David Obey

Could I ask what testimony the committee has taken that indicates that these are not needed?

in light of the fact that pro-choice and pro-life was brought up, perhaps we can assure our colleagues that we will see to it that the volunteers are equally divided between pro-choice and pro-life, understanding, of course, it is choice…

let me say that I share the concern of the gentleman in the well about the creation of the National Biological Service in the first place. I think it was a tactical mistake. I do not think it should have been done and I would join him in…

But I want to ask the gentleman from Ohio to reconsider what I think is really a mistake in attitude about how different functions of this Government can be carried out. You said during the debate on the rule that you would be happy to…

Mr. Speaker, I have one simple message for Gen. Ratko Mladic and his associates among the Bosnian Serbian leadership. It is a four-part message. You are sick pigs. You are sick pigs. You are an embarrassment to the human race. If the world…

what mystifies me is I thought that appropriation hearings on budgets were in essence oversight hearings. I had the impression that what we had just been told is that no testimony had been collected which indicated that the agency did not…

I know there are a lot of militia organizations around this country that do not like to see these agencies get additional equipment that can be used in law enforcement. I must confess that I am extremely concerned that this may be another…

I happen to support these fossil energy programs, but I would simply take note of the fact that the number in this bill is some $163 million over the authorization number, and I am sure that many of the good conservatives on that side of…

now, I have no objection to an open and fair immigration policy, but I do have an objection when those refugees come into this country, are then dropped on the local doorstep and the Federal Government forgets its obligation to then help…

there are a lot of us on this side of the aisle who feel that many of the reductions that are being made in this bill to crucial environment programs, to crucial natural resources programs, are being made for the purpose of transferring…

I rise to urge a vote against this rule. There are a lot of things in this rule that I would like to protect. But not at the expense of waiving points of order so that the action that Congress took last year on the California Desert Act…

Which raises taxes for lower-income people. I say to my colleagues, you're real friends of the working folks; aren't you?

The Federal Reserve, not exactly a left-wing pinko, Democratic institution. They have just completed their second study of wealth in this country; and what that showed is that in the 1980's we saw the richest one-half of 1 percent of…

Mr. Chairman, this is the third cutting amendment that I will have offered on this bill. Let me simply explain what it does. This amendment cuts $40 million in the bill for the advanced light water reactor program. What I would simply say…

Mr. Chairman, we have not heard pure science. We have heard pure bunkum. Let me simply tell my colleagues what the real differences are between the parties as I see them. Let me stipulate I think both political parties have had a fine…

I would simply like to make four points once again. After the Congress voted to end the advanced liquid metal reactor program, the agency asked Congress for money to terminate that program and to begin to lay off people at the labs…

Mr. Chairman, I thank the House for their support on the last vote, and I would ask that they continue that support for the next two amendments. This amendment simply cuts $18 million from the nuclear technology research and development…

This amendment, as has already been indicated, cuts $20 million in the bill for the gas turbine modular helium reactor. This program is a prime example of the continuation of corporate welfare for a mature segment of the nuclear industry…

this motion to recommit is really in essence a bipartisan motion. I understand it will be accepted by the committee. It simply clarifies that funds for basic education included under the children's fund may only be used for basic education…

I think everyone on this floor is concerned about decent treatment of refugees. However, I do want to suggest that there is a certain aspect to this amendment that bothers me, because what it in essence is saying is, ``Look, let us take in…

I am going to urge the House to vote for this motion to instruct. It simply says we ought to drop the tax cuts for the rich in the House bill and drop the tax hikes in the Senate bill on the working poor because of the changes in the…

I hope that next time around, we can find reductions that do not in fact attack programs for seniors and children in order to provide tax increases for very high income people that we cannot afford under these circumstances.

I do not necessarily share the gentleman's judgment about the wisdom of the president's veto. I think under the circumstances it was correct. But I do hope that we will be able to get together and work out a rational compromise so that we…

Let me simply say that the new Republican leadership in the House has forced us to carefully take a look at a number of spending items and take a look at a lot of programs that needed reducing. That is good. But if other Members heard what…

I take this time only to say that I am somewhat startled by the comment I just heard from my good friend from Louisiana. He indicated that the House would be most likely to accept the three Senate provisions that I have indicated we would…