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I wanted to talk just a couple of moments about something that is very important to me and very close to my heart. That is the National Park System. Wyoming, of course, has two of what I think are the crown jewels of the Park System, the…
I do not object to the idea of withholding. It is probably the only way to do it. But withholding sort of slips in there and you hear people talking all the time, ``Well, gee, I got money back.'' It is my money. It is my money. Back from…
We wanted to talk a little today about choices-- choices that we have in a Government like ours, the one that President Lincoln said was a Government "of the people, by the people, and for the people," which we all, of course, want to…
the theater that is the annual China MFN debate has once again--predictably--fully run its course. The President recommended extension, United States business and our Asian trading partners held their collective breath, there was a lot of…
The idea that is far-sweeping and far-ranging is that this has been in place for all these years until now. OMB simply changed it. It puts it back where it was, before OMB changed this. So the idea that it is an unknown is simply not true…
I want to explain the amendment, if I may, and then ask that we have a vote on it. It has to do with the Federal Government's policy of more than 40 years that the Government should not compete with the private sector in areas in which the…
At the end of title VI add the following: Sec. 646. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), none of the funds appropriated by this or any other Act may be used by the Office of Management and Budget, or any other agency, to publish…
I would like to move away a little bit from the specifics of the amount that we talk about and the specifics of even how it is done and, rather, talk a little more about the philosophy of taxation. I think it is important, over time, that…
I am pleased the conference report contains section 3154, which requires the Department of Energy [DOE] to carry out a study to determine the extent and valuation of natural resource damages at DOE sites. I authored this provision as…
this is an amendment, obviously, that decreases the funding level for the Council of Environmental Quality in the amount of funding that was passed by the House, and I rise to discuss this. This amendment is offered largely because of what…
I must say that this is one of the least straightforward legal arguments that I have seen. In effect, the administration is saying ``go ahead and hold a hearing on the fitness of this nominee to occupy and conduct the duties of an office…
Had the administration done its job, Congressman Peterson would have been spared the surprise and awkwardness of having his hearing postponed for several months. It is unfortunate that he has become a victim of this administration's…
I just want to take a minute because very often we forget that the legislation in front of us, although worked out in general by Members, is always finalized, structured, coordinated and made correct by staff. Chief of staff on the…
we know to err is human, to forgive divine. I am going to try to elevate the gentleman. I thank him for his vote on the conference report, and in the 105th Congress this new majority will work with him to remove and eliminate those errors…
I just find it totally ironic. All you have to do is just come with me 3 short years ago. I was not the chairman of the Subcommittee on Health and Environment then. I was the ranking member. The gentleman from California [Mr. Stark] was…
Those people who are urging support for the Farr bill and oppose the Republican bill are the people who believe that government should be used to impose controls on people and to limit and coerce them into giving up their free speech…
I think we are getting carried away with our own rhetoric. The gentlewoman from Connecticut just said this is the same old Washington game. Apparently she does not understand that in the majority's legislation we end the same old…
What we just heard was an example of a failure to really understand how radical this new idea is, because the gentleman failed to make one particular connection, and that is the end in politics are votes, not money. Money is the name of…
this is always a very difficult time for Members because we are dealing with something which affects every one of us. It is also especially troublesome because we are dealing with an attempt to write law in an area where the Constitution…
Mr. Chairman, the gentleman correctly described the Democratic bill. What it does is coerce people to provide subsidies so that government can attempt to convince people they should not exercise their free speech rights. That is the…
yet another example of overzealousness. The gentleman said that what we do is allow more folks to shovel in even more special interest money. Special interest money is usually defined as political action committee money. Our bill cuts…
this is an important day. There were a number of people who never thought it would come about. The argument that the House simply cannot address reform of its own rules, many said, would lead us not to this day. Notwithstanding whatever…
Mr. Chairman, I do not have the time to correct all of the dollar errors on the gentleman's chart, and I would also tell him that all of the volume in the world does not make his statement so. We have more disclosure, not less. We have…
The gentleman says taking money from corporations on under the guise of hard dollars is a de minimis issue. I think the American people would differ with him. That is why he is not talking about that section.
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