WALLY HERGER

liberal Democrats are fond of taking to the floor to whine about Medicare cuts. Why, just the other day, the minority leader himself was here talking about the ``deep, deep'' cuts in Medicare. I have here a chart that shows what…

President Clinton has threatened to veto the disaster assistance package produced by the Congress. I urge the President to reconsider that threat. He should not sacrifice needed disaster assistance on the altar of domestic politics. If the…

severe storms and floods have recently ravaged my home State of California, destroying entire communities and claiming over a dozen lives. If flood prevention measures had been available to avoid this catastrophe at no cost to our…

Much of our national forests in the West are sick and dying. Drought, disease, insects, and fire are killing our forest in epidemic proportions. Some forests are already 60 and 70 percent dead. We must restore the health of our forests…

last week we celebrated President Ronald Reagan's birthday by giving him the line-item veto. This week we will have the opportunity to give him another present. We will once again return our national defense to a level President Reagan…

H.R. 440 is a noncontroversial bill that passed this House on the suspension calendar at the end of the 103d Congress. The purpose of the bill is to clear the title of 16 parcels of land, totalling approximately 30 acres, in the Stephens…

I rise in strong support of this legislation, which makes vitally needed reforms in the SSI disability and disability insurance programs. For too long we have allowed our disability programs to endanger the lives of drug addicts and…

I rise today to join my friend and colleague, the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Hastert] in support of a discharge petition on H.R. 300, the Older Americans Freedom to Work Act. This legislation is crucial to millions of our working seniors…

every time someone from the other side of the isle takes the floor to discuss health care, they accuse the Republicans of having no health care plan of our own. This is just not true. The Michel-Lott affordable health care now bill was…

President Clinton is finding out that nothing is more important to the average American than his or her family. And that is why his health care plan is doomed to failure. You see, after all the platitudes and all the propaganda, taxpayers…

I rise in strong opposition to the gutting Unsoeld substitute and in strong support of the Doolittle amendment, which would encourage teenagers to practice abstinence as the best method of birth control and avoiding sexually transmitted…

let us put aside President Clinton's Rumple-stiltskinesque tirade of a few days ago and examine the facts. No. 1. It was Jerry Brown, a Democrat not a Republican, who--in a 1992 debate right before the Illinois primary--first said that the…

I rise in strong support of the balanced budget amendment, and in opposition to the Wise substitute. Everyone is talking about the need to make tough choices, but its clear to the American people that that is not happening. The system is…

although I support the Kasich alternative rather than the alternative offered by the gentleman from Maryland, I want to commend the gentleman from Maryland for drafting a budget which not only reflects their priorities but which also shows…

there is gridlock inside the beltway on the road to health care reform. The legislative highway is jammed with various plans which seek to cure the ills of our current system, but none of these plans can make it to their final destination…

most Americans were outraged that a Federal court recently ruled that the SSI Disability Program must pay nearly $20,000-plus monthly to a convicted heroin drug dealer who said he needed the money to support his habit. Drug addicts and…

I rise in opposition to this rule because of its complete disregard for private property rights. Last year, this House expressed its overwhelming support for private property by passing the Taylor amendment to the National Biological…