I was astonished by some of the comments of my good friend from Michigan, the minority whip, and indeed the gentleman from Missouri, the minority leader. They perhaps were not on the floor when we quoted directly from the National…

Mr. Chairman, it is my understanding after we engage in a colloquy that this en bloc amendment may be accepted. I would simply like to point out that the en bloc amendment improves upon this already widely supported bill that we reported…

I would ask the gentleman, is it true that under our bill, Maryland and Nebraska, the two examples the gentleman used, would be totally free to designate the two examples he gives as a wetland and regulate them as a wetland.

I would take back my time, Mr. Chairman, and point out that the gentleman is so right, this was supposed to be guidelines. However, the EPA is using this and interpreting it as a basis for forcing the States to comply. It is one more…

I want to make the point that, if this is so good for the farmers, why are the farmers all opposed to it?

I thank my friend. That is not the way we interpret it, it is not the way the national Governors interpret it, and it is not the way the State Water Quality Association interprets it.

Mr. Chairman, our friends are trying to represent that this substitute is 70 percent of the committee bill. That simply is not true. The substitute guts the committee bill which passed overwhelmingly on a bipartisan basis in committee…

it is becoming very clear that the environmental extremists have decided to adopt the big lie strategy to attack the clean water bill. They are saying that the bill was written behind closed doors by Republicans with industry. Here are the…

the gentleman used my name. The difference is this is out of a trust fund. This is contract authority. There can be no deficit spending. That is the distinction here, and that is why this amendment should be overwhelmingly defeated.

I have not only talked to my staff, I have just gotten off the phone from talking to the office of the mayor of Provo, UT. No one from my staff spoke to the mayor of Provo, UT. I am sure my good friend in the heat of the moment made an…

I say to my friend they are user fees. It is not a general tax paid by all Americans, but rather by the traveling public who buys a gallon of gasoline or pays a ticket tax. They are user fees, and, therefore, they are fundamentally…

I presume he is referring to Route 220. That came from contract authority as a high-priority project. It has been in operation for 5 years, and in the past the old highway experienced six fatalities a year, and since that new highway has…

we Republicans quite properly emphasize our Contract With America. But our original Contract With America was signed in 1956, when President Eisenhower and the Congress created the Interstate Highway System and created the highway trust…

our transportation needs in America are increasing. Passenger travel on our highways is growing at a rate of about 3 percent a year. By the year 2000, not too far away, we will experience a 30-percent increase in freight travel on our…

David Broder of the Washington Post recently wrote a column in which he quoted a lifelong Democrat shipyard worker who switched to be a Republican. Here is what that shipyard worker said. He said, ``Except for roads, everything government…

I will say further that my staff on the floor here is indicating that--and these are the experts on clean water, this is the staff that advised us when we wrote the clean water legislation--these experts are confirming to me right now that…

I can only report that the experts on our staff, the ones who have advised us as we have written this legislation, because it is the legislation that came from our committee, have advised us that the Clean Water Act would come under this…