let me start my remarks by saying that I appreciate all the hard work the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Porter] has put into this package. Funding for crucial health care programs was increased over last year and I fully support those…

Was that article talking about the floods in the Northwest that had nothing to do with the salvage logging, or was it in fact speaking directly about the salvage logging?

we hear a lot of talk about logging without laws. I want to show an example of two sales in my district that took place as a result of this law. There are a lot of laws. Here are contracts with the studies that went into these sales. We…

I rise in opposition to the Furst amendment. I would like to correct a few things that I believe were inaccurate when they were stated before. I heard it mentioned that there had not been a single hearing. In fact, on February 28, 1995…

Mr. Chairman, this has been an interesting debate. I listened as the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Kennedy] said that only 4 percent of the timber is off the Federal lands, and maybe that does not have a very big impact to…

The other portion of the policy is that apparently the gentleman is deciding that the President cannot make the correct foreign policy decision in this area.

I am not sure whether we are here to set foreign policy or we are here to have a history lesson, but we are getting quite a history lesson today. Others will talk about the negatives of the Ottoman Empire, without question, but there are…

this bill has a lot of good things in it, but one it does not have is increased competition. In a real effort to provide more competition, I offered an amendment that simply said that a Bell Co. has to have at least the availability of 10…

As the gentleman knows, I offered an amendment during the full committee to partially restore the necessary funding to the title III program. But due to the tight constraints that we are working under, we were unable to find adequate…

I applaud his efforts to make this a fair bill, not only for the taxpayers of the country but also by addressing the out-of-control spending that is costing our children their future earnings. I am concerned that the current funding level…

I rise in opposition to the Greenwood amendment and support for the Livingston-Smith amendment. Mr. Chairman, I listened as an earlier speaker said that he could not imagine that 25 years ago we would picture this happening. I cannot…

I think it is about time we bring common sense back into the formula. I have listened to the extremists say if lightning strikes, let the trees burn and ignore the jobs. I think it is totally absurd when we are trying to find a balance, we…

today is Ronald Reagan's birthday. As one of our greatest Presidents, Ronald Reagan won the cold war, expanded the economy, and restored America's faith in herself. He inspired us because in his heart, he knew the American people were…

I was delighted yesterday to see the promises that we have made be delivered on. Yet we have got a number more to do. One of the keys that happened yesterday was opening the process and shining light on what Congress does. I have to admit…