William M. Thomas: “When you are looking for victims and villains rather than essential causes, it is easy to examine the same set of facts…”

that ringing you hear in your ears is the Democratic spin doctors; we just heard another one trying to tell you that, when the President's plan was offered in the Subcommittee on Health yesterday, it was done just to embarrass the…

The gentleman needs to know that this side was ready and willing to take up the accrued leave, which the gentleman from California intended not just to cover committee Members but personal staff as well, since I was concerned about the…

And in addition to that, because one of the things we have tried to do is to take a look at what States and companies are doing in the private sector to get some ideas about whether or not it works, if you take a look at the employer…

this is both a substantive discussion and perhaps an illustrative and graphic one of the process that we are operating under. The substance is there is an exciting new technology by which we will be able to recharge satellites' batteries…