We have before us this gun control amendment. In the backdrop, let us imagine that there is a special interest lobbyist group that we will call the Right to Crime. This group is made up of criminals everywhere, past and present, and new…

Today legislation has been introduced to eliminate fraud in the child disability portion of the supplemental security income program. A 1990 Supreme Court decision so broadened the definition of disability as it relates to SSI that it is…

the people in the fourth district, the law enforcement officials of the Fourth District of Arkansas, have told me explicitly there are five things that need to be done: more prisons, more police, better equipment, criminal law reform, and…

this time is dedicated to the memory of one of my constituents, Virginia Clinton Kelley. She was born Virginia Cassidy on June 6, 1923, in Bodcaw, AR, a small community about 12 miles from Hope. She died of cancer on June 6, 1993. Virginia…

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…

If we expect our fathers to take care of us that is called paternalism. If we expect our mothers to take care of us, we call that maternalism. If we expect the Government to take care of us, we call that socialism. If we expect our…

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…

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…

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…

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.