Marshall Sanford

I come down on the side of this being a bad bill, for the simple reason that if you care about Corps reform, or if you care about reform to the agencies basically underlying this bill, this bill is a very bad bill. I say that, first of…

the debate on the rule has become a debate on reimportation. Therefore, I will be supporting the rule. But the underlying bill I do have objection with both because of the level of cost but predominantly because of the Cuba deal. I think…

Eisenhower apparently once said that he believed that there could be no surplus as long as our Nation was in debt. I come from that school of thought, and yet that is not exactly where we are right now in Washington. Where we are right now…

I just wanted to bring to everybody's attention the fact that today I am introducing a bill called the personal lockbox bill. I think it is built on common sense, because one of the things I have consistently heard from folks back home is…

Mr. Chairman, I would say just prefacing my remarks that I have the utmost respect for the gentleman from New Mexico (Chairman Skeen) and the way he has consistently watched out for the interest of farmers and ranchers across the West. For…

this amendment simply gets at funding for the school breakfast pilot program. Mr. Chairman, this program was a 3- year authorization which basically chose six school districts from around the country to begin a pilot program looking at the…

this amendment would simply hold at the fiscal 2000 year level special research grants. The reason I think that this is important is because there has been basically a $14 million increase in overall research grants, which represents a 24…

My question would be on some of the things that the gentleman mentioned. On the New York Stock Exchange we find Boise Cascade and International Paper and Westvaco. And given the fact that these are multimillion-dollar corporations, and…

I would view this as more of a freeze at last year's level, rather than a cut from a proposed increase. Secondly, I would make the point that if there is anything arbitrary about what is in here, it is the degree of correlation between not…

I just I want to make very clear that this amendment simply gets at the overall funding category, the 24 percent increase in funding. It in no way goes specifically after your very worthy research project.

What is interesting is, I leave in place $60 million for special research grants. All this amendment goes after is the increase of $14 million, so Congress would very much be involved in the process of making special research grants.

on that point, I fully recognize the fact that while this particular Member may well do that with farmers from anywhere across the Nation, as a whole, at the end of the day, what comes out of this process is not that happening. In fact…

I guess my only question about this is those very needs that the gentlewoman is talking about could be addressed through a competitive basis. My problem with the special grants is that they are on a noncompetitive basis so that many States…

I think that what was worked out with Cuba has a fatal flaw, and that is, if we propose to offer food and medicine without the ability to travel, I think we are making a real mistake. I would say that for a couple of different reasons…

I rise today, with great regret, to oppose H.R. 4680. It's been said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. If you follow this debate on prescription drug coverage for Medicare beneficiaries you would understand that adage…

I think that the problem of this in this case, in the story that I just read, we have an embittered former wife accusing a person of being a terrorist and, as a result, through no action of his own, he is incarcerated for 19 months of his…

Mr. Speaker, I was rated in the top five free traders in the 105th Congress; and yet, I reluctantly oppose PNTR for China, for a couple of different reasons. First of all, we have a mechanical problem. And that is, if my colleagues look at…

I would not dispute any of the things about this program of having great value to local law enforcement. The simple question I would ask is one of priorities. It is one that I am trying to teach my young boys, and that is right now given…

I would say this is a well-intentioned bill; but without the Coburn amendment which corrects a number of fatal flaws, I think it is, in fact, fatally flawed. And I would say that for a couple of different reasons. I would say, first of…

I would just mention to Members that if Members believe in a ruling class, then they will vote against the amendment of the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn). If Members believe in a government class, they will vote against the…

I think we could debate whether or not an individual would be gaming the system based on what the Secretary eventually came out in terms of regulation behind this bill. But I think there is a larger issue here which is quite simple and…

I join my South Carolina colleagues to honor a fellow Charlestonian--Marybelle H. Howe. I think what Mrs. Howe represents is something we should all aim for and that is being an active part of our community. Mrs. Howe was a wife and mother…

I am a conservative. I fall into that first camp, and if someone views the government as coercive, it seems to me logical to say that they would want to limit one's ability to control the leaders of government that would affect its ability…

Gordon Bynum was the living definition of the word, 'friend.'

In short, he didn't spend his time talking about his faith, he lived it.