Scott Klug

Let me point out that in a 1991 General Accounting Office report done on the subject, quote, and this is talking about the grazing program, ``It does not achieve an objective of recovering reasonable program costs because it does not…

Since 1991, ARC roads or quarters received over $599 million in funding from ISTEA for demonstration projects alone. That is on top of the funding that is done on this bill. That is money that comes out of the transportation appropriations…

Given the size and availability of U.S. coal reserves, the security of the domestic coal supply and the comparative economics of coal as a fuel, free market forces are operating to select and commercialize the most efficient and…

What we have just heard is the fundamental argument we always get on any science program, that we cannot cancel it because they just started it and there might be potential, or we cannot cancel it because they have invested so much money…

My empathy goes out to the taxpayers of America who continue to fund an organization that I think largely is out of date... it does not call for a continual support of the GPO. It essentially says that GPO has an even tougher job in the…

We have a very important fundamental choice before us today. To what degree do we trust the citizens of Wisconsin to make their own decision about welfare reform and to what degree do we think that Wisconsin's plan needs to be modified…

In the substitute that has been offered by our colleague from Wisconsin, the language says 'urge.' Is it the gentleman's reading that it does not compel the Secretary to act by August?

I would encourage the gentlewoman as a member of the President's party to issue waivers more quickly. However, let me say fundamentally that waivers are not welfare reform, waivers are a lifeline for bureaucracies to rewrite and to change…

Let me make the point, we have had hearings on this. The question is, Where do the hearings have to happen? Do they have to happen here in Washington or in Wisconsin? Thirty hearings, town hall meetings, as my colleague, Mr. Sensenbrenner…

The final vote on W-2 presented legislators a choice. We could continue along a seemingly endless path that had fostered impoverished dependency on government aid. Or we could try a new direction in the hope of leading all Wisconsin…

I think anything but the contrary. The public, which should be involved in this decision, has already been involved in the decision. It is the residents of the State of Wisconsin who had 30 hearings and town meetings, 120 hours of debate…

I do not think the Galvin Commission said whether it was a 15-percent or 30-percent cut. They recommended redefining the mission of the laboratories and appropriately downsizing. I agree with my colleague, the gentleman from Indiana [Mr…

Correct, Mr. Chairman, in that they are not paying current payments, but not correct to the degree that they got subsidized loans initially not available to other parts of the country.

I think my colleague from Tennessee, Mr. Duncan, is absolutely correct. But I brought this report out in order to counter arguments from a number of Members on his side who have been saying, There is no longer a Federal relationship…

I will make a deal with the gentleman. They can keep the $20 million and you let me keep the other $103 million that is part of the debate right now. The second conclusion on the TVA, this was in the House budget resolution: Eliminate…

I will tell the gentleman another story. It is interesting the gentleman from Minnesota [Mr. Oberstar] was over here talking about northern Minnesota and contrasting Appalachia. There is a Hockey Hall of Fame in northern Minnesota, not…

I ask the gentleman from Maryland [Mr. Gilchrest], are these counties not already eligible for public works money and for economic development money? What I do not understand is how these 13 States are somehow different from the rest of…

I just want to understand, tell me what it is in 1995 that makes a distressed county in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or Alabama eligible for funds when the same distressed application does not apply to the other 37 States?