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yesterday's papers were replete with stories praising the People's Republic of China for releasing Wang Dan, a leader of the 1989 pro-democracy demonstration at Tiananmen Square which was crushed by China's military. This release follows…
15 minutes ago, 59 Senators voted in favor of what I think all of us support: reforming and restructuring the IRS and protecting the taxpayers to a date certain on sunsetting the Tax Code that no one in this country defends. Do not be…
if I might just explain the amendment. There are two major provisions to the amendment. One would say that until we are able to replace this Tax Code, we need to restructure and reform the IRS. Senator Roth has done a marvelous job in…
I have no objection to that second-degree amendment. I think it merely expresses--it does not undo or reverse the sense of the Senate that we adopted earlier with 59 votes. It expresses support for the charitable tax deduction and the…
The language contained in our budget resolution mimics the language of the Tax Code Termination Act. Thirty-eight Members of the Senate are cosponsoring it; 154 Members of the House. It is responsible language that will force this Congress…
This isn't about applause lines and not about flat taxes or flatter. It is about whether or not we are going to vote to defend the status quo, whether we are going to vote to defend an incomprehensible monstrosity called the IRS Tax Code…
I came to Congress with a desire to reduce cynicism and to build confidence in our institutions of government. That is why I have worked with a bipartisan group of freshman Members to accomplish reform and to empower individuals in our…
This case only builds upon the repeated efforts from Chinese dissidents, Amnesty International, and the U.S. Department of State concerning the declining human rights conditions in China. Again, as the Washington Post reported last month…
Mr. President, for the last 4 years this Congress has been engaged in an intense debate on this country's trade relationship with the People's Republic of China. On the one side of this debate are those who view the abhorrent and declining…
In July of 1994, Jrae Mason, a grandmother, was sitting on the front porch of her house in Manhattan when she was approached by two strangers, bounty hunters who believed her to be a woman who had skipped bail in Tuscaloosa, Alabama…
In 1995 a bounty hunter was chasing a bond jumper in Texas. In Houston, he found a woman he thought to be the bond jumper and beat her severely. The woman, who was pregnant, miscarried the next day. The key fact was the bounty hunter had…
I take a moment to commend the Senator from Rhode Island and compliment him for the outstanding leadership he provided the Environment and Public Works Committee on the ISTEA II bill. It has been suggested he should be nominated, if you…
our economy is doing well. Over 13 million new jobs have been created in the last 5 years and unemployment is at a 24-year low. The engine behind this growth is America's entrepreneurs. Last year, over 840,000 new small businesses were…
I join Senator Brownback in the introduction of the Tax Code Termination Act today and will explain a little bit about our motivation and our rationale for what I think will prove to be very historic legislation. I heard it said that a tax…
imagine, if you will, that your daughter is given an assignment by her teacher which requires her to keep a journal, not just a journal of her own intimate and very private thoughts, but of answers to questions that have been posed to her…
Jerry Canfield, long-time city attorney in Ft. Smith, and his wife Meg have been held in custody by the Laotian government since last Friday. They were arrested along with one other American and 40 Laotians. What was their crime? They were…
as I listened to the speeches and the various tributes to Ronald Reagan and the speeches that are in favor of this legislation to name the Washington National Airport after former President Ronald Reagan, I had not intended to speak today…
I believe this bill demonstrates that we, as Republicans, have a deep concern about education in this country. We have a deep concern about improving education for our children, who are precious to us. And we recognize that this is best…
this Saturday marks the 5-year anniversary of the kidnapping of three American missionaries in South America. On January 31, 1993, armed bandits descended upon the Panamanian village of Pucuro and kidnapped Dave Mankins, Mark Rich, and…
yesterday, while millions of American households across the country were struggling to understand which of the 480 separate IRS tax forms applied to them, while they were trudging along, trying to read through the accompanying 280…
today we are considering a resolution of inquiry into the conduct of the President of the United States
I want to remind the gentleman from Massachusetts that it was the President's own Democrat Attorney General who appointed this Independent Counsel, believing there was credible evidence that needed to be investigated
for the last 2 weeks, the House Committee on the Judiciary has worked diligently to review the referral of the Independent Counsel, as directed by the resolution of this House and adopted by a bipartisan majority
I urge the President to rethink his position, and I urge my fellow Members to get behind this effort and take the first step in simplifying our Tax Code by setting a date certain that this code will expire.
As the Senator knows, trade has consistently expanded. I might also add that our deficit in trade with China has expanded as well, so that this year it is anticipated we will have a $44 billion trade deficit. But I think at the time Harry…
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