I think Senator Hatfield has outlined quite well that the welfare system in America today does not work for anyone. It certainly does not work for taxpayers. In so many instances they watch as their tax dollars are frittered away. And I…

I reflected a bit on what I had learned from Oregonians during the campaign that sent me here. Though I had not slept a whole lot for many days, I had no problem piecing together what the election was all about: Oregonians, regardless of…

Mr. Chairman, the Furse amendment is not a referendum on earmarks. A lot of us on a bipartisan basis have reservations, as the gentleman from California [Mr. Brown] has said, about the earmarking concept. What we are concerned about is…

as the gentleman knows, the Department of Energy is involved in a variety of important research. Much of this interfaces between communications and health and a number of related agencies.

I want to repeat again that the university has cooperated with the Committee on Science at every step. They have returned detailed responses. The university president has been available to the committee at every step along the way. The…

the Department of Energy has been one of the pioneers in the research field. That is what this is all about. The Oregon Health Sciences Center is on the cutting edge of future medical technology.

Mr. Chairman and colleagues, the Internet is the shining star of the information age, and Government censors must not be allowed to spoil its promise. We are all against smut and pornography, and, as the parents of two small…

Mr. Chairman, in conclusion, let me say that the reason that this approach rather than the Senate approach is important is our plan allows us to help American families today. Under our approach and the speed at which these technologies are…

I rise this morning to talk for a few minutes about the critically important public health issue of keeping America's youngsters from beginning to smoke. This is a public health problem that is growing. Three thousand youngsters in our…

I will shortly offer an amendment that stipulates that if there is a major fraud that corporate managers refuse to remedy, the corporate auditor would have to report the fraud to Government regulators. I want to thank Chairman Soloman and…

most of our citizens look at the title of this legislation. It has a sweeping name, the Private Property Protection Act. When you look at the sweeping title of this bill, one assumes that all American property owners are protected. In…

I make my point. You are talking about property owners that want to develop. There are property owners in America, folks, 65 million of them who just want to live in their homes. They are senior citizens, they are low-income people. They…

there are instances, of course, where the impacts of pollution are dispersed over a large area that are not covered under local ordinances. There are instances of pollution being dispersed across State lines.

Under this legislation as it is written now, if the developer hurts a huge number of private property owners downstream, that developer can still get compensation.

what troubles me is this legislation creates a Federal express line where the developer and commercial interests can come in and have their claims addressed, but when it is the typical homeowner, under this bill we say ``Sorry, Charlie…

I want to come back to the fact that this legislation tries to ensure that pro-development interests get a fair shake. But now we also have to make sure that typical homeowners who are not development interests get a fair shake as well. I…

More important, what I think highlights the lack of balance, and I use that word specifically, because there are takings, what highlights the lack of balance is, our friend, the gentleman from Florida, said that the homeowner, instead of…

the view of the gentleman from Florida and myself is that the juvenile justice system does not work. We see these young people committing offense after offense after offense, and there are absolutely no consequences. What we are seeking to…

All we are saying is over the next 3 years let us give an incentive to States. It is not a matter of changing the Federal criminal code. No criminal law at the Federal level will be changed, but because there are such serious problems with…

Mr. Speaker and colleagues, I am a Member of the House who has felt that the calculation of the Consumer Price Index for our country should be a concern that was outside politics, one that was going to be nonpartisan. Making sure that the…

it seems to me that it is very revealing that when my Republican friends feel strongly about the budget, they enshrine their views in the Constitution. But when it comes to protecting senior citizens, for the last half hour we have heard…