Jim Sensenbrenner

the FAA does conduct some of the research projects and activities authorized by this legislation at the technical center in New Jersey. This facility has performed and is performing cutting-edge research and testing in the areas of…

I rise today to present H.R. 1274, the National Institute of Standards and Technology Authorization Act of 1997. I would like to thank and congratulate the subcommittee chairwoman, the gentlewoman from Maryland [Mrs. Morella] and the…

The answer is no, Mr. Chairman, because I think the principle of the amendment is bad. We should not be micromanaging the agency. If there is an emergency like a Government shutdown, I have every confidence in the NASA administrator to do…

the majority accepts this amendment, and I would like to point out that it does have an offset so there is no increase to the authorization of the bill. There is an offset from another section of the bill. I think that is the way we ought…

I rise in support of H.R. 1273, the National Science Foundation Act of 1997. It is particularly appropriate that the House consider this legislation at this time because this week is National Science and Technology Week. This House can be…

I rise in earnest support of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. I thank the chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee, Mr. Candy, for yielding and for his dedication to this cause. It is regrettable the President vetoed this bill, but…

I rise in support of H.R. 123, which declares English to be the official language of the Government of the United States. And simply stated, that means when one does business with the Government of the United States, one does it in the…

I think Congress should decide whether the domestic spouses of gays and lesbians should get Social Security survivor benefits.

This legislation is not mean-spirited. It is not divisive. It is not cynical. It is a legitimate response to a well-publicized legal move to try to expand a decision in Hawaii to the rest of the country and to Federal law. Now, the…

For the gentleman's edification, a listing of the waivers that were requested by Governor Thompson appeared in the Congressional Record of June 4, 1996, at page E992. So every Member of the House of Representatives, and for that matter the…

This substitute is really a cop-out, because what it does is it punts the ball right back to the bureaucrats in the office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services. It does not compel the Secretary and the bureaucrats to approve the…

the other gentleman from Wisconsin has claimed that nobody has had a chance to review the bill after the Governor has made his line-item veto. The President of the United States has had a chance to review it, because the statements that he…

I noticed that when the President's budget came up on the floor of the House, it was overwhelmingly rejected, and only 10 of the 23 Democrats on the Committee on Science voted for the President's budget. The gentleman was one of them, I…

this is the amendment that makes the personnel account whole. It adds a total of $81.5 million to the personnel account, $73 million comes as a result of reductions in other accounts, and there is a transfer of $8.5 million from travel…

Mr. Chairman, we are going through one of the annual rites of spring in Washington. The tulips bloom, the dogwoods become very beautiful, and the gentleman from Indiana introduces his amendment to kill the space station. Let me say that I…

it is easy to say you're in favor of balancing the budget. Congress has been saying it for years. But, until recently, those of us who are willing to follow the words with actions have not had enough votes to bring the budget under…

immigration reform, unfortunately, is one of those hot button issues that politicians use for their own purposes. However, here on the floor of the House of Representatives, we should not be politicians, but rather we should be…

the Republicans have not controlled this House for 40 years and Congress has the power of the purse, unless someone changed the Constitution when we were not looking.

I seem to recall in the 1993 budget agreement which was passed by a single party in Congress and signed by President Clinton, there was a discretionary spending cap which meant that if one account at any discretionary spending area was…

if all of this is so important, how come you could not identify where to offset this increase in other NASA accounts? The amendment is silent on that.

we are pleased to accept this amendment. I believe that the gentleman from Florida has made an extremely valuable contribution to this bill. Obviously safety cannot be compromised with the space shuttle, because if we should have another…

I am shocked at listening to the argument from the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. Watt] and the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Doggett]. That was the same argument that was used 30 years ago in this Chamber by those who were opposed to the…

the people who support this amendment would have everyone believe that unless the amendment is adopted, we are taking away peoples' rights to sue. That is not the case. There is a constitutional right to sue, and even if we wanted to take…

I would hope, for these two reasons, that this killer amendment would be defeated.

I think to close debate it is important for us to focus on what a statute of repose is. A statute of repose is a limit during which period a lawsuit can be filed alleging negligence in the manufacture of that product. The statute of repose…