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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…