William C. Baker

The Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint is an international model.

The bay program is essential, and it must be fully funded.

If the bay is to be saved, EPA must hold Pennsylvania accountable.

if a politician says that he wants to cut taxes, it would really help his case if the tax cuts would actually reduce the tax burden. President Clinton says he wants to cut taxes, but if you seriously look at his proposals, you will see not…

speaking to the National Governor's Association 2 weeks ago, Bill Clinton sounded like a Republican. He talked about getting tough on irresponsible fathers; he talked about cutting redtape; he talked about work; he talked about strong…

statistics can be boring, eye- glazing, and mind-numbing. Yet they can also be illuminating, disturbing, and striking. When it comes to statistics concerning breast cancer, the latter category is clearly in play. Breast cancer is the…

in this fantasy land known as Washington, the truth is rarely heard. As the little rabbit said in ``Alice in Wonderland,'' things are not as they appear. So when the Medicare trustees, these well-known conservatives such as Labor Secretary…

this debate is about politics, it is not about economics. If this were such a great deal, the socialists over there would have raised the minimum wage in 1993 and 1994, when they had a huge majority and a President that would have signed…

I guess the Clinton-Gore reelect team and the Democrats are not raking up enough cash from the trial lawyers and other special interests. While raising millions and millions of dollars in campaign funds at all kinds of fundraisers, Clinton…

I think the gentleman in the budget area said $17 million savings on the commission, lower rates to consumers and a better trade balance. I ask for an ``aye'' vote, and a ``no'' vote on the Oberstar amendment.

I got into this process early serving on the subcommittee, and at the point we entered the debate there was a mechanism where we fixed prices and the cartels and other parts of the world fixed prices. How can we, if we want to increase our…

politicians excoriate liberal judges for releasing dangerous criminals and the Clinton appointees are among the worst. But defense and plaintiff attorneys have found an even greater ally, the bleeding-heart juries. Half of the jury in the…

the philosophy of the 1960's was to ``do your own thing'' and to ignore the consequences. This philosophy has crept into almost every institution in American life, including the law. Instead of dispensing justice, jurisprudence today seems…

next year we will go over the line. We spent more on the interest on the national debt than we do on defense. You know, this President is not hesitant about deploying our troops in all kinds of foreign wars. We have to say strong in…

By 2010 it is over. We have 14 to 16 years to straighten this out. While the others drag their feet, my own Senator ran ads saying, I will vote for the balanced budget, vote for me. She got here and reneged. It was the one vote that killed…

It is good news, and I try and keep this fact well hidden, but I am one of the few budget analysts on the floor. For 4 years I worked for the department of finance in the State of California. If I had had a little more personality, I would…

well, we have just heard it, today we are celebrating that sad tragedy of a year ago, and while this House and the liberals talk about taking away private citizens' right to own a weapon, we do almost nothing to those heinous killers and…

The ship goes upside down. This is not debate over whether we want to balance or whether we want to stop living off our grandkids.

the previous speaker apparently forgot the Bill Clinton tax increase, 4.3 cents in the gas tax. Did he forget that? That is on the working poor. How about taxing Social Security benefits of those people who had sense enough to save with…

these new constitutionalists are certainly fabricating. The Founding Fathers did not allow a tax on income, so why would they need a limitation? They just made it illegal when we had to amend the Constitution. Yet speaker after speaker say…

Here is the phaseout of the farm programs. Follow it along, folks. This is what the kinder and gentler new Congress is going to do to get your hand out of the taxpayers. They have succeeded partly. They got their hand out of the taxpayers…

1 year ago the 1st day of the 104th Congress began. In short it was the beginning of the end. It was the beginning of the end for the Washington business-as-usual crowd, and when the balanced budget is signed into law, the American people…

Let me just speak in behalf of our national treasures that we are cutting. The Livermore and Sandia labs and the other labs in New Mexico as well as California are cutting. This year the laboratory in my district, Livermore Lab, is cutting…

I think a short history lesson is in order, especially after the previous speeches. First of all, in the private sector the cost-of-living increase in medicine is only going up 3 rac{1}{2} to 4 percent, but in the Government sector…