Darlene Hooley

we will not find a Member on this side of the aisle who is not 100 percent supportive of winning this war against terrorism and bolstering our homeland security. However, we cannot forget our domestic priorities. Over the next 5 years, we…

Yesterday the Oregon National Guard's 42nd Air Ambulance Company, headquartered in our State capital, Salem, Oregon, received word it had been activated in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The Air Ambulance is no stranger to…

I rise today in complete support of the idea behind my colleague from Pennsylvania's amendment to H.R. 2341. It seems perfectly logical to want to know exactly whether or not this legislation is really needed by requesting a report on…

I would either withdraw this proposal today so that, in fact, we could do this amendment as a stand-alone bill.

hopefully today will be a day where the American public wins. Five years ago as a freshman class president, I joined new Members of the 105th Congress view this institution and the way they view the White House. We pledged that no matter…

I believe we need a clarification or assurance from the sponsors that they do not define the home as a polling place in a vote-by-mail or absentee voting environment. If the standard above were interpreted as applying to a home, it would…

nearly 83 years ago, our Nation signed an armistice agreement that ended the First World War. Though many bright-eyed optimists heralded this as "the war to end all wars," just two decades later the world was plunged into another war more…

Under existing regulations, the Federal Government recognizes organic agricultural products as different from those grown conventionally. This distinction should be respected when considering the institution of a marketing order for…

I intend to support this legislation. In particular, I am extremely pleased the conferees have included $20 million in emergency assistance to farmers in the Klamath River Basin in Oregon and Northern California. The farmers and…

One of the things you do in a budget is you set priorities. That is what a budget is all about. One of the things you do when you set priorities is you put money where you say your priorities are. I mean, we do that in our home budgets; we…

hands are not for hurting. It is a simple phrase and a simple concept, but one that too many never learn. I rise today to spread the word about the Hands Are Not For Hurting Project started by Ann Kelley, a woman in Salem, Oregon, who is…

anyone who's ever been to Oregon knows that the backbone of our local economy are small businesses and family farms. Unfortunately, the time and money required to keep up with government paperwork prevents them from growing and creating…

As we talk about this issue, the gentleman is right when he talks about our not burying this pot of money somewhere in Washington, D.C. We send it out to our districts, and we send it out to our States and to our local school districts…

Let me try to put that in some perspective. I talked about my piece of legislation. Whether it is this or something else, it really does not matter as long as we live up to the obligation. If we look at fully funding it over the next 5…

I think this is, and people have said it before, this is probably one of the most important elections we will ever have. It is interesting. I turned on the news last night when I got home, and I watched them talking to many people who were…

As we look at this election and look at what it means to people, I think sometimes as we talk about in this Congress, we have actually stopped a lot of environmental riders. Well, what are riders? What does that mean? What does really…

Oh, he did not know about it. That is right, he did not know about it. When all the other governors supported it, he did not know about it.

asthma is now the number one reason that children miss school, the number one reason for absenteeism in our schools today. That is directly related to what the gentleman was just talking about; it is our air and whether or not it is clean…

it is probably a very small amount of money compared to all the money he brought in off of government.

But he says he supports it. But I am just saying he keeps talking about how he can get this done in a bipartisan way. I wished he would pick up the phone and call some of these people.

This bill contains a provision that would overturn Oregon's Assisted Suicide Law. Now, I appreciate the fact that we were given a whole day to debate this bill, and it was an up-and-down vote. We got enough votes if the President decided…

every senior in the United States that needs a prescription should be able to get it filled, no extra paperwork, no hunting around to find a private insurance company that might be so kind as to decide they are a good enough risk and sell…

I rise to show my strong support for the Lowey amendment. This is a crisis. When we have had crises before, the Federal Government has, in fact, stepped in. Over the last 4 years, I visited many of the schools in my district and, frankly…

while I understand the frustrations sometimes we have with the budget process, I come from a State that had biennial budgets. They did not work very well. Let me tell my colleagues why they did not work very well. In that off year, we talk…

in October of 1998, we overwhelmingly passed the Internet Tax Freedom Act, a law to keep the heavy-handed government taxes off the Internet. We passed this law because we all know that if we overburden e-commerce by taxing it, it will…