Larry Combest

We certainly do not want to repeat that crisis which impacted the economies of even the largest U.S. cities.

Crop Insurance empowers farm and ranch families to purchase equipment and inputs, to plant the seed, to nurture and harvest their crops, to raise their livestock, and to get to market with confidence because they have something as basic as…

You would make the adjustments into the future if, in fact, you bumped the limit. That is what the trigger mechanism is. I again oppose the amendment. I think it is totally unworkable.

As we have seen in recent weeks, there certainly is an effort to develop a national policy, and it has been somewhat elusive. I understand the gentleman's concerns. We appreciate the gentleman offering this amendment, and I would be happy…

I think, however, it is much more identifiable which dogs potentially are going to be used for fighting purposes than there are for game birds.

Reclaiming my time, it does nothing to address the issue of concern about those people who are trying to ship totally legitimately poultry within the United States; that may be a totally legitimate shipment that would not be involved in…

Mr. Chairman, just to make the record clear, subsection B of the amendment would have provided an opportunity for a point of order by the Committee on Appropriations. The gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Andrews) has worked this issue out…

Biotechnology offers extraordinary potential, not only to improve the economic viability of farms in the country, but to also help combat animal and plant diseases, improve food safety and quality, and enhance our ability to produce more…

Just so the record is clear and for those people who have not followed this quite as carefully as we have on this committee, this process started well before the decision about who the current administration was, I think before either…

I strongly support this rule and urge its passage and the accompanying conference report. This is a measure that we have been working on for about a year and a half. It is something that in fact needs as soon as possible to get into law so…

I appreciate very much the productive efforts of the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Baldacci) throughout this process. Part of what he is suggesting is, a part of the whole concept behind this, is to look at new types of programs that can be…

I would certainly be able to say yes just indicative of the fact that there is a bill to implement a different policy that I think has almost half of the Members of the House that are cosponsors of the bill. Certainly with the interest and…

The gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Stokes], who in fact at one time was chairman of this committee and was a member of the Iran-Contra Committee, we understand there is a letter on its way to the committee from Mr. Stokes requesting that he be…

That was to be brought under scrutiny and they were to begin to manage that account. We then have, in this year's authorization, as I have mentioned, and I would encourage the gentlewoman to look, brought every program that organization…

No. First of all, there is not an entire $4 billion. Virtually half of that amount was taken out last year.

I would certainly concur and say yes, we would intend for this to still be in effect. As the gentlewoman so adequately pointed out, and has been very effective, I think, in leading on this issue, we would certainly expect that this…

Again this is basically a technical amendment. The section provides the Director of Central Intelligence the authority to transfer funds authorized for automatic declassification within the national foreign intelligence community to…

This section corrects existing law which currently requires the CIA to make two payments, one of 9 percent, one of 15 percent, for employees who take incentivized retirement from the CIA during fiscal years 1998, 1999. The CIA is required…

The White House press statement relative to the intelligence community budget of 1996 said, reflecting the President's determination to promote openness in the intelligence community, he has authorized Congress to make it public. Mr…

I support the idea of requiring an agreement to be made. That may not be true of every member of the committee, but I certainly do support that.

I will only reiterate the substitute that I will be offering to the Brownback amendment would provide those two caveats, one for the allowance of intelligence sharing, broader authority for allowance of intelligence sharing when it goes to…

I would like to just also mention that in the authorization of last year our committee, and I am sorry in the conference report, which finally became the law, this committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee put a limit of 1-month…

Mr. Chairman, the committee is extremely concerned about the accountability because of all those good things that are there that do happen. It is this type of problem that arises that obviously makes, stretches the credibility of many of…

I guess the reward was the fact that there was no punitive action taken. But we have taken $400 million out of the account, more than we had in our authorized bill. We are below some $400 million below the authorization from, $800 million…