I think simplicity simply says we charge on the Federal lands what we charge on the State lands. We do not have to have a program that is going to put us through all kinds of calculated relationships based on beef prices in the future…

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…

I will accept the premise that we could disagree on whether there is a subsidy involved here or not. But if I can, let me respectfully disagree on what essentially is simpler for the Federal Government to administer. Here is what happens…

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…

Mr. Chairman, the Appalachian Regional Commission was first established in 1965 to help promote the economic development of the Appalachian region. Since then the Federal Government has poured more than $7 billion into funding for…

The Appalachian Regional Commission was set up in 1965 under the premise that if we poured more money from the Federal Government into this area we would get an economic boom. Now I think there is a flaw in this argument, because clearly…

Let me point out a few facts to rebut points made by my colleague from Illinois. This is what the Congressional Budget Office has to say about this argument: Since the passage of the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 the private sector has…

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…

If there is no subsidy involved in this program, why are they fighting so hard to preserve it? And if there is no implication whatsoever if we eliminate it, then they should not be fighting to eliminate it. That is the bottom line in this…

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…

let us try to put this all in perspective for a minute, if we can, because I think if we are listening to the debate in this Chamber, it is a little hard exactly to figure out what is at issue. Opponents of this amendment, I think, have…

319,000 dairy cows, to be more specific. Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague, the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Bilirakis], for his terrific work on behalf of this legislation, and also the full chairman of committee, the…

What we are talking about, for folks at home who may be confused about this debate, is an insurance program run by the Federal Government for corporations who want to invest in risky political situations. They want to invest in risky…

I rise in support of the Metcalf-Tiahrt-Luther amendment which will freeze the cost-of-living adjustment [COLA] for members of this body, judicial branch, and senior executive branch officials. When we, as Members of Congress, make more…

on May 18, President Clinton went on national radio and called Wisconsin Works a solid, bold welfare reform proposal. Several days later he repeated the same line in the State of Wisconsin. When Governor Thompson submitted Wisconsin's bold…

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…

Mr. Chairman, let me just make a few brief points in closing because we are just about out of time on both sides. I simply want to make the point that, more so than anything else, if we are going to be interested in somebody's interest in…

First of all, I think it is a test for Republicans, whether we are going to apply the same kind of scrutiny to the Pentagon that we apply to every other Federal agency. I heard my colleague from California, Mr. Hunter, come to the well a…

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…

let me make a fundamental point in all of this, and that is the fact that even though Washington occasionally promises us that they are going to get waivers, they wait. This is an indication that right now there are 28 welfare waivers…

I think this is an indication in the dialog we just saw, a very clear indication in the fundamental debate here. There were 30 hearings and townhall meetings in Wisconsin, and there were 120 hours of debate, there were 2,000 residents who…

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?

Mr. Speaker, of course politics did not have anything to do with the radio address, did it? But this is how it was played back home. We have heard a lot of quotes about exactly what it was the President said, but look what it said in the…

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…