Alan Mollohan

Mr. MOLLOHAN

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the distinguished gentlewoman from California [Ms. Woolsey]. (Ms. WOOLSEY asked and was given permission to revise and extend her remarks.)

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, I support the compromise agreement to restore $34 million to programs under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Mr. Chairman, this compromise will be completely offset. Specifically, this compromise would add $20 million to important programs under NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service. It would restore funding for the popular Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, and increase funding by $5 million for the Coastal Zone Management grants. Finally, Mr. Chairman, it would add $5 million for the Coastal Ocean Program. Mr. Chairman, NOAA's fishery and coastal ocean programs have traditionally been underfunded and they took really painful cuts in this year's bill. Restoring the programs to the levels that these numbers reflect will prevent the deterioration of vital national resources. Mr. Chairman, let me express my appreciation to all of those who have supported our efforts with regard to my original amendment. Also, I would like to express appreciation to the chairman for his accommodation in reaching a compromise which is reflected in his substitute amendment. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I express great appreciation to our colleague, the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. Fields], for his leadership in this area, and his efforts to make sure that when we address this crime issue, that we do it in a comprehensive sort of way and look to prevention. I want to note that the chairman, in his mark, does look to prevention as I add up the numbers. There is $166 million in the crime trust fund for prevention programs. We have just recently added $50 million, through the chairman's good graces, to the violence against women account. The subcommittee transferred $40 million over to Labor- HHS, all for violence against women. All of these are prevention programs. What the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. Fields] does here is simply add a few more dollars to prevention programs, recognizing that intervention, particularly with our youth at an early stage, can prevent the crime that we are trying to fight here, and prevention is just that, prevention. For every dollar we spend there, we pick up a lot of dollars on the crime-fighting side. I strongly support the gentleman's amendment. It is a relatively small amount of money added to the already $166 million that the chairman supports, as I add it up here, and it is a little complicated because we have a number of different counts. But the point is, our chairman has supported prevention, we are supporting it. The Fields amendment would support it, give greater resources, and we need them. We need them for programs like family demonstration grants and at-risk youth grants. I do not think anybody in this body can deny that. I strongly support the gentleman's amendment.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself 30 seconds. I say to the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Shaw], the point I wanted to make is we are trying to get Florida more dollars, and Florida is a net beneficiary under our amendment.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. I thank the gentleman for yielding. First of all, we are not taking 10 percent. We are taking $30 million out of the half a billion.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Reclaiming my time, one of the premises was there would be a net loss to the States. That is incorrect. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Stupak], another distinguished Member who has worked so hard on crime fighting and been such an integral part of our crime task force on the minority side.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the distinguished gentleman from Alabama [Mr. Cramer].

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the distinguished gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Tanner]. (Mr. TANNER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

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

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield such time as she may consume to the gentlewoman from Michigan [Ms. Rivers]. (Ms. RIVERS asked and was given permission to revise and extend her remarks.)

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.

Mr. MOLLOHAN

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I withdraw my reservation of objection. I hope there will be restrained respect of our time limits and that the gentleman will come in if they have these issues and they want to speak on them. I hope in the future that we would come and get time during the agreed-upon originally time, and I withdraw my reservation of objection.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. I yield to the gentleman from New Jersey.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, reserving the right to object, we have agreed to a time certain on these amendments, and I think it is extremely important to move this bill efficiently tonight. I think everybody agreed by unanimous consent on these time limits, and I would very reluctantly ask that the gentleman reconsider his request.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I will seek time.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. We have no objection. Does that mean we get 5 minutes on this side? Mr. Chairman, who is to control the time?

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I object.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the distinguished gentlewoman from Texas [Ms. Jackson-Lee].

Mr. MOLLOHAN. You are so persuasive, even in the interpretation of this language.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. That is Barbara Franklin.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, Barbara Franklin also says, ``Now entering its third year, the Advanced Technology Program has demonstrated its ability to attract top-flight proposals from virtually every field of technology, and from innovation companies both large and small.'' She goes on.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, reclaiming my time, Secretary of Commerce Barbara Franklin, under the Bush administration, says, ATP is an excellent example of the kind of practical partnership between industry and government that can lay the foundations today for commercial successes in world markets tomorrow.