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Edward R. Royce is a former U.S. Representative for California's 39th congressional district, serving from 1993 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Royce was known for his work on foreign affairs and trade issues during his tenure in Congress. He served as the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where he focused on international relations and security matters. Royce was also involved in legislation aimed at supporting religious institutions and community service initiatives.
we are talking today about the Exports, Job and Growth Act of 1996. Whenever supporters give a bill a motherhood and apple pie title like that, and who is not against exports, who is not for growth and jobs? But it is time to take a hard…
I just shared with you that it could cost the American taxpayer $25 billion because that is what you are putting the taxpayer on the hook for.
Because you are ballooning this program up and, yes, it is the full faith and credit of the U.S. taxpayer that will be on the hook.
The savings and loan industry in the 1970's did not cost the taxpayer one red cent, but in the 1980's it certainly did.
as I was reading the papers this morning I noticed some stories that claimed that this welfare reform proposal is not such a big change--that its significance has been overrated. That all sides are coming to a consensus and it's not such a…
next week on July 4, the American people will celebrate 220 years of independence from Great Britain, but they will also celebrate the fact that their liberation from $3.3 trillion in total costs and regulations that it takes 6 months to…
traditionally the battle cry for business in America has been ``Get government off our backs.'' However, some corporations have been publicly demanding less Government interference while quietly seeking millions of taxpayers' dollars to…
in 1992, when he was running for President, President Bill Clinton promised he would not raise Federal gasoline taxes. But just 1 year after he was elected, in August 1993, he pushed through the Congress a budget proposal with over $265…
the reason we are fighting for a balanced budget is that it will allow young working families to save more of the money that they earn. It will boost the economy. It will increase their wages. The problem with the Clinton budget is that it…
my legislation that is here today, H.R. 2980, does three things. First it makes crossing a State line to stalk someone a felony and thus for the first time it defines in law, in Federal law, the crime of stalking, and it brings certain…
I just want to take a minute, as we commence the second session of the 104th Congress, to focus on the necessity of reaching the goal of a balanced Federal budget. Four years from now we will enter upon the third millennium and the 225th…
I want to point out to the Members of this body that if this bill had been law last year, we would have saved $659 million that would have gone to deficit reduction. That is the sum that we actually passed in cuts, and yet later we found…
at a time when our government is running chronic $200 billion deficits at a time when we are $5 trillion in debt, with a devastating effect on our national savings rate, this reform for Government is critical. This is essentially the same…
today I am introducing a Constitutional amendment to outlaw retroactive taxation. It is the same wording that I introduced last session under House Joint Resolution 248. Last session it was cosponsored by 146 Members. I introduced it in…
in addition to authoring our Nation's Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote what are supposed to be the rules of this House. His Manual of Parliamentary Practice was written in 1797, and for nearly 200 years, has by law…
I rise in support for a longstanding Republican initiative that we have waited many years to see become law. It would put into permanent law section 108 of the rules changes which we just adopted. Simply put, it will subject Congress to…
I rise today to express some of my concerns about the state of our foreign policy. In recent weeks we have seen a gathering crisis of confidence emerge in regard to the President's handling of foreign policy. Polls show that only 13…
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