Hon. George W. Gekas

The point is that transfers being a way of life, it is possible that the capital gains tax relief that is granted to people otherwise would not be granted to a member of the armed services because of the rapid transferability of every…

I myself a few months ago was part of a scenario in which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued what it felt was a credible threat to Three Mile Island and reported the essence of that credible threat to the operators of Three Mile…

I think the gentleman would feel better if he recognizes, as I do, that in this bill there is a continued movement by the farm communities towards market orientation, and that should help the gentleman.

I want to substantiate my support for the amendment and to urge that everyone consider the question of unaccompanied young children and the provision of legal assistance in their quest to remain in the United States.

I have a peculiar and unique interest in William Penn, in that after completion of junior high school, the high school I entered was aptly named for these proceedings, William Penn High School. It was then that I first learned of the life…

The current bill contains a provision in which the result is a reallocation of certain funds that were appropriated for what is called Corridor One in central Pennsylvania, a very vital item in the revitalization of mass transit…

Mr. Chairman, the point is that the substitute wrecks bankruptcy reform. What I am trying to get across, and what I hope is the message to all the Members is that any amendments practically that would harm the basic reforms that we put…

What is missing from all of this discussion is the fact that all of us, every American, is interested in environmental quality. We do not want anything but clean air and clean water and a good area in which to live. But we are in a state…

We are not adverse to developing a plan of tax incentives to give our fellow Americans, the entrepreneurs, the incentive to go ahead and drill where they might fail; but we ought to give them that incentive to do so and to otherwise bring…

I have not been able to predict exactly what would happen. It seems to me that we ought to start a course on energy independence and go to it without respect to what OPEC does. All I am saying is we will have an extra dividend to lower…

It is on the creditor, and that really conforms to the general state of the law in such cases. There has to be affirmative evidence of fraud having been committed so that the creditor must come forth.

In the hypotheticals that the gentleman pronounced, it would come under State law. The only time that there is a look-back is the initial 2 years of residency in a homestead-exemption State. So 2 years, and thereafter the State laws would…

No. After 2 years, the person under our provisions and under the intent and under the law generally, after 2 years that individual is a true Texan for all purposes of residency and lives under the homestead exemption laws of your State.

The purpose is to say to someone who would move into Texas, if you move into Texas, purchase a property and within 2 years file bankruptcy, you would still preserve a $100,000 exemption but you would not have a total exemption.

I noticed that at the exact moment when the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Schaffer) was talking about the fact that the Federal dollars that are being spent could be better spent at the local level, in walked the gentleman from Pennsylvania…

It is my intent to press for the States' rights on homestead exemption to remain.

If I become chairman of the conference, I will have some power to determine the parameters of how it would be run. I am the lowly chairman of the subcommittee which happened to author this wonderful and needed bankruptcy reform measure. To…

It has to do with the search for better government within the Congress of the United States, in the realm of the State Department and in the realm of bankruptcy reform, and for the good of our people who demand action on the State…

Mr. Speaker, I think the RECORD should reflect the fact that every single issue that the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson-Lee) articulated here in her remarks has been debated, redebated, discussed, rediscussed, overdiscussed…

I ask our colleagues to cosponsor the NRG bill for self-sufficient energy in the United States.

Our bill, called the NRG bill, NRG, national resource governance, NRG, energy, calls for the establishment of a commission, a blue ribbon commission, which will put together all these various facets that we are talking about and balance…

The national goal under the energy policy which is embodied in the bill that we propose calls for our being energy independent in 10 years. What do we have to do? Increase by any means possible the correct and environmentally safe drilling…

The gentleman from Alaska has outlined the necessity for energizing an energy policy. That is important for the future of our country. The lack of the current administration's intentions towards formulating an energy policy gives us this…

I just want to repeat some of the promises that lie ahead with the continued development of our research capability: new ways to relieve pain, that goes without saying; medications for the treatment of alcoholism and drug addiction…