Jay Dickey

I would like to state that he is to be commended for the work that he has done, the outstanding efforts and hard work in bringing this bill to the floor, and during that time, for being such a shock absorber for the media criticism that he…

I thank the gentlewoman, but the gentlewoman knows what is going to happen, and this is what is happening in these programs. Everybody takes what the figures are for this year. They know they have to spend them whether they are there or…

Mr. Chairman, as long as I have been here, I have supported term limits. I have never once voted against term limits at any time. Today I have to rise in support of the Hutchinson term limits substitute and tell my constituents and this…

Would that provision in this bill direct the Corps to use the funds provided in fiscal year 1997 to begin construction of a diversion channel, or at least to begin moving dirt?

When McDonald's can get $200,000 to advertise chicken nuggets, then I think we are taking care of employers. When AT&T can get $34 million, we are taking care of employers. We have not begun to talk about corporate welfare yet. This…

I understand you are saying I am heartless, and you know better than that. What I am trying to say, what I want the question to be answered is, why not encourage these people to improve rather than to say this minimum is the maximum? Why…

Let me ask the question now. Let me ask the question, if in fact we are going to accuse people who have been successful, of what you just accused.

If the gentleman will yield, how much minimum wage do you think we ought to have? $5? $10? Why would you stop? If there is a profit in the business under your theory, why stop at $25 an hour? I am serious about this. Where do you say, OK…

If you want an answer from the politician's standpoint, we are past the point of debating that. It is behind us. We must have a minimum wage.

That is the excess. The excess of congeniality can be harmful, too. That is the balance.

I mean, these trips are bad as we have seen the excesses, but getting away and looking back together about what we are doing here helps in the relationships, and I think it will help the dialogs if we do more of it.

Let me ask you this. Do you not think that getting to know somebody away from here helps you with a perspective, too?

I do not think we respect ourselves when we do that. I think we walk over here saying, boy, but there is a feeling that settles in that I miss the point by doing that.

Is it not true that you respect my voice a little bit more because we are closer to Louisiana right on the border? Is that not true? Do you not listen to me a little bit more because it is home folks talking?

There is a biblical principle, and that is, find first what you have in common with somebody.

I think maybe some of us got elected by saying we do not want to be a part of that up there, so we come here and to prove that. We might have in the back of our minds an unconscious goal of trying to offend people and say back home, 'Look…

Lives are at stake. There is no question about it. We in Arkansas have approved a constitutional amendment where we said we could not use Federal funds or State funds to take the lives of innocent children who are not represented in this…

I go back to this: Where are we dealing with rhetoric? The rhetoric, it seems to me, at this point, what the people here in Washington are saying is that the rhetoric at home is to cut spending first, but that they do not mean it. They…

Only if the crusted leadership in this body is correct in saying that it is rhetoric. I do not believe it is rhetoric. I think cut spending first is what the groundswell is from America. I believe what the fourth district is saying is what…

Let me say this, $53 million in my district alone will be given or will be kept by the people in the fourth district if this vote is passed. That money will then multiply. That money will then bring more revenue and more taxes into the…

I want to stress to the gentleman and all other Members in the Chamber as well, are there not people out there in America who are saying yes, we want to sacrifice? Do you all not hear in your communications with the folks, ``Yes, we want…

How can we say that we have true spending cuts if it is not going to reduce the deficit? That is what I think the people of America are impatient with. They are tired of it, and I think we have to answer to them.

As I have looked at these other proposals by the liberals in this body, I see that really all we are doing is recycling money, that we are not really sending it to the deficit, we are not really cutting spending first as the people of the…