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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…
Reclaiming my time, all I am trying to say, for the sake of the people who might be listening to this conversation, is that your talking should be to them, not to us. If we had been successful on our end of the table late that one night…
I think I am going to introduce a new word to this thing, counter-consultants' advice. What we have here is we have consultants who are trying to take the Medicare issue and make it an issue of political proportions. Then the counter…
I would like to make a case here that the Summer Job Program is obviously just a cash distribution system that our Government has set up. It is a 12-week program. I see it because I am in the restaurant business and we have a surge of…
cut spending first; that is the mandate that I got when I came here and not only have I gotten it but it has been repeated time and time and time again by those folks whom I represent. One way you can cut spending is by tax cuts, and what…
I would like to respond to three different accusations that have been made. The middle class understands what the members are saying about who the rich are. It is anyone who works and pays taxes. It is the middle class that we are trying…
$245 million; that is what the tax cut is proposed right now. People are saying, ``What about spending cuts first? Part of this is being overlooked.'' One way that we can have spending cuts in our Government is to starve the agencies that…
In 1978 a restaurant owner in Pine Bluff, AR, my hometown, built a restaurant with two required parking spaces, a ramp, and a streetlight for the disabled. In 1992 the regulators came in and said, ``The laws have changed, and you have got…
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…
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…
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…
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.
I think one thing missing in this discussion is what the American people want. I am here to say, at least from my standpoint, what I think they might be saying to us. First, that these Members of Congress are sitting up there and…
I think one thing missing in this discussion is what the American people want. I am here to say, at least from my standpoint, what I think they might be saying to us. First, that these Members of Congress are sitting up there and…
child abductions are a tragic reality in the United States, and the abduction of Polly Klaas brought this fact to the forefront of our society. Today the gentlewoman from California [Ms. Woolsey] and I are introducing the Polly Klaas Child…
I am a small business person in Pine Bluff, AR. My businesses are not gigantic. The volume of sales is not such that we can go around making corrections and additions and having inspections all the time, but yet in one summer's time I had…
Mr. Speaker, what I am concerned about is H.R. 6. As it stands right now, it ought to be voted against and turned down in this body. What I am thankful for is two things: One is that someone thought ill enough of this bill to put into it…
Yesterday, I introduced legislation to reverse the HHS interpretation of the modified Hyde amendment by allowing, not requiring, States to use Medicaid funds to pay for abortions for poor women in cases of rape and incest, as well as to…
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