Doug Bereuter: “Unfortunately, the United States cannot make progress as long as the Clinton administration observes the restrictions of…”

I just wanted to assure the gentlewoman from Ohio, there is nothing that deauthorizes a program in our legislation and nothing that specifically authorizes additional funds. And to the gentleman from California, this legislation does not…

This legislation, the Homestead National Monument of America Additions Act, is a straightforward bill. It is also noncontroversial. The bill would simply adjust the boundaries of Homestead National Monument of America and allow a small…

I must hedge my answer. As I told the gentleman, I am not at all reluctant to have that issue voted on, as the gentleman suggested, and as we had originally described it. I am concerned about a wide-open rule. So perhaps the gentleman, if…

I came back convinced that if I could take 40 farmers from my district in to the area during the middle of the winter for about 6 weeks and they could turn around some of those efforts and make them successful, because there was for…