William C. Baker

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

The Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint is an international model.

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

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.

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…

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.

What you are saying then is if we do nothing by 2002, the Medicare trust fund then becomes insolvent?

I think then we have an obligation, because we were elected by the people to preserve, protect and strengthen Medicare, not to kill it, that we have to take some action which will allow it to live beyond just our generation.

Well, let me summarize, because we have run out of time, if the gentleman from Ohio will yield one more second, and that is we have established now, there is a problem, because two generations of trustees, Republican and Democrat, have…

Previous administrations also have made the same conclusion, that we have about a $140 billion trust fund that will be exhausted because we are now for the first year spending more than we are taking in. The seniors in my district, who are…

Let me be honest, I will not vote to cut $213 billion because it could not be done without hurting all the programs you are talking about. The capital gains tax and the alternative minimum tax will bring us more revenue and allow us to…

Did you vote for the $17 billion rescission package and would you vote today to cut $213 billion from this budget which is this year's deficit?

Pick the President you want. This Congress for 40 years has had its foot stuck on the accelerator. We appropriate, we spend. Heal thyself.

We are asking, through this act, 900 pages of regulations on the local school district. We say, ``If you ask them if they are citizens,'' that is going to overburden the school districts. We have nationalized, in this act, the school…