This is an interesting thing. The ranking member on our side actually realizes there is a shortage in defense, and it may have something to do with his laryngitis that he cannot get the words out.

Most of this bill is a bipartisan bill. The defense portion of it, which is the largest section, is bipartisan. But it is late and certainly inadequate. The gentleman from Florida just mentioned the fact that it is inadequate. The chairman…

Yes, I think it would be certainly devastating to Pennsylvania, Mr. Chairman, because the money has already been obligated; I think any other State, also, and there are a whole list of States that would lose money. I sympathize with what…

Mr. Chairman, I understand what the gentleman from Pennsylvania is trying to do, and I agree with the idea that FEMA needs to be restored. We got a letter from OMB which says it needs to be restored. We got a letter from FEMA which says it…

I am concerned about the way we are doing this. I voted against every tax cut so far. When I go home, and I have been home the last 8 weeks in a row, only one person has brought up to me that we need a tax cut. Only one person has said…

this is the last day for the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Shuster), one of the most dynamic experts on transportation in the entire country. There has been no individual that has had more of an impact on transportation in Pennsylvania…

there is no more important part of this year's final budget negotiations than the provisions we debate today on Medicare reimbursement levels. This debate is not about dollars or statistics. It's about the toll that past cutbacks have…

I have a young sailor, a bosun's mate, Richard Ying, that was hurt severely aboard the U.S.S. Cole. My staff has talked to him several times. I tried to call and he was in rehabilitation. He is back home, and they expect him to be back in…

this morning I want to make some very complimentary remarks about the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Goodling). He is certainly the type of individual, if I had been in his class or in his school, I would have known exactly where he…

when the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Moran) first talked to me about this issue, I thought it sounded reasonable. I have been involved in a lot of disputes between labor and companies with the Defense Department. I had some procurement…

let me tell my colleagues the practical problems we have with the legislation which we face. Many, many times we have lost $1 billion in the defense bill, and our defense bill is $288 billion this year. But when we lose it on the House…

if I read the lock box amendment right, I have a great concern about what they are trying to do. Much of the legislation we have passed initially is for negotiation purposes. We normally take projects out. We have taken as many as four…

I would hope the House would be very careful in not adopting something that could be very detrimental to our flexibility in the long run, hurt our national security and I am sure have the same impact on any other bill that we take before…

let me talk about my concern about this 2- year budget process. I think that the worst thing we could do is allow the executive branch to have any more influence than they have. I mean, they send a budget over to us. Every year we dispose…

I worry that the Members believe that there is some easy way to solve these problems. The reason we do not come to a conclusion is because there are legitimate differences between Members, between parties when we are trying to solve them…

this deployment is not about Europe; this is about the United States. When we deploy troops, we deploy in our national security. Now, this is a cute way of trying to reduce our deployment to Europe. We had 400,000 troops in there for years…

I tell my colleagues what worries me about the way we are doing this. I would doubt that the leadership asked the chairman of the Subcommittee on Defense where to cut this bill. Now, during the entire time that I have been on this…

20 years ago the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Regula) and I went down to meet with President Reagan and we convinced him that the steel industry was absolutely essential to our national security. We had a hard time convincing the Committee on…

Mr. Chairman, last week I called our friend Tom Foglietta, who is the Ambassador to Italy, and I said, ``Mr. Ambassador, tell me what the reaction in Italy is to the debate going on in the United States Congress.'' And the Ambassador…

the gentleman is missing my point. We have two ways to stop it, reducing readiness by reducing money available or having a two-thirds vote, or allowing Milosevic to see we are divided. That is the point I am making.

Bud Shuster and I came to Congress about the same time, and Joe McDade at that time was a legend. He came 10 years before we came to Congress, and he has dedicated himself not only to the people of Pennsylvania, but to the people of this…

Mr. Speaker, the chairman and I this year have visited a number of installations throughout the country. We found shortages over the last 2 or 3 years, and the list that the chairman put in the Record, I hope Members will pay attention to…

if the Members think I am excited about this, they are right. If they think I am sincere and focused on this issue, I am. I sat beside the gentleman from Pennsylvania for 8 years, 8 years while he was under persecution by the Justice…

Even though that company was sold off with less than 50 percent to Seimans, it will still be run by an American company. Of course, that research ties in. We are continually trying to work with fossil fuel, oil research and so forth to…

I know the gentleman may think that, but we are over 50 percent dependent today. Then we were 34 percent dependent. So it is all relative, in how dependent we are. In the short term the gentleman may be right. But, long-term, we could have…