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the gentleman may be absolutely right. It may be able to be worded much better, but if he and I believe the same thing, that we do not want a standing army, the way for us to assure that is to let this amendment go ahead and progress. I…
Mr. Chairman, it is a very simple amendment that would address what I think is a fatal flaw in the Administration's current policy on China. That amendment deals with not all the other things that have been talked about here today, this…
Let me just read again a brief paragraph that the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spence) emphasized: Choi Young-Jin, the Korean diplomat who is the U.N.'s Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping, recently admitted that the U.N…
I think we share the same kind of goals. You have had a very bad experience with it, and I think a lot of us have. We want to make it work right. We do not want to throw it out, because I think it does have merit, but I want it to work.
H.R. 1522 modifies the existing Secretarial review of nominations to the National Historic Register as an option of appeal, rather than a mandatory stage in the nominating process as it currently exists, which speaks to what you just spoke…
I rise to support H.R. 3616, the National Defense Authorization Act for 1999. It is a bipartisan bill, it deserves strong bipartisan support, and I want to spend just the few brief moments that I have available to highlight the military…
Mr. Speaker, Tip O'Neill once made the statement, Tip O'Neill, the long-time Speaker of the House here in this Chamber made the statement, and I quote directly, ``God, I love big government.'' If my colleagues adhere to that philosophy…
there is all kinds of pending out there that by the time we get through, it will change form many times. But by the time this amendment is ratified, we will have far more than enough time to do whatever the gentleman wants to do with the…
here is a quiz. What has over 3,500 pages, is practically impossible to understand and is so complicated that rich people, poor people, middle class people all think it is an unfair monstrosity? Of course it is the Federal Tax Code, all…
the only outrages bigger than those coming out of the West Wing of the White House are those coming out of the left wing of the White House. Just listen to their latest warning about letting people keep a little more of their own money…
since 1969, the Federal tax code has penalized 21 million couples annually, not for getting divorced, not for having children out of wedlock, not for shacking up, but for getting married. When a couple gets married, they are taxed at a…
a White House official was quoted in the New York Times last month referring to ``our continuing campaign to destroy Ken Starr.'' Listen to that again, and I am quoting, ``our continuing campaign to destroy Ken Starr.'' Here is a White…
it is amazing what a little sunshine will do. Political corruption, fraud, criminal activity and wrongdoing cannot operate in the light of day. When corrupt practices are opened up to public scrutiny, wrongdoers are held accountable for…
there are many reasons that I oppose the President's recently submitted budget request, but none more important than the fact that it raises taxes. It raises taxes a lot. Mr. Speaker, you would think that the White House would have learned…
they said it could not be done. Thirty-eight years as a team without winning the big one, and they said it could not be done. For 13 years the National Football Conference dominated the American Conference in the Super Bowl and they said…
I think we were all absolutely dumbfounded when the President chose to veto these particular bills. Let me sum it up again. All of these projects would address validated requirements of the military services. We did not invent any of these…
those redesigned $50 bills are hot off the Bureau of Printing and Engraving presses. But what are we going to do with the more than $217 million in printing errors? That is right, many bills were rejected by the Federal Reserve because the…
What does the other side have to hide? Why will the Immigration and Naturalization Service not comply with the law? Why will groups which have been ordered by the court to produce documents not produce those documents as required by law…
I share the concerns that my colleague has raised and will work with the committee, and with him, and with the gentlewoman from California [Ms. Pelosi] to ensure an appropriate cleanup for the Presidio. We have this problem with a number…
the Federal Government is a master at creating Federal programs based upon good intentions, but for which the tax till has become a lifeline for survival. Congress created Amtrak back in 1970 with a one-time grant of $40 million, one-time…
how many honest American citizens are going to be terrorized by the IRS before the IRS changes the way it does business? Everyone knows that it is not just the tax cheats who panic when the IRS comes around to conduct an audit. Ordinary…
to hear the liberals call for campaign finance reform is like Marv Albert scolding Mike Tyson for using his biting skills in an inappropriate manner. Democrats have had to return over $2 million, $2 million, Madam Speaker, because they…
liberals are calling congressional investigations in the White House fund-raising scandals and political corruption a partisan witch hunt. Does anyone take this accusation seriously? The fact is, the only thing we are hunting for are the 6…
it has become an annual ritual, like the swallows returning to Capistrano, that we in the bill increase the amount of money to be designated for the Economic Development Administration, and every year I come down here with some of my…
Unfortunately we are not as critical of this program as we would be of some of the others to see if it is really working well because it is too good for our reelection efforts. We live in a culture where we are judged by how much we are…
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