James T. Callahan

The fact is it costs $44,000 a minute to run this House. It would appear to me that every time they talk about reducing a bill by $10,000, if they are going to spend $44,000 of Social Security money, it looks to me like we are losing…

Primarily, we are talking about the assistance to Arafat, the very person that we both despise because of the atrocities he has placed upon the citizens of Israel. How in the world anybody in this House could support giving money to a…

What my amendment would do would prohibit money from going to a terrorist that has been blowing up all of the people in Israel. It denies him the money to use for other things so he can have his money to blow up the people of Israel, and…

When I bring my amendment up, I will ask some of you that have been coming up to me telling me all day long, ``Sonny, you are doing exactly the right thing,'' I am going to have some handouts, and I want some of you to take these handouts…

At the same time, we do not want to leave the President of Colombia out on a limb. He has come back to us. He has told us what the problem is and we are having to fill in a void, but the void has been caused by the failure of the other…

I do know that the government of Vietnam is offering interest-free loans for people, which I think is in violation of all of our agreements, is offering interest-free loans to people to start catfish farms, and if they want to do that and…

The issue is the pipeline, and the issue is what is going to be put in the pipeline. The gentleman from Florida has already said that they already have pipelines going into Florida; they want to build more pipelines because they need more…

No, that is not why we are here. This has nothing to do with the drilling. It has to do with the fact that there is not going to be any natural gas and if there is not going to be, why build a pipeline. That is why we are here. It has only…

I might point out that they are already drilling now within 1 mile of the district of the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Scarborough). That is not an argument. These waters are primarily the waters within 17 miles of the beaches or offshore…

Reclaiming my time, we must decide on whether or not that is going to definitely be the site. Once that determination is made, there will be ample time to provide ample resources to the review board to make certain that the public is fully…

The gentleman mentioned the word ``hypocrisy,'' and the gentleman knows how opposed I am to any form of hypocrisy. If indeed it is as the gentleman says that this could imperil the drinking water of the gentleman's constituents, we will…

Let me explain my position. This problem is not limited to just one county in Texas, it also is applicable to some portions of Alabama and other States where the same type of incident is taking place. My agreement with the gentleman from…

We will be glad to work with the gentleman and the victims of Tropical Storm Allison. We are happy to work with the gentleman in that capacity to provide funding if funds become available. I have talked to the gentleman from Texas (Mr…

I understand the details of the project and agree that this project certainly merits congressional support. It is my firm intention to do all that I can to assist the gentleman from California on this very important issue as we move…

I do understand these communities are suffering water shortages primarily because the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Everett) tells me about it every night. Every time we get in a 5-minute lull he expresses to me his serious concerns about…

My question is, to facilitate these multibillionaires who are against this bill, Mr. Speaker, I want an opportunity to offer an amendment which limits the reductions in this tax to the first billion dollars. I think that this will satisfy…

I assure the gentlewoman that the subcommittee will continue to work with her to ensure that USAID funds on these important programs are spent.

The legislative history is clear. It is the committee's intention that the Cuban Transition Project be supported by USAID in fiscal year 2001 as indicated.

I might just convey to the audience that might be watching this that this is not an obituary. I am not going to die, and I am not going to go away. I am going to be back again next year because I have no opposition; and, as a result, I am…

I certainly will work with the gentleman from Ohio to try to find some legislative solution to the problems that exist with the Palestinian Authority and the gentleman's company from Ohio, because I happen to believe that the gentleman's…

I think the whole indemnification process is wrong for us to get involved in. What we are saying is that General Electric, which is the only American company I know of that is even involved in providing some of the resources for the new…

Mr. Chairman, I encourage Members to vote no on all three amendments coming up and remind them that last year I think it was a near unanimous vote for the bill which included this exact same language and which the President signed into…

We only have two conditions on aid to the government of Haiti. Those two conditions happen to be free elections... I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the amendment.

No, Mr. Chairman, he would not, because his amendment is really an amendment to the amendment of the gentleman from California (Mr. Royce). The gentleman from California (Mr. Royce) is taking about $5 million out of the bill. The gentleman…