Where is our priority? Do we want to eliminate a program that is extremely important for our competiveness position as we move forward with this internationalization of our global economy, or not, and do we believe that this program…

I am pleased to add my personal words of appreciation for their contributions to this House and to offer my best wishes to each of them as their terms come to a close and as they look to their future. I had the great pleasure of serving…

I will close, Mr. Chairman, by saying I think this is a very ill-advised amendment. The Commerce Department generally, and Dr. Good's office specifically, is the headquarters for strategic thinking about how we deal with the new economic…

I really appreciate the Members from Florida raising this issue. I think it gives us an opportunity to point out that one of the really strong aspects of the COPS Program is the wonderful way in which it has been administered, the…

I just really want this time to express appreciation to the gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. Rogers] for being responsive to this request. There have been a number of efforts on the floor to increase this account, and they have been really in…

I likewise rise in opposition to this amendment and echo the sentiments expressed by a number of speakers. This simply is not the appropriate bill. This is not the appropriate forum to decide this issue. In response to the last speaker…

I regrettably rise in opposition to the gentleman's amendment. I do not dispute the critical mission of the National Weather Service. I too, would like to see it funded more robustly. However, I cannot support the amendment's offsets, and…

we are in agreement with the chairman with regard to this amendment, understanding that this amendment relates to funding only. It increases, I believe, from $5 million to $9.3 million funding for this account. That does not mean, I hope…

let me reclaim my time and let me stipulate that some entities are set up. That gets back to this point. Any group, which for a lawful purpose sets up activities outside of these corporations, can do that. We cannot stop them from doing…

I just wonder if the gentleman is aware that last year it was actually this subcommittee, under the leadership of the gentleman from Kentucky, Chairman Rogers, that placed in the Commerce-Justice-State appropriations bill restrictions upon…

we have had this debate. Now let me get back to the gentleman from California. He is taking the $109 million that we took in offsets. Had he intended to offer this amendment prior to the legal services amendment?

I can only imagine, as I rise, that the Republican leadership is a bit uneasy about this, if not embarrassed, to still be dealing with last year's legislative business. This appropriations measure is 159 days late. That is, it has been 159…

If there is money in this bill, it is funny money, it is more worthless than monopoly money. We cannot put money in an appropriations bill. The purpose is to appropriate money; it is an action activity; and make it contingent upon finding…

Mr. Speaker, today we find ourselves once again spending time on the floor of the House taking on an action which will not advance the process of completing the fiscal year 1996 appropriation bills. We are way behind in them. They are way…

I want to go on record as strongly opposing these proposed cuts in the advanced technology program, in the manufacturing extension program, and in the Office of Technology Policy. Of course it is relevant to comment on these cuts because…

I support multiple fuel use; I support multiple, flexible, fuel use policy in this country, and I think that is the best way for us to achieve energy independence around the world in whatever circumstances. Keeping using that incredible…

Mr. Chairman, I hope that all Members of this body are really listening carefully to this debate. And what really is at stake here is how much money, what additional resources, each and every of your respective States are going to receive…

That is the key question. I would ask my colleagues consider carefully under which provision is their State most benefited.

I rise in strong support of this important legislation. I want to commend my colleagues on the Education and Labor Committee, especially chairman Ford and Chairman Murphy, for bringing this bill to the floor. H.R. 2108 will bring needed…

Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to the amendment offered by my colleague, the gentleman from Florida. The Appalachian Regional Commission [ARC] was created in 1965 as an answer to a century of neglect and exploitation in one of…