certainly I thank the authors of this resolution for coming to the floor today, just a few hours after there was significant rancor and division, to a point of unity here, to recognize the best in college athletics. There is no doubt that…

I want to say a word to the courageous men and women in uniform and a word to the courageous men and women of the United States Congress. First, I think we should remember September 11 because the greatest generation on whose shoulders we…

I have to tell you, the question was asked earlier what has changed, and I rarely have changed my position on any issue over the last 8 years, but today I am going to change my position on this issue after careful research because the…

I commend and thank our distinguished chairman for working with me on this important issue for our veterans in the Southeast. The recent migratory trends in our veteran population affect much of the South and I know that the chairman…

I rise to engage Chairman Taylor in a colloquy. Mr. Chairman, in the Southeast we are facing a major problem with a veterans' health care system that is outdated and no longer able to meet the needs of those who have placed their lives on…

Mr. Chairman, this is a bill that requires our stewardship. This is what Speaker Gingrich called the best subcommittee in the House, because we fund our public lands and these investments. Let me also tell my colleagues that in a…

Mr. Chairman, as one of the most conservative members of the Committee on Appropriations, I rise in support of the bill and in opposition to the amendment. I do rise to commend the author of the amendment and the team of budget hawks that…

we obviously have been wasting our time for quite some time because the gentleman is wrong. Without the emergencies that the gentleman is referring to, this bill is a 2.8 percent increase. That is a fact. I hope we are not held up all…

The committee has provided $79.7 million in funding for distributed generation technologies in the power technologies account under the energy conservation appropriation, an increase of $15.5 million over the amount requested by the…

I come as a father. I have a 15-year-old son and a 13-year-old daughter. Like most teenagers in America today, they spend more time on the Internet than I would personally care for. However, that is the reality that we live in. I think we…

I passionately believe that neither party has an exclusive on integrity or ideas or patriotism, but I have to say tonight that the excessive campaign rhetoric of the last 24 hours demeans this process and really falls short of the…

I share the environmentalists' goal of trying to reduce the emissions of these fossil-fired plants. We also have in the Tennessee Valley Authority region five nuclear reactors on-line. They happen to be the most economically efficient…

I run these focus groups. I go to a civic club, a good government group, and I say, let me just ask all of you: Give me a show of hands if you see an ad run in the final 60 days before an election and the ad mentions a candidate's name…

this amendment simply raises the $1,000 limit for individual contributions to House candidates to $2,000, which is the same as the Senate-passed bill sets for Senators. The Senate-passed bill raised their $1,000 contribution limit for the…

I think our House today has the highest approval rating in modern history, in large part because of the dignity, the humility, and the genuine leadership of our Speaker, and I thank him for everything he does for the people of the House…

A lot of discussion about Enron. I agree: Enron would not have changed, I do not think, even if our bill had been signed into law. It was an auditing, business scandal. There is no evidence it is a campaign finance scandal, but that does…

I represent Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the home of the Y-12 weapons plant, and we have had some division about moving monies around. We are adequately funding our preparedness in this country. I understand the comments of the gentleman from…

I have been privileged for the last 43 years to call Chattanooga, Tennessee my hometown. Chattanooga, the word, is a derivative of a Creek Indian word which means ``rock coming to a point,'' because what those Native Americans saw there…

we know that fear is one of the most powerful forces in the world today. Yesterday, the lowest of the low, the dregs of our international community, used fear to carry out inhumane acts on all of humanity. Today, we claim the truth that…

I applaud the intent of the author of the amendment to increase our accounts for renewable energy, but as the Republican cochairman... Our nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship is critically important for the good of this country and…

Whether coming at the amendment from a budget-cutting perspective or coming at it from an anti-nuclear or non-proliferation perspective, it does not serve our country well today to retreat from our national preparedness, including the…

the entire Alabama delegation is on record supporting Sale 181. Unfortunately, the delegation is in Alabama with the President of the United States and will be unable to vote. I submit for the Record herewith the delegation letters in…

greed is a bad word; but profit is a good word, and we have got to separate the two. I do not like all the class warfare that has been played on this issue. But while we are talking about it, let me say to my colleagues that if they want…

I serve on the subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations that funds the Department of Justice, and on March 8 of this year in the routine annual testimony, Attorney General Janet Reno came before our committee and I asked her…

I just use this opportunity to say, please, Administration, give us clear direction. Let our workers know, are we going to clean this up or not? If they do not want us to clean it up, what are we going to do with it, because we need a…