Hon. George W. Gekas

Yes, it does. It brings the Congress into full acknowledgment of what is happening in the local communities. If there is additional reporting required by the Burton amendment, which in fact there is additional reporting, then we are all…

For a decade now, I have been proposing legislation that when such an event occurs, and it has occurred too often without new appropriations taking their place, a new budget in place, a Government shutdown is in the foreseeable future. The…

In 1986 many of us voted against the then tax reform bill because it swept away, with one bill, capital gains and some other attractive features of that code. One of them has been restored in this bill, and it makes my farmers and other…

Fort Indiantown Gap, in Pennsylvania, has an ongoing academic complex program whereby about 4,000 soldiers are trained and educated every year in every aspect of our military defense. There is an authorization that ends on September 30 for…

I feel offended. There is certain blame being cast here that I wish we could rebut at this time. I am offended.

I assert for the record and for the gentleman's confirmation that indeed this bill does not in any way change the current law, the current system for handling binding arbitration of the type that has been described by the gentleman in his…

The gentleman may recall that we delved into, during the course of the hearing that we held on this matter, the question of liability insofar as it touched upon volunteers that go from State to State, and I recounted then, and I do now…

I told her we are working on it, Mrs. Calabash, and before this year is out, I told here we were going to be voting on portability, the transferability of insurance coverage, access to insurance coverage, for someone like her husband…

It simply renews the ongoing projects and appropriations and activities that are embodied in this bill. It just serves to continue them. It does not bring in new forms of spending or new programs, or in any way impinge upon the vitality of…

I would remind the gentleman and all the Members that the shutdowns that occurred before during the Democrat-controlled Congress had the same effect, but they were not as prolonged as some of the shutdowns we had this particular time. What…

Mr. Chairman, the biomedical research that is conducted by the National Institutes of Health has for years shown a steady progress in the prevention of disease and fight against disease. That goes without saying. The programs that the…

I wish to engage the chairman, the distinguished gentleman from Florida [Mr. Young], in a colloquy of importance to my district and to the Nation as a whole. I would say to the chairman of the committee, it had been my intention to come…

I thank the chairman. In fact, for a sum of $123,000 over 5 years, the Pennsylvania State Data Center has proposed to professionally manage and maintain the mountains of Superfund data that have been collected. I doubt that a better choice…

The gentleman is correct. It was our intent that this bill not include any language regarding removal of Scanwell jurisdiction from the district courts. We would hope and urge our colleagues in the other body not to use legislation…

A watercraft is a buoyant craft operated by a person in the water--as an aircraft is an airborne craft operated by a person in the air or in the act of taking off or landing. As I have said, our intent is to protect the public from…

I want to rise now to add to their names one other hero who has been mentioned here today, John Heinz, after whom one of the facilities contained in this bill will be named. John Heinz at the very moment of his death was literally killed…

I am wondering, too, whether or not we ought to be conducting a review of NEXRAD and how it has worked in its brief lifetime, because many of these problems were foreseen at the time that the reorganization was instituted, and now it is…

So my amendment, Mr. Chairman, which I understand both the minority and the majority have agreed to incorporate into the legislation, simply follows through with the Secretary of Commerce's recommendations to have a biagency task force…

On the issue of the minimum wage, I stand with the President of the United States. I support his concept enunciated in 1996 and when this election cycle began to bring additional earning power, as he saw it, to the minimum wage community…

Mr. Speaker, for me this vote is one of keeping faith with the constituents and voters who sent me here to Washington in the first place. In 1993 I voted against the imposition of the increased gas tax. That was unconscionable then. It…

Whether or not the Brooke amendment of the past will obtain for the future depends on what we do here today. There is a resource that we have back at home that we ought to take advantage of in making up our minds as to how to finally vote…

The gentleman from Texas, who just addressed the House most eloquently, showed his powerful advocacy for a minimum wage. This gentleman, I am sure if I search the Congressional Record, when he was in the majority just 2 years ago, along…

I am today introducing the Regulatory Fair Warning Act, which would require the agencies to provide reasonable notice ahead of time of the change of a regulation or how it is to be enforced so that the small businessman, the employer, can…

I stand here today to plead for a special interest... to release a little bit of the raw material suppliers from that type of massive liability that makes no sense, that keeps them from supplying these raw materials to the manufacturers of…

Does the gentleman consider a person who is waiting for a heart transplant a consumer that ought to be protected and should have the benefit of a heart transplant and should have laws in place that will facilitate the flow of materials to…