Harold Volkmer

earlier today during a one-minute I mentioned that what I see going on in this Congress and this House is just pure lunacy. You know, under Webster's Dictionary, lunacy is intermittent derangement. I recognize that here. It is insanity…

It is really silly, I would say it is lunacy that today we tell Federal workers that they can work but not be paid, while at the same time here in this House we are getting paid and we are not working. We have not really done anything…

the gentleman is alluding to the amendment of the gentleman from Maryland, and it is a Republican amendment. I hope everybody will support it. Mr. Chairman, I have been here 18\1/2\ years. This is the weirdest debate that I have ever…

I would like to carry on. Like I said before in my presentation, there is no question about it, ANS was ended because ANS was going to cost too dang much money. We already had spent millions of dollars on it; throw it away, throw it away…

this amendment would strike $8 million from the legislation, from the appropriation, in order to remove the funds for the conceptual design and for the spallation source conceptual design at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory proposed there…

Got to remember we have got to borrow the money to spend this $8 million to keep these scientists on the payroll. That is what we are going to have to do. Now it is not only corporate welfare who benefits. We heard the gentleman from…

I, too, wish to commend the gentleman from Nebraska for this amendment. As one who has suffered from the floods in the Missouri River Basin in the year of 1993 and again this spring, I realize that the master plan as originally drafted and…

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…

I doubt very much if we will take the full 15 minutes on this side, but, as we look at the world in which we live, it is we in this country who enjoy the liberties of a democratic society, and under our Constitution, and we try to provide…

I was listening to the latest discussion by the gentleman from Ohio and the gentleman from Kansas. Sitting here, it just struck me, if we are really talking about saving money, and I am not taking up with the Secretary of Energy, Secretary…

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

even though the Committee on Rules in their generosity has made the amendment that I had printed in the Record in order, I still rise strongly in opposition to this rule. I do so because it is another case of not letting the House act on…

Members of the House, here we go again. You know, it has been a very interesting 6 months. And I can still remember the very first day when we sat here adopting changes in the rules of the House. And we went through each one individually…

the Republicans say ``Listen to me, listen to my words, but don't watch what I do.'' What I am alluding to is a budget, a Republican budget that passed the House and also the one that passed the Senate, with massive cuts in Medicare and…

it is flimflam time in the U.S. House of Representatives again. What do I mean by that? When we passed the budget, the Republican budget calls for huge cuts in Medicare in order to give tax breaks for the wealthy. But when the Republican…

today marks the 113th day since the formation of the House Ethics Committee, and no substantial action has yet been taken with regard to our imperial Speaker's serious ethics problems. Four very serious complaints have been filed and have…

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.

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…

I rise today, the 126th day of the imperial speakership, to protest the proposed Gingrich Republican budget plan. This plan would cut Medicare and Medicaid Programs by over $400 billion so that the wealthy can have a tax break. Two months…

Recently, there has been a lot of talk in this body about the appropriate Federal role in funding technology development, much of it coming from the other side of the aisle as an attack on what is called corporate welfare. This criticism…

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 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…

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.

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…