Scott Klug

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…

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 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…

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…

I want to go back, because I do not think we can stress this often enough, to what is at stake in FDA reform, period. Because you managed, Mr. Greenwood, at the end of your conversation with Mr. Barton, I think, to put a very human face on…

If we think this through rationally, essentially what will happen is, if we end up with this crazy local, State, national patchwork of requirements for labeling standards, eventually companies will say well, we will do that for California…

it gets back to what I was talking about earlier with medical devices. It is part of that culture of fear. It is a fear within the FDA itself that they cannot say yes. If they say yes, it is that on-in-a-million chance that something will…

We do not run other kinds of colleges and universities, and again fundamentally we can send folks to the best medical schools in the country, in fact, the best medical schools in the world, for a fraction of the cost. One of the arguments…

Mr. Chairman, what we are going to talk about for the next few minutes is the subject of military physicians. In 1972, in order to guarantee there were enough physicians in the military, we took two steps in Congress. One was to set up a…

to my colleagues on the Health Subcommittee on Commerce, this is a nice way to end the day after fairly contentious hearings on trying to figure out a way to reform the Food and Drug Administration, so that we can get pharmaceutical…

the rule we have before us this afternoon and soon the bill itself that will follow has to do with changing law, and changing law that has affected the communications industry since the 1930's, but it is not just about changing law. It is…

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…

But the reason we focused on those three primary labs is because they are still dedicated and devoted to national security purposes. That is the core principal for the original organization of the DOE labs. As the Galvin Commission pointed…

I have to tell you that I think my colleague from Massachusetts has got half of this amendment right, and that if you look, we understood as a country there was a problem when oil companies controlled the oil fields and the refineries and…

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?

I want to make two points. First, on the argument of the gentleman from Alabama that somehow this idea of privatizing the TVA is absolute anathema and will mean the end of the world. May I again refer to the same GAO report on the…

Let me, if I can, clarify somewhat the relationship between the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Federal Government. This is a General Accounting Office report, dated June 1995. The headline says, Tennessee Valley Authority, problems…

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…

Mr. Chairman, I just want to make two points to respond to the articulate argument of the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Wamp], in defense to TVA. First and foremost, one of the programs we are talking about today is additional economic…

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 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…

this amendment that we have before us now, my colleagues, is an amendment offered by myself, the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Goss], and also the gentleman from Utah [Mr. Orton]. I would like to congratulate the chairman of the committee…