Jeff Duncan

I want these findings to be made public so that every rate payer and lawmaker alike can take part in our effort to ensure that this never happens again.

I expect two things of TVA. First, TVA must continue working closely with the Corps of Engineers, the EPA, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, and the local community to ensure that TVA is in compliance with all…

If TVA cannot fulfill their duty to make my constituents whole, I am fully prepared as a Member of Congress to call upon our current Administration to name the EPA as the lead agency in charge of the cleanup and to appoint a czar that will…

I do want to join with my other colleagues and commend the crew.

I have read many articles over the last 2 or 3 months about the various stimulus proposals...

Gas prices are now over $4 a gallon and may be headed higher. Almost all environmental radicals come from very wealthy or very upper income families. Environmentalists apparently want gas to go even higher so people will drive less. Well…

What I'm getting at, Mr. Speaker, is this: This Congress is going to go down as the most fiscally irresponsible Congress in the history of this Nation if we keep spending at this rate. No one can legitimately call themselves a fiscal…

Let me just close by saying it has been a privilege for me to handle this resolution on our side. I know that most of us heard and read and saw some of the beautiful and moving tributes that were made to Mrs. Johnson in her funeral…

But as both the gentleman from Florida and the gentleman from California (Mr. Dreier) just expressed, there are still some concerns about this bill, number one of which is the fact that this bill is $2.1 billion over the President's…

I will simply say that no matter how much we want to have good relations and trade with our friends in Mexico, and we all certainly want that, the first obligation of the U.S. Congress is to the American people. This bill is important for…

Halliburton has decided to move its headquarters to Dubai. This is a company that has received over $25 billion worth of contracts in Iraq, and this is the kind of thanks the U.S. taxpayers get. In fact, this is a real slap in the face of…

Mr. Chairman, I have said many times that there is nothing that the people of this country take for granted as much as they do our clean water and waste water systems in this country that are so very important, first of all, to our…

I want to wish a happy birthday today to my constituent, Marion Stout. She is 111 today and is now the oldest person in Tennessee. She never misses a church service at Second Presbyterian Church in Knoxville. She walks two or three times a…

I claim the time of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on behalf of Chairman Young. The Acting CHAIRMAN (Mrs. Miller of Michigan). The gentleman is recognized for 10 minutes.

I will close simply by saying, as has been pointed out, 8 million people live directly within the Long Island Watershed, 28 million people within 50 miles, and millions more visit those areas each year. This is a bill that is very…

Mr. Chairman I yield 1 minute at this time to the gentlewoman from Missouri (Mrs. Emerson.)

I think this is important legislation, and I will tell you why. There are very few countries that have as close ties as the United States and Scotland. We have mentioned many of those ties and much of that heritage here today. But until…

Mr. Speaker, S. 2415 honors a devoted Postal Service employee of more than four decades, Robert Opinsky. Bob Opinsky began his career with the Postal Service in 1956 as a $1.50-an-hour temporary clerk. Through hard work and dedication, he…

Mr. Chairman, in a 1952 Supreme Court case, Zorach versus Clawson, in an opinion written, I think, by Justice Douglas, it said, there is ``No constitutional requirement which makes it necessary for government to be hostile to religion and…

I wanted to verify that it was not the intention of the conference committee for any provision of the Energy Policy Act of 2003 to be construed to repeal the protections from such one-way competition provided by section 212(j).

This coming Monday, Lt. Colonel Allan West is scheduled to face an article 32 hearing to see if he should be court martialed. Colonel West is accused of threatening an Iraqi prisoner. According to news reports, Colonel West shot his…

The Corps of Engineers is currently evaluating a test barrier that was authorized under the National Invasive Species Act in 1996. At the same time, the Corps is studying the potential of building a second barrier under a continuing…

I rise to urge support for the Presidential library contribution disclosure bill that I first introduced in the last Congress. I believe this is common-sense legislation. It simply requires disclosure, public disclosure, of donations and…

I view the main intentions of this legislation to be, number one, to make sure that no small businesses are unfairly driven out of existence by unintended and unfair liability under Superfund. And, secondly, and very importantly, to see…

I will simply say that this legislation is designed to remove some unintended consequences from this original Superfund legislation. In effect, it would have been done many years ago if we had been able to foresee what would happen in…