Hon. Michael G. Oxley

Did the budget negotiators specifically contemplate that such legislation would be a comprehensive Superfund reform bill?

I thank the gentleman. And did the negotiators also specifically contemplate a comprehensive Superfund reform bill when they wrote, in the addendum to the budget agreement, that ``Superfund appropriations will be at the President's level…

I rise today in support for H.R. 2, the Housing Opportunity and Responsibility Act. As a cosponsor of this important legislation I believe that it will go a long way toward reforming our current public housing system. I am particularly…

I rise today to offer my best wishes and support to the Lima-Allen County, OH, branch of the NAACP, as its members make their final preparations for their annual radiothon. The event, planned for May 24 at the Bradfield Community Center in…

as the estimable Yogi Berra said, ``It's like deja vu all over again.'' H.R. 688 is the same Leaking Underground Storage Tank bill we passed by a voice vote on the floor just 7 months ago in the last Congress. Except for a couple of…

I served 10 years on the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, and having dealt with this issue for a number of years, I truly come to the floor today with mixed emotions. One of the things I learned, I think, long ago when I…

I feel compelled to quote the great Yogi Berra and point out that consideration of this bill feels like deja vu all over again. It was just last year that I stood on the floor, managed legislation virtually identical to the bill before us…

I rise to mark the passing of our colleague, the gentleman from Texas, Frank Tejeda. Congressman Tejeda's spirit, his patriotism, his sense of duty, and his service to the Nation and his fellow veterans set an example for all Americans…

H.R. 2579 establishes a new, privately funded, and privately managed tourism organization to represent and promote international travel and tourism to the United States. I would note that in 1993, Ohio benefited from $443 million in travel…

I rise in support of H.R. 4167, the Professional Boxing Safety Act. This bill represents months of bipartisan, bi-committee, and bicameral negotiations. Its primary purpose is to establish a State and privately run system for licensing…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 3553, the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1996, is a straight 2-year reauthorization of the agency. This legislation, cosponsored by my distinguished subcommittee ranking member, Mr. Manton, authorizes appropriations of…

I rise in support of the engagement with China and against the resolution of disapproval.

I rise in support of engagement with China, in support of China MFN, and against the resolution of disapproval. As I have said on this floor on other occasions, Ohio is one of America's top exporters of manufactured goods. China is not…

let us get one thing straight first of all. The taxpayers that I know the gentleman from Massachusetts is so fond of and wants to protect, the taxpayers who pay into the Superfund and the very polluters that he is talking about. He would…

this is the coloring book, and let me quote from the book where Mother Mouse meets the U.S. EPA remediation workers: She was smiling and humming when all of a sudden she heard someone coming. She saw a strange sight. ``Oh my. What a…

I am amazed, I must say, at being in the minority for all the time that I was in the Congress for the first 14 years, and then to be honored with apparently the title of being able to kill the Superfund bill----

it is a tribute to Bill Emerson that we are here in going on now 2 hours eulogizing him and remembering him. He was a Member of my class, the 97th class, even though I caught up with him about 7 months later because I came in a special…

I would say the ``Nightmare on Elm Street'' has been running for the last 15 years, and it is called the existing Superfund law that has fostered litigation to the point where we are spending half of the money on lawyers and we have only…

I rise to commend the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice for the peaceful resolution reached last Thursday in the armed standoff involving the so-called Montana Freemen who are charged with threatening public…

Mr. Speaker, never in our wildest dreams could we imagine we would be on the floor today on a suspension calendar to pass H.R. 3005, the securities amendments of 1996. I want to pay tribute to the gentleman from Texas, Chairman Fields, for…

the bodies keep piling up on the porch of the White House. Yesterday, three more people were convicted in the Arkansas savings and loan scandal that has threatened to envelop more and more people. This is just one more example of what has…

the budget resolution for the fiscal year 1997, brought to the floor under the leadership of Chairman Kasich and the Budget Committee, continues our payments on a balanced budget by the year 2002. It is an important step forward for the…

it is our understanding that section 6 of this legislation does not in any way alter the determination and use of natural resource damages collected pursuant to the Clean Water Act, the Oil Pollution Act, the Natural Marine Sanctuaries…

I cannot resist responding to my friend from California because it is really how he defines these votes, that somehow, if we happen to vote against his particular position, that happens to be allegedly a vote against the environment or…

I am proud to be on the House floor today with broad bipartisan support for pro-environmental legislation that originated in the subcommittee I chair. H.R. 2024, the Mercury-Containing and Rechargeable Battery Management Act, is the second…