Representative Heather Wilson

the bill would decrease funding for disadvantaged children in low income schools by $115.2 million from FY 2005 levels. The bill also included $258.5 million less for the Bureau of Health Professions in the Health Resources and Services…

I rise today to support S. 643, the Hibben Center Act. S. 643 is identical to H.R. 3258, a bill that I introduced on November 7, 2003 and that was favorable reported by the House Resources Committee on September 9, 2004. For six centuries…

when Joe Skeen was elected to the Congress, one of the first acts that he introduced in 1981 was legislation to name the Federal building in Las Cruces, New Mexico, after the man he replaced, the late-Congressman Harold Runnels, and I…

I wanted to commend him for all his work on funding for global efforts to fight tuberculosis. This bill will allocate $185 million for infectious diseases, including tuberculosis, from the United States Agency For International…

Section 311 of the bill violates clause 2 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives prohibiting legislation on appropriation bills. Section 311 restricts funding in the bill for certain Department of Energy laboratory…

this amendment transfers $5 million from administrative accounts in the Department of Energy to two different programs in the Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation account. Those two programs do two things: first, accelerate the return of…

there is a fundamental question here, and that is what is the role of nuclear weapons in America's national defense? Nuclear weapons have been an important part of deterrence over the last 40 years, and the key to their effectiveness is…

on the first day that seniors could sign up for prescription drug cards, the discount cards, I went to the Barelas Senior Center, and I sat down at one of the tables at lunchtime and chatted with a little lady and started talking about…

Thursday is the Air Force Academy's golden anniversary. It has been 50 years since the President of the United States, Dwight David Eisenhower, established the Air Force Academy.

On Thursday, at the Air Force Academy, the cadet area of the Air Force Academy is going to be designated as a national historic landmark; and for the 35,000 Americans who have walked around the corners of that terrazzo, it will be a…

the point of difference today appears to me to be the question of are we safer. I could not disagree more with my colleague from California on this issue. It is not a question of truth or falsity or even of credibility. It is a question of…

I got to tell you one thing, we did the right thing to remove Saddam Hussein from power. And to me, the most important thing was his biological weapons program, which we've now confirmed he was continuing to pursue up to the day of the…

I think the White House has made clear and made statements with respect to Africa. And they've also said, and they said at the time actually, that there were differing interpretations about aluminum tubes and so forth. But I got to tell…

Mr. Speaker, the tenor here of the Members, I think, is very appropriate to the man that Joe Skeen was. And I had the opportunity, as the gentlewoman knows, to serve with him here for the 5 years that he was here, and I always felt that he…

I have been in this House a little over 5 years, and we have managed three times in the House of Representatives to pass a prescription drug bill. Finally, this year the Senate passed a bill, too, which gave us a historic opportunity to…

The VA does negotiate low prices because they have the leverage of having a lot of people who use the medicine. That is the same concept we are applying here, that there are large groups of people who can get a better price and get lower…

Mr. Speaker, I am not old enough to join AARP, but since they have become such a big part of this debate, I want to read what they have said. It is not an unqualified endorsement. I have never seen the perfect bill yet in this job, but it…

Sometimes I feel here like we are looking through the looking glass, like in the Alice in Wonderland book. Sometimes things people say do not make any sense to me at all. I do not understand how can people say we have underfunded, when we…

we need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, keep the lights on and preserve the beauty of the land we love and I think this bill promotes this aim. This legislation is good for our environment and…

Peggy Klinke was a constituent of mine from Albuquerque, New Mexico. She was murdered in January of this year by a former boyfriend who was obsessed with her and stalked her for almost 2 years. Today I will be introducing a resolution to…

I came to the decision that, yes, we did need to give him that authority, that we could not allow Saddam Hussein to have chemical or biological weapons or the ability to deliver them against Americans; and I also came to the decision that…

There has been a lot of carping in the last few days about plans and a lot of criticism from folks who have not seen the plan and have not been briefed on the plan, do not know what the plan is but they are critical of it, and others who…

I want to let them know that I and others from the Vietnam-era 507th group support them. Enclosed is a banner I had made that says, '507th Engineer and Maintenance, Vietnam and Iraq, good luck.' I would appreciate your help in getting this…

I told the gentleman I was a skeptic about plans, and I am. I will share some of the things I think are right about what we have seen so far, what the military has accomplished under the leadership of General Franks in southwest Asia…

I think it shows the goodness of the American military. It is one thing to be great. We have a great American military who can do things that no other military in the world can do, the overwhelming power. But we also have a very good…