The Public Record
I rise in support of the Yates-Vento amendment. As my colleagues know, this amendment would strike provisions in the bill which mandate specific levels of timber salvage sales on Federal lands in fiscal years 1995 and 1996. The Yates-Vento…
this rule is a gag rule. Here are some facts to clarify to the American people exactly why they lose with this rule. This restrictive rule prevents members from offering amendments that are important for their constituents. This…
H.R. 694 is a noncontroversial housekeeping bill that makes minor boundary adjustments and other miscellaneous changes in programs and authorities of the National Park Service. The bill, as reported by the Resources Committee, contains an…
the Republican Contract With America is not with middle class America. It is a contract to help well-to-do and corporate America. The middle-class hardworking people of this country are going to be paying for Republican tax cuts for the…
H.R. 531, as amended, is a good bill which will provide for a study of the proposed Great Western Trail for possible designation as a national trail. While the bill only provides for a study, the subcommittee hearing on H.R. 531 entailed a…
Mr. Speaker, H.R. 562, as introduced, would have modified the boundaries of the Walnut Canyon National Monument to provide for the inclusion of approximately 1,239 acres to be administratively transferred to the National Park Service from…
H.R. 536, as introduced, was a significant departure from the legislation--Section 301 of H.R. 3252-- which passed the House last Congress. The bill that passed the House last Congress provided for an end by the year 2000 of through…
first let me congratulate the chairman of the subcommittee, the gentleman from Utah [Mr. Hansen], for his outstanding bipartisan work, and, I must say, most productive work that he has initiated in our subcommittee. I think it is close to…
H.R. 925 would allow any landowner claiming as little as 10 percent diminishment in their property value as a result of a Federal Government regulation to sue the Government for damages. The Tauzin amendment is even worse. It maintains the…
if I were a NATO ally, I would be scratching my head in wonderment and asking has the U.S. Congress gone mad, or is this a joke? Did the Americans hear that the cold war is over, or is this a time warp? Whatever happened to consultation…
the gentleman is an expert on many of these issues, NATO especially. The gentleman knows our allies are seriously concerned about this initiative, and you are going to be taking money from other strategic allies. You are setting forth a…
if the Congress passes this dangerous, reckless, isolationist bill called the National Security Act there will be no need for a State or Defense Department. There will be 230 House Republicans who can be secretaries of State and Defense…
today we are considering whether we go back to the cold war. Mr. Chairman, I have supported this SDI research. I represent the Los Alamos Laboratories. But today we do not need SDI. There is no justifiable threat. The technology is not…
Today, we consider going back to the cold war. Today, we consider spending billions on a system to defend against a threat that no longer exists. What is the use of a space-based system? Who are we defending against? What is the threat…
his bill is the most far-reaching foreign policy bill to come before the House in several years, and we are debating it for 10 hours to meet a political deadline and to make the congressional recess. This is what this bill does: It would…
the debate today will be police versus pork and politics versus public safety. Here is what the President said about the cops program: I made a commitment, a promise, to put a hundred thousand more police in our streets because there is…
had I been permitted to offer this amendment under this restrictive rule, I would have proposed this amendment to H.R. 728, which would acknowledge the special relationship that the Federal Government has with the more than SSO Indian…
there is an implication here that the Members of Congress, and there are many on both sides of the aisle, that are the most grass roots representatives matching any local officials in their communities, and let me just say that I will…
the debate on the crime bill is a choice between the President's 100,000 cops program and the Republican's pork ``do whatever you want with the money'' program for the States. Republicans are putting politics over public safety. They want…
greed has won and America and baseball fans have lost. Baseball has become just another big faceless conglomerate and no longer the national pastime. The owners won't give. The players won't give. The White House tried its best. Now it's…
I am here to commend President Clinton for initiating the minimum wage increase, 45 cents for this next year and 45 cents for the next. It is interesting to note that this morning in USA Today, America's newspaper, 77 percent of all…
I received a letter last week from Harvey Nehring, who lives in Farmington, NM. Harvey cannot understand how anybody could even think of opposing a raise in the minimum wage. Harvey stated that people who oppose an increase in the minimum…
Democrats finally have a defining issue, increasing the minimum wage, but it should not be a partisan issue. If Republicans want a cut in the capital gains tax for those most fortunate Americans, surely they can support a modest increase…
President Clinton made a courageous move in bypassing the Congress on the Mexican peso issue. He had no choice. Mexico was going down the tubes, and the votes in Congress for this unpopular initiative were just not there. He acted with…
He was a man of class, decency, an environmentalist, statesman with his role in foreign policy, a man of great integrity. We miss him in this body, and this could be no better tribute.
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