Maurice Hinchey

The American Heritage Rivers program is one of the proud initiatives of the Clinton administration. I think that as the years go by, it will be increasingly recognized as such. A decade from now, indeed, 100 years from now, people will…

first I want to express my appreciation to the chairman of the subcommittee for the very diligent and effective work that he has done in putting this bill together and bringing it to the floor. And I am sure the vast majority of the…

I am very interested in a good relationship. Reclaiming my time, I am very interested in maintaining good relationships. I am very interested in maintaining comity. I am very interested in maintaining respect. I am also very interested in…

one of the more unfortunate aspects of the present majority's rule of this House over the last several years has been this propensity to attach antienvironmental riders to appropriations bills. Essentially that is what we have here today…

this amendment says they cannot spend Federal funds for nine monuments, and those monuments are located in California, in Arizona, in Colorado, Oregon, Washington; but they can spend money on the monument in Utah. The budget that we have…

we are not interested in striking funding for that monument or for the other nine that they would strike either. We believe that these national monuments, belonging to all the people of the country, deserve to be protected and that the 50…

I am very happy to say a few words in strong support of H.R. 3639, the legislation to name the State Department building for President Harry S. Truman. It is a most appropriate tribute to our 33rd President to engrave his name on the…

Mr. Speaker, perhaps the kindest characterization of this proposal would be to say that it is disingenuous. It is obviously disingenuous, because the party that is offering it here, the majority party in this House, several years ago…

we did see them in New York State, and there were advertisements that were put forth principally on Long Island; and they, of course, were deceitful. They were deceitful in a variety of ways. First of all, they pretended that the proponent…

Mr. Chairman, we have just been reminded once again by the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur), the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies of the Committee on…

the gentleman who was here just a few moments ago mischaracterizes the tax portion of the progressive budget. I think that ought to be noted. During the Eisenhower administration, corporations in this country paid about one-third of the…

this resolution is an imposter. Its very name, the Oil Price Reduction Act, is a trick and a deception. If we wanted to do something about it and we must, that is, the price of oil, we know what we have to do. But the majority party here…

if the previous speaker has not heard any criticism of Freedom to Farm, he has not been listening. The criticism has been loud and clear from the moment that bill came to the floor. In fact, so much so that over the past several years…

What we would replace it with is an equitable system, something that is fair and reasonable. The problem is that we have in VERA a system that is inequitable and unfair. It is not that I do not want to recognize the fact that the…

in offering this amendment, I mean to infer no criticism of the gentleman from New York (Mr. Walsh), the chairman of the subcommittee who has put this bill together under some very, very difficult circumstances and I think in many ways has…

in 1981, then President Reagan pushed through the Congress and then signed a tax cut bill that, in the words of then budget director Dick Stockman, gave us budget deficits as far as the eye could see. Those budget deficits in 1993…

Last year when the appropriation bills were folded into an omnibus bill, the majority here added a long list of anti-environmental riders. They could not get those proposals through on their own merits, but they tried to hold funding for…

it is quite clear that this Republican budget has many and serious deficiencies. It is also true of the rule. The rule, for example, will not allow us to direct our attention to the needs of American veterans. The rule does not allow us to…

I would like to say a word on this resolution because I think the issue that is raised is critically important to the Members of this House and to the people of this country, and it is one that we ought to have a full and complete debate…

I first met Jerry almost a quarter of a century ago. I had just been elected to the New York State Legislature, and it was late in the year, 1974, I think December. And I was going through the legislative office building, and the place was…

The right of the people to elect their President, and the right of Congress to remove him are competing rights. America's founding fathers knew this. They worried out loud at the Constitutional Convention that if they didn't carefully…

we are for these tax cuts. In fact, virtually every one of these tax cuts was introduced by a Democrat. They were lifted from us in a transparently cynical gesture in an election year. You know this bill is not going to pass. If you…

I would just add that it is becoming increasingly clear, in spite of all the work that has gone into this bill, and we appreciate the difficulty in balancing all of the things that have to be done, the bill remains an inadequate instrument…

I, too, want the allegations in the report by Mr. Starr to be made public, but the way that that would be done in this resolution is wrong. The burden of that wrong will haunt this process throughout. This process is controlled by the…

to my mind the real strength of this democracy lies in the fact that every citizen, regardless of their circumstances, has the opportunity to participate fully in the electoral process, including the opportunity to run for office. And that…