Saxby Chambliss

Mr. CHAMBLISS

Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. Speaker, I want to recognize Prestolite Wire Corporation, the year 2000 recipient of the Georgia Oglethorpe award for performance excellence. Prestolite is the first manufacturing and small industry applicant to receive the state's highest honor. The Georgia Oglethorpe award is open to business, industry, government, education, healthcare, and non-profit organizations and is awarded for performance excellence. I would like to commend all the people of Prestolite Wire Corporation on their outstanding performance and operation that makes them the sole recipient of the award for the manufacturing, small industry category. This award should make everyone involved with Prestolite proud to be a part of a corporation to earn such a prestigious award.

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Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. Speaker, our government is too big and spends too much money. Americans are over taxed and being asked to pay too much to the federal government. Tax relief is about freedom. Freedom for American families to save, spend or invest as they see fit. Tax relief is about returning dollars and decisions back home to families in Georgia and across the country. Americans will send $5.6 trillion more to Washington over the next ten years than is needed to run the federal government. Some of these funds will be locked away to ensure that Social Security and Medicare are strengthened. Some of these funds will go toward reducing the national debt. And some of these funds will be spent on important priorities such as education, prescription drugs, and strengthen our military. But the rest of the federal budget surplus should be returned to the American people in the form of tax relief. Working Americans deserve relief now. We worked hard over the past few years to enact tax relief for American people but were stymied by the previous president. President Bush has shown leadership in putting forward a plan that helps relieve the tax burden on working families, and I am pleased that we now have an opportunity to provide a refund to those people who work hard everyday to make the greatest country in the world productive. The President's plan is balanced and fair; it reduces inequities in the tax code while at the same time providing for long term economic growth. This bill today will give tax relief to all taxpayers and return decision making power to families who know best how to spend their money. I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting this bill because it is simple and fair and will provide powerful incentives to save and invest.

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Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of the Senate Joint Resolution 6 to overturn the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's flawed ergonomics regulation. OSHA's Ergonomic rules are unnecessary, too costly to businesses, and may not accomplish the stated goal of improving worker safety. The proposed regulation is expected to cost $4.5 billion to the economy according to OSHA, I believe the cost will far exceed that. Small, medium, and large businesses would incur billions of dollars in new costs. If allowed to go into effect the OSHA regulation will be the biggest, most onerous new government mandate industries have faced in years, and there is absolutely no concrete evidence that it would result in a greater reduction in injuries. The problems with the OSHA ergonomics regulations are numerous. Musculoskeletal disorders are poorly defined with no differentiation between job injuries and those, which are pre-existing. It is impossible to ignore non-work-related factors, yet OSHA requires employers to do so. Furthermore, there is no medical standard for confirming injuries or a standard treatment protocol. Employees will also be left to determine whether to follow a federal OSHA requirement or state workers' compensation laws when any musculoskeletal disorder occurs. Industries have done extensive research of employees and their worker safety records. The results of their research have shown that voluntary initiatives such as early intervention, job rotation, worker training, new equipment, and increased mechanization contribute to improving worker safety records. Passing this resolution to rescind OSHA's ergonomics regulation will be a victory for workers and businesses in Georgia. We must ensure that workers have safe conditions in which to work while at the same time allowing businesses to prosper. The Clinton Administration's last minute, costly ergonomics mandate would have resulted in layoffs and higher prices for goods and services. I urge all of my colleagues to join me in supporting this resolution.

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Mr. CHAMBLISS. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Schrock) for bringing this resolution forward. Madam Speaker, I, too, want to extend my sincere condolences to the families of these brave soldiers who unfortunately died in this crash that occurred in my congressional district on Saturday morning. I really want to tell those folks how much we appreciate the sacrifice that they have made, because in the military it is a family affair. By families, we mean not only other men and women who serve in every branch of the military, but the close family ties that each of these men and women have with their own internal families. They are the ones that suffer from this and we sure do extend our condolences to them. I particularly want to recommend and commend to the folks that were on the scene in Dooley County, Georgia, on Saturday morning, who responded very quickly when the call came in that this crash had occurred. Sheriff Van Peavy, who is a dear friend, he and his folks just responded in a very quick and efficient manner to secure the premises. Commissioner Wayne West and all of his employees, Mayor Willie Davis of Vienna, Georgia, and the folks from Unadilla, Georgia responded in a very efficient manner and did a great job of securing the premises until the security personnel from Robbins Air Force Base could get there. Colonel Seward and his folks, Colonel Seward is commander of the 78th Air Base Wing at Robbins Air Force Base, and he was the commanding officer on the scene. And he and his personnel did a great job. Colonel Michael Norri was also the on-scene commander of the security forces there. They told me that at one point in time they had over 300 meals that went out to serve the volunteers and the personnel, military and civilian personnel, who were assisting with the cleanup and attending to the damage that was on the field. To the many EMTs, the volunteer firemen who responded to this emergency crash, we just extend our sincere congratulations and thank them for the job that they did. Once again, we really extend our condolences to the family members of these brave men.

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Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to recognize a distinguished gentleman from Georgia's 8th District who has recently passed away, Freddie J. Tidwell. Mr. Tidwell served four terms as Crawford County Commissioner and worked relentlessly to bring millions of dollars to Crawford County, Georgia. Additionally, he served Crawford County as Judge of Small Claims Court for 12 years, served in the U.S. Navy as an advisor to the South Korean Army during the Korean Conflict, and served as a Georgia State Representative. Mr. Tidwell made a career of serving people, and we all know this world needs more people who are willing to put selfishness aside and dedicate themselves to serving their community and their country. As a Member of Congress from Georgia, I am fortunate to have known Mr. Tidwell and had many opportunities to work with him on issues facing both Crawford County and the state of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, Georgia continues to be home to incredible leaders and public servants. Mr. Tidwell was one of those people. He was an outstanding American, and it is an honor to have known him.

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Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to honor Dr. Hugh C. Bailey an exceptional citizen from Valdosta, Georgia, on his retirement as President of Valdosta State University. Dr. Hugh Bailey was first appointed president of Valdosta State University in 1978 and has served admirably for twenty-two years. As a long time educator, Dr. Bailey is currently a member of the American History Association, American Red Cross, the South Georgia Chamber of Commerce, the Georgia Council on Economic Education and has served as the national president of Pi Gamma Nu. Dr. Bailey was born in Berry, Alabama, and earned his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Alabama. Furthermore, Dr. Bailey presided over the transformation of Valdosta State College into Valdosta State University and he oversaw the growing of Valdosta State University to be one of Georgia's two regional universities. I am very proud that my daughter, Lia, was in the second of Dr. Bailey's Valdosta State Universities graduating classes. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to recognize Dr. Bailey for his dedication to the future of our young people. He is an extraordinary citizen, and I am proud of his achievements and accomplishments, which have done so much to improve the lives of so many people in the Valdosta community and throughout Georgia. Dr. Bailey is a very good personal friend and I salute him for his dedicated service to the field of public education in our great state.

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Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the bills, H.R. 420 and H.R. 4694 be re-referred to the Committee on the Budget and that the bill, H.R. 167 be re-referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition the Committee on Ways and Means.

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Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to honor an exceptional citizen from Macon, Georgia's 8th Congressional District, Larry Justice of Macon, Georgia, on his retirement from the Bibb County Board of Commissioners. Larry Justice was first elected to the Macon Board of Commissioners in 1969 and has served as chairman for 10 years. As a long time public servant, Larry has served on the State of Georgia Local Health Advisory Commission and is the past president of the Macon Board of Realtors. I have had the distinct honor of working with Larry on such projects as the Fall Line Freeway, Robins Air Force Base and many other issues in transportation, health, education and defense. I will miss his tenacity and hard work ethic, as well as, our close working relationship. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to recognize Larry Justice for his dedication and service to Bibb County. He is an extraordinary citizen, and I am proud to serve as his Representative in the People's house.

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Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. Speaker, I want to pay tribute to Judge J. Clayton Warnock who has admirably served his community in Treutlen County, GA, for more than half a century. Judge Warnock was named Treutlen County attorney in 1947 and has also served as Solicitor of City Court and Judge of City Court of Soperton, which became the State Court of Treutlen County in 1968. During his years on the bench, Warnock reviewed over 40,000 cases, only two of which were appealed and those decisions were upheld by the Appellate Court. Judge Warnock resigned in 1991 for health reasons but continued to play an active role in the community of Treutlen County Hospital Authority and the Treutlen County Development Authority. Judge Warnock played an instrumental role in founding the county development authority and creating economic opportunities in Treutlen County, which have helped create and sustain jobs that are critical to livelihoods of many men and women in middle and south Georgia. His perseverance in following the law, his dedication to justice, his earnest work for the people of Georgia, and his commitment to improving the lives of the families of Treutlen County have characterized his service as a community leader. His life has been one of great public service, dedication, and commitment. It is my great honor to represent Judge Warnock and the people of Treutlen County for whom he has done so much. I applaud Judge Warnock for his leadership and distinguished service, congratulate him on a job well done, and wish him all the best in his future endeavors.

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Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate Coffee Regional Medical Center located in Douglas, GA, for receiving the 2000 Georgia Rural Health Association Rural Hospital of the Year Award. Moving into their new facility in 1998, Coffee Regional Medical Center is serving our community by promoting health and delivering health related services. Furthermore, this new facility has enabled Coffee Regional Medical Center to reduce operating expenses and increase profitability. This new facility has become a source of pride for the citizens of Coffee county, and I want to congratulate them on their accomplishments. The Rural Hospital of the Year Award is given on the merits of demonstrated excellence in service and organization and can be viewed as a model institution for others. Furthermore, I want to congratulate George Heck, President and CEO, as well as the entire staff of the Coffee Regional Medical Center for excelling in efficiency, quality of care, community support, volunteer programs, and relevance to the rural community of Coffee County. I wish them all continued success in serving the people of Coffee County, GA.

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Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. Speaker, I want to honor a great American, retired Lieutenant General Robert E. Hails, who has recently been selected for induction into the State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame. Lt. Gen. Hails graduated from Auburn University and received his wings and commission in 1944 at Moody Field in Valdosta, Georgia. During World War II, he completed 26 missions flying the B-24 Liberator bomber in the Pacific theater. After the war, Lt. Gen. Hails was instrumental in helping develop critical technology such as the first Heads Up Display (HUD), the use of an inertial gyroscope platform (IGP) for automatic navigation and guidance of aircraft and bomb launch, and the first use of a digital computer to control and integrate HUD and IGP systems. The Heads Up Display which Lt. Gen. Hails helped develop is essential to many of the newest and most important military aircraft in our force today, including the F-22, F-117, the F-14, and F-15. These innovations greatly assisted American pilots in performing their missions to defend and protect American interests around the world and even now serve commercial aviation by providing increased safety during takeoffs and landings in poor weather conditions. As the Director of Maintenance Engineering, Air Force Logistics Command, in 1968, Lt. Gen. Hails was responsible for engineering and developing of the pilotless reconnaissance aircraft used for missions over hostile territory during the Vietnam War. As Commander of the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, he provided engineering and logistical support to a range of crucial weapons system upon which our military consistently relied, including Air Force helicopters, C-130, C-141, F-15, and U-2 aircraft. His role as Vice Commander of Tactical Air Command and Deputy Chief of Staff of the Air Force have left a lasting legacy on our military which has most certainly contributed in developing the superior Air Force that continues to bravely and courageously serve our nation today. Lt. Gen. Hails deserves our greatest recognition. I have had the honor and pleasure of knowing and working with Lt. Gen. Hails. His important contributions to American engineering and aviation are well known, and I offer my sincerest congratulations to him on his induction into the State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame. His character, patriotism, and values are an inspiration to each of us and I am proud to pay tribute to this great American who has given so much for his country.

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Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. Speaker, I want to pay tribute to a great American and Georgian, Paul R. Nagle, who recently retired as president of the Macon, Georgia Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Nagle has been an inspiration to all of us. Appointed as president in 1991, Mr. Nagle has been a leader and public servant that has always given 100 percent to the citizens of Macon. Mr. Nagle was born in Hominy, Oklahoma, but serving his country and his professional career have taken him around the country. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and a major in Marketing. Additionally, he has given his time and energy to many wonderful causes including Robins Air Force Base 21st Century Partnership, the Macon, Georgia 2000 Partnership and the NewTown Macon Board. Mr. Speaker, I have had the distinct pleasure of working very closely with Mr. Nagle on many projects, including the very important Fall Line Freeway project. I am confident that his superior accomplishments and lasting legacy will continue to be felt in Macon and throughout Middle Georgia. I will miss working with Mr. Nagle, at the Macon Chamber, but will continue to wish him the best in his new endeavors.

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Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. Speaker, I want to pay tribute to Ola Mae Ford, a native of Macon who lives in Fort Hill in what is affectionately referred to as ``the house by the side of the road.'' Her house has this designation because she cooks incredibly delicious food every day, and people travel from all parts of the state to sit at her table and share her hospitality. She has been cooking all of her life, but her training at Albany State University and Atlanta University helped sharpen those skills that she used for 36 years as a Home Economics Teacher at Ballard Hudson Senior High School. Ms. Ford served as Advisor to the Future Teachers of America and was a member of the National Education and Professional Standards Commission. She has been actively involved with the American Red Cross, both locally and nationally, as well as the March of Dimes, the Central Georgia Health Agency, the Georgia State Health Planning Council, the American Legion's Auxiliary Girls' State Program, and the Southwest Optimist Club. She was appointed by two of Georgia's governors to serve on the Council of Maternal and Infant Health for twelve years. Presently, she continues to enthusiastically work to improve the lives of the people of Georgia by staying involved with many boards, such as the Board of Directors for Meals on Wheels, Bibb County Home Makers, Friends of the Ocmulgee Monument, Advisory Council for Neighborhood Health Care and President of the Fort Hill Neighborhood Association. Her life and work are centered around providing the generous gift of hospitality. I congratulate her on all of her life long efforts to build better communities and help others. I want to recognize the positive impact she has made on the lives of so many people. Her work and her contributions are important, and I want to salute her as an outstanding citizen of Georgia's Eighth District.

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Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate Victoria Clark, a Ware County High School freshman, for receiving top honors in the state of Georgia in the field of science. She has become a finalist in the Discovery Young Scientist Challenge and is competing with 40 students nationwide for a college scholarship. Miss Clark was recognized as a state winner because of the outstanding science project she entered in the state competition. The project she has been working on focuses on a way to detect early signs of age-related macular degeneration, which is incurable and hereditary. This disorder is the leading cause of blindness. Her research has explored the prospective of using a color hue test to discover the disease early on. Miss Clark was an eighth grade student when her project was chosen to compete at the state level. She won first place at the Georgia Science and Engineering Fair in April. She was chosen for the national competition from among 1,600 other middle school students in 23 states who entered the competition. Victoria Clark is a wonderful student and has been recognized many times before for her scholastic aptitude, especially in science. She is also a well-rounded young person and a contributing citizen of Waycross, Georgia. She is working for the betterment of her community, and with this project, she is contributing not only to her own success, but to finding a cure which threatens people the world over. Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate and honor Victoria Clark. She is a bright young person who is helping people by improving the detection of this life altering disease. Her research is amazing and has been recognized as such by teachers and scientists alike. For one so young, too, her accomplishments are exceptional. She serves as an example to all of us of what young people can do for others if given the opportunity.

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Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate Macon Iron and Paper Stock, Inc. today for their recent recognition by the Department of Labor. Macon Iron recently won the prestigious Director's Award for Safety at the annual Georgia Department of Labor's Health Safety and Environmental Conference. State Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond bestowed this award upon Macon Iron at the seventh annual meeting in Atlanta along with its sister companies General Steel, Industrial Alloy Supply, and Commercial Doors and Accessories. This award is presented to companies for criteria involving safety performance, contributions to the community, the sharing of safety information, and civic responsibility. Macon Iron was chosen from almost 100 companies in the state of Georgia who participate in the labor department's safety awards program, and was selected for their exceptional safety programs. I congratulate the employees of Macon Iron and its sister companies for their hard work and participation in making safety a top priority at work. The company is also to be commended for its endeavors to create a safe working environment for its staff. Macon Iron has exhibited great care for its people and should be an inspiration among the industry. In fact, the company has already taken steps to educate other businesses in the local area by holding safety seminars. Mr. Speaker, I believe this accolade is well deserved. It is my hope that by honoring Macon Iron in this way and in recognizing the company's many accomplishments, we can make an example of them that other companies in the State of Georgia and throughout our great nation will strive to follow.

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Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of this important bill, H.R. 4503, Historically Women's Public Colleges or Universities Historic Building Restoration and Preservation Act, which provides critical funding to assist a group of schools who pioneered improvements in educational opportunities for women throughout the United States. Like the other colleges and universities that we are supporting in this bill, Wesleyan was established to ensure that women in the United States receive a quality education. Wesleyan College was founded as a public college in 1836, by citizens of Macon, Georgia, as Georgia Female College and is the oldest women's college in the world that still educates exclusively women. For more than 160 years, Wesleyan, has prepared women for life, work, and service. Today, Dr. Nora Bell, President of Wesleyan, the faculty and staff of Wesleyan continue to promote women's education as a continual, integrated process of growth in mind, spirit, and body. Located on a 200-acre wooded campus, Wesleyan has multiple historic buildings on its current campus, including Persons Hall, Wortham Hall, and Banks Hall. I have had the distinct honor to visit the Wesleyan campus on many occasions. I have talked to students, toured the splendid historic building, and I firmly believe that providing funding for Wesleyan College as well as Georgia College and the other prestigious historically women's public colleges and universities will help restore some of our most precious historic landmarks and treasures and preserve the foundations of women's education in America.

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Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that my name be removed as a cosponsor of H.R. 4503.

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Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. Speaker, I think we can, provided the American people get involved. When the American people get involved and tell their Congressmen, ``Look, we do not want you to spend our Social Security Trust Fund money,'' then we are going to make sure that happens. I tell the story when I am on the road about my mother who is 83 years old, lives by herself, and depends on Social Security and a small pension that my dad left her, about the fact that she told me one time not long after I had come to Congress, she said, ``Listen, son, I want you to make sure when you get to Washington that my Social Security is protected.'' Unfortunately, until the last 2 years, I could not look her in the eye and say, ``Hey, we are protecting your Social Security.'' But now with the Congressional Budget Office certifying that, as of September 30, 1999, we did not spend one dime of that surplus on anything but Social Security, and it looks like for 2000, when we wind up the year next week, we are going to have the same certification coming from the Congressional Budget Office for the, again, only the second time in the last 35 years that a Republican Congress has grabbed ahold of this thing and we have made sure that we are not going to be spending that Social Security surplus.

Mr. CHAMBLISS. I yield to the gentleman from the 11th district of Georgia.

Mr. CHAMBLISS. The gentleman from the first district had another comment.

Mr. CHAMBLISS. We were talking about that fact earlier, that because we are now in a situation where we have excess cash flow and we can pay down that debt, we are having the debate now over the prescription drug issue, for example. But I can just see us if we had lived up to the Clinton-Gore administration expectation of having $194 billion deficit this year when they presented their budget in 1995. Does my colleague think we would be here arguing over how we are going to come up with an additional entitlement program within Medicare? There is just no way we would have done that. And the gentleman is exactly right. If we had that debt payment down to zero, and we had that additional funding from what we are paying out in interest, we could do a lot of things that would benefit the American people all across the tax spectrum, all across the social spectrum, and we can make life a lot easier for folks. That is why it is just so critical. And we are talking about now 13 years, just 13 short years we could pay off this entire debt.

Mr. CHAMBLISS. Not only does it have a cushion to look after veterans, but we took the Clinton budget last year, which called for a zero increase in veterans' health care, and we plussed that budget up last year by $1 billion and dedicated that $1 billion just for veterans' health care. Because the gentleman is right, that is a segment of our population that fought and risked their lives, in a lot of instances lives were lost, because those folks believed so strongly that this country ought to continue to live under that great flag of freedom and democracy and we can never forget those folks. Unfortunately, they have had a number of their rights and benefits taken away from them. Probably veterans' health care benefits have been taken away more so than any other area of their benefits. We plussed it up by $1 billion last year and dedicated it to health care alone. This year we have plussed up the President's budget again and we have increased the budget by $2.7 billion over last year. So we have added a total of $3.7 billion for veterans' benefits just in the last 2 years. Are we exactly where we want to be and ought to be with respect to restoring those benefits? No, we are not. But we are moving in the right direction in spite of a stone wall that we keep running into in the name of Clinton-Gore. They keep giving us smaller budgets, they keep wanting to reduce veterans' benefits, particularly in the area of health care, and we are taking them kicking and screaming down the road of making sure that our veterans do get the benefits to which they have been promised all these years and to which they are entitled to. And, dadgummit, we have just got to look after them.

Mr. CHAMBLISS. In fact, that bill was passed in this very House just last week; that where a veteran has a long distance to drive to go to a VA facility, when he needs medical treatment, we are going to have a pilot program now that we are going to look at that hopefully will be converted into a permanent program whereby those veterans will not have to drive that long distance to a facility. They will receive a voucher and they will be able to take that voucher to a physician or to a doctor close to their home and get medical treatment and have the Federal Government pay for it under the Veterans Administration. That is a significant improvement in the delivery of health care that we are going to be able to provide to veterans.

Mr. CHAMBLISS. When we took over control of the House of Representatives and the Senate in 1995, we had about 12,000 members of the Armed Forces who were receiving food stamps. Nobody in this House, I do not think, realized that. It came to our attention late in the process in the Committee on Armed Services. And when we discovered that, obviously everybody was appalled at that, and we began working on it. Over the last 6 years, we have reduced that figure from 12,000 to a little bit in excess of 3,000. It is somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000. I am not sure of the exact number, but we have cut it every single year. Again, we have cut it in spite of the fact the administration has not called for significant increases in defense spending that would allow us to give pay raises to those young men and women who are having to draw food stamps to feed their kids, instead of having the security and the peace of mind and knowing that their children are going to be fed and they can look after the business of trying to defend this country. So we have cut that list, and we are going to continue to work on it until we get all of those folks off of food stamps, because it is just not right. It is just not right. It is immoral, it is un-American, and it should not be the case. We have to continue to work on that. The gentleman is right, we are doing that with help from my colleague and the other members of the Committee on Appropriations who have been very generous in approving the defense budgets we have had over the last 6 years. And we have to continue down that road until we get all of these folks off of food stamps.

Mr. CHAMBLISS. Well, I can tell the gentleman who is going to go after that, because the 48th brigade of the National Guard of the State of Georgia has been called up, and they are in preparation and training right now to go to Bosnia in March. So they will be going about the time the group the gentleman is talking about is coming home. The gentleman from Minnesota and I actually went to Bosnia together, and we saw the troops over there and saw the activity going on. And just like my colleague from Georgia, I was opposed to getting involved in that. I failed to see a national security interest of the United States that was in jeopardy. But once we were there, once our troops were committed, then everybody here was absolutely and totally committed, and the gentleman from Minnesota and I had a great visit with those folks over there. Unfortunately, probably 90 percent of the men and women that we saw serving in Bosnia were either in the reserves or the National Guard, which means that they were called away not just from their families but from their jobs. They are not sure what is going to be there when they get back, and it really is a situation where the OPTEMPO in the military has been called to the brink. It is something that we are addressing now in the Committee on Armed Services. We are looking at if we have to continue down this path, and gosh knows I hope we will not have to continue being the policemen of the world, but we have to look at increasing the force structure of this country. I would yield to the gentleman from Minnesota.