Nick Rahall

combating international terrorism is in the vital national interest of the United States. There can be no mistake about that. Nor can there be any question that the Clinton administration has worked tirelessly in pursuit of this objective…

Mr. Chairman, trust. An interesting term, that word. Trust. Webster defines it as an assured reliance on the character, ability, strength or truth of someone or something. That is why we call it the highway trust fund. Not the highway…

I rise in support of S. 640, the conference agreement on the Water Resources Development Act of 1996. The House version of this bill, H.R. 3592, passed this body on July 29 of this year. The enactment of this legislation is overdue. Many…

I feel particularly privileged to be able to say farewell to Representatives Tom Bevill and Glen Browder of Alabama as friends as well as beloved colleagues in the House. I have learned much from them, and I appreciate their having allowed…

it was a young but brave Bill Emerson who as a page helped move the mortally wounded Members of this body from the floor on a stretcher after a terrorist assassination attempt. Even as a teenager Bill Emerson saw his duty, and he did it…

Mr. Speaker, I simply would like to add that many of us in this body would agree that Mr. Natcher's distinguished service to this Nation, and to the people of the Second Congressional District of Kentucky, merits in the very least some…

it is with great honor today that I rise today to pay tribute to our colleague, Sam Gibbons of Florida. For 33 years, Sam has stood proudly as a Member of the House of Representatives representing the 11th district of Florida and he will…

every country has the perfectly legitimate right to respond to terrorist attacks upon its borders and its people, regardless of whether those attacks were provoked or not. Such has been the case in southern Lebanon, the home of my…

I rise in my capacity as the ranking Democratic member on the Surface Transportation Subcommittee to give my colleagues 6.8 billion reasons why they should vote for H.R. 842, the Truth in Budgeting Act. This, 6.8 billion, my colleagues, is…

The distinguished chairman is entirely accurate. That is the format in which we should make that battle and also, in addition to that, we should not be trying to blur the distinction here between general revenues and highway trust fund…

we developed a set of criteria by which projects had to answer, a long list of questions. One of those questions at the very top was about whether the State supported the project or not. We did not put a project into ISTEA without full…

I am advised that in the last ISTEA legislation we did, that Wisconsin was adjusted near the end, and it came out very well. So I am not sure what the gentleman's direct concern is here, but certainly in the future in agreeing with this…

since 1976, February has been celebrated as Black History Month, but the origins of this event date back to 1926, when Dr. Carter G. Woodson who was born in Huntington, WV, set aside a special period of time in February to recognize the…

My friends, a cruel hoax is being perpetrated on the American public. It is cruel indeed. For contained in this conference report is a provision which will allow billions of dollars worth of valuable minerals underlying Federal lands to be…

Well, the gentleman does not take into account that the ARC has created jobs over the years of its existence. Creation of jobs means revenue generated----

But let us not zero out the ARC. It has been so successful by involving local communities at the grassroots level, taking their input and bringing it up; a bottoms-up effort. That is exactly what we ought to be spreading to the EDA as the…

I think the points the gentleman has made are very important. It shows the people of the Appalachian region are finally taking their economic destinies in their own hands. This is all the more important a reason to keep this program going…

The gentleman speaks of this great revolution, Mr. Chairman. It seems like this gentleman is speaking about an economic Jihad against all Federal Government. That seems to be the best description of the revolution to which the gentleman…

this amendment represents the granddaddy of all burdens on the States, of all unfunded mandates on the States and of all violations of the rights of the States. What this amendment says is that we will let the Federal Government, in the…

yesterday in a special order, I expressed my total disbelief that, at an event convened at taxpayer's expense, a Member of this House would publicly charge that a Member of the U.S. Senate should be tarred and feathered and run out of the…

it is indeed fitting that we are considering this bill today, this alleged reauthorization, the Clean Water Act. I say this because on this day, 123 years ago, President Grant signed into law a bill that has perhaps created more…

123 years ago today, President Grant signed into law a bill aimed at promoting the settlement of the Western States. This bill allowed folks to mine valuable minerals such as gold and silver from Federal lands in those States for free. It…

I rise in outrage to take exception to words attributed to a constituent of a Member of this House, as reported in the April 26, 1995 edition of The South Whidbey Record published in 2nd District of the State of Washington, that a revered…

I rise in support of the continuation of the prevailing wage laws embodied in the Davis-Bacon Act, and against repeal of this vital act. As you know, Mr. Speaker, on March 2, 1995, the Subcommittee on Worker Protections, so-called, voted…

Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of this legislation. There may be Members in this Chamber, or watching this debate, who may be saying to themselves: ``I don't have any coal miners in my district. Why should I vote for this bill?''…