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among the many other positive aspects of the Conservative Action Team budget that I am up here to applaud and support is something that is a little less sexy perhaps than tax cuts, a little less easy to understand perhaps than increases in…
I must remind both her and the American people that, in fact, a comprehensive gun control bill was on the floor of this House last year, H.R. 2122. It did, in fact, have provisions to close the gun show loophole. It instituted a juvenile…
Mr. Speaker, what we are contemplating here in changing the minimum wage is in one sense I think unacceptable. I have already expressed my concerns about doing this audacious thing to believe for just a moment, even a second, that we in…
it is truly heartening to hear the discussion today about Social Security; both sides talking about Social Security, both sides talking about saving Social Security, both sides extolling the virtues of holding Social Security sacrosanct…
in Colorado, we passed several years ago, I think it was 1994, we passed something referred to as the Tabor amendment. It simply says that the government of the State of Colorado cannot spend more than it takes in, nor can it increase…
I find myself often in a situation where I will be listening to the debate on this floor or in the committee and there is something about it that just does not ring true. You say to yourself, now, how would this play, how would this debate…
If we can actually slow the growth of Government down, if we can reduce the amount that the Government would have grown in the next 10 years by $2 trillion, by simply holding Social Security sacrosanct, it is more than just a paper…
I want to elaborate on the point he has made on how incredibly important it is that we have accomplished something so significant, and it has to be heralded. That is that we have not only been able to do economically what the gentleman has…
But, you know, Mr. Speaker, I wonder sometimes whether or not people really and truly are concerned about the 1 percent cut, or they are worried about the possibility that this could start a trend. What if you could cut 1 percent and…
No one is even suggesting, not even the most ardent supporters of the President's plan or the ardent opponents of the 1 percent cut, have suggested this would mean a shutdown of government. I am saying if you did, and when it has happened…
I wanted to just first of all tell him how much I appreciate his efforts as chairman of the committee, the oversight committee that is entrusted with the responsibility of, just as the name implies, overseeing government operations…
I was charged with the responsibility of trying to reduce the size of the Department to more accurately reflect its responsibility under the Constitution. As the gentleman knows, we can search the Constitution in vain to find some…
I am not an attorney, and I am not a constitutional scholar. I do not know of the implications that have been referred to up to this point in time with regard to this bill's impact on Roe versus Wade, and I do not care. It is not the…
In 1979 we had not experienced two of our embassies being blown up by terrorists. In 1979 we had not experienced the World Trade Center being bombed. In 1979 we had not experienced the Murragh Federal building being bombed. That is the…
first of all let me say that it is a tribute to the work of this committee and to the subcommittee and its chairman that it has been very difficult to find the necessary offsets to do what we hope to do in this amendment, and that is to…
The fact is that we have amended our own amendment. We do not strike any particular dollar amount, we just prevent funds from going for these two programs.
It is about taxes. It is the life blood that drives every other thing we do in this body, and the extent to which we can defend our country and incarcerate criminals and carry out all the other essential functions of government depends…
the opponents of this bill, I have heard often during the debate on this particular piece of legislation, refer to the procedure that we call abortion as being both safe and legal. I have heard this now two or three times. It is indeed…
the day before yesterday I returned from the Sudan where I had gone with a group of other congressmen to bring attention to the plight of the south Sudanese, to bring attention of the country of the United States to the horrible abuses…
American military success in Kosovo has shown once again that American forces are second to none in the world. Our brave pilots and many thousands who work around the clock to support them deserve our highest praise and our deep gratitude…
this week we are celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week. There have been a number of speeches on this floor. I have, in fact, come to this microphone before to extol the virtues of the teachers of America, the public school, the private…
there are many murky things about the situation we now face in Kosovo. One, however, is not murky. What is not even remotely unclear is the fact that we are not there for the often heard cause of stopping ethnic cleansing. That is the one…
I fear so deeply, however, that what we can do here cannot even begin to touch or make a dent in the problem that has created Columbine High's tragedy. It is a problem that is close to home, close to home for all of us. We must look in the…
My wife and I have four children who are all in different schools everyday. As we grieve for the parents of the children killed in Colorado, we also join every parent in America as we fear for the safety of our own children. Congress must…
I come here tonight to ask everyone listening, watching around America, I come here to ask you for your prayers for those parents who have lost children in this incredible, horrible, devastating event. There are no words any of us can…
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