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I rise today to submit S. Con. Res. 30, in order to recognize the sacrifice and dedication of members of America's non-governmental organizations and private volunteer organizations throughout their history and specifically in answer to…
I rise today in an effort of bipartisanship with Senator Kerry, to present our plan to improve the quality of education for the children of this country. The legislation that we are introducing with Senators Chafee, Collins, Snowe, Bayh…
I rise to comment on a bill I have introduced today that will provide Oregon pear producers the flexibility they need to meet the demands of their foreign customers. With continued low commodity prices in nearly all sectors of American…
Morris King Udall is my cousin. But he is more than a kinsman to me. He is a political exemplar and a source of wisdom and humor still. I lament his passing but I rejoice in his legacy. I was but a boy of 8 years when Morris was elected to…
There are too many good ideas that Republicans and Democrats share in common for us not to make significant progress on the issue that is on the minds of most parents, perhaps, more than any other--the education of their children. While…
among the provisions included in the tax package we voted on today is a provision of great importance to the charitable giving community: an extension of the enhanced deduction for contributions of publicly-traded stock to private…
as we take up the Omnibus appropriations bill, I would like to take this opportunity to express my extreme disappointment that the Agricultural Job Opportunity Benefits and Security Act amendment, known as AgJOBS, was eliminated from the…
I rise in support of H.R. 4328, the omnibus appropriations conference report. This will be our last chance to provide the temporary crop and market loss assistance that our farmers need so desperately at this time. It is also an…
I rise in support of H.R. 4647, the Selective Agricultural Embargoes Act, introduced by Mr. Ewing, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Corps. The Selective Agricultural Embargoes Act of 1998 requires the…
I rise in support of H.R. 4148, a bill to amend the Export Apple and Pear Act. The Export Apple and Pear Act, enacted on June 10, 1933, requires that apples and pears meet certain standards prior to export in order to ensure only high…
I was inspired to come to the floor to respond and to support the words of my friend from Arizona as he spoke very eloquently and emotionally about the plight of the people of Kosovo. Growing up as a little boy, I have to tell you, I saw…
I have worked for the last few months with the gentleman from Texas and others interested in agriculture to try to reach agreements which would benefit the agriculture community in this Nation on a basis of trust and mutual respect, and to…
the wintering Canada goose population has increased ten times in the last twenty years, to 250,000 geese in the Lower Columbia River and Willamette Valley regions. The result has been large numbers of geese grazing on private agricultural…
we have all watched the events in Kosovo with alarm and distress over the past several months. The situation on the ground continues to deteriorate and no progress has been made on a negotiated solution to the conflict. Serb paramilitary…
Yes. Because producers would be able to get all their 1999 payments as early as October 1998, this form of implementation would provide the necessary financial assistance and flexibility, I believe, to producers. Recognizing the…
Mr. Speaker, we have problems in farm country. Prices have declined for farmers and ranchers. Many producers are wrestling with multiyear crop losses and others are suffering as a result of this year's severe adverse weather. Feed is…
H.R. 4250 moves us in the right direction. One of the ways it does this is by allowing community health centers to establish community health organizations. These would be health plans sponsored by health centers and the doctors themselves…
I join in the spirit of trying to work on this issue to resolve a situation that I truly believe is broken. If we don't succeed in this, we are frankly not going to say that we are content with the status quo. The status quo is not…
Mr. Chairman, the recently withdrawn amendment certainly should have been withdrawn, because the gentlewoman from Oregon (Ms. Furse), my friend, had this amendment exactly correct. There will be room with her amendment, should her…
I rise today with Senators Wyden, Craig, Graham of Florida, Gorton, Bumpers, Hatch, McConnell, and Mack to introduce the Agricultural Job Opportunity Benefits and Security Act of 1998, also known as AgJOBS. Our bill will create a…
Mr. Speaker, having just arrived from a long airplane trip from Oregon, I can tell my colleagues that the eyes of the Pacific Northwest are upon us at this time. The urgency, I know, has been identified here, but, for instance, Pakistan is…
Mr. President, I believe the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act reestablishes our commitment to the young people of our Nation by focusing on one of our Nation's founding principles--opportunity. By improving the quality of…
let us get back to reality here and directness. The numbers used by these people who attempt to overnight the Market Access Program are 10 years old. I have just returned from the European Union, Germany, France, Belgium; and let me tell…
Mr. Chairman, this is not a minimal issue at all. I hope Members will listen, because again I want to reiterate, a contract was made with agriculture in 1996 that will be ending in the year 2002, that all subsidies on all crops will be…
Mr. Chairman, unfortunately we have this exercise it seems every appropriation period where we attack the contract that was entered into in 1996 between Members of Congress and farmers in America. This is another attack to violate the…
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