Joel Hefley

In September of 1994, a nonprofit corporation in Alabama was awarded a $750,000 grant to create a revolving loan fund, and the community matching funds were to be $1 million, and the $1 million never showed up. The Inspector General…

What this amendment does is not do away with public broadcasting. I am not trying to do away with public broadcasting. What I am trying to do is to do away with the $50 million increase in public broadcasting that is in this. For the life…

as the Washington Post reported last month, despite a booming economy and a soaring stock market, most Americans think America is on the wrong track. They are deeply mistrustful of the Government's ability to solve the problems that most…

it is becoming clearer with every passing day that one would have to dig to China to get to the bottom of all the campaign finance scandals in this administration. Although, come to think of it, I guess one would actually have to go to…

politicians love to make a lot of noise about education reform and better schools. Ever since the report, ``A Nation At Risk,'' came out in 1983, calls for education reform have been part of every politician's repertoire, but nothing seems…

when was the last time that we heard a liberal talk about who pays what share of the tax burden? Now let us think about that for just a minute. I am very curious to know if anyone can think of a single instance in the past 84 years where a…

if we look across the sweep of history, we will notice that the human struggle has been a continuous struggle for greater freedom. From the Magna Carta to the Constitution of the United States, the struggle for greater freedom has been an…

I feel like we are surrounded by a bunch of Pinocchios. It appears we have two different groups of Pinocchios. On the one hand we have got some liberals who are calling millions of middle-class families rich by using something called…

I rise today because I have LUST on my mind. I think the American people are concerned about LUST as well. Of course, when I say LUST, I am talking about the Leaking Underground Storage Tank trust fund, or LUST, as the program is called…

the Clinton White House and people like the gentleman who just spoke have criticized Congress' tax cut plans as unfair because they say that the richest 20 percent of the country will get most of the tax relief. Most Americans think of the…

the debate we are hearing these days about tax cuts for people who pay no taxes is worthy of a scene from Gilligan's Island. One can just imagine Gilligan complaining to the Skipper and asking him why he is not getting a tax cut. At this…

the last time taxes were cut in the 1980's several things happened. Many people like to call it the Reagan boom. It followed the tough times people faced in the 1970's. During the Reagan boom, 18 million jobs were created; 18 million jobs…

American people are certainly not undertaxed. From the moment you wake up to the moment you go to sleep, and even while you are sleeping, you are being taxed. When you have your morning coffee, you pay a coffee tax. When you take a shower…

I rise to support this bill even though it does not go as far as I would like it to. I think our goal should be to get rid of the capital gains tax, to get rid of the death tax. But I look at this package and see what it means to the folks…

Do you find it amusing that liberals in this House, people who have never created a job in their lives, spend all of their time attacking the very policies that help create jobs? Do you find it downright hilarious that liberals spend their…

those who support most-favored-nation status for China argue that maintaining open trade with China would spur economic growth, as well, and have a consequence of social reform. While I sympathize with this position, I am opposed to…

I do not recall the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Hamilton] when the President set a date certain when we went into Bosnia that we would be out by November of 1996 saying, ``Mr. President, that is folly for you to set that date.'' We all…

can my colleagues imagine a conversation between George Kastanza and Jerry Seinfeld about tax cuts? The level of absurdity would compare to what I am hearing on the House floor today about trying to give a tax cut to those who do not pay…

I make no argument when the State of Virginia gets help cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay, which we did not pollute, but I think it is important that we clean it up. But he seems to be afraid that we are going to get something in the West…

to quote Ronald Reagan, there you go again. Every year, liberals in this body think we can reach into the defense budget and take money for whatever the good things are that we want to do and our defense can continue to absorb the loss…

where are the old Democrats, like President John Kennedy, who favored tax cuts? The truth is that the 1960's changed the Democratic Party maybe forever. And now liberal Democrats and tax cuts go together like Dennis Rodman and the National…

I support this rule. No, it does not have everything in it that I would like. I think the gentleman from Virginia mentioned an area that we all ought to be concerned about when we talk about military retirees, but I think basically it is a…

has anyone noticed that any tax cut proposal made by Republicans is reflexively labeled tax cuts for the wealthy by the liberal Democrats. Given that the tax cuts in the balanced budget amendment are targeted at middle class taxpayers, I…

the American dream is not a dream about more government. It is not a dream about higher regulation or higher taxes. No, Mr. Speaker, the American dream is about freedom and opportunity. It is about having your children do better than…

What do the Americans think of when they hear the statement ``free of Federal subsidy''? What about ``self-sufficiency''? I think these terms refer to programs that receive no Federal funding. It means that the program runs like a business…