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over the last 40 years, the Congress has perfected a new dance--the 10th amendment shuffle. The music for this dance starts playing when the Congress runs out of Federal tax dollars to spend, but still has several key projects on their…
How in the world could a Senator from Nebraska, after reading this work by the Wharton group, support a balanced budget amendment? Well, No. 1, I have not had a chance to study this in great detail. Obviously, the organization that…
my colleagues know that I am a long-time supporter of the balanced budget constitutional amendment. We have tried numerous other remedies, but they have failed to restrain our buy-now-and-pay-later habits. We have only proved how clever we…
last year the city of Gretna, NE, a small town in my district in the eastern part of Nebraska, population a couple thousand, was ordered by the EPA to spend $12,000 above and beyond their normal costs of $2,000 for additional testing to…
I rise to talk at length about the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlements and Tax Reform, a subject that I believe eventually this body will be compelled to address. When it does, it will be, of necessity, a bipartisan effort. We will not…
the fact is that Medicare spending will continue to skyrocket due to an aging population, even in the miraculous event that Federal health care costs were held to the rate of inflation--highly unlikely. Any time anybody gets close to…
the liberal defenders of the old order said it could not happen. The Democrat-controlled Congresses of previous years would not let it happen. But finally a Republican-controlled House made it happen. We passed a balanced budget amendment…
as we move forward on the mandates legislation, I would like to read a portion of a newspaper article that appeared in the Omaha World Herald on January 24. The headline reads: ``States Fear Mandates, Expert Says; Balanced Budget Could…
in February 1982 President Ronald Reagan said the Federal Government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the States, and too much liberty with the Constitution. Truer words were never spoken. That argument…
the top 10 reasons why the American people deserve a balanced budget amendment: No. 10, fiscal discipline does not work. No. 9, we need to make it as difficult to get into debt as it is going to be to get out of it. No. 8, the national…
Today the House continues debate on H.R. 5, a bill which will provide for the examination of past and future unfunded mandates and regulations, imposed on State and local governments, as well as the private sector. This bill has the…
last week a Member of the President's Cabinet declared that balancing the budget was not the goal of the Clinton administration. So what is the administration's goal, if it is not a balanced budget? Is it to continue mortgaging our…
over the course of the last week, the American people have seen a great deal of discussion in the Chamber about book deals. They have seen partisan posturing and parliamentary tricks designed to slow down if not halt completely the course…
this Nation is at a historic junction. Either we can follow the same course we have followed for the last 40 years, a course of tax and spend, a course of rocketing deficits, or we can steer this flagship America into a new direction, a…
I am not worried about what the other body is going to do. We have 230 votes on here. We have to find another 60 to make it 290. Once we do that, the ball is in their court. But we have stood and delivered to the American taxpayer. That is…
But, Mr. Speaker, not just any kind of balanced budget amendment, a balanced budget amendment that has taxpayer protection as its centerpiece. The taxpayer protection I am talking about is the three-fifths super majority. But what does…
I would simply amplify what I said before: in practice, that is the way it has always worked. It has worked very, very well. We do not think it should change.
my answer would be that obviously I would think that since the Parliamentarian does not have an estimating organization under his control, I would think the precedent, as the Senator from Michigan fully well knows, that the Parliamentarian…