Joe Cunningham

All Government will be open if the President agrees to follow his word and give us a balanced budget. That was due 2 days ago. The President signed a bill with his name on it. He has not done it yet. So it should not be too hard by January…

I have served on two committees that I thought were probably the most bipartisan committees in this body. One of those is one of the committees that we did away with under Chairman Jones and Chairman Studds, the Committee on the Merchant…

what I think we are seeing on this side of the aisle is that we had about 5 million Californians overridden by 1 judge. Prop 187 was approved by an overwhelming majority of Californians, and a couple of other issues. We are just saying…

I am amazed, especially at my California colleagues. When they vote for a $177 billion cut in defense, and California is the leader in the defense industry and most of our bases are in California, what did they expect? What did they…

reclaiming what little time I have left, the gentlewoman says that pay raises would not be affected, but, if it is an across-the-board, there is one that we have bipartisan support in trying to fix back the High-One problem that we have…

Mr. Chairman, I believe that Members on the other side of the aisle do have some legitimate issues. One of the issues, in my opinion, is that while we attempt to move this money back to the States that I know an example in the State of…

last month I was fortunate enough to have dinner with Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, John Sununu and ``Cap'' Weinberger, and everybody was in agreement the one way to expand the war in this part of the world is to get the major powers involved…

The first thing, I would not give $5 billion to the former Soviet Union when they are building submarines. I would not give money to Haiti that can sit there for the next years, and we are spending billions of dollars there. We are looking…

Mr. Chairman, the bird survey that we are talking about is put there for a specific agenda; it is to count birds. We have been asked why would we oppose the amendment of the gentleman from Maryland [Mr. Gilchrest]. Some of the Members have…

There are lands, I would say to the gentleman from California, that I would love to work with the gentleman on, especially in our jewel State of California, that I think we can still say that cannot be used, that we would not be violating…

In 4 years, I never voted in this House for a rule unless it was an open rule. And that is what we fought for your right to come here for and that is why we fought for a majority. In the last bill, there were some things that hurt…

Mr. Chairman, I respect the gentleman's opinion. But let me put some actual facts. First of all, it was said that the taxpayers were against this. This technology replaces $1 billion per week in oil that we are purchasing, $1 billion, and…

A balanced budget is about 40 years late. We were here for 93 days and passed the Contract With America, which was the most bipartisan Congress in the history of this body. And they have had 40 years to balance a budget, and they have not…

Mr. Chairman, let me bring up a few facts. I would like to speak to the amendment of the gentleman from Maryland [Mr. Hoyer]. It has been stated that the former Yugoslavia is a European problem, and that the Europeans cannot handle it…

first of all it was not the only item mentioned. It is a series of things in which the liberals in this House have supported their social agenda. Second, do I support homosexuals in the military? The answer is no. I personally believe that…

I think the gentleman would be correct if that is the only issue. I meant it. I said it as a policy of the people in general that support the issues that degrade national security of this country, and that is one of those many issues which…

The ludicrousness of this, even to appeal this. It is the lunacy of this, the EPA and other organizations have continually stated you take the shore-based and the surface-based, have less problems than any of your public bases, less than…

I would ask the honorable chairman, how many children can we feed on a bankrupt country? And today we are looking, where every child over their life, lifelong interest and account on the national debt, will be saddled with a $180,000 debt…

I agree, and I do not disagree totally with what the gentleman is doing. My only intent was the gentleman was sounding like he helped create the bill. He, nor I, was there, and that is the only issue I brought.

No, I am trying to do it on a conservative basis. Then if you look at an average in California, it takes a kindergartner through high school, 12th grade, $5,000 a year to educate that child. That is $2 billion a year. Yet we are decrying…

No. If I get behind him and he turns at 19 to 20 degrees a second and I turn at 11, he is going to come around and shoot me.

That we are not even out here in 5 years at the year 2001. We are here now. This 4.5 percent is more than they even projected for the growth this year and I have added more money than even the GAO baseline, and the political rhetoric, it…

I do not know how to counter untruths that are spoken on this House floor, and I think one of the most frustrating thing for Members is to hear the daily rhetoric that goes on on this House floor that are untruths, that are not the truth…

We are finally getting through to the press. Here is the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Union. I talked to seven of the superintendents in most liberal schools in California, that is Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, and…

Mr. Chairman, I do not plan on taking the full 5 minutes. But the gentlewoman talked about the salmon in Washington. I went all the way through campaigning in Washington and looked at some of the dams and looked at the problems they had on…