CPB is funded by a 2-year advance appropriation, and this year Congress will provide CPB funding for the fiscal year 2000. In the 104th Congress, the House Committee on Appropriations provided only $240 million for CPB in fiscal year 1998…

I think as a parent I have an absolute right to be notified, and that I make that kind of a decision for a minor child. I think a minor child, as in the case that the gentleman will elaborate on more fully later, a minor child involved in…

as vice chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and as one of the House conferees on the tax bill, it is with great pleasure that I rise today on the floor of the House of Representatives to speak in strong support of legislation which…

Senate Concurrent Resolution 43 expresses the sense of Congress that the government of Mexico should review carefully whether it initiated an anti-dumping investigation against United States exports of high fructose corn syrup in…

I would simply like to remind my distinguished colleague that it is the lack of discipline in this body and the body across the Chamber here, of the Capitol Building, that is responsible for that escalation of spending beyond control. We…

Let me reiterate one point that I made before. It has to do with indexation of the Tax Code. Indexation of the Tax Code was one of the most profound, fair, and proper things that we did in our Tax Code when we did it back in 1981. It…

I understand the deep feelings of the opponents of MFN and I have deep sympathy with those feelings. But the question before us is very simple. Will revoking MFN lead to more freedom in China? In my view, the answer is a resounding no. I…

But let me focus very briefly on why I think extension of normal trade relations with China is so important. If we go back to the Great Leap Forward, and that was with total government-managed control of that economy, there were 60 million…

I am pleased to explain to my colleagues in the House the provisions of H.R. 3815, which makes miscellaneous amendments to trade laws, with further amendments adopted during Senate consideration of the bill. The Senate added amendments…

as chairman of the Trade Subcommittee, I want to highlight that the conference report on H.R. 3448, the Small Business Jobs Protection Act, contains provisions that extend the Generalized System of Preferences [GSP] Program, through May…

today I regret that I must speak in opposition to H.R. 3448, the Small Business Job Protection Act. Despite the fact that as one of the conferees on this bill I worked to incorporate, and support, many of the tax provisions contained in…

in the last Congress, President Clinton set out to reform health care by taking decision making power away from the individual and placing it in the hands of a centralized bureaucracy. As a member of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee…

I have my No. 5 daughter suffering from cancer and she has been going through chemotherapy since last October. She was over here visiting on the floor with me and we ran into Bill. He told her that he was going through the same experience…

If that is the case, Mr. Chairman, I will not offer my amendment this year. Instead, I will simply commend the gentleman from Arizona and my colleague, the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Regula], for his hard work on this bill, and for standing…

On the question of whether the agreement unfairly disadvantages the United States, let me reassure colleagues that other countries are not permitted to transition... The downsizing of European shipbuilding capacity is in the best interest…

Mr. Chairman, I am adamantly opposed to this amendment. If implemented, it would cause the agreement to disintegrate, leaving us with nothing but many wasted years. Make no mistake: the amendment violates the agreement in a fatal way. We…

I want to explain to colleagues that is not correct. It will be impossible to reopen the agreement, as Mr. Bateman suggests. The agreement currently provides that no subsidies may be awarded under the agreement after the effective date of…

today I will vote for the Small Business Job Protection Act. The highlights of the bill in my view include the expansion of the expensing provisions for small business, the package of S corporation reforms and pension simplification items…

at the close of the 104th Congress we will, with regret but with pride in having known him, bid goodbye to a valued friend and a dedicated Member of this Chamber, the Honorable Sam Gibbons of Florida. I have had the privilege of knowing…

I think there are many good provisions of H.R. 2202 dealing with illegal immigration, and adding approximately 6,000 people to monitoring our borders certainly can address that problem. But what we are proposing in the current language…

I commend Chairman Smith for his hard work on the illegal immigration provisions in H.R. 2202, the Immigration in the National Interest Act of 1995. I would like to draw attention to the role played by the U.S. Customs Service on our…

it was with regret that I cast a ``no'' vote today on final passage of H.R. 2703, the Effective Death Penalty and Public Safety Act. In previous years as a member of the minority party in Congress, I regularly voted ``no'' on Democrat…

Mr. Speaker, before we conclude this exchange on this important piece of legislation, I want to take this opportunity briefly to pay tribute to the former chairman of our Committee on Ways and Means and the man under whom I served when he…

Mr. Chairman, I rise is support of the amendment. We just heard the eloquent plea for the arts from my distinguished colleague from my home State of Illinois. Yet it misses the point altogether. The fact of the matter is we have an arts…

Mr. Chairman, I assume that free exchange is on Barney and Sesame Street that he is talking about, and that is characteristic of the other side of the aisle. But let me tell you something: Lyon's Group and Children's TV Workshop are…