it is not the first time I have come to the well to address the House and my colleagues about the terrible plight of the people of the Klamath Basin in Oregon and northern California. Mr. Speaker, as my colleagues know, on April 6 of last…

I thank my colleagues for having this Special Order. When Jennifer Brennan was pregnant with her first child, her husband, Thomas M. Brennan, would play Grateful Dead tapes loudly, hoping the music would reach the ears of the unborn…

H.R. 2828 gives hope to those people whose livelihoods face ruin as a result of the Interior Department's decision to shut off water to some 1,200 farm families of the Klamath Basin for the first time in the nearly 100-year history of the…

I had not visited this dam until a year or so ago, and at that point I invited the Modoc Point Irrigation District directors and the tribal leaders from there to both join me at the site of this dam. As we approached the dam, walked down…

H.R. 1776, introduced by my friend the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Green), authorizes the Secretary of Interior to complete a study on the suitability and feasibility of establishing the Buffalo Bayou National Heritage Site in Houston…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 2585 is another of my bills that will address the current plight of fish and farmers in the Klamath Basin. The Klamath Basin is in both southern Oregon and northern California, and has Endangered Species Act-listed…

on April 12 of 2000, the Warm Springs Tribe, Portland General Electric Company, and the Department of the Interior as the Tribe's trustee entered into an agreement for the Tribe to buy one-third or more of the 440-megawatt Pelton…

I rise tonight to again talk about the saga of the Klamath Basin and the farmers who have lived there and tilled the ground and fed the Nation. As my colleagues know, Mr. Speaker, on April 6, they cut off the water. They said, no water for…

I rise tonight to address my colleagues in this House about the incredible travesty that is occurring in the Klamath Basin in Oregon. What I will do tonight is talk about the background of the Klamath Project, which also includes the…

Mr. Chairman, first I want to thank the chairman of the full committee for his assistance and that of the administration for providing upwards of $20 million in disaster relief in this supplemental for the people, the ranchers of Klamath…

This is, indeed, another example of getting things done, getting things done for fish, getting things done for farmers in the Northwest. As my colleagues know, our salmon runs face tremendous challenges there, the wild salmon runs do, and…

Madam Chairman, we have accomplished something unique with the drafting of this legislation. We have brought together people from very different walks of life. We have given them equal seats at the table of public policy, and we have…

I just again want to thank my colleague, the gentleman from the fourth district for Oregon (Mr. DeFazio), for putting up with my persistence. I know there were times when I was probably a little more persistent than I needed to be, but we…

I would point out, too, that his comment about the high-tech millionaires is perhaps taken in a different context than I meant it, which is that this is not the center of industry in that respect. But he is very right in the sense that…

I send my best wishes and congratulations to Republic of China President Chen Shui-bian and his people on the occasion of their 89th National Day.

Mr. Speaker, S. 1374, the Jackson Multi-Agency Campus Act of 1999, provides for an exchange of land for a building. The Forest Service will transfer approximately 12 acres of the Bridger-Teton National Forest to the State of Wyoming and to…

Mr. Speaker, S. 624 was introduced by Senator Burns and a companion bill, H.R. 1124, was introduced by the gentleman from Montana (Mr. Hill). The Fort Peck Reservation is located in northeastern Montana, and suffers from the same problem…

The Deschutes Resources Conservancy was authorized in 1996 as a 5-year pilot project designed to achieve local consensus for projects to improve the ecosystem health in the Deschutes River Basin. The existing authorization provides up to…

I rise this evening to reinforce the comments of my colleague, the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Peterson), and to call on the Russian government and President Putin to free Mr. Ed Pope. We have heard he is an American…

The reason this bill passed unanimously out of the Senate and the House Committee on Resources is because people know it is good for the environment and good for the people. It will add 54½ miles of threatened and endangered species…

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Because, as my colleague knows, the court is back saying the plan that has been put forward after that has been done on the Northwest Forest Plan is still not in compliance. Because the survey and manage requirements that were shoved in in…

I do not disagree with the fact about how complicated and difficult these are to work through. I think we would all agree on that. But what I keep hearing is how ICBEMP is going to resolve this issue just as the Northwest Forest Plan was…

But the General Accounting Office, in 1997, says that this does constitute a rule in their opinion and, therefore, this small business would follow.

All we are asking here is for this administration to follow the law. And if there is a question about whether this is legal or not, would it not be time for this administration to err on the side of following the law if there is a…