less than 2 years ago, the National Security Committee brought to light the downward trend in readiness throughout the military services resulting from defense spending cuts, diversion of funds to meet unbudgeted contingency operations…

Mr. Chairman, I join the chairman of the full committee in opposing this amendment, but I must say if the House gave an award to the most improved amendment writing, the authors of this amendment would certainly win that award. It is a…

let me begin by thanking Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Goodling, Mr. Kildee, and Mr. Clay for bringing this bipartisan impact aid technical corrections package to the floor. All four gentlemen have been good friends to the Impact Aid program over…

I would question, however, the ultimate analysis and where the bottom line falls. It is true that States you enumerated would not do as well under my substitute as under the Lipinski amendment. I think, however, you need to assess it in…

The alternative provision that I offer to both the committee bill and to the gentleman from Illinois' amendment is to allow those States that gain to gain more than is available to them under the committee bill while at the same time…

Mr. Chairman, I guess the bottom line here is that we often get embroiled in these formula debates here in the House. And I have heard some seemingly convincing arguments on the other side enumerating the number of States that would…

I take it the gentleman agrees with me and shares my concern that if you just implemented the raw data from the new formula, 29 States would lose, some of them as much as of 9 percent of their funding.

I want to join in the comments just made by my colleague from New York, the distinguished chairman of the Rules Committee. I would only offer in addition to that if you take the record of the Navy's nuclear propulsion system, the standards…

I would say to the gentleman he is correct. It is written so as not to exclude the possibility of Slovenia.

This bill has elicited a great deal of rather passionate and emotional debate. As important as the subject matter is, I think there has been more passion and more emotion than the bill, by its terms, certainly warrants. It is a bill that…

I rise today in opposition to the amendment offered by the gentleman from Massachusetts. To suggest that supporters of this amendment are being disingenuous in their comments on the amount allocated for national defense in the budget…