Jim Sensenbrenner

I am pleased to support S. 505 which will extend copyright protection and resolve a long standing issue concerning music licensing. Extending the term of copyright protection by 20 years will ensure that the American public continues to…

let us talk about fairness to the American taxpayer that paid for the independent counsel's investigation. The American public, to be fair to them, ought to be able to see what the independent counsel has sent to Congress, pursuant to the…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 3824 requires the Secretary of Commerce to review the Fastener Quality Act to assess if its provisions are still needed and to report his findings back to Congress. The Senate amended H.R. 3824 to require the Secretary to…

Voting down the Roemer amendment is essential if NASA is to stay alive. We have spent $22 billion already on the Space Station. There are several hundred thousand pounds of materials that are set and ready to go for launch. We should put…

H.R. 4193, the Department of Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1999, includes funding for the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Clean Coal Technology, Fossil Energy and the Energy Conservation Research and…

in the past two decades, Congress has established a system to transfer unclassified technology from our Federal laboratories to the private sector in order to facilitate its commercialization. This system is designed to ensure U.S…

the Fastener Quality Act was signed into law in 1990. It required all threaded metallic fasteners of one-quarter inch diameter or greater that reference a consensus standard to be documented by a National Institute of Standards and…

Neither the Hyde Amendment nor the federal authorities upholding the constitutionality of that amendment bar this court from affording greater protection of the rights of Medicaid-eligible women under our state constitution in this…

I have a copy of the McCollum amendment that appears at page H-1448 of yesterday's Record, and I do not see any provision guaranteeing consumers access to repertoire anywhere in the McCollum amendment.

And establishments that play their own recorded music, their own CDs and tapes. My guess is that the exemption that my amendment proposes might reduce ASCAP's and BMI's fees by as much as 5 cents on the dollar, but they will be able to…

Mr. Chairman, while considering the underlying bill, we have suggested that Congress is the appropriate place for the expansion of the scope of copyright expansion of business' obligations to pay additional fees. Meanwhile, the licensing…

The rule guarantees this body the opportunity to provide balance to the underlying bill, the Copyright Term Extension Act, with a modest package of relief for America's small business. The supporters of fairness in music licensing, which…

The second thing is, what we are talking about here is TV and the radio. And how is the proprietor of the retail establishment to know what song is going to go on next so he can look up whether this is licensed by ASCAP or BMI? There is no…

But what the gentleman from North Carolina did not tell us, and he would not yield to me so I could enlighten him, is that under the Sensenbrenner amendment, Mr. Madland's establishment would not be exempt from paying ASCAP fees. He…

I rise in opposition to the motion to recommit, and I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Florida (Mr

if the previous question is moved, I intend to vote against it so that I may be recognized to control time under the hour rule in order to continue debate on House Resolution 611

I rise in support of the point of order on the motion to recommit because it is not germane to House Resolution 611

Senate bill 1231, an act to authorize appropriations for the United States Fire Administration for the fiscal years 1998 and 1999, is nearly identical to H.R. 1272, a bill favorably reported by voice vote by the Committee on Science on…

last week in a bipartisan effort, the Committee on Science favorably reported H.R. 2429, as amended, a bill to reauthorize the Small Business Technology Transfer Program [STTR] through fiscal year 2000. This week, the Committee on Science…

today, in a bipartisan effort, the Committee on Science brings to the floor H.R. 1903, the Computer Security Enhancement Act of 1997. The Computer Security Act of 1987 gave authority over computer and communication security standards in…

Did NASA, which is part of the administration, request the $100 million for Russian program assurance?

Mr. Chairman, the chairman of the Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations and I reached an agreement on the NASA transfer authority contained in H.R. 2158 for the International Space Station…

So the President did not request it, but NASA is supporting the $100 million. I think the administration ought to get its act together and hope the amendment being adopted will help them do that.

H.R. 1271 authorizes the FAA to carry out its research, engineering, and development program for fiscal years 1998, 1999, and 2000. The objective of the RE&D program is to develop and validate the technology and knowledge required for the…

H.R. 1271 fully funds the administration's request for the airport technology account at $5,468,000 for fiscal year 1998.