John Shadegg

I believe the compromise that has been struck is indeed a very good one; and I compliment the ranking member and the chairman of the subcommittee and all who have been involved in it. At least insofar as I understand the agreement which…

I do not believe that those businesses across America respond to worker safety challenges just because they are afraid of OSHA. Indeed, I believe employers across America genuinely care about safe working conditions for their employees…

What I think this amendment shows is that we believe there is not a proper balance. We believe there ought to be more incentives.

I am not even against all Federal involvement in education. What I am against is us telling schools how they have to reform. We have public schools in Arizona, and they are a tremendous success.

I am not objecting to giving them the money, I support giving the money, but I do not support adding the strings which say, ``You'll get the money only if you do whole school reform, i.e. Washington decides.''

What I think they say and what I think you cannot deny is that this money, this $150 million is going to be controlled from Washington. No, it is quite true that no one has to apply for the money, but that is the way Washington gets into…

I am not interested in an argument on the issue. I am interested in the policy behind it. Perhaps I am misreading either the bill's language or the bill report. But let me tell the gentleman what they say. Because lots of times we have…

That may be his intent, but that is in fact not what either the bill or the report says. If I might just quote from the bill and the report, we will talk about why I believe what he is doing is exactly that, mandating from Washington DC…

I rise in good faith to ask the President to join us in this effort, and to point out that a budget which increases the deficit in the coming year by $24 billion over doing nothing is not, in good faith, an effort to balance the budget…

I have their testimony here from that debate a year ago. Those committee members stood and said, I agree, we should phase it out over 3 years, I can read the gentleman their testimony, and on that basis oppose the elimination over a 1-year…

You are quite correct. No formal agreement was instituted between the parties on precisely how we would phase out.

Certainly I am aware of that. But what we have seen is that in all 10 States, the economy has grown more and jobs have expanded more.

I believe those are 3 of the 10 States which have supermajority requirements, as does my State of Arizona, enacted in 1992, pursuant to an initiative drive with the support of 72 percent of the electorate.

Each time we have increased taxes by a dollar, studies show we have further increased spending by not $1, not an equal amount, but by $1.59. So we have driven ourselves with each new tax increase to solve our deficit problem, not taken…

As the scoring by CBO is currently performed, we could easily enact a capital gains tax cut, and would not require a supermajority to do that. Some of us, though, would argue that CBO ought to embrace the concept of dynamic scoring, which…

Well, as having been the chairman of the initiative drive who put it on the ballot and then pushed it over with the vote of 72 percent of the legislature supporting it, it has worked extremely well. Where we had seen a spate of 9…

Our goal is to allow and to continue to go forward with revenue-neutral tax reform. Should we shift from the income tax to a sales tax to a VAT tax, whatever we deem is necessary, provided it is revenue-neutral, it can be accomplished with…

If I can make one quick point, and then I would like to allow my colleague, the gentleman from Texas, to be able to respond, first, the fundamental point here is that you could accomplish any of that with a simple majority provided it was…

You are telling me that the essence of this judge's ruling was that the search, the stop made by the police and the search which led to the evidence which showed enough cocaine to give every single child in Detroit one administration or…

This is a city in America, and this is a judge now appointed by the Clinton administration to the Federal bench, and his decision is that when police look at somebody engaged in what they believe is strange activity, those people decide to…

Then let me honor that tradition and ask the question. I understood from the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Weller] that they have a balanced budget requirement in their State, but they do not have what Arizona now has, which is a…