this is not a bipartisan bill? This is a bill that just a few months ago the President would have signed and many of you voted for it in committee and would vote for it. I am really disappointed in some of my colleagues on the other side…

The reality is that high-technology jobs are being created in America faster than we have qualified people to fill them. This was not expected at the time. In my own county, the Northern Virginia Technology Council did a study that showed…

Is it not also a fact that to actually dispose of this property, the GSA or the Department of Interior or whatever Federal agency would be given that task, that they would need to know what those environmental cleanup costs are before they…

I am going to try to be brief and speak in support of the Norton amendment on this. The amount of money involved here is minuscule. There is no savings to the taxpayer. We are talking about the Corporation Counsel or some other District…

This is generally one of the most controversial and contentious appropriation bills that hits the House floor, mainly because of the riders and the interference in local government and the strong passions that some of the amendments evoke…

Is it not a fact that there have been environmental cleanups and pipes breaking well off the correctional facility property, that have in fact leaked into the Occoquan River that flows through there and has polluted that water and there…

Absolutely, with great pride. They either raise the money locally, or they do it just the old-fashioned way, with volunteer time.

Mr. Chairman, this may be selfish and special interest legislation but it is not on the part of suburban Members. This is an election year in the city and every election year people are coming up, whipping up the electorate, and now it is…

reclaiming my time, because my experience with waiver provisions has been that it not only creates a huge paperwork backlog, there is the question in the mind of applicants whether they can achieve the waiver, there is a huge time lag, and…

let me just address a few issues raised by my friends from the other side. First of all, this bill is already fully loaded. This has given a new meaning to that term, it will pass here and it will be whittled down in conference, but the…

I just say to my friend who just spoke, this is not about staying engaged with the Vietnamese. We are fully engaged. We have normalized relations. We have full trade with Vietnam. Those policies are not in question. What is in question…

H.R. 4237, which we have just passed, is a bill that permits the District of Columbia to move forward with a financing plan for the purpose of building a new state-of-the-art convention center in downtown Washington. This bill authorizes…

on this solemn occasion I would like to join my colleagues and the people of the 11th Congressional District of Virginia to pay special tribute to Special Agent John Gibson and Officer Jacob Chestnut who gave their lives on July 24 to keep…

Alan Emory currently resides in the 11th Congressional District, in Lake Barcroft, where he is a pillar of the community there. His respect reaches across regional lines in New York. He is a well-respected member of our community in…

I just hope you take the experience, the knowledge and the history that you have been part of with you, to be able to share it with others. And maybe some of you will, like the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Kolbe) and myself, enter the…

I would just simply add that Federal employees are the greatest asset we have in this government. We need to properly compensate and incentivize this.

as we know, language was included in the House bill, H.R. 2400, which would have directed the Commonwealth of Virginia Transportation Board to resolve funding issues relating to rights-of-way acquisition and engineering overruns associated…

the Reuse Technology Adoption Program, RTAP, assists the military services and defense agencies through the reuse of computer software, originally developed for older defense systems, in the development of new defense systems. For fiscal…

But the burden would be on the Member who raises the objection to show the $100 million threshold as being met. They would have to come armed with those costs and do their homework ahead of time. This could not be raised in a willy-nilly…

I think the gentleman has some merit with this, although the experience on this legislation with unfunded mandates, as it pertains to State and local government, has not raised the specter of problems that the gentleman from New York…

It is very much the same set of issues, but it does not mean that it could not happen and this body would be deprived of that. And so, for that reason, at this point I am trying to draw the gentleman out a little bit further in terms of…

Well, let me just reply to that. We can do that, but CBO cannot really address anything but the fiscal costs. The benefits are really not within their purview. It is not within their expertise. This has not been something we have…

Let me say, taxes are pretty straight forward, put a tax on business or people, and unfunded mandates are hidden taxes. The purpose of this is to let the public know and Members recognize when they are putting these mandates, unfunded…

I think this has the best of all worlds, according to the gentleman from Virginia. This has the Moran intellect and the Davis name, and when we put the two together, from what I hear the gentleman saying, it is a ``can't lose'' amendment.

we are dealing with a structure today that is a dinosaur and H.R. 1872 remedies that. Thirty-five years is a long time since the original act and in the communications industry it is even a longer time. And since the act was passed…