Charles W. Stenholm

the debate tonight has been a good debate. Members on both sides have made very good and relevant points. However, I believe it has now been clearly demonstrated that much more work remains before this amendment should be sent to the other…

in an effort to keep health insurance reform moving through the legislative process, I rise with some reservation to support H.R. 3103, the Health Coverage Availability Act of 1996. My record clearly reflects my strong support of health…

the German philosopher Hegel once wrote: ``What experience and history teach is this: that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.'' Unfortunately, this has been the case…

I rise in support of the Gallegly amendment. I want to answer the question why. The question we simply have to ask over and over is, do we have an illegal immigration problem or do we not? If Members answer as I do, we do, then this…

I believe it is in fact the amendment that we are considering today, Mr. Chairman. Also, we have heard a lot of other, I believe, well-intended but misinformed information concerning the cost of the technology that we are talking about on…

I rise in strong support in H.R. 2202, the Immigration in the National Interest Act. I am a strong supporter of both illegal and legal immigration reform and I am gratified to have the opportunity to debate this important matter on the…

I rise in support of the McCollum amendment. This is not a national identification card; nothing could be further from the truth to make this argument. We have to look and, first off, answer a simple question: Do we have an illegal…

title I includes the provisions from the Senate-passed farm bill: Restores the rice payment, eliminates the peanut loan rate penalty, provides oilseed market loans at 85 percent, retains current dairy law but prohibits the collection of…

We propose in this amendment to fund the fund for rural America to the degree of $3.5 billion, to meet the rural development conservation research and extension priorities and needs of rural America that we believe are not and have not and…

The intention of this amendment is to recognize the tremendous pressures and the frustration that has occurred this year between the appropriators and the authorizers regarding the adequacy of funding for many of the programs in the…

Mr. Chairman, I would like for my friends on the other side to pay particular attention, because there have been a couple of speakers that have, I know, spoken not intentionally erroneously, but have made some erroneous claims about this…

Not at our request, I would say to the gentleman. We preferred to have the nutrition programs in this bill, but it was at the request of a point of order of those that choose not to have them included that they were extracted.

I do not believe the chairman intended to misspeak about our amendment. It is not outside the baseline. It is within the baseline. It is outside your suggested baseline on spending. But I would point out you have already broken your…

This amendment goes at exactly the wrong target. The market loan has worked very, very well. It is not a guaranteed payment. To hear that this is a guaranteed payment, there are no projected costs for the market loan program this year…

sometimes it is difficult to sit here on the floor and to truly understand what it is that who is amending and for what purpose. This is not a newly created program. In 1985, we had seen the cotton industry in the United States deteriorate…

But I do know something about the cotton industry, and the purpose of this program was to see that our cotton industry can compete in the international marketplace. If I were to stand here today and say I have a bill before the House that…

again this is a no-net-cost program. The arguments that are being made on behalf of the consumer cannot be justified by any arithmetic that anybody can put forward. This one pound of peanut butter, the farmers' price is 48 cents, the…

I would say I have to smile every time I hear the consumer argument made, because in this country, everyone knows that we are blessed with the most abundant food supply, the best quality of food, the safest food supply at the lowest cost…

I would say in the beginning that I agree with those that have characterized the bill before us as not a perfect bill. I would also agree with those that have characterized the process which brings us today as being deficient in many, many…

If we are concerned about fiscal responsibility of the cotton program, let us look at the record from the 1990 farm bill. From 1991 to 1995, we have expended a total of $5.9 billion, an average of $1.2 billion per year. Under the proposal…

Yesterday a very alarming happening occurred in the House Agriculture Committee. For the first time in recollection, the leadership of this House took away the prerogative of the Agriculture Committee for doing its work, in this case on a…

I rise in support of the Crapo amendment. I commend the gentleman, and also the gentlewoman from California [Ms. Harman] and the gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr. Brewster] for the bulldogged work that they have provided this year to see that…

I rise in support of the Neumann-Stenholm amendment to H.R. 1977, the Interior appropriations bill for fiscal year 1996. First, I would be remiss if I did not commend the gentleman from Wisconsin for taking the lead on this issue. He is…

one of my colleagues was quoted in this morning's paper saying, ``How can anyone today vote against cutting taxes?'' It should be very easy for all of us when we are doing it with borrowed money. Another colleague stood in the well too…

status quo is not acceptable. This debate today is about changing the status quo. Everyone agrees that patients must be reasonably protected against malpractice and against undue harm for medical devices, drugs and other medical products…