William C. Baker: “what you are saying then is if we do nothing by 2002, the Medicare trust fund then becomes insolvent?”

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…

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…

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…

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…