
This Act is not another top-down mandate for one more Federal program.
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This Act is not another top-down mandate for one more Federal program.

This year, one in six working families will get a tax cut.

We are spending a much bigger percentage of our income on health care than any other country in the world, and yet we are the only major country who doesn't provide everybody health care coverage that is always there.

It provides higher ceilings on the amounts of Federal disaster funds that can be available to help flood victims move out of harm's way.

The Office of National Drug Control Policy has the lead responsibility within the Executive Office of the President to establish policies, priorities, and objectives for the Nation’s drug control program.

This economic program is beginning to work.

Over 90 percent of the small businesses are eligible for an actual tax reduction.

We do have more border patrol people coming in, 600 of them.

We are going to have to have some uniformity, but I want the private system to remain in place.

This administration is working hard to open the doors of college education to all young people.

Enactment of this bill would be inconsistent with Executive Order No. 12778 of October 23, 1991, which embodies my resolve to eliminate unnecessary, wasteful litigation.

We are not -- again, I want to repeat it -- we are not going to go down the road of nationalized health care.

Switching to a monthly reporting system would be burdensome and would not yield benefits commensurate with the costs, which could be as high as $15 million.

I strongly oppose the report's recommendation to renew the diversion of Federal income taxes to the rail pension.

The establishment of a $10 million fund to offset the uncompensated cost for providing emergency trauma care is unnecessary.

We held the line against the reckless cuts of our Armed Forces.

It would be a serious mistake to transfer extremely valuable spectrum from public uses to private commercial purposes without compensating the American taxpayer for use of that spectrum.