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…

this debate is not about corporate welfare and it is not about the Federal budget. It is about proper land management of our forests, our land. If you owned a piece of land, would you let someone else come in and build a road on your piece…

It is clear to me we do not need to see another Federal Government shutdown. It is important that we take steps now to ensure that Federal employees not lose their jobs, and that we not go through that scenario again. This is a proposal to…

tonight is indeed an historic night. Tonight we get a chance to vote on balancing the budget. Tonight we get a chance to fulfill some of the promises we have made to the American people. While the committee budget does a tremendous job in…

Jackie Robinson played his first major league baseball game on April 15, 1947. That was 7 years before the Supreme Court's historic decision in Brown versus Board of Education. It was 18 years before the voter registration drives in Selma…

I did push this measure as an initiative in the State of Arizona, and it passed with the support of 72 percent of the voters. And like the other States which have adopted a measure of this nature, Arizona's economy has gotten dramatically…

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 watched time and time and time again in this Congress, on this floor, and in television ads across America, a clear fraud and deception perpetrated on the American people. A quote from the Speaker of the U.S. House of…

No apology necessary, Mr. Speaker. I am just pleased to join you all in celebrating what I think is a great victory for America today. Today really is not a day for partisanship, it is a day for celebration. The truth is all across…

If Mr. Stephanopoulos said this, ``For this President, words are actions,'' it pretty well defines the situation. I guess then saying that we should end welfare as we know it means that you have ended it. And yet in the first 3 years of…

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

Last year this Congress made a commitment to fulfill its obligation to balance the Federal budget. We face a $5.2 trillion debt and a $153 billion deficit. Our commitment was to reduce the subsidy that we provide to the National Endowment…

Mr. Chairman, it appalls me. Too many people on the floor of this Congress fail to understand the power of taxation. The power of taxation is the power to put a gun at the heads of the American people and take money from them. The average…

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…

this is not about raising the minimum wage. It is about putting young minority students out of work. Raising the minimum wage will put 1 out of every 4 minority workers between the ages of 17 and 24 who are out of school and working today…

there is a stark contrast between the Republican budget and the President's budget on one issue. On the issue of tax cuts there is a clear and flagrant difference. The Republicans give real, meaningful tax cuts. The President gives…

One of the greatest influences in my life, as I suppose in, hopefully, many American boys' lives, is their own father. My father was a tremendous influence on me, and he was very fond in the later years of his life of saying that the…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…