Ralph Hall

Mr. HALL of Texas

Mr. HALL of Texas. I thank the chairwoman. Madam Chair, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Rohrabacher).

Mr. HALL of Texas. Madam Chairman, I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. HALL of Texas. Madam Chairman, I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. HALL of Texas. Madam Chairwoman, I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. HALL of Texas. Madam Chairman, I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. HALL of Texas. Madam Chair, I yield 4 minutes to Mr. Sensenbrenner, the gentleman from Wisconsin.

Mr. HALL of Texas. Madam Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. HALL of Texas. Madam Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. HALL of Texas. Madam Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. HALL of Texas. Madam Chairman, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Bilbray).

Mr. HALL of Texas. Madam Chairman, we have no further speakers, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. HALL of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. HALL of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. HALL of Texas. Mr Chairman, acting as the designee of Mr. Broun of Georgia, I have an amendment at the desk.

Mr. HALL of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I rise to claim time in opposition to this amendment.

Mr. HALL of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I rise to claim time in opposition to this amendment.

Mr. HALL of Texas. This amendment creates a new program, as Mr. Markey has said, to pursue commercialization of clean energy technologies. This is not necessarily the problem. We all agree that clean energy technologies are worth pursuing. The problem, however, is that the clean energy technology program created by this amendment is duplicative of another new program already in the bill, the Energy Innovation Hubs program, and I am opposed to the Hubs program because it is largely duplicative of existing DOE and R&D activities. So the amendment duplicates a program that's already duplicative itself. Further, these programs are expensive and expand the bureaucracy within the Department of Energy, which is already too large. We need to be consolidating and streamlining DOE's many R&D programs, not creating new ones on top of new ones. I strongly oppose this amendment, and I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. HALL of Texas. Under the Miller amendment, any public university receiving funds in this bill would be required to maintain an ``information policy,'' wherein they would have to produce any documents or information that a union requests within 15 days or face the threat of losing Federal funding. Additionally, it would place a bureaucrat at a grant-awarding agency, say the National Science Foundation, in charge of determining whether a union was entitled under State or local labor law to the information it requested, and whether the university should lose Federal dollars because it has not given to the union every bit of information which it asked for. Should NSF be determining whether a university is fulfilling its obligation under State and local labor law? I ask that question. Also, although the amendment applies to all schools receiving grants under this bill, the bottom line, Mr. Chairman, is that this is a political issue specific to one university, the University of California. It is my understanding that the University of California has been negotiating a contract with the United Auto Workers for some time. These negotiations are completely a function of California State law and have nothing to do with the Federal Government. Rather than attempting to exercise any right or remedy under State law, the UAW has chosen to involve my friends on the other side in threatening the university with Federal dollars to buckle to the union's demands. This is all I have to say about this. I find this amendment troubling, and urge its defeat. I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. HALL of Texas. I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. HALL of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.

Mr. HALL of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. HALL of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. HALL of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.

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

Mr. HALL of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I rise to claim time in opposition to the amendment.