I rise strongly against this amendment. It was said earlier that this is not the right time to make this decision. Well, it is always easy to say it is not the right time to make a tough decision. And the reason we are in this terrible…

I wish to engage in a little colloquy with you. As you know, the administration proposed $49.5 million for the National Clean Diesel Initiative, which was authorized at $200 million in the Energy Policy Act. We were only able to fund that…

the Interior and Environmental appropriations bill we have before us today is a responsible, balanced piece of legislation that very much deserves our support. It might not be a perfect bill, but it is the best possible product given the…

I thank Chairman Pombo and Ranking Member Rahall for working with me to get H.R. 3721 on the suspension calendar and considered in an expeditious fashion. At the request of the National Park Service, I introduced H.R. 3721 which would…

I rise against the amendment. My district is 150 miles from New York City. I grew up at 16 years old driving trucks across the George Washington Bridge. I understand what the infrastructure is to the East, and I understand also a little…

regarding funding for the U.S. Geological Survey's Minerals Assessment Team, there was confusion regarding whether this important activity was included in the bill. I have been informed that when the gentleman restored the mineral program…

in an ideal world, we would all choose peace, words could be trusted, and war would be unnecessary. But we do not live in that world. Our world has tyrannical thugs and fanatical terrorists who choose to make us their enemy. Supporting the…

this farm bill is the product of months of hard work by the Committee on Agriculture colleagues, and it deserves our support, and I rise in strong support of the rule. I thank the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Combest) and the committee for…

I support this good resolution as the People's House acts to create Patriot Day, an official day of remembrance. In our history, there are defining moments that stand out. None is more defining than September 11, 2001. We have things that…

the Sherwood-Etheridge-McHugh amendment to the farm bill would implement provisions of H.R. 1827, the Dairy Consumers and Producers Protection Act of 2001, a very bipartisan measure sponsored by 165 Members of the House representing 30…

we owe it to our people, we owe it to our history, we owe it to the folks that made us where we are. We owe it to those firefighters in New York. We owe it to our military personnel in the Pentagon. We owe it to those New Yorkers that have…

my eloquent colleagues have talked about this terrible act and what has been perpetrated on our soil and our people and the innocent casualties that are mounting every day. Our hearts go out to all those that have lost their families and…

I ran for Congress because it had been my observation that in northeastern and north central Pennsylvania, we exported our milk and our stone and our timber and our manufactured goods, but we had also for a couple generations been…

that is very good news, and I thank the gentleman for continuing to work that bill with the Committee on Commerce, because I have made the pledge to my seniors that I will do everything in my power to get the HMO plus choice providers to…

I think what is so important about H.R. 4680 is that it is a flexible plan so that it fits with what we have in Pennsylvania. Because as the gentleman said, we have this wonderful PACE program, when the Federal Government picks up the part…

we are in a full blown energy crisis. Due to the lack of a coherent national energy policy, we are facing a winter which many in the Northeast will be forced to choose between heating their homes and buying food. This is a terrible dilemma…

This bill, to provide a Lackawanna heritage area for four counties in northeastern Pennsylvania, has been a long time in the process. That area fueled the industrial revolution with its coal mines and its steel, and it had the seeds of the…

I rise today to direct the attention of the House to an alarming trend, denying benefit options to Medicare beneficiaries on the basis of where they live. The Medicare-plus choice program passed by Congress was intended to offer real…

our eyes are on Camp David, and the focus is on various details, 90 percent, 92 percent, this or that concession. And I think it is important for us to take a step back and to look at the entire panoply. The discussion is land for peace…

Mr. Chairman, this winter we had severe price disruptions in the Northeast that would be almost unbelievable if we had not experienced them. In a period of 60 days, home heating oil, which all the old people depend on in the Northeast, we…

Senate 613, authored by Senator Campbell of Colorado, would amend existing law to provide that the Secretary of Interior approve only those Indian land contracts which encumber Indian lands for a period of 7 or more years. Senate 613 would…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1619 amends the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers National Heritage Corridor Act of 1994 by expanding the boundaries of the Corridor. Specifically, this bill authorizes the expansion of the Corridor into the Commonwealth of…

H.R. 898, the Spanish Peaks Wilderness Act of 1999, was introduced by the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. McInnis), my esteemed colleague, and would simply add the Spanish Peaks area to a list of areas designated as wilderness by the Colorado…

H.R. 2368, the Bikini Resettlement and Relocation Act of 1999 is an important measure to help the relocation and resettlement of the people of the Bikini Atoll. This community was displaced during the time of United States nuclear testing…