John Williams

I expect GDP growth this year to step down from last year's pace in part because of a slowdown in labor force growth due to lower immigration rates.

We need to be able to have the ability to protect ourselves, our families, and our private property, including our livestock, from wolves.

the 15th ward in Syracuse was particularly harmed, and the minority community there, a historically Black community there was actually cut in half.

It is time for Congress to free tribes from the NIA and grant all federally recognized tribes the authority and ability to make their own decisions about managing tribal resources.

The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.

I think we even need to go deeper and look at principal investigators, not just the ownership of the company but really who are the STEM people doing it.

it is critical to have some protection in the next farm bill against a steep drop in commodity prices

I want to say specifically with regard to amendment No. 4 in this series that the chairman and I have worked together to ensure that my intention with regard to the purposes of an area called the McIntire natural area are clear. The…

this amendment would conform the Montana water rights language in the bill to the language that this body passed in the Colorado wilderness bill. The amendment changes neither the meaning nor the intent of the water rights section at all…

I came up with the idea for this study because industry and timber industry workers in Montana asked me to find a way to determine the carrying capacity of the land in order to be certain that Montana's natural resources extractive…

I want to make clear I am not for an $8 million study. What we have in mind here would not cost $8 million or even any significant portion of $8 million.

Madam Chairman, I would like to seek a clarification from my colleague Chairman Vento. As the chairman knows, we are very fortunate in Montana to have some of the most skillful wilderness outfitters and guides in the Nation, including many…

I thank the Committee on Rules, the Committee on Natural Resources, the Committee on Agriculture, and the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries for bringing this bill before us today. The Montana wilderness bill has been under…

this technical corrections bill contains language which clarifies the original intent of Congress when we enacted Public Law 102-374, the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reserved Water Rights Settlement Act of 1991. This act was passed to finally…

As I said when I sponsored this amendment, we had an administration that believed a cutoff rate was the appropriate thing to do. I thought it would reduce the deficit, potentially at least I thought it would save us some dollars. But I was…

The language of the gentleman from the other side would strike language I put in this bill, which is an effort to help inner city schools and rural schools. Let me talk to the rural schools' need here. Sixty percent of the school districts…

Mr. Chairman, we are about to complete what has been a truly historical legislative experience. This is the 9th time the Congress has written and rewritten this Elementary and Secondary Education Act. We have spent more time on this bill…

I am calling it earmarking. America calls it pork. This bill, Mr. Chairman, has in it for the first time an established way for the Congress to simply authorize renovation and construction of new facilities, and do it in a way that we do…

it is impossible to craft a law that would remove that dilemma from officials. It seems to me that every official that attempts to find their way through the Constitution to allow voluntary prayer is in a briar patch, and I do not know how…

What if the schools guess wrong? The gentleman is asking whether or not the schools have to guess. I am saying, yes, they have to guess. What if they guessed wrong under the gentleman's amendment? If they are going to be litigated against…

I want to do nothing with my amendment, nor do I do a single thing with my amendment, to discourage voluntary constitutional prayer in school. In fact my amendment says: No funds authorized to be appropriated under this act may be used by…

I rise in support of the budget resolution before the House today. This resolution implements the spending cuts mandated by the deficit reduction package enacted by Congress last year. This resolution projects a deficit of $175 billion in…

I rise in support of the en bloc amendment offered by Mr. Kildee, and to express my appreciation to him for including in that amendment a provision offered by Mr. Goodling and myself dealing with Indian schools. The provision that my…