I would not hold myself out as an expert on EDA, but we do an awful lot of EDA projects in our district, unfortunately because we qualify under the criteria. Just standing here right now, I cannot think of one EDA project we have going…

I think the Skaggs amendment is nothing more or less than a sincere effort to cut funding this year, some 9.4 million in this bill, for a program which really has little demonstrable effect, however well intentioned. I believe, if I am not…

I would suggest, first of all, that Mr. Swindle, who is a very fine gentlemen, had these very strong views about EDA before he came to, I believe, head the agency, did he not?

I would suggest that he had these strong views about EDA before he came to the job. I just remember that. The gentleman mentioned the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Department of Agriculture as agencies one could go to who had…

I invite the gentleman to come to my district. I refer him to a 1997 study of the public grant program conducted by Rutgers University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology that yielded the following results: for every million dollars…

I would note that it is a bit of technicality to suggest it is not a cut because it already has not passed. This legislation is about become law, and if the gentleman's amendment were passed, it would be a significant cut in the 1999…

reclaiming my time, I have to assume that the ATP program is making its contribution in this strategic effort for the government to participate, and they must be competitive in the future, and I appreciate the gentleman making my point.

I pointed out that the ATP program is the centerpiece of the administration's research and its strategy to maintain its competitiveness in the global marketplace. I also pointed out that this is in real competition with other countries…

likewise, I echo the sentiments of the chairman. The gentleman, who rightly has a very serious concern about the situation in his congressional district, has I think approached it in the appropriate way. The time frame in which he…

The gentleman talks about substance when he gets into this issue, and I just want to clarify that what he is asking from the Trade Representative is that they have an exhaustive study and investigation of this. He is not asking for a…

I just noticed from the chart that the gentlewoman is emphasizing the National Academy of Sciences in her presentation, which makes the point that after the failed 1990 census, this Congress asked the National Academy of Sciences, the most…

I am sorry. I misunderstood that. It puzzles me how he can develop a position with his learned background that is so at odds with not only the National Academy of Sciences, which has had three panels look at this issue and in a very…

Reclaiming my time on that point, indeed I am sure we can get individual academicians and statisticians to come up with any view. The thing that impresses me so much is that these associations have come up with a consensus position…

The gentleman, Mr. Speaker, is suggesting that the one panel was compromised in some political way. Is he suggesting that the other two at the National Academy of Sciences was politically compromised? And what about all these other…

Mr. Chairman, I rise to pay special tribute to the gentleman from Ohio, the ranking member of our subcommittee, its former chairman, and a true pillar in this House. As other speakers have noted, this is the final VA-HUD bill that Mr…

I rise to generally express my satisfaction for the bill in the main. First let me compliment our chairman the gentleman from California (Mr. Lewis) and the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Stokes) for the quality of their contribution to this…

So if the gentleman wants us to compromise, he should vote against his own motion.

the question is, What will we learn if this amendment becomes law that we do not already know, that will make a real difference in our ability to do oversight of the Legal Services Corp.?

Mr. Chairman, at best this amendment is unnecessary. I am advised by the Legal Services Corporation that it is extremely burdensome and costly. Some of the privacy concerns that many had with regard to this amendment originally, some had…

First of all, when we are talking about free speech, the underlying issue here really is associated with free speech in USIA funding, the ability of groups in the Middle East to market their views and opinions. The gentleman's amendment…

this committee and the chairman and the whole committee worked very hard to make sure that our share is being reduced. That, again, is a part of all of this negotiation, and also part of the authorizing bill that we passed several years…

Mr. Chairman, last night we had a similar debate on the ATP program. During that debate, those who spoke in opposition to the ATP cuts amendment refuted most of the points made by the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Hostettler], who is…

I would point out that the authority for the Legal Services Corporation is statutory in nature, passed by the Congress, which Congress has authority constitutionally to do. I would just like to again reassure Members who are concerned…

I would like to add to that, every law that we pass here, we pass it because we understand there is a proclivity out there to violate the laws. That is the same with the restrictions we put on Legal Services Corporation. There was a lot of…

I understood that we were going to accept this amendment without debating it. In the process of accepting the amendment for the purposes of the bill being considered on the floor here today, I just want it understood that all of the…