has been developed in a bipartisan manner, and this year is no different. This year is the last year that the gentleman…

my congratulations to my friend from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar) and the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Shuster), again, on their ability to apparently pass a bill that gives their committee jurisdiction of funding priority over everything…

Nothing this Congress will do will add one dime to the Social Security Trust Fund. Nothing that this Congress is doing will change how dime one of the Social Security Trust Fund is invested. Regardless of which assumptions one uses…

this is a good bill. I hope we pass it. As always, a bill does not reflect everything each of us might want or what either the House or the Senate might want, but is a compromise. This is a reasonable bill within the money available. I…

I remain concerned by the disparity between Federal funds spent on highway transportation and the figure spent on mass transit.

Mr. Speaker, when H.R. 4328, the fiscal year 1999 transportation appropriations bill passed the House, it was a bill that was relatively free of antienvironmental riders. However, the Senate has attached to the bill several controversial…

So, it is probably close to 60 percent of the operations actually comes from general revenue and not from the trust fund.

I agree that we need to aggressively pursue new technologies that will make our transportation infrastructure safer, more economical and friendlier towards the environment. I assure the gentleman that as the ranking minority member of the…

That is very crucial for 2 reasons: one, so that the residents have some advance knowledge that their status may change, and also so the local governments may know that the status of buildings are going to change so that there is some…

I think our history has been that whatever problems exist nationally have not existed in most of these projects and programs in our State, and they worked very well. They provided very good housing, and are widely used, and people who live…

Mr. Chairman, since I have become a Member of Congress, and I am sure well before that, some in Congress have called for the repeal of Davis-Bacon. I have opposed these efforts and will continue to oppose any weakening of this important…

Mr. Chairman, over 65 years ago, Davis-Bacon passed the Congress, named after a Republican Member of the House and a Republican Secretary of Labor. It has served good public policy for 65 years. Some want to change it. I would simply say…

Sometimes I think we keep fighting old fights. We are fighting the problems of Gramm-Rudman. That is long passed. The reality is that the budget enforcement mechanisms of 1990, extended to 1993 and extended this year, work. Discretionary…