David Obey

the gentleman is misstating my position. I said that in spite of my misgivings about the program, I decided not to cut the program. I did not operate on the basis of the President's budget. We operated on the basis of last year's budget…

I rise in profound disagreement with the Callahan amendment. Let me first of all explain what it does. Out of the $900 million the administration requested for the former Soviet Union this year, and keep in mind, $2.5 billion was provided…

I did not say we did not cut the President's request. I said we did not cut last year's budget.

I simply want to thank the staff for the work they have done on the bill: Terry Peel, the Staff Director; Mark Murray, Bill Scheurch, Lori Maes, Pat Summers from AID; the minority staff, Jim Kulikowski who represents the gentleman from…

I cannot think of a worse signal to send the entire continent of Africa than to pass the Burton amendment pending here tonight. That amendment will gut the planned aid program to South Africa. The South African aid program has been planned…

The Global Environmental Facility was created to help Third World countries take into account the effects of their development activities on the worldwide ecosystem. It was created to focus the world's efforts on preventing climate change…

Mr. Chairman, let me simply say that I support the Kasich amendment. I think the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. Livingston] does as well. Let me simply say, I think we need to recognize that an awful lot of people have been involved in the…

I do not know quite where to start in correcting the misstatements that have been made on the floor, but let me simply correct one of them in the limited time. One of the speakers suggested that Exim loans are going to be taxed by the…

I would suggest if we are going to deal with drugs, we need to put them in the drug programs that work. We funded last year's level fully, but we did not have the money for an increase.

I knew Bill Natcher for a little over 25 years, and my experience in observing him was that he was a man of both starch and steel. My first experience with him came shortly after I went on the Committee on Appropriations and he was my…

I will be introducing tomorrow an alternative to the so-called A to Z bill, which I call the Anti-Hypocrisy Deficit Reduction Act of 1994. Under my proposal, my bill will provide for the same 56 hours of consideration for proposals to cut…

Reclaiming my time, that is certainly not the reading by the Committee on the Budget on this side. Our estimate is you cut veterans' programs $200 million below the committee resolution.

I would simply say this gentleman is very happy to see cuts in overhead. I am not happy to see cuts in the medical supplies available to the Veterans' Administration. That is the point I am trying to make. I think it is a valid one.

I yield myself 1 minute. Despite the rhetoric we have just heard, I will ask the gentleman this question: Does not your amendment cut veterans' programs by $200 million?

I would ask of the gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. Saxton], is it not true that the gentleman's credit is not refundable, so therefore does not go to low-income people in this country?

I am more than fully prepared. It seems to me there is not much benefit that accrues to the country when that happens. Mr. Chairman, I would simply observe that we can debate whether this is a slower recovery than past recoveries or…

I want to say, I think this amendment is well-intentioned, and some of the cuts I would personally not differ with, but the fact is if we take it as a whole, what it really does is repair the damage done to California by the earthquake…