Maurice Hinchey

I am afraid that this Congress is becoming less and less relevant to the important concerns of people all across our country. Last month, a record number of Americans lost their jobs. Yet a program to stimulate the national economy is…

the assertion has been made that the idea of establishing dairy compacts is not germane to the agricultural bill, the farm bill that is presently on the floor of this House and being debated here. In order to believe that, we would have to…

everyone in this House wants to be sure that we have a sound airline industry and that it is functioning properly for the American people. But this bill does not do enough in too many areas and in some areas, it does what it does in the…

Mr. Chairman, it is bad enough that the veterans health care budget submitted by the Bush Administration is woefully inadequate to meet the needs of our veterans across the country, but because of the computer formula known as VERA…

I want to, first of all, express my appreciation to the gentleman from New York and the gentleman from West Virginia, the chairman and the ranking minority member of the subcommittee, for the very respectable job they have done in putting…

Mr. Chairman, I want to also draw the attention of the Members of this House to the Hudson River Superfund site. The Hudson River Superfund site is the largest Superfund site in the Nation. It runs for about 150 miles, from the Battery to…

the consideration of this appropriations bill and the rule attendant to it presents somewhat of a serious dilemma to all of us who are approaching this issue very carefully. On the one hand, it elicits only a sense of praise for the…

This amendment is a simple limitation that would prevent the Justice Department from using any of the funds appropriated to it by this bill to interfere with the implementation of State medical marijuana laws. During the past 5 years, nine…

I want to pay tribute to the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations and the purposeful way in which the appropriations process has proceeded under his leadership. But it is also true that this motion to instruct draws our attention to…

I hope that the Members will take this amendment seriously, because it is in fact a very serious matter. It is, in some measure, a result of this global trading pattern that we have engaged in without really examining closely and…

In 1980 this Congress created Biscayne National Park, a park for all the people of the entire country. At that time there were seven leaseholders in the park who held campsites by lease. They were given a period of time to remove…

what we have learned this afternoon is that some Members in the majority party here hate the National Endowment for the Arts more than they hate energy conservation. If they really liked energy conservation, they had an opportunity to pass…

I wanted to address myself this evening to a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States which came down around the end of last month, about 2 rac{1}{2} ext{ weeks ago. It is a decision by the Supreme Court, a five to four decision…

I want to remind my friend, the gentleman from Florida who was here at the podium a few moments ago, that this issue is about energy policy and it is about people being cold and it is about people surviving this winter. That may not be…

a few moments ago the distinguished majority leader, the gentleman from Texas, made the assertion at that podium that often in an election year the first casualty is truth; and then, over the course of the next several minutes, he went on…

I have often felt that we are fighting a defensive action here, where we are taking actions that are designed to prevent harm from being done rather than moving forward in a positive direction on a number of environmental issues that…

let me make an observation, if I may, in connection with the comments that were made just a moment ago by the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Cardin). I think that occasionally, if we look at these issues superficially, we fail to recognize…

I urge the defeat of this rule, not because the underlying bill is poor. It is not. But because this rule does not give us an opportunity to insert within the bill language which would allow for a meaningful reduction in the price of…

this has been unquestionably a very contentious and hard fought process; but the results of it will be welcomed, I think, by every person in the country who cares about America's natural resources. There are a lot of people that made major…

This bill, however, is a different matter all together. The bill suffers from serious and dramatic deficiencies. First of all, with regard to the need to bring our country more closely into a condition of energy independence, the bill…

let me address one of the consequences of this bill, which I hope is unintended but would nevertheless occur. Many of the hazardous waste sites in New York, for example, and in many other States particularly up and down the Eastern…

Daniel Patrick Moynihan has been valued and will continue to be valued for his wisdom on a kaleidoscopic range of subjects, for his prescient and nuanced analysis of social problems, his persistent and eloquent defense of government…

this amendment is an example of the misguided moralism that is so replete in this District of Columbia appropriations bill. What is at issue here is public health. It has been clearly demonstrated that by providing sterile syringes and…

this amendment is necessary. It is necessary, particularly in light of some of the omissions in the pension bill that passed the House yesterday. Among those omissions was the failure to deal with the increasing propensity of many major…

I want to, first of all, extend my appreciation for the leadership that the gentleman from New York (Mr. Gilman), chairman of the Committee on International Relations, is showing with regard to the introduction of this measure. What the…