Sherwood Boehlert

This is landmark legislation.

Enforcement of the immigration laws is the responsibility of the INS and the State Department. Section 17 requires that NSF report to Congress on information it obtains from institutions of higher education, State and INS. This section…

Neither the Immigration and Naturalization Service nor the Department of State have provided final guidance to enable universities to participate in the new Student Exchange Visitor Information System, which provides tracking, monitoring…

This amendment, which provides $5 million per year for integrated bioenergy research and development projects, for training and educating targeted to minority and socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers, is a good amendment. Bioenergy…

I want to protect the life of every single New Yorker because we have been losing population. We have been redistricted, we will go down two seats, and I do not want any New Yorker to go away. But I am just as much concerned with the…

Mr. Chairman, there is an environmental aspect to this because urban sprawl is a concept that concerns us all. One of the reasons we have urban sprawl is that so many family farms are so hard-pressed that they have no choice but to sell…

I want to call everyone's attention to a particular paragraph. It reads: ``When prices are high in the northeast, which uses a lot of home heating oil, the Secretary of Energy may,'' not must, but may, ``disburse home heating oil from a…

I rise in support of the Gilchrest amendment. I hate to see time limited on a discussion of this very important amendment. I am supporting the amendment because I think the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Gilchrest) has made a compelling case…

It says to the BLM to study it and if there is any indication it is degrading to the environment, they should proceed to close it.

I have completed my thoughts, but I just want stress to one and all that this is a very fragile, carefully crafted agreement which has been signed onto by the Secretary of the Interior, with whom we have been in touch just this morning. We…

I have a high regard for the gentleman, as he well knows. We are not foreclosing any options. We are saying, very simply, we are making it clear that lands within the conservation area are to be managed in at least as protective a manner…

A key concern that the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Udall) and I share is continuing the protection of the so-called 202 lands. My amendment says that the 202 areas must continue to be managed at least as strictly as they are now. My…

There is no Member of this body that I respect and admire more than the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Regula), but on this issue we simply disagree. This amendment would not only kill CARA, it would be a step in the wrong direction at any time…

H.R. 1237, introduced by Representative Jim Saxton, would reauthorize and improve the National Estuary Program, a broadly supported, comprehensive approach to estuary conservation and management. ... This bill will help protect and restore…

Let me ask my distinguished colleague, well, first of all let me give a preamble. I think the objective of the gentleman's amendment is sound. I think the concept is noble. I am wondering if the gentleman might ask that his amendment might…

The language in the substitute only guts the bill if the goal is to undermine local government. The language in the substitute is identical to the way sections 3 and 4 were presented to this House less than 3 years ago, language that was…

The current approach to beach water testing is a mixture of inconsistent criteria and practices. Passing the BEACH bill will wipe out the inconsistencies and improve public health protections nationwide. As one of America's favorite…

Let me suggest that I share his goal in enhancing awareness of the cost of the bill, but the bill is sadly deficient in terms of the potential benefits, and that is why every environmental public health and safety organization is strongly…

That is exactly the purpose of my amendment. The base bill would limit debate; my amendment would expand debate. The base bill would terminate discussion; my amendment would continue discussion. Of course we have to factor in the cost to…

It is indeed a special pleasure for me to be here in this well to talk about a man with whom I have had some of my fiercest battles with in my service in these 16 years in the Congress and some of the most pleasant satisfying victories. I…

That is a cause for real concern, and as my dear friend and colleague knows, I have been a supporter of the clean coal technology program that some of my friends who probably were labeled green are somewhat offended by that, and I never…

Two things. One, I have served in local government as a former county executive, so I know whereof he speaks. Secondly, I am not suggesting that proposed mandates are good or bad. Some are good. Some are bad. The only thing I am trying to…

One of the things I have done, in terms of talking about tractor trailers, I have offered an amendment to another bill that would limit the size of tractor-trailers on our Nation's highways for safety.

We would not have scoring of amendments. That is the problem. We would not have the time to do that. When we have extended debate on a very controversial item, sometimes during the debate, in the course of that debate proponents or…

It is not a gutting amendment. I would classify it as a perfecting amendment because I really think that we should have full and open debate on some sensitive issues here on the floor of the House. We should not limit debate to 10 minutes…