Frank Riggs

I strongly support the Gallegly amendment which would reverse the Supreme Court Plyler versus Doe decision and permit the States to decide for themselves whether to provide a free public education to illegal aliens. Those in this country…

just allow me to point out that the liberal House Democrats just do not get it. As we have spent more and more money on public education, test scores have dropped in America, but they do not see the correlation. Mr. Speaker, the Clinton…

I rise today to focus on a very serious debate that has been going on back here in Washington over the last several weeks. In fact, it is a debate that reminds me, the longer I serve in Congress, the more convinced I become that Washington…

I think the President has revealed his true colors on the question of welfare reform. Not only has he twice vetoed the welfare reform legislation sent to him by the House and the Senate, but he is now saying, after initially encouraging…

Very clearly we have to reform the welfare system that fails too many of our fellow citizens and too often subsidizes illegitimacy, really, with our current welfare system, and this political constituency of dependency that has been…

There is a certain irony in a new Republican congressional majority trying to help a Democratic President make good on his fundamental campaign promises. That is exactly the case.

I think our fellow citizens know the American welfare system today too often discourages the very things that we want to promote as societal ideals. It is a system that is riddled with perverse incentives that discourage working, marriage…

Is it the intent of the Committee on the Judiciary that the Commission be free to study the public safety costs that gambling operations, including those operations on Indian reservations, impose on local government and local law…

What I would really like to do is compare the Clinton crunch with the balanced budget bonus; that is to say, the benefits to the average American family that will result from putting our fiscal house in order back here, eliminating deficit…

That is right. Yet, as the gentleman points out, the President campaigned on promises of balancing the Federal budget, ending welfare as we know it, as you pointed out, cutting middle-class taxes. The middle-class tax cut was the…

Medicare is in critical condition. For nearly a year now, the President and the liberal House Democrats have refused to address Medicare's impending bankruptcy. In fact, they have ignored the warnings of the Medicare trustees and instead…

we all know that we cannot balance the budget without the political will to address and to reform a failed welfare system in America, yet the President, the same President who, as a candidate, promised to end welfare as we know it, vetoed…

I would like to clarify one more time for our colleagues that under the gentleman's proposal, and in particular the Gunderson provisions, it would permit low-income parents to choose a private school if they are dissatisfied with their…

yesterday the President convened a meeting of the bipartisan congressional leadership at the White House and he urged the Congress to get on with the task of balancing the Federal budget, reforming the welfare system, cutting taxes…

I can personally say, as a former school board member in my home communities and two-term school board president, that two essential reforms, based on my experience, would be the gentleman's efforts to lengthen the school day and also…

Mr. Chairman, let me point out, first of all, in response to the previous speaker's comments, that, of course, we are talking about an appropriations bill here that does not in any way affect the Tax Code or tax policy and certainly does…

the Clinton Democrats on the other side of the aisle have tried their hardest to engage in a scare campaign aimed at our senior citizens. The Clinton Democrats think they are scoring political points by scaring seniors into thinking…

Mr. Chairman, at the outset, let me express as one member of the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development of the Committee on Appropriations my appreciation to the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Myers], the chairman of the subcommittee…

Mr. Speaker and colleagues, yesterday House Republicans offered a plan to balance the Federal budget by the year 2002. Our plan allocates $11 trillion for Federal spending over the next 7 years. It protects Social Security. It eliminates…

I hope and believe that my amendment should not be controversial. It reaffirms what the EPA should already know. Clean water is not itself a pollutant, and should not be regulated as such. Specifically, my amendment clarifies the…

to reduce the tax burden on working middle class families we Republicans are proposing a $500 a year tax credit for each child under 18 years old in tax-paying families with income less than $200,000. Using their tired refrain of class…

one more time, let us see if we can get this right. The tax break inserted in the bill was at the request of a Democratic Member of the other body. Listening to my colleagues this morning on the other side of the aisle reminds me of a…

I rise in defense of our National Forests and the hard-working Americans who rely on the forests for their livelihoods. We are facing a national emergency. A landmark timber salvage amendment is included in H.R. 1159, offered by…

today is the birthday of Andrew Jackson, our seventh President. One of his most memorable accomplishments is that he was the only President to actually pay off the national debt. Where have you gone, Andrew Jackson? Our President today on…

we just heard more baloney. The principal tax cut in the Contract With America is a $500 per child tax credit. If that is a tax break for the rich, then our friends on the other side of the aisle are sadly misinformed. They can continue…