Elizabeth Furse

I wish to express my deep opposition to this bill. Amongst many other things, it prematurely terminates three vital initiatives that protect fishery habitat in the Northwest, amongst many other bad cuts. Mr. Speaker, I rise to express my…

I am outraged at the way defense contractors make public policy around here. I thought we Members of Congress were sent here to think for ourselves but, unfortunately, I have learned otherwise. The July 31 issue of Defense Week details…

I was pleased that Chairman Young and Ranking Member Murtha accepted my amendment reducing the account initial spares and repair parts by $22 million. This was a very reasonable reduction. In its fiscal year 1996 request, the Department of…

I rise to support the Schroeder amendment for a 3 percent cut in this defense appropriations bill. I want to talk about budget priorities. I want to remind my colleagues that this Congress really only has power over discretionary spending…

I am just really amazed by the analysis I have heard of the Medicare Board of Trustees' report. I read it and nowhere did I find that they recommended a $270 billion cut in order to give a tax break to the privileged few. Mr. Speaker, what…

I want to issue a wake-up call to the American people. I want to say to the American voters: Please watch closely what's happening here in Congress. I don't think you'll like what you'll see. What you'll see during this appropriations…

there are so many bad cuts in this bill that I do not have time to talk about all of them. I am going to talk about the ones that matter the most to me. Those are the attacks on our endangered salmon. This bill, makes no mistake about it…

Mr. Chairman, just to respond to the previous speech, I was a bit puzzled to hear that the nuclear Navy is subject to the EPA and NRC. If that were true, then there would be and there would never have been any need to include them in this…

I say to the gentleman from Oregon [Mr. DeFazio], the point you make I think is really important. The city of Portland has invested $750 million in cleaning up any pollution site and they are happy to live by the rules of the EPA. I am…

I am just shocked that my constituents are not going to be told that there are nuclear materials being put into the rivers, into the waters, if that polluter is a Federal facility. We do not allow anyone else in this country to…

I am here because my constituents have asked me to speak out for their interests. I want to read what they have said. James Gamwill wrote to me and said, ``I hope you will use your good office to prevent cuts in Medicare. It aids seniors…

plain and simple, the answer on this bill is we cannot afford it. We cannot afford to give tax breaks to people who do not need them, even if they are our friends, and we cannot afford to cut school loans, housing assistance, school…

Mr. Chairman, there seems to be a concerted attack on those of us who voted for the President's 1993 budget. I just want to point out that many poor and middle-income families received substantial tax returns from the earned income tax…

every day the Republicans come down on this floor and they tell us how they have kept their promises with the contract. Well, they did keep some. They kept their promise to adversely affect children, women, and seniors. They kept their…

It makes me very doubtful. It raises a strong doubt. Why have we been voting on things that hurt children and women and the environment and civil rights, like the fourth amendment?

The vote was scheduled for today and tomorrow; and Thursday evening, at the very last moment, I received the word that we were not going to vote on term limits.

the School Lunch Program was established for the purpose of national defense in 1946, when it was found that many of our soldiers had grown up without adequate nutrition. Well, today our national security is just as dependent on these…

Mr. Chairman, my amendment lifts this bill's caps on punitive damages because the cap in this bill discriminates against women, children, retirees, and low-wage workers. My amendment does not change the high standards of proof needed to…

Mr. Chairman, in case Members have not been following the debate closely, it has been a great break for Wall Street and the advice of the day is buy insurance company stocks because this legislation is a tremendous gift to the insurance…

America just cannot afford H.R. 7 and it certainly cannot afford star wars 2. Star wars 2 sounds like a movie sequel but unfortunately it is a living nightmare. This is a program----

This program, this star wars program really makes me go ballistic. It is the biggest waste of taxpayers' money around. We have already spent $30 billion and we have nothing to show for it. What is even worse is, we are not the least bit…

it is my local police chiefs and my local sheriffs who have called me to say they like the crime bill of last year, that it is working, and they are getting new police officers. It is the local law enforcement people who call me, the…

Mr. Chairman, I am here because I heard the debate on this issue, and I have to tell you that the fourth amendment is not just words to me, it is protection, real protection. Let me tell you what it is like to live in a country which has…

I am very grateful for every opportunity I get to protect Social Security. But I want to do it with law, not with smoke and mirrors. Now, this is a feel-good resolution. But, of course, it means nothing, absolutely nothing. Now, I like to…

I have just seen a shocking AP bulletin. It tells that three fine Oregon doctors have been targeted for harassment by antichoice groups who have created a deadly dozen list identifying 12 doctors, 3 of them from Oregon, to be the target of…