Popularity: -2
Vote:   | All these achievements could be put at risk if NOAA Fisheries goes ahead with and implements an irresponsible plan to count hatchery fish as if they were wild salmon. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | As a result, Airbus has grown to dominate the large commercial aircraft industry, outdelivering Boeing for the first time in history in 2003. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | As of September 29, 2004, the total number of confirmed positive sites is 160 in 21 States. This disease invades susceptible trees and shrubs, including Douglas fir, through the bark, killing portions of the tree. This creates an ideal environment for insects and other fungi to invade. |
Popularity: -3
Vote: | But we must be certain that the repair to the environment is sufficient to allow wild species to recover and survive. |
Popularity: -5
Vote: | During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Every community in my district has benefited from the National Endowment for the Arts and by the National Endowment for the Humanities. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | For all of us who have been involved in the recovery efforts to bring back and strengthen wild salmon runs, we fear that this change in policy could lead to further declines in these wild stocks. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | I am very pleased that this landmark agreement has been reached, assuring that the habitat along the northern boundary of the Quinault Reservation will be protected in perpetuity. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | I have served on the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations for 26 years, the Subcommittee on Military Construction for 18 years. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | I want to say this is my 28th year on the Interior Appropriations subcommittee, and I started on this subcommittee under the tutelage of Sid Yates of Chicago, who was a tremendous supporter of the National Endowment For the Arts and Humanities. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | In 1993, a fungus-like organism was found in Germany and the Netherlands on nursery-grown rhododendrons and viburnums. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | In 1999, I worked hard to help establish the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Fund with the support of Vice President Gore to assist the four West Coast states with their response to the Endangered Species Act listings of coastal salmon and steelhead. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | In 2003, the value of Airbus's orders was more than twice as much as Boeing's. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | In fact, at Olympic National Park in my district, they 3 years ago had 130 summer employees they brought in for temporary work. This summer they have 25 because they cannot afford more. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | In my own area, Hood Canal, we are working with the USGS on dealing with this oxygenation problem. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | It is a fair settlement, providing an economic benefit to the Quinault Nation and preserving important old growth habitat for marbled murrelets and other threatened species on the Olympic Peninsula. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | Let me state clearly that hatchery salmon and wild salmon are not the same species. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Most Americans are familiar with the Boeing Company, but I would like to remind my colleagues that Boeing employs more than 150,000 American workers, including about 54,000 in the civil aircraft industry. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Over the last few years Airbus has grown to dominate the large commercial aircraft industry, out-delivering Boeing for the first time in history in 2003. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Over the years I have followed how, with the increase in funding, even though we took a major cut, that we have seen an explosion in the growth of art institutions all over this country-more operas, more ballets, more theatres, more performing arts. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Research on Sudden Oak Death is currently being conducted by the Agriculture Research Service, U.S. Forest Service, Universities and others to better identify hosts, methods of detection, and effective treatments. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Several panels of scientists, both within the agency and outside of it, have concluded that hatchery fish can cause harm to their wild counterparts. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There is not going to be a ranger out on the trail to tell them about the important cultural and historic areas within the Olympic National Park. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States. |
Popularity: -3
Vote: | The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | The U.S. has also exercised its rights to immediately terminate the 1992 U.S.-EU agreement on large civil aircraft. That agreement placed limits on certain government support, including limiting it to one-third of the costs of developing a new character aircraft. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | This year with the increases that we gave, still 241 parks out of 388 will have less money to operate than they did in 2003. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | We all want to protect the wildlife, the waterfowl, the salmon, all of which are affected by this. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | We are also working on the restoration of salmon runs, and we are doing a new process of mass marking with these fish so we can tell the wild fish from the hatchery fish. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | We are in a war on terrorism, a war in Iraq, a war in Afghanistan. We have our troops deployed all over the world. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | What I did was sit down with the Washington State officials, with the historic preservation people, with the tribe, the local community, the port of Port Angeles, and we worked this thing out, and we protected the tribe's interest. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | When you start walking away from the scientists, when the scientists start saying this does not hunt and you cannot change these rules and do it this way, you had better wake up, because you are going to go into court, they are going to testify and have that biologist up there, and he is going to say you have not done these regulations properly. |