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I would just note that the boundary adjustment is about as small as anyone can recall, covering about 9,500 square feet, or just two-tenths of an acre. However, this adjustment is necessary to clear up a land title problem and allow the…
Mr. Chairman, I wanted to respond to the distinguished chairman of the subcommittee, the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Taylor), in his charge that the amendment is too broadly drafted. He then referred to Executive Order 13007. That…
the chairman is completely accurate. He has been fair. We have had a hearing on this, my introduced legislation. Several requests, however, following up to that hearing to move on the legislation, have thus far not been met with action…
throughout this Nation, sites on Federal lands held sacred for religious purposes by Native Americans are being desecrated, often needlessly, by adverse developments. In response, I have introduced the ``Native American Sacred Lands…
I would note that the pending bill continues a trend that we have seen from the White House and the Republican leadership. I certainly commend the ranking minority member, the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks) for his leadership, as…
The main issue is the fact that in the pending legislation, alternatives to renewable energy development would be eliminated. Take one example from my home State of West Virginia. If a developer comes in and wants to develop a wind farm on…
Mr. Speaker, the latest edition of Business Week notes that ``$2 a gallon gasoline have given the oil companies a Mississippi River of cash flow.'' Big oil is reeling in profit, reaching deep into the pockets of Americans at the pump. What…
I come from a coal-producing region of this country. Southern West Virginia has some of the best coal in the world. That is not just a parochial statement. I say to the gentleman that I certainly support the clean coal technology that is…
President Ronald Reagan wrote an indelible chapter in America's and in the World's history. As our Country mourns his loss, our prayers go out to Mrs. Reagan and his family, and our future will long hold to the lessons of his public…
Charlie Johnson's departure will be a loss to this great institution we serve, and which Charlie has served so well for 22 years. Throughout his tenure, Charlie has been a wise counselor, a trusted confidant, and an impartial adjudicator…
I rise today to quote the words of President Dwight Eisenhower, the father of our, Highway Trust Fund, who rightly said ``A network of modern roads is as necessary to defense as it is to our national economy and personal safety.''…
Tomorrow, on Friday, the President of the United States will be in my congressional district talking about jobs and the economy. Unfortunately, although I was invited, and I appreciate that, I will not be with the President because I will…
I will vote in favor of this bill because it includes federal funding for a great number of very worthwhile projects in my district of southern West Virginia, many of which I personally sought and others that were provided by the esteemed…
Mr. Speaker, the Interior appropriations conference report contains language which represents nothing less than a gag order on some 500,000 American Indians who have waited over 100 years for an accounting of their trust funds accounts by…
when President Bush told the American people he was against nation-building, no one, including myself, thought he was talking about America. Let me begin at the outset by making very clear my support for our valiant soldiers who are…
we learn from the Bible in Romans 12:21, ``Be not overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good.'' In the a.m. hours of September 11, 2001, a great evil befell America. Around 3000 lives were lost and over 281 million American felt the…
I stand corrected. Anyway, the effort to fight the true terrorists, al Qaeda, would be harmed by the passage of this amendment. The Saudis have helped us, as have the Syrians; and that is the reason I brought up the other countries I…
Mr. Chairman, the fight over the use of snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park has raged on for more than a decade. In the most recent round, the National Park Service found that these machines impair park resources, a finding which…
Let me say once again that the bison is an American icon. In my own home State of West Virginia, at Marshall University, the football team's mascot is the bison. They are the Thundering Herd. Nobody slaughters that Thundering Herd just as…
I do. The Department of Labor's March 6 Federal Register notice publishing these proposed rules notes that Energy West petitioned the Secretary of Labor on this matter during September 1997 and states on page 10800, ``This proposed rule…
Mr. Chairman, I rise in recognition this afternoon of the ultimate sacrifice that thousands of our Nation's coal miners who have perished from the crippling disease known as pneumoconiosis, or black lung, have made to the energy security…
I deplore the bus bombings and other acts of terrorism against innocent civilians wherever heinous acts of violence occur. The violence must stop. President Bush's vision of a two-state solution, two states living side by side in the Holy…
Mr. Speaker, let me correct something in which I may have misspoke earlier... the 258 Palestinians injured just since the Aqaba summit.
There is no doubt that security cooperation needs to be restored between the Palestinians and Israelis. It has worked in the past. The road map now is the way to do it. Several of the speakers today have risen in support of the road map…
There are exemptions in current law that the DOD can exercise whenever it finds conditions where national security warrants such exemptions to any environmental laws. To this date, in all reports that we have asked for, we have not seen…
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