Rick Boucher

I want to commend her on this amendment which authorizes the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to enter into an arrangement with the Secretaries of Education and Energy to conduct a study of how sustainable building…

I want to commend him on this amendment. His amendment recognizes the value of the Weatherization Assistance Program and proposes to increase the authorization levels to a higher point toward the levels that usefully can be spent in…

The laws in a number of States today tie gas utility returns to the total gas sales volume, with the result that the greater the volume sold, the greater the financial return to the gas utility. That structure clearly serves as a…

What about the amount-in-controversy component, the $5 million? Under current law, some Federal courts have determined the value for requests for injunctive relief by considering the value to each individual plaintiff. Since that value is…

Under the approach of the bill, only cases that are filed as State class actions which are national in scope will be removable to Federal court, notwithstanding the absence of complete diversity of citizenship. Cases that are local in…

I am pleased to join my colleagues, Representatives Burr, LaHood and Upton, in the introduction of legislation to reform our copyright laws

I want to thank the gentleman from Michigan for yielding this time to me and commend him for the leadership that he has exerted as we have worked on this side in order to offer a fair and a balanced alternative to the resolution of inquiry

At the conclusion of this debate, I will offer a motion to recommit the resolution offered by the gentleman from Illinois to the Committee on the Judiciary with the instruction that the Committee immediately report to the House the…

The amendment that I offered at full committee and which was approved on a voice vote was meant to assure that the more than 1,000 smaller rural telephone companies in our Nation would not have to comply immediately with the competitive…

Mr. Chairman, once again, just for the sake of clarifying the record in this debate and making sure that no one leaves under the mistaken assumption with respect to what the Budget Committees in both houses are preparing to do, it should…

I would only like to correct, however, one statement that was made, and that is with respect to the administration's request for the National Science Foundation for fiscal year 1995, and that request, in fact, was for a budget of $3.2…