Gregory Laughlin

this bill should be noncontroversial. It corrects and updates accounting practices for Federal oil and gas royalty collections. After more than 1 year of intense detailed negotiations we have an agreement on the legislative language before…

Following 3 years generations of Communist regime, Romania for the last 5 years has struggled to implement a deliberate program of converting to a free market system. Its new democratic government realizes that critical to reaching that…

I am absolutely convinced in my heart from being in Armenia and visiting with Armenians, being in Armenia visiting with President Ter-Petrossian, there would be peace in that region today if not for the Americans, anyway we want to put a…

In other words, the amendment is neutral on the territorial rights of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

as an officer in the active and Reserve U.S. Army for over 30 years, I rise in support of H.R. 3230. I would like to begin by thanking Chairman Spence and Chairman Dornan for their support of title 12 of the defense authorization bill…

I am a non-Californian who is going to speak on this amendment, and I have to confess my knowledge of it comes as a result of Army Reserve duty. I was assigned as an Army reservist to work with the Army Reserve units building the first…

In my own district in Texas, the majority of the farmers do not own the land they farm. This differs from many parts of our Nation, and in the past 4 weeks, while I was traveling in my district, the primary concern was whether this…

the Laughlin-Tate-Brewster-Bachus- Parker amendment to the Emerson amendment is a balanced, reasonable amendment to address the ongoing problem involving section 401 of the Clean Water Act and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. This…

I first want to thank the distinguished chairman of our committee for turning this bill into a truly bipartisan bill, and I commend our last chairman, the gentleman from California [Mr. Mineta], for tying to work with us in the last…

Mr. Chairman, I think it is fitting that we gather here in Washington on the Potomac River on the 160th anniversary of the date that a group of Texans gathered at Washington on the Brazos in Texas to declare our independence from a…

I support the Edwards amendment. I am one of the few Members of Congress to serve in the signal intelligence area of our armed services, and I spent time looking at this very matter we are talking about. If we are seriously concerned about…

On this week when our Nation is preparing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the invasion of Nazi Europe, I think it is appropriate that I take this special order to address an injustice that was done to millions of veterans of our…

I want to thank the dean of my delegation for taking out this special order and must confess that during the service of Sam Hall, Jr. As a U.S. Congressman representing the First District of Texas, I did not have the privilege or honor of…

I rise in opposition to the Hyde amendment, with all due respect to the gentleman from Illinois. It has been said no law enforcement people are in favor of the Derrick amendment, and they all want the Hyde amendment, and I am confused by…

Well, you are, and the problem I have is in talking to some, I have found that they have not read the statute and others have.

I believe in the death penalty. In fact, I tried some murder cases where if the law would have allowed it I would have pulled the switch. But today we are faced with the Hyde amendment that has passed and the law is still the same and the…