I have 20 counties in the district I represent. Over 60 percent of the land in those counties is owned by the Federal Government. Needless to say, these counties which are trying to make heads or tails out of their declining budgets are…

Mr. Chairman, I oppose the Dicks amendment. I do not know what is happening in this debate. We seem to be off on an individual. We are not talking about the masses, the little people involved in this process. For too long private property…

the Animal Damage Control Program represents one of the most efficient and cost-effective programs within the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It benefits the general public as well as the agricultural industry. Without animal damage…

on welfare reform Bill Clinton has performed one shameless flip-flop after the next. During the 1992 Presidential campaign, candidate Clinton promised to end welfare as we know it. President Clinton never offered any serious welfare reform…

Bill Clinton's judges are soft on crime. All of our antidrug and anticrime legislation is useless if Clinton's judges refuse to enforce the law. One of Clinton's nominees to the Federal bench--a Democrat fund-raiser from Miami--didn't even…

I rise in favor of this resolution. I rise to remind this body of an important fact that seems to have gotten lost in the debate, that if this resolution passes tonight we will not have amended the Constitution. Remember that it takes…

Yesterday the Democratic Party could have put back to work 133,000 public employees in what is called the Interior appropriations bill. We are trying on this side of the aisle to remedy some of the problems that this country faces and…

yesterday I introduced H.R. 1375, legislation that would stop the U.S. Forest Service from hurting hard-working, law-abiding ranchers that graze their herds on forest system lands. My bill would extend Forest Service grazing permits until…

last night I and my colleagues, Mrs. Chenoweth of Idaho and Mr. Taylor of North Carolina, presented a special order on timber salvage and its benefits to our environment and economy. What should be abundantly clear from the statistics and…

tonight, time permitting, I will be giving a very important special order on timber salvage, an issue that is vital to my district and the West. I will explain at length the necessity of salvage and the benefits to the environment…

today we will again address private property rights. And there is only one issue: whether or not we will obey the fifth amendment. For those who haven't read their constitution lately, I would like to quote these 12 profound words. The…

We have both served in legislature and in government prior to coming to Congress, and as State legislators and a State senator, we mandated many things which we were forced to pass on to the small communities which we knew would not be…

Thank you for your comments. I would like to say something other than what I prepared to tell you just about how bad this has become in my State of Oregon. I have a small community on the east side by the name of Haines. It has about 120…

I rise at the request of my colleagues to quickly explain my amendments prior to their consideration next week. Briefly I would be offering two amendments that will strengthen this worthy legislation. My first amendment would strike the…

I rise today as an advocate of the States, my district, and all Americans who have experienced the heavy hand of Federal Government mandates too long. In the next 5 years alone, unfunded mandates will cost our Nation's counties 12.3…