John W. Peterson

I welcome scientific facts, not computer models, but the real facts. That is what we need to deal with. I think it is very important that we do get this language taken out. We have had enough promotion and sales pitch on global warming and…

Another factor, around 1440, there was 7 degrees of warming temperature. The negative impact was the agricultural belt in this country expanded immensely. They were growing grapes further north than ever grown before. The food basket grew…

It is hard to hear any speech given that they do not talk about urban sprawl today. But one of the greatest causes of urban sprawl has been the slow methodical destruction of rural America. The economies, whether it is agriculture, whether…

Rural America does not go very far without it. We do not accomplish very much agriculture without it.

I am not minimizing the importance of agriculture, because it is vital, what do we do in rural America. We farm. We mine. We drill for oil. We cut timber. We manufacture, all under attack, in my view, through the regulatory process of this…

If we are not mining it from our own lands, we will be buying it from some foreign country.

I guess the question I would ask is why would any bright representative of our government agree to such a horribly flawed concept as the Kyoto Treaty? This is an agreement negotiated by our Vice President who would force American…

It was interesting to hear the gentleman's comments about producers turn their wells right back on. That shows the gentleman does not understand the oil industry.

I think it is an indictment of the Clinton-Gore administration with a complete lack of energy policy and an inappropriate management of research dollars. Yes, I think it is an indictment of the last 5 years previous to that of this…

Is the President's school construction program a good idea or is it a gift to his urban fund- raising friends? There are 15,600 school districts in America. Half the money is designated for 100 urban poor. There are urban poor, but there…

I quickly would like to share my admiration for the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Fawell). I have known him less than 2 years, and he is somebody in Congress that I admire greatly. His district in Congress and the small business community…

Well, I think, one, if one has some record as a person to prove that one is a citizen, and one should have if one is, then one would provide that; and that serves the bill. Or the Attorney General could come forth with other means that he…

I heard the gentleman's question. It is my understanding that, if the INS records and the Social Security records did not prove one to be a citizen, then the body requiring that information could, if they choose, remove one from the rolls…

I think there is public land owned in America, yes, that should go back. It would be better served in local communities' ownership, local, State government, yes. I think the Federal Government should not own 40 percent of America. I think…

This would not affect the Allegheny National Forest. The PILT payments do not affect the Allegheny National Forest. They affect some other land in my district. To the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Regula), who I consider a good friend and an…

It should not be that narrow. Because sales can be made on the telephone at home just as easily as they can be made in the office.

I think we really have 3 years to back out of the trust funds. If we do not stop borrowing from the trust funds the next 3 years, we probably will not have an economy that will allow us to do that. I think we have a limited time to stop…

If the gentleman will yield there, I would like to ask this question of the gentleman from Michigan, who is our education expert; if we had a sunset provision in all 700-some programs in the Department of Education, the gentleman's…

Seven percent of the money for education comes from the Federal Government, yet 70 percent of the paperwork and red tape come from the Federal Government. The Democrats have worked for more money, more Federal control, more bureaucracy…