Duncan Faircloth

Recent Congressional debates over federal regulatory programs, such as the revised particulate matter standard, and the criteria for listing new species under the Endangered Species Act, show the importance of providing the public with…

Therefore, may I assume that the chairman would support a reprogramming request from any branch of the Department of Defense if that branch found that unavoidable delays in its other programs made funding available for the NATAC?

I was disappointed that the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee did not include funding for the National Advanced Telecommunications and Applications Center in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. I ask the chairman whether this…

In the light of the recent terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, our Nation's growing problem with drug smuggling and even the proliferation for weapons of mass destruction, it would be a tragedy if we did not take full advantage of the best…

Furthermore, I believe that the Defense Department should take whatever steps are necessary to transfer full administrative and operational responsibility for the PFNA program to the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). It is my…

I wish to thank you for agreeing to include an amendment to the FY 1999 DoD Appropriations bill that directs the Department of Defense (DoD) to immediately obligate all of the funds which Congress has mandated be used for a fair, and…

There is great conversation that we are going into these attorney settlements with tobacco companies; that that is wrong; that we shouldn't do that; we are interfering in a private contract. Yet, we are telling the tobacco companies…

We have detailed every dime of the expenditure, and now we have opposition to detailing the attorney fees.

It is difficult to see $185,000 an hour paid to plaintiffs' attorneys that come out of the working people of this country, too. And that bothers me considerably.

I beg to correct you. It comes from the taxpayers of this country. The tax is on cigarettes and cigarettes are smoked by generally people with incomes of less than $40,000 to $50,000 a year. They are going to pay 70 percent of this tax. We…

If they submit a record, they will have to submit a record to the Congress. And of course it would be perjury to lie about it. They have to submit the record. Yes, I am saying they are going to be held responsible. And to the same fees…

If the Senator will read, at the top, it clearly says--in the English language it is pretty clear--that it includes all matters, defendant or otherwise.

Now read the bottom, line 10. It clearly includes the attorneys for the tobacco companies.

What this amendment says is very simple, that it is the sense of the Senate that eliminating the marriage penalty tax should be one of the highest priorities for tax relief this year. The Congressional Budget Office has reported that in…

I am delighted to accept the amendment from Senator Gregg. It is a good amendment. The States have a burden complying with this law, and I have no problem with using $1 billion of the $5 billion we are proposing so the States can meet the…

The contractors who visited my office felt that the bill is a dagger pointing at them, and that it unfairly singles out excavators as the cause of accidents at underground facilities. Can the bill be made more evenhanded?

I thank leader for that assurance. Among the minimum standards required for a one-call notification program to be eligible for Federal assistance is the requirement for "appropriate participation" by all excavators and underground facility…

I want to clarify section 517(c) of the pending conference report. Let me be clear that the intent of this provision is solely to encourage the Government-sponsored housing enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to provide technical…

Would you give me an estimate of how many people are sick or die from drinking liquor a year made out of corn?

I rise to introduce the Responsive Government Act... The Responsive Government Act also requires Federal agencies to answer the telephones until 5 p.m.

I think he has just reached to the heart of Government spending, and he did it very succinctly. There is $76 billion more that the President discovered he needed because by some mathematical manipulation we decided we had $76 billion more…

I oppose this measure because I believe that the American people are taxed too much. Why is it that general revenues, collected through income taxes, are not enough to cover such basic government services as safe skies. Further, even if we…

I am absolutely convinced of the merits of S. 1955, and I am committed to moving ahead with the idea of establishing a formal entity at NIH to coordinate the current research effort and give greater priority within the overall NIH budget…

If the chairman would yield, I would ask whether any of the money in the fiscal year 1997 funding for particulate research will go to implementing an ambient air quality and emissions monitoring program, and will EPA be placing the…