Jim Sensenbrenner

I share the concerns of the gentleman from Michigan, and as the chairman of the Committee on Science, I want to assure the gentleman that there was no intent to and indeed this bill does not authorize modeling or research into carbon…

I rise in support of H.R. 1654 and urge my colleagues to vote for the conference report so that we can send this bipartisan bill to the President and have it signed into law. This bill is endorsed by all the conferees, regardless of party…

I'm honored and excited to join Congressman Jim Rogan and my colleagues today in authorizing the President to present astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins--the crew of the historic Apollo 11 mission--with a…

I support funding at the requested level of $4,572 billion for fiscal year 2001. On May 17, 2000, I introduced H.R. 4485, the National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2000. This bill authorizes programs at NSF not authorized by the…

Mr. Speaker, the Federal Reports and Elimination and Sunset Act of 1995 calls for the sunset of all periodic reports submitted to Congress by the executive branch. Congress has extended the sunset date of these reports until May of this…

Mr. Speaker, methane hydrates which consist of a mixture of methane and water frozen into a solid crystalline state have great energy potential and are found in many areas throughout the world. The U.S. Geological Survey's 1995 national…

Mr. Chairman, we have come to the conclusion of the debate on a bill which the Committee on Science sincerely believes will be one of the most important pieces of legislation enacted in the year 2000 by the 106th Congress. Should the other…

I have always supported Buy American provisions. I support his efforts again. Obviously the money that we are authorizing under this bill should, to the greatest extent possible, go to goods and services that are made in the USA and done…

the United States stands as the global leader in computing, communication, and information technology. This $500 billion a year industry accounted for one-third of our Nation's economic growth since 1992 and created new industries and…

Mr. Chairman, let me say I am going to support the gentlewoman's amendment. Any Member can request a GAO study. Placing the language in the bill I think is a constructive addition because whether the GAO responds to the House as a whole or…

I support her amendment. The reason this amendment is before us today on the floor is the same reason why the previous amendment was before us, and, that is that the NIH is not under the jurisdiction of the Committee on Science. Had we…

Mr. Chairman, H.R. 1655, the Department of Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1999, is the first stand-alone R&D energy bill to be considered on the floor of the House since 1988. This bill authorizes…

H.R. 2112 is a combination of two other freestanding bills which I have introduced. Section 2 consists of the text of H.R. 1852, which would reverse the effects of the 1998 Supreme Court decision in the so-called ``Lexecon'' case, that…

I rise in support of the Kleczka- Sensenbrenner amendment. This amendment would prohibit the EPA from using funds to promulgate a final rule on drinking water standards for radium that is not based on sound science. In 1991, the EPA…

I rise in opposition to the Gutierrez amendment. The measure will nickel and dime NASA to death. This amendment cuts $5 million out of NASA's Human Spaceflight programs to fund the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Brownfields…

I rise in opposition to Mr. Nadler's amendment. It's an overused colloquialism, but this amendment is penny-wise and pound-foolish. If you don't like the Space Station and want to set our human spaceflight program back decades, vote to…

this legislation will allow State Attorneys General to seek Federal court injunctions against any out-of-State companies that illegally direct ship alcohol to consumers. These illegal direct shippers are bypassing State excise and sales…

I am disturbed at the practice of the other body in mixing public and private legislation in the same bill, and I would hope that the consideration of this bill today as a mixture of both public legislation and private legislation will not…

Mr. Speaker, last Tuesday evening, Space Shuttle Columbia touched down at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The crew of Space Shuttle Columbia completed an important mission. A few short hours after launch, shuttle…

there are some Members in this Chamber that seem to have forgotten history. We were at war in Vietnam when the hearings on the impeachment of President Nixon occurred. That was because of the serious offenses that were alleged against…

We have heard all of these prophets of economic doom and gloom if the House discharges its constitutional duty today in impeaching the President. The Nasdaq hit an all-time high. I think the markets are smarter than some of the people who…

we have heard a lot about censure. I think it is important to follow the constitutional and historical precedents of the House of Representatives in that censure is not an alternative. We need look back in 1974, which was the last time the…

I think that we are quite proud of the fact, not only was this report completed on time and on budget, which we like to do in the Committee on Science, but also this is one of the first congressional initiatives on any major topic looking…

Mr. Speaker, the question before us in this motion to recommit is whether we should make ourselves slaves to the clock or attempt to find out the truth. And let there be no mistake about it, nobody's conduct is under investigation here but…

S. 505 contains two important provisions and is substantially identical to H.R. 4712 which the gentleman from Florida (Mr. McCollum) and I introduced earlier today. It adopts the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act identical to the…