Harold Volkmer

She has not spent $18 million. We could have saved $18 million. They did not want to save that.

The whole thing about not knowing of the amendment of the gentleman from Massachusetts, I am a little fuzzy on that. I just cannot figure this out. The gentleman from New York stands up here and shows us a big sign that has the amendment…

It is absolutely crazy. I do not generally disagree with the thrust of much of this legislation. As far as the agriculture sections of it, I love it. But when it comes to things like this, these are the kinds of things that make me…

Let us say that that bill goes on and eventually becomes law and then we have this bill go on with these provisions that the gentleman from Florida thinks so much about and this House does not think so much, if you follow the regulatory…

Is it not true that H.R. 1022 applies to all regulations that may be forthcoming under this legislation? The old risk assessment regulatory reform bill that we passed, the House passed back during the 100 days.

So the figure that the gentleman has here will be basically, first there is the budget to come yet. Before we do the authorization bill, we are going to have the budget. The budget may say more or less, I would guess less, less than the…

It does make a difference to me that a corporation, a billion, billion, billion-dollar corporation, is coming to Washington and wanting a handout in order to help do some research that they have got fully enough money to do themselves. It…

I totally agree. From my experience, ATP awardees tend to be real entrepreneurs. Most have been rejected by venture capitalists who are less entrepreneurial than they are.

I notice that the report on the hydrogen bill contains six criteria that the committee leadership endorses for prioritizing Federal R&D funding. Would it be useful to measure both the hydrogen program and the ATP against these same…

So it is all right to take care of them someplace else, but we cannot do it for our own people. We have got to cut them out. Our people have to make all these sacrifices, and no one else does. We are going to take care of the rest of them…

And there is no question in the gentleman's mind and my mind that somewhere along the line this very same committee is going to fund programs that are going to take care of infants and children in other parts of the world?

The gentleman is telling the Members of the House that this program, which to me in a very mean-spirited way is being cut by the majority, is actually to the benefit of infants and children.

And, no question, by cutting it they are saying that it is all right to do this to the infants and children of people here in the United States; is that correct?

I want to give another problem with what I call the generational gap... it does restore the money by taking it out of funds under NAFTA for Mexico to do wastewater treatment, and also from NASA, from some of their operational programs, so…

This money that they are taking from these outpatient clinics, yours, mine, those of the gentlewoman from Florida [Ms. Brown] and others, is going to go for tax cuts, and 75 percent of that money goes to the wealthy?

Would the gentleman also, as the gentlewoman from Florida, consider this a breach of the contract that Congress has with our veterans, especially our World War II veterans?

That was a contract that the Congress, back when these veterans were coming home, had with our veterans that preserved the freedoms that we have. To me, that contract is just as important, if not more important, than the Contract With…

Well then, what the gentleman is telling me basically is I had hoped that what is good for the goose is going to be good for the gander, and if you are not going to permit further things like I would like to do or the gentleman from…

What I am trying to tell my majority whip is they are limiting the amendments by structuring it so we cannot offer amendments unless we make deeper cuts in the programs that we believe in.

I cannot cut money someplace else in that chapter, in that agency. I cannot make that cut unless there is already a cut within that in the bill in that specific amount or area.

I am willing to offset, you understand. We found the money to offset. The Parliamentarian tells me it does not fit because we are taking money, we are cutting money elsewhere than what is cut in the bill. If I do not cut, deeper that is…

I had drafted an amendment in regard to restoring the funds for the veterans' outpatient clinic, one in my district that was eliminated in this rescission bill, and I would like to get that money back in.

No, this is a voluntary program. It is a voluntary program. The farmer comes in and asks that the land be. So it is not a taking.

We do not pay farmers not to farm anymore. We have a CRP program that pays farmers not to use that land for CRP, but that does not decrease the value of the land. They get a payment on the CRP. Environmentalists and everybody agrees on…

Wait a minute now. I do not want to get into this too far, but we do have the Constitution, and the Supreme Court has spoken in Roe versus Wade, and that is a law that I sure ``ain't'' going to follow, and I want the gentleman to…