Rob Portman

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

I think it would be unwise for us to, in this legislation, put into law new requirements for economic development programs. However, the gentleman has offered a sense of Congress that seems sensible in terms of the general direction which…

And in terms of the 7 days, I know on some of these applications, and we are trying to end this process through this very legislation, are 2, 3, 4 inches thick, and my question would be, is 7 days practical? In other words, do they not go…

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I rise to pay tribute to John Ruthven, a longtime friend and leader in my community, who will be honored as a Great Living Cincinnatian.

I want to thank the gentleman from Maryland, Mr. Hoyer and the other original cosponsors for joining me in this effort and I encourage my colleagues to join in support of this bipartisan effort.

It has been endorsed by state and local organizations such as the National Governors Association, the National Conference of State Legislators, the National Association of Counties, and the National League of Cities.

The bill sunsets in five years and The National Academy for Public Administrators (NAPA) would submit an evaluation just prior to its sunsetting.

To address this concern we have introduced this short and straightforward legislation.

I often hear from state and local governments and constituents involved in non-profit organizations who, in an attempt to gain assistance for many worthy programs, are frustrated by the miles of red tape, regulations and duplicative…

This is about giving the President the ability to enter into those agreements. This is so straightforward. I cannot believe this Congress on both sides of the aisle is not going to allow this administration, on behalf of our country, to…

I, too, want to commend the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Latham) for his efforts on the task force and also for his amendment today which I think would provide an additional reason for people not to get involved with drugs and it would be a…

Let me try to put this bill in some kind of perspective. It is really part of what we hope will be a measured response here in Congress to a vexing national problem, which is how to substantially reduce the growing problem in this country…

I think it is irrelevant to what we are debating today because it does not affect a diminution of civil rights one way or the other; and, specifically, civil rights were excluded from the requirement of information that is in the…

I would also say that if you look at the budget rules when we are talking about taxes, this is just a carve-out for taxes, it just has to do with situations where you have a net decrease in taxes in a tax package. Right now, we are living…

What we do here, I guess the gentleman and I have a different view of this place. The gentleman's sense, as I have tried to write down what he said, is there has never been legislation around here where the costs have not been fully…

When legislation is debated on the floor of the House, the legislation is debated because someone has a good idea. It is a great sounding idea. We talk a lot about the benefits, and we do it continually. What we do not talk about is the…

But in this legislation there is one provision that came out of the Committee on Rules which says that in the case of tax legislation that is on the floor of the House, where there is a net tax decrease, in other words, where there is tax…

I just want to add to that that we think these are thoughtful amendments. One of the major underlying purposes of this legislation of course is to promote protection of plants that can cure diseases. I think his second amendment certainly…

As has been noted by the previous two speakers, this is really the outgrowth of years of work by a lot of people that links two important facts of life: One is that, very important, tropical forests are disappearing at an extremely rapid…

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I think if this had been in place, we would have had a better tax bill enacted this summer by the U.S. Congress. I think we would have known more about what the complexities are, not just for the taxpayer but for the tax collection agency.