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Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Speaker, I would like to enter into the Congressional Record a tribute to Mr. William L. Halsey III of Huntsville, AL, for his longtime contributions to our community and the betterment of society. In honor of Mr. Halsey's extraordinary efforts on behalf of Huntsville, Madison County, and the State of Alabama, the Arthritis Foundation has chosen him to be the co-recipient of this year's James Record Humanitarian Award. It is a fitting tribute to one who has provided so much time, so much labor, and so much inspiration for the success of our region. Mr. Halsey represents the third generation of the Halsey family to run W.L. Halsey Grocery Company, Inc., where he serves as chairman of the 119-year-old company today. He served our country during World War II, then he returned to his native Huntsville. To our community's great benefit, he devoted his considerable talent to the development of business, military, and non- profit interests of our area. He has served on a long and distinguished list of civic and business organizations, including service as past president of the Huntsville- Madison County Chamber of Commerce, past president of the Huntsville Rotary Club, and past president of the Huntsville-Madison County Industrial Development Association. He has received many awards and honors for his work, including an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Alabama and the Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Service Award. Mr. Speaker, speaking as a native Huntsvillian and a military veteran, I offer special thanks to Mr. Halsey for his service as chairman of the Huntsville Army Advisory Committee in building Redstone Arsenal into the world-class institution it is today. As the congressman for Alabama's Fifth Congressional District, it is an honor for me to have this opportunity to congratulate Mr. Halsey for being chosen for this year's Humanitarian Award and commend him for his lifetime of dedication to our community-at-large.

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Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the long-awaited completion of the four-laning of U.S. Highway 72 in northern Alabama. On Friday, August 7, we will dedicate the final section of the highway to be completed from the city of Stevenson to the city of Bridgeport at the Alabama-Tennessee state line. Our community has worked toward this day and waited for this day for a very long time. For the first time ever, people will be able to travel on four lanes of Highway 72 from state line to state line. It will be a better highway and, most importantly, a safer highway. This last section of Highway 72 has been a dangerous, narrow stretch of road. Tragically, we have lost lives on this highway. The completion of this road is long overdue. Mr. Speaker, in recognizing the completion of Highway 72, I would like to pay special recognition to Congressman Bob Jones, without whose work this day would not have been possible. Congressman Jones represented north Alabama in the House of Representatives with distinction and honor for 30 years. A native of Jackson County, Congressman Jones was the chairman of the House Public Works and Transportation Committee. The four-laning of Highway 72 is part of the enormous legacy that Congressman Jones left the state of Alabama. Sadly, Mr. Speaker, Congressman Jones passed away last year at the age of 85. We deeply regret that Congressman Jones will not be with us at Friday's dedication, but we know he will be with us in spirit. When I first came to Congress, I knew that the completion of Highway 72 had to be one of my top priorities, for the sake of the people who travel on 72 and the sake of the groundwork laid by Congressman Jones and my immediate predecessor, Congressman Ronnie Flippo. I want to thank all of my colleagues in the House who voted for the $25 million I proposed for the completion of Highway 72. With this money, the Alabama Department of Transportation was able to finally finish the highway. In closing, Mr. Speaker, I would like to commend all of the citizens of Alabama who poured their time and effort into the four-laning of Highway 72. The dedication of this last section of the highway is a major milestone for our people and our community.

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Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Mr. Ernest Young, Deputy to the Commanding General at the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command in Huntsville, AL. Mr. Young is planning to retire this year after 42 years of outstanding work in the Civil Service. This afternoon in Huntsville, a special ceremony will be held to honor Mr. Young and recognize his distinguished career. It is a fitting tribute for one who has made such an enormous contribution to his community and his country. Born in South Carolina, Ernie Young graduated magna cum laude from Furman University with a bachelor's of science degree in physics. He went on to receive a master's degree in public administration from the University of Oklahoma. Mr. Young began his Civil Service career in 1956. He was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in 1981. He has held a wide variety of critical positions, culminating in his current assignment as Deputy to the Commanding General at AMCOM. In this position, Mr. Young has provided a wealth of experience, integrity, and leadership. From policy development through program execution to mission accomplishment, Mr. Young has done a truly extraordinary job in pursuit of the goals and objectives of this command. Mr. Young's previous assignments were as Deputy for Procurement and Readiness, Assistant Deputy for Readiness, and Deputy Director for Maintenance and Engineering. During the early 1970's, he was assigned to United Technologies as a participant in the Presidential Executive Exchange Program. During the early 1980's, he chaired the U.S. Army Missile Command (MICOM) Readiness Organizational Refinements Planning Group, restructuring the total logistics functions within the command. Mr. Young was selected as the first civilian Deputy to the Commanding General in June 1993. He serves as Chairman of the AMCOM Resource Committee, Acquisition Streamlining Committee, Materiel Release Review Board, and the Training and Executive Development Committee. He also serves as Alternate Chairman on the Materiel Acquisition Review Board. Among the many honors he has received include the Meritorious Civilian Service Award (1983) and three Presidential Rank Awards (Meritorious--1989; Distinguished--1991; Meritorious--1994). Mr. Young is married to the former June Barker. They have one daughter, Connie. Mr. Speaker, as the U.S. Representative for Alabama's Fifth Congressional District, I want to commend Mr. Young for his lifetime of service to our nation and wish him and his family the very best in his retirement.

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Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Chairman, I thank my friend, the gentleman from Florida for yielding. I want to associate myself with his remarks. I, too, rise in opposition to the Roemer amendment. This is a first for us. We have debated this amendment many, many times before. We have had a fair fight. But never have we debated it in the wee hours of the morning like this and under these circumstances. But my colleague, the gentleman from Florida, makes excellent points about our international partners. By the end of this year, NASA and the international partners will have built over half a million pounds of flight hardware. The first two elements of the Space Station will be in orbit. It is too late to turn our back on this project now. If we turn our back on this project, we are turning our back on human space flight; and we cannot do that either. Make no mistake about it, the type of medical research that we have been talking about here tonight, we cannot do that unless we go up there in space on a permanently manned orbiting laboratory. This has been in design. We spent millions and billions of dollars on this, and we cannot turn our back on it. I also want to congratulate the chairman of the committee and ranking member of the committee. They have had to make some tough choices. They have had to engage in a tough balancing act, but they have done it. I thank them for it. We in Alabama are proud of them for having done it. I say let us get off of NASA's back. We have made them dot I's. We have made them cross T's. We held the NASA employees hostage. It is time for us to move forward. Oppose the Roemer amendment.

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Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of the Foley amendment. I was an original cosponsor of this bill which is now the subject matter of this amendment. While all States have approved laws providing background checks for school personnel or day care workers, only about six give access to that information to youth-serving nonprofit volunteer organization. It is very important that we cover that loophole. So I applaud this amendment. I applaud the subject matter here today, and I have enjoyed working with the gentleman from Florida in regard to this end result.

Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Chairman, the gentlewoman from Texas knows, we serve together on the Children's Caucus as well, and I want to congratulate her for her leadership there. I congratulate the gentleman from Florida (Mr. McCollum) for this bill, H.R. 3494, the Child Protection and Sexual Predator Punishment Act. I rise in strong support of that piece of legislation. Mr. Chairman, in my prior life, I was a district attorney in Alabama from 1980 until 1990. In 1980 through our criminal justice system there, we took four cases involving victimization of children in sexual situations into the criminal justice system. Unfortunately when I left there in 1990, we had hundreds of cases that we took into the criminal justice system that involved child victims of sexual abuse. The criminal justice system has not been equipped to deal with this very difficult subject matter. We needed to reach out and bond with one another. We needed to reach out and establish bridges to the mental health communities to make sure that the State level, the Federal level, the local level were working effectively and to make sure that in today's world, today's technologies, that we were doing everything that we needed to do in order to prevent these kind of offenses from occurring. Unfortunately, prosecutors react to cases that have already occurred. The gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Slaughter) has an amendment that I assume will be accepted, or I hope will be accepted, that authorizes the National Institute of Justice to conduct a study of sexual predators. We need that information. We need that helping hand. We are punishing these offenders, we are sending them to institutions, they are staying there for a brief period of time, and they are coming back into our communities and they are re-offending against children. We need to know what works and what does not work. We need to know what resources can be available for children, what resources we can take advantage of in order to hopefully rehabilitate some of these people that will be preying on our children. But we cannot make this system tough enough. We cannot punish these offenders enough. We have got to put them away. We have got to protect our children. The gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Franks) will speak about an amendment in a few minutes as well. I have enjoyed working with him as a cochair of the Caucus for Missing and Exploited Children. I was on that national board for a number of years while I was district attorney. There are people all over this country that are reaching out saying that we need to work better together to protect our children. This is a growing problem in our local communities. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of this bill. I can only say, I hope we can put more money where our mouth is. I hope that we can eventually not just tell these agencies what we want them to do but give them a helping hand, give them the funding that they need, give them the legislation that they need, give us the studies that we need in order to better protect our communities and our children. Again, I congratulate the chairman of the committee and say this is a good piece of legislation. I hope to work with him down the line to make sure that we fill in the gaps and make this even stronger.

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Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Chairman, I thank the ranking member for yielding me this time. I rise reluctantly in opposition to the en bloc amendments. Our colleague from Massachusetts just spoke about the tritium issue. The Markey-Graham amendment is a dangerous amendment, and I hope my colleagues will listen to me. The issue is tritium. We will be interrupting, if we adopt this amendment in the en bloc amendments, we will be interrupting an already mandated process by DOE to evaluate how we produce tritium. This country must have tritium for bombs. But tritium is not a substance that we are not already seeing commercial use of. It is used on airport runways. It is used in exit signs. There have been opportunities before for us to use this very important substance. Back in 1988, we decided we had enough tritium. In 1993, we decided that we needed more tritium; that we needed to advance the production of it. So we mandated that DOE begin a process of evaluating how we would do that. If we adopt this amendment today, we are eliminating one of the two options for producing tritium that are under consideration by DOE. So the Members need to be aware this is a very controversial amendment. This is a very controversial process that we will be getting into. And if Members are confused, they should vote against the en bloc amendments in order to allow DOE and the administration to complete a process that we started. So please pay attention to this amendment. It should not be in the en bloc amendments. There has been no hearing over this particular issue at all, and here we are on the floor, within a matter of a few minutes that we can squeeze out, trying to decide an issue that is extremely important to this country. Please vote against the en bloc amendments because of the Markey- Graham amendment.

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Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Mrs. Doreen Silverman Brogden, a woman who is a credit to our nation, the state of Alabama, and my alma mater, the University of Alabama School of Law, where she has been employed for the past 30 years. Doreen Silverman was born in England during the War. In 1957 she traveled to the United States to live with her aunt and uncle in Brooklyn, New York. One year later, at a dance in the city, she met a young American serviceman named Harold Brogden. Eight months later, on December 29, 1958, they were married. In 1961 Mrs. Brogden moved with Harold back to his native Alabama, where he attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Born and bred in London, she was not at all sure about moving to this southern state. But, as she has so often in her life, Doreen Brogden summoned the grace and pluck instilled in her at the Skinner School for Girls in Stamford Hill, and approached change with open arms. Upon arriving in Alabama, Mrs. Brogden found employment with a local attorney, Mr. Gordon Rosen, and began to learn the ways of the Bar. On September 1, 1968, she joined the staff of the University of Alabama School of Law as secretary to Dean Daniel J. Meador. She served under two subsequent deans, Thomas L. Jones and Thomas W. Christopher, before becoming the school's Law Publications Coordinator in 1984. In this capacity, Doreen Brogden has served as sage and assistant to over a generation of student editors on the staffs of the Alabama Law Review, The Journal of the Legal Profession, the Law and Psychology Review, and the American Journal of Tax Policy. Over the years, Mrs. Brogden has worked tirelessly to better the law school she calls home. At the same time, she has been a loving wife to her husband Harold and a devoted mother to their son Gregg, who was born in 1966. You will see pictures of both prominently displayed in her office at the law school among those of her favorite students and faculty members throughout the years--of which there are many. Yet no picture is more prominently displayed than that of Gregg and his wife Lyric, whom he married in 1993. When you meet Doreen Brogden for the first time, she will tell you that she lives by the creed her mother taught her in England: ``I bow down to God only, the rest of us are equal.'' She is as good as her word. From deans to law students, Doreen Brogden treats them all alike: as peers when they deserve it, as friends if they can earn it, and, above all else, as her own children. Mrs. Brogden is an exemplary Alabamian who has earned the respect and gratitude of a countless number of Alabama law students. She is particularly treasured by the staff of the Alabama Law Review, where she has guided countless Managing Boards through the trials and tribulations of producing three issues a year. As we approach the 30th anniversary of her joining the University of Alabama School of Law, I seek to honor this special woman. We are grateful that she found her way to our state, a state she loves as much as any native-born citizen. But Alabama cannot claim all of Doreen Silverman Brogden. She is truly an international individual, and she exemplifies a goodness that knows no boundaries. Mr. Speaker, I join today with her many friends and admirers at the law school in thanking Doreen Brogden for her life of service and her heart of gold.

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Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I also would like to rise in support of H.R. 112. I thank the chairman of the committee for making sure that this important piece of legislation made it to the floor here at the concluding hours. This is a noncontroversial measure, as the chairman has indicated. It simply allows the Administrator of NASA to transfer this land to the Stanislaus County, California, government there. The land had been previously owned by the Navy and then transferred to NASA. NASA indicates that it has no further use for this particular parcel, except that it would like to reserve the right to use it for aviation purposes. H.R. 112 does allow the NASA Administrator to preserve that right, and as well, to review to see that there are any other interests that would be in the best interests of the government. So I agree with the chairman, this is a win-win situation for the Federal Government, for the county government there in California, and I urge Members to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 112. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

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Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Speaker, I object to the vote on the ground that a quorum is not present and make the point of order that a quorum is not present.

Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I am privileged today to rise with the chairman of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics in full support of the Commercial Space Act of 1997; that is, H.R. 1702, as amended. I want to say as well to the chairman of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, the chairman of the full committee, as well as the gentleman from California [Mr. Brown], the ranking member, that it has been a pleasure to work with them on this very important piece of legislation. Since the early years of the space age, successive Congresses and administrations have supported the development of a healthy, robust commercial space sector on a bipartisan basis. I think this that we are offering today is a reflection of that. As a result, we have already witnessed the explosive growth of the commercial satellite communications systems. This offers us so much potential, systems that have brought the rest of the world as close to us as the telephone and the television. Companies are investing billions of dollars to make sure that the next generation is able to benefit the way they should be able to benefit. However, space commercialization is not just confined to the satellite communications. This Congress in years past has had an aggressive record of making sure that we were proactive in this area. Back in 1984, the Congress enacted the Commercial Space Launch Act. That led to the development of a U.S. commercial space launch industry that is competitive on a worldwide basis. Then again in 1992, we enacted the Land Remote Sensing Policy Act, which my colleague has detailed. This has kick-started the commercial remote sensing industry in this country and given us a tremendous lead and a tremendous advantage. Today H.R. 1702, as amended, should be seen as another effort in those steps to help advance the commercial space sector. It includes a number of important provisions. In particular, I think a very important provision would allow the Department of Transportation to license reentry vehicle operations. That provision and other provisions are noncontroversial. There are provisions in there that would make sure that we move toward the eventual commercial operation of the reusable launch systems, the next generation of space transportation systems. I am someone who has long been a supporter of efforts to reduce the launch costs. I think it is very important to this country that we accomplish that. I am pleased that we are including such provisions, the licensing provisions, in H.R. 1702. Mr. Speaker, again I want to thank the chairman of the Committee on Science, the chairman of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, and the gentleman from California [Mr. Brown], the ranking member, for their diligence and years of work on this legislation and similar legislation. I think H.R. 1702, as amended, is a useful piece of legislation, and I urge its passage today. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I have enjoyed very much working with my colleague across the aisle. In my years here in Congress, I came to this Congress so I could be on this committee, we have accomplished a number of extraordinary things together. We have fought battles in the trenches; won most of them, but not all of them. I want to congratulate the gentleman as well and the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Sensenbrenner] as well as the gentleman from California [Mr. Brown] for those years of service. I just hope that my move now to another committee will give me a chance to advance my work with the space issues as well.

Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore [Mr. Packard]. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from California [Mr. Rohrabacher] that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 1702, as amended.

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Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Chairman, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from California [Mr. Brown], former chairman of the full committee, ranking member of the full committee, and strong advocate for NASA.

Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume and I rise in opposition to the amendment. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to the annual Roemer amendment. It is springtime and he is persistent, and here we are again. Since I came to the Congress in 1991, we have had more than 25 votes on this issue in the committee and on the floor, so needless to say, most Members of this House, except for our new Members of the 105th have had an opportunity to hear these arguments that we make every year. I want to echo some of the comments that the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Sensenbrenner], the chairman of the Committee on Science, has made already. It is just too late for us to turn our back on this program. It would not be the responsible thing to do. I do want to make a few additional points for the freshman Members that may not have heard this debate for the first time. The international space station is not a new program. Even as we debate today, there are thousands of engineers and scientists that are hard at work in the United States, Canada, Japan, Europe, and Russia, building and testing the space station systems and components. More than 160,000 pounds of hardware have already been built in the United States alone. The program is scheduled to start launching the first segments of the space station next year. This amendment, this annual Roemer amendment, would waste all of that hard work and the taxpayer dollars that have been spent today on the station program. That is not the fiscally responsible thing to do. The space station makes good sense. I wish that other Members had the opportunity to hear the testimony of the world class scientists that appeared before the committee this year and other years, as well regarding the advances that they believe will be responsible or will be possible from the research conducted in the weightless environment of space, research that cannot be conducted here on earth. These potential advances span the spectrum from increased understanding, development of exotic new materials that could revolutionize any terrestrial processes, and the design of new pharmaceutical processes as well. The space station, as has been pointed out, is an international cooperative venture including cost-sharing by more than a dozen nations. If we turn our back now, our lawyers will inherit a possible nightmare that we will have to sort through. Now, there is one issue that my colleague, Mr. Roemer, will bring up over and over, and that is the concern in the delays over the Russian involvement, the Russian funding of its space station contributions. I believe, under the leadership of the chairman and ranking member of the full committee, that this bill contains tough provisions to make it clear to Russia that we expect them to honor their commitments to this program. Mr. Chairman, this is a bad amendment. I urge Members to defeat it. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Kucinich], also a new voice in this debate. (Mr. KUCINICH asked for and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of H.R. 1275, the Civilian Space Authorization Act for fiscal years 1998 and 1999. I believe this is a good bill and that it is the result of a bipartisan effort by members of the Committee on Science. I want to congratulate the chairman of the committee, the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Sensenbrenner], the chairman of the subcommittee, the gentleman from California [Mr. Rohrabacher], as well as the ranking member, the gentleman from California [Mr. George Brown] for their work in crafting this important piece of legislation. This provides for a balanced NASA program, fully funding its critical missions, and I am pleased that the bill maintains the Congress' commitment to the Space Shuttle and Space Station Programs. These programs are critical to our Nation's future in space and are the heart of the human space flight endeavor. I am sure we will hear a little more about the Space Station Program when we likely debate what I believe is an ill-considered amendment to cancel the station program. I believe the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Roemer] will consider offering that amendment again here. I want to focus on many more of the positive provisions of H.R. 1275. This bill ensures that the taxpayers' investment in the space station is protected. We have erected a firewall between the funding for the Space Station science payloads and the funding for the space station's hardware development. We need to make sure that the station program that we are building is a productive world-class research laboratory, and I believe this bill goes a long way toward ensuring that that goal is attained. We heard through the committee hearing process from many different points of view. We heard loudly from the medical research community that they need the Space Station Program in order to continue to build on the highly effective life and microgravity science research that we are already conducting on the space shuttle program. We heard from many witnesses about advances that are being made with infectious disease, combatting that, advances that are being made in treating particular kinds of cancers, diabetes, other issues as well, that cannot go much further here on Earth, they need the Space Station Program in order to get there. This research has real potential for commercial development, and I hope those new Members of Congress that may be somewhat reserved about our investment in the Space Station Program will listen during this debate to the advances that we have made over those issues. H.R. 1275 provides funding in fiscal year 1998 to allow NASA to continue flight research activities on the shuttle until the Space Station Program becomes operational. H.R. 1275 also contains a number of tough provisions regarding the Russian participation in the Space Station Program. Cooperation with Russia in space offers many benefits to America, but that cooperation has to be based on each party living up to its commitments. The Space Station Program that is funded through the authorization of this bill sends a strong signal to Russia that we expect them to deliver on their promises. Turning to space science, I think we do an outstanding job in this piece of legislation to fully fund the President's request for space science. For example, the bill funds the continued operation of the Hubbell space telescope, which is making exciting scientific discoveries that are rewriting science textbooks. In all, H.R. 1275 is a strong bill, and I urge my colleagues to consider this bill. I have more to say, but I want to make sure that I give the chairman of the committee the opportunity to discuss this. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to my relentless colleague, the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Roemer].

Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to my colleague, the gentleman from California [Mr. Capps].

Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Chairman, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Lampson].

Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Chairman, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Maryland [Mr. Hoyer].

Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, in closing on this side because we have no more speakers during general debate, I once again would like to congratulate the chairman of the committee and the chairman of the subcommittee. They have certainly made my few months in this job a pleasure. I have enjoyed working with them, and I think we have accomplished a lot. I particularly enjoy the way the gentleman from California [Mr. Rohrabacher] has approached the hearings of the committee and I look forward to working with him more thoroughly as we move on through the year. In closing, I would just like to make the point that NASA is an important part of America's total investment in R&D. NASA has pushed back the boundaries in countless areas of space and technology. We have so much to be thankful to NASA for. Their aeronautics programs have helped stimulate the growth and prosperity of our Nation's aviation industry, an industry that is the envy of all the world. Most importantly, NASA's programs have inspired our youth. NASA's achievements are a proud symbol of America's technological superiority and our citizens have reaped a bountiful harvest from our investment in the space program. In sum, I believe that H.R. 1275 is a bill that maintains a balanced civil space program and maintains America's leadership in space. I urge my fellow Members to support this bill.

Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the en bloc amendment. I will have an amendment to the amendment, but I do support the manager's amendment.

Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment to the amendment.