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The local community has been very involved in designing a plan to clean up the site. Their concern is that the administration of clean-up will be moved away from the St. Louis area to Omaha, reducing the community's input and influence on…
I reached the conclusion that indeed we had left hundreds and hundreds of men behind in Vietnam and probably in Korea as well, and I reached that conclusion, Mr. Speaker, to my shame. Well, in the years that have passed since then, I along…
I want to wish her all the best in her future endeavors. I would thank her again for yielding for this colloquy. Mr. Chairman, I would like to clarify our intent with respect to the language in this bill dealing with securitization. This…
We do not realize the true worth of a great man until he is gone. The networks of which he is a part, the man of which he is the hub, slip and shake and tremble. We all feel the insecurity of things if even the strongest among us can be so…
The gentlewoman is saying that it indicates they are not able to handle it. It may indicate that they are able to handle it, and they are arresting a lot of people and that they are very interested and are enforcing these laws. We could…
It seems to me if it justifies involvement, federalizing this area for this kind of violence, it justifies federalizing it for labor laws. And we have not done that.
Mr. Speaker, there is a subject that interests me, the whole question of why we do not apply these kinds of remedies to other kinds of picket line violence. The gentlewoman from Colorado [Mrs. Schroeder] mentioned the Section 8 of the…
It just seems to me a matter of basic fairness that, if we are going to federalize the area of protecting people who are trying to cross protester lines, or picket lines, or something like that, after all it does not make any difference to…
I heard that statement many times in this debate, and it gives rise to the question naturally: ``Why isn't the bill broad enough to include all kinds of violence on the picket lines?'' Mr. Speaker, the gentleman is on the committee that…
Mr. Speaker, it is important to outline what has happened in the last few years. Many Members are not aware of it. Many members of the public are not aware of it. Defense spending has been reduced in this country by 35 percent in real…
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