I rise today in adamant support of continued funding of the National Endowment for the Arts. As we work through the budget process, deciding to build weapons of destruction, and spend unknown billions on the intelligence community, we must…

While I appreciate the very tough decisions faced by the committee, construction funds are critical for the Marsh-Billings Park. The funds are needed to construct new restrooms, visitor orientation space, staff offices, and an art storage…

with the gentleman's assistance, last year Congress provided some initial funding for the park, and I am pleased that the fiscal year 1998 bill fully meets the park's needs for its operating costs. However, the bill does not provide the…

In 1980 in real dollars PILT payments were $180 million. Today they are $113 million. It is the communities and the children and the citizens of those communities who are suffering.

But bottom line is the program that we are talking about here is corporate welfare. That is what the Fossil Energy Research and Development Program is, and that is not just my opinion. I remind the Members that it was the 1997 budget…

what NRO did was to lose track of $4 billion, an amount roughly equal to the annual budgets for the FBI and the State Department combined. They lost the money. John Nelson, appointed last year as the National Reconnaissance Office's top…

I think everybody knows what is going on in America economically. The people on the top have never had it so good. The middle class is shrinking, and most working people are struggling hard to make a living. Given that reality, look at the…

let us put this bill into the context of what is happening in America today. Everybody knows what is happening. The richest people are becoming richer, the middle class is being squeezed, and most of the new jobs being created are low-wage…

One listening to this debate would think that there is not one penny that can be cut from the Pentagon budget without hurting our preparedness, or ignoring the needs of our enlisted families or the working people of America. This cut would…

Mr. Speaker, while the recent changes in the rule announced by the gentleman from New York [Mr. Solomon] certainly improve the bill, and I will strongly be supporting the Dellums amendment, among others, it is my view that when we are…

While we outspent our so-called enemies 20-to-1, 22 percent of the children in this country live in poverty. We have the highest rate of poverty in the industrialized world, and yet we spend the money on B-2 bombers and star wars and other…

according to the New York Times, a GAO report to be released later this week ``harshly criticized the Pentagon and a special White House panel over their investigation of the illnesses reported by veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf war, and…

I applaud the gentleman's remarks, and I especially congratulate him for focusing his thoughts on what is happening to ordinary working people rather than just the very wealthy and the very powerful. One of the aspects of modern life which…

I would just certainly agree with the gentleman that clearly the task of Congress is to represent the vast majority of the people and not just the very few who are wealthy and powerful. But I think that that is very often not the case. Let…

the gentleman is aware that when we talk about NAFTA or MFN with China that there is a massive lobbying effort going on by corporate America trying to influence the Members of this body. They will put ads in newspapers throughout this…

I think you raise a very, very important point, and I tell you that it is a very--the theme that you are talking about suggests to me very frightening and dangerous times, and this is why. The average worker reads in the paper that the…

Mr. Choephel is a Tibetan man who studied ethnomusicology at Middlebury College at Middlebury, VT, on a Fulbright scholarship in 1993, and I should tell my colleagues that when he was at Middlebury College he made a whole lot of friends…

Yes, we turn on the television. Let us look at that for a moment. Who owns NBC? Well, General Electric Corp., one of the largest corporations in America. The gentleman mentioned them, among others.

General Electric is one of the companies who is busy running to Mexico, I think they have been investing in China, they have laid off significant numbers of workers. They come before this body every day trying to figure out a way not to…

if I may, the outrage, while all of this goes on, while they do not have enough money to clean up the environment, I was down in Mexico and we talked to women who were having miscarriages because they were working in such unhealthy…

The point the gentleman is making is that many people out there may say, well, that is too bad, but it does not affect me. But it does affect us, because what is going on, if an employer can hire somebody for $3 an hour, for $3.50 an hour…

The issue that he is talking about is the most important issue facing our society, and that is that never before in American history, at least the modern history of this country, have the people on top had so much wealth and have had so…

In terms of human rights what I get a kick out of is not so many years ago we were told that China was a Communist authoritarian society where people did not have any rights, where people did not have religious freedom. Unless I am not…

What you are talking about are the millions and millions of people who are desperate, who have no place to go and that is what is going on in this country. There is one point that I want to add to what my colleague was saying. And that is…

I do, Mr. Chairman. Just in an informal sense, I would choose not to challenge the gentleman from Louisiana if I could have some assurances that he will work with me in trying to get some money to an agency outside of the DOD so that we…