Gillespie Montgomery

The gentleman is correct. In awarding contracts at both closing and receiving bases, a preference may be given to entities that plan to hire locally.

If the gentlewoman will yield, let me assure the gentlewoman that this sunset should not have a negative impact on the local hiring preference authorized by her amendment. A sunset is a useful tool to ensure Congress has the opportunity to…

If you saw all the white crosses, at the different American cemeteries, you realize war is really devastating, and if you also realize that those young men buried under those crosses were 18 and 19 years old, young men who really had just…

I talked to the director of the Selective Service System, Mr. Banister, on Friday to be sure that I had my facts and statements correct. I talked to the Selective Service director himself. He said if you stopped registration of…

Every day I have Members come up to me and complain about the service that the veterans are receiving in their veterans hospitals... a cut of 25,000 employees would be devastating to the veterans hospitals; 5,000 jobs would be lost in…

I am concerned about he veterans' funding under the Kasich amendment. We have examined it very closely. It seems that the bottom line for veterans' health care for 1995 under the Kasich amendment is that health care will lose $475 million…