David Obey

that is exactly what I am talking about. The gentleman is talking about a 1-year bridge. What he is forgetting is that from 1980 up to until 2 years ago, the Department of Education had major, major, major reductions. If the gentleman is…

On defense, the difference between now and Jack Kennedy's time is that when Jack Kennedy was President we were in the beginning of the Vietnam war, we had a raging hot cold war, and the Soviet Union was in its heyday. That is a little…

I have the following one-word reply to the gentleman who just spoke: Baloney. A two-word reply: Double baloney. I represent Wisconsin. I take a back seat to no one in wanting to see massive welfare reform. I know that taxpayers are tired…

this is a funny place. We get elected. We get into our offices out here, and every day we have visitors from home. And sure, some of them are on vacation and some of them are regular working people. But I would venture to say that at least…

Mr. Chairman, I would simply say that on this side of the aisle we certainly accept the gentlewoman's amendment, and I would like to talk just a moment about it because I have such a deep personal interest in the issue myself. I think…

what this is about is very simple. It is about giving away goodies without having found a way to pay for them. We have seen time and time again that our Republican friends in this Congress want to propose to cut taxes for the wealthy and…

Mr. Chairman, this bill, I think, defines in a major way the differences in priorities between the two political parties in this House. For years we have had a decline in the school-age population in this country. It has been going down…

I would say that that is a nice promise, but the fact is that the bill before us does in fact short-sheet NIOSH by $32 million. It does not allow NIOSH to meet the obligations that they are supposed to meet by accepting the Bureau of Mines…

I would like to not talk so much about the past but about the present and the future. The situation, as this chart shows, is that, if we take a look at what has happened to each of the 13 appropriation bills that we are supposed to be…

let me simply say that in the wake of the last speech, I was not aware that we were supposed to be cheerleaders at what sounds like a high school football game. Keep going. It is in character. Mr. Speaker, I hope this does not come out of…

I would simply note for the gentleman's attention that three Members of your own caucus have described what you did on the budget last year as being silly extremism and I agree with them.

I said that we were not, because the argument that has been made about that relates to the action of government agencies, not grantees.

I also simply want to extend my appreciation to the gentleman from Virginia, [Mr. Wolf], the chairman of the committee, for the manner in which he has proceeded to produce a bill which I think will meet a bipartisan test. I would also…

I would simply observe that with respect to the previous rule, this country has walked away from our values in dealing with trade. There is absolutely no reason in my view for us to provide MFN treatment for a country that produces goods…

I simply want to make a few points to refute what has been alleged by the amendment's sponsors. I want to repeat, this bill does not say that we cannot buy this computer. What it says is that if there is either a preliminary or a final…

Now, the authors of this amendment or the author of this amendment is saying that it violates trade laws. It most certainly does not. There is no trade law, there is no trade pact which we have joined which requires us to accept dumped…

all the language says is that, if it is determined that this supercomputer has been dumped on to the U.S. market, that it cannot be bought.

I will never forget running into a woman in Stevens Point in my district. She was about 90 years old. The only thing that kept her going was the fact that she was living in a home that was built for her by her husband as a wedding present…

I do simply want to express my frustration about the fact that this amendment need be here at all. I supported the proposal last year which allowed timber companies to get at what we were told was salvage, and I think it was a rational…

I have in my hand, as Senator McCarthy from my home State used to say, a pork barrel catalog. What happened this year is that the authorizing committee asked the various services at the Pentagon to prepare a list of projects in the…

essentially what I am trying to do is to eliminate six C-130-J airplanes from this bill because we can save $10 million a year by waiting until next year to buy the same six planes.

Mr. Chairman, let me simply read two quotes from the senior DOD official who gave the background briefing on March 1, 1996, who said the following: ``We're committed to it (the F-22) even though I can't project a threat right now that…

I do not think I will take the full 5 minutes, but I did want to take some time to suggest that this bill today has two fundamental problems: First of all, it is, in my view, reflective of a view that somehow the United States is under…

let me point out that we are not eliminating the hurricane-seeking capability that the gentleman is talking about. They can use existing aircraft for that, and the Air Force testified to that. All we are saying is if we are going to buy…

let me simply say I find this discussion highly interesting and entertaining. The fact is that the item mentioned as far as the Commerce Secretary's plane is concerned is a hypothetical with respect to this bill. The Congress never put…