The only thing worse than paying taxes is paying the tax and then not getting the promised benefit from it.

I cannot conceive of a circumstance where I would support an increase in federal taxes.

I am again standing before Congress requesting that the Transportation Trust Funds be treated fairly.

I look forward to working with the aviation community, the Administration, and others on this.

1999 will be the year of aviation.

It would not be a national tragedy if Clinton listened to them.

Researchers are learning more about AIDS, although the epidemic still rages out of control in much of the world.

Negotiated agreements have produced a shaky peace between the factions in Northern Ireland and between the Israelis and Palestinians on the West Bank, raising hopes for a permanent decline in hostilities.

As Americans count their blessings on Thanksgiving Day, it would be appropriate if they looked at the freedoms and opportunities that have been handed down from the Founding Fathers.

This Member would like to commend to his colleagues this November 26, 1998, Omaha World Herald editorial.

The State of the Union address has become a long, shallow and predictable bit of political theater.

Nothing in the Constitution says a president must deliver a prime-time, televised speech from the House of Representatives every year.

It has degenerated into the kind of exaggerated conduct that one would expect to find in an old-fashioned melodrama.

This Member strongly commends to the attention of his colleagues an editorial found in the January 5, 1999, edition of the Omaha World Herald entitled, 'Discreet State of Union Would Do.'

The world has enough food. Indeed, surpluses are a bigger problem than hunger in some places.

Overpopulation is at the root of many other problems, including deprivation, environmental degradation, illegal immigration and disease.

This act forbids the federal government from establishing any national ID cards or establishing any identifiers for the purpose of investigating, monitoring, overseeing, or regulating private transactions between American citizens.

Perhaps the most important part of the Freedom and Privacy Restoration Act is the section prohibiting the use of the Social Security number as an identifier.