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Maybe it is time that we reviewed the facts in this issue rather than listen to the rhetoric. So let me just review the facts for one moment. The gentleman from Wisconsin offers to reduce the crop insurance program by $23 million, adding…
Mr. Chairman, my colleagues in the 104th Congress passed a contract with agriculture. Over 300 of them voted for it, and it was a contract which I am sure even the proponents of this bill will support, and that means that all subsidies and…
But I am sure many of my colleagues do not like the peanut program. They may not, but they signed a contract, the contract with farmers, the Government with farmers. They signed the contract for 7 years. For 7 years there will be no peanut…
This is, as has been identified, a very small land exchange which can assist in a time of need, a very small county in the southern part of the State of Oregon in the southeast suffering from what we have suffered from in the West in many…
a few weeks ago, on the Fourth of July, as Americans were celebrating their cherished freedoms upon which this country was founded, the Russian Federation passed a bill which, if signed into law, would restrict freedom of religion in that…
This is finally a compromise that I have been looking for for at least 10 years. In my experience we have not hit balance in the practice of forestry in this country, and certainly that is evident by what has happened in the Pacific…
I rise in opposition of House Joint Resolution 79, a resolution of disapproval of most-favored-nation [MFN] status for products from China. I believe that it is in the best interest of United States agriculture to continue, and eventually…
one of the threshold rights that we as Americans hold dear is the right to worship God according to the dictates of one's own conscience. It is for that reason that many Christians and people of all faiths are disturbed by news headlines…
we have just heard about the history and origins of the 1897 Organic Act of the U.S. Forest Service. I would like to describe what our forests were like a century ago and compare this to where we are today as a nation of enlightened forest…
I would not be surprised if Senator Thurmond did not even know my name, and there is no reason that he should. He had served in this body and had run for President before I was ever born, and I want him to know that I was uncomfortable in…
I am interested in that, but I am not interested in breaking this budget agreement, if it means that we are breaking our promises to the American people. Republicans and Democrats alike-- neither side, frankly--are thrilled with every…
I rise today, first, to thank Senator Santorum for his leadership on this issue but, more important, to stand with those who stand for the principle of life today on this very important bill. I have consistently supported this principle…
However, such a ``cap'' would clearly appear to impose new duties and new determinations on the Secretary of Agriculture based on what would have to be reductions in an anticipated 19 million acre enrollment (out of over 25 million acres…
I rise in appreciation for the leadership of the chairman, the Senator from North Carolina, on this issue and as member of his committee I rise in support of the ratification of the CFE Flank Agreement. The CFE Treaty has been remarkably…
This bill will provide a one-time legislative remedy to a problem that many of us have seen coming for many months, and that is a specific timing problem for winter crop producers whose current CRP contracts will expire this September. We…
In closing, let me reiterate again, as I mentioned in my statement, that this bill saves the taxpayers money. This is for farmers in America. Without this bill, farmers could lose $600 million in crops. This is environmentally friendly, as…
I rise today to join 19 of my colleagues as a cosponsor of the tax limitation amendment, a proposed amendment to the Constitution to require a two-thirds vote of the House and Senate to raise taxes. I stand here as an elected…
I rise in support of H.R. 1000, a bill that requires States to establish a system to verify that individuals detained in Federal, State, or county penal facilities are not counted as household members for the purposes of determining…
I rise in opposition to the Montana wilderness bill. Its purpose really is to do two things. It is first to designate about 1 rac{1}{2} ext{ million acres of wilderness in Montana, and, by the way, this has been mentioned, but it is twice…
there are many Members here in this assembly who do not want a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. There have been efforts by the leadership here and in the other body to try to devise a system by which Members can escape, some…
I want to again extend my hand in gratitude to the gentleman from Texas and all of those chief sponsors, Democrats and Republicans, who have fought very hard to bring this to fruition. And today we will make that final decision. I could…
I wanted to at least address the Social Security thing which is already getting out of hand, the rumor that somehow Social Security is going to be destroyed. The facts are that we are already camouflaging, masking the budget. For instance…
Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the rule and passage of the Stenholm-Smith balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. Given this fact, words are not needed to describe the enthusiasm Members have for a Constitutional amendment to…
The Keynesian economic theory is exactly what you have identified, and that is simply that in a downturn, the idea is to pump money into the economy. That is what we have been following, that philosophy, since 1930. There is no question…
Mr. Chairman, I think this is a wise and reasoned amendment, that tackles the problem of deficit spending head on by restricting Federal spending to 19 percent of the gross domestic product. In doing so, I think the gentleman's amendment…
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