Joel Hefley

Mr. Speaker, S. 2722 authorizes the award of the Medal of Honor to three individuals who have been recommended for the award following a review by the Secretary of the Army. In authorizing an award S. 2722, waives the time limits…

The Forest Service tells us that they are $5 million short of being able to do the kind of program that is needed to meet the need. This would put $4 million of that $5 million in it. At the same time, it would not in any way destroy the…

the amendment before us moves $4 million from the wild horse and burro management line item of the Bureau of Land Management budget to the wildland fire management line item of the U.S. Forest Service. In recent weeks, we have seen just…

a family that has suffered a loss of a loved one should not have the added grief of losing the family business, ranch, or personal savings; yet that is what is happening under our current Tax Code. Because of an archaic tax law, when a…

China has a continuing legacy of human rights violations and oppression which cannot be ignored. Year after year we have been told, ``Give most-favored-nation status to China and their government will be forced to reform.'' We heard that…

the Federal Government is notorious for being cumbersome and slow to change. When it comes to making improvements in our 17,000-page Tax Code, this is particularly true. So it is no great surprise that there is a 102-year-old temporary tax…

one of the top movies in America today is ``Gladiator,'' a story of a young upstart struggling against an outdated and cruel dictatorship. This week, the House will witness a similar struggle, Americans with phone lines versus the Internal…

someone at the Department of Education has a lot of explaining to do. A contract employee, who was hired by the department to take care of its telephone and computer needs, recently admitted to carrying out a criminal plot that cost the…

I am really torn on this. There is nobody that has worked harder on this subject than the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Buyer). The gentleman has struggled, he has negotiated with the Committee on Ways and Means, and unless you have…

I have never had a chairman like the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spence), who can finesse this thing with courtesy and respect for every single Member of the committee, be they Democrat or Republican. I want to say thanks to the…

Americans love to celebrate landmarks and anniversaries: Christmas day, Independence Day, New Year's Day. But yesterday was one of my personal favorites, Tax Freedom Day. That is the day when hard-working Americans have finally paid their…

I think this is the very reason for this Code. We have heard the view of the left-wing extremists about the Tax Code. They think the present Tax Code is just real spiffy. We have also heard the numbers: 17,000 pages, 7 million words…

not too long ago I gave Bill Clinton my porker award for his $72 million trip to the African continent. Well, it looks like he is at it again. Clinton just returned from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Switzerland with not one foreign…

the Clinton-Gore administration talked about reinventing government, but the Republican Congress is actually doing it. For example, Federal laws prohibit convicted criminals from receiving supplemental security income. However, for years…

Republicans have a plan to pay Uncle Sam's credit card bills. For over 30 years, tax and spend liberals have racked up an enormous debt. It is just now beginning to be paid down, thanks to the GOP majority in the House and Senate. In our…

I live in Colorado Springs and we love Fort Carson on the outskirts of Colorado Springs. It has a live-fire range and we are continually working to make sure that we do not build up around that live-fire range and impinge upon it, because…

last week the world watched as five cloned piglets were introduced before an international news core. Scientists cheered the achievement as a scientific and medical breakthrough. Maybe the American people should have cheered as well since…

Mr. Speaker, a few weeks ago this House voted to right a wrong. Most of us agree it is unfair for a married couple to be penalized by the Federal Government just simply because they are married, so we passed legislation to fix that…

today is the first installment of our Media Watch. Media Watch is an effort to cover the stories the networks will not cover, the stories which are distorted by liberals, and the stories which are buried in the back pages for political…

I have never once heard a Democrat talk about who pays the taxes. I have never heard even a single Democrat cite this remarkable statistic: The top 50 percent of income earners pay 96 percent of the taxes, while the bottom 50 percent pay…

I am acutely aware of the problem which the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Riley) and the gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. Hutchinson) have raised today. The Department of Defense has also made a proposal to expedite the reuse process. I am very…

the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Gephardt), the House minority leader, was apparently caught off guard recently and said out loud what he really thinks about defense spending and about taxes. He said, and I quote, and I have it on this…

military readiness is the kind of thing that requires long-term planning and long-term commitment. Decisions made today about our military forces do not show up until years down the road. That is why it is easy for shortsighted or…

First it was Jordan, then it was Gretzky, now it is Elway. On Sunday afternoon, the whole State of Colorado turned on their television sets to watch a press conference. The man whose name has become synonymous with the Denver Broncos, John…

this past weekend I attended with the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tancredo) the memorial service for the students and the teacher who died, and, as I looked over the sea of 70,000 grieving faces, I realized that the media has touched the…