Christopher Shays

This is a bipartisan effort, and it is a recognition that one of the most important things we can do is to have preventive programs for our young people. I serve a district with 10 communities. There are three major cities, the cities of…

I want to explain my support for S. 768, and say why this private bill serves an important public purpose. In January, Christopher Meili made a simple moral choice. When he found financial records documenting accounts opened by European…

At this time we bring forth an amendment that seeks to have our allies pay more of the share of supporting troops that we have stationed overseas. Presently Japan spends over $3.7 billion a year in direct contributions to the United States…

I find it abhorrent that someone would desecrate the flag of the United States of America. But I will not support an amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America to prevent it from being desecrated. When I think of the…

I am amazed at this debate. I think of how far we have come. As far as the press is concerned, there is no story here, because Republicans and Democrats are not fighting like little kids. When Republicans and Democrats get together and…

We are eager to have cosponsors on this legislation. This is bipartisan. It is a Democrat and Republican bill. It has the endorsement of the President of the United States and the cooperation of the EPA. This in fact is legislation they…

Our legislation increasing the funding from $37 million to $87 million would provide a $200,000 maximum grant to each site assessment and redevelopment plan. It enables a community to go out throughout the community and determine what are…

Stewart McKinney, my predecessor, a member of this House and our friend, died 10 years ago today. On that day 10 years ago, many of his colleagues came to this Chamber to mark the moment and express their grief, their admiration, their…

I do think between 1 and 6 is a very important time in a child's life. I think part of that is seeing a parent contributing to society and to their community. I want a young child to see a parent contributing to society.

I would love for a 4- and a 5- and a 6-year-old who is going to be influenced, that they would be influenced by seeing their parent work, and to see them at a gainful activity that is of community service. So I view that as a positive.

You know, I just would want to say that as we talk, people like the gentleman from Ohio, Mr. Kasich, budget chairman in the House, and Pete Domenici in the Senate are meeting with representatives from the minority in this Congress as well…

I think that we could point out that there are times that we have big disagreements with the administration, but this dealing with the fraud area, that was one area where we had some cooperation and we wanted to build on the cooperation we…

It is interesting, if the gentlewoman would yield, probably not many people know what we did with foster care and adoption because there was not this rancorous battle between Republicans and Democrats. So it does not always get the…

I might say to the gentleman before I introduce her that one of the reasons we have these abuses is the way that Medicare pays the bill is the bills are submitted and paid for and then after the fact, they are reviewed, basically 1 percent…

When you say we passed, we passed it the first time. You mean the one that was signed into law by the President.

I think that more and more people began to understand what was happening, but it required a lot of work to make sure people did understand. One last point we should make on the Medicare plan that I thought was really ingenious and I…

The board of trustees of the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, they are the group that oversees the Medicare Trust Fund. People in this country pay Medicare in two ways, health care for the elderly. One is they put money aside in the trust…

It is really incredible to think that right now the trust fund has in the balance $112 billion. That will go down in 1998, the next year, to $92 billion. When you figure that loss on a daily basis, each day that passes the trust fund is…

We have a certain part we call the direct student loan, which is in essence run by the government. The government was saying that this program was cheaper than to have the banks do it. But what they forgot to do was to compute in the cost…

Medicaid. That is correct. And we did not cut the School Lunch Program, we slowed its growth slightly, but allowed for more discretion in how it is spent. And I want to get back to each of those. We did not cut the Student Loan Program. It…

It is kind of amazing to think that existing law does not allow hospitals and doctors to compete with the insurance industry in this very, you know, important effort of providing the best health care, and one thing I want to express some…

The fact was we passed the legislation if it could have been signed into law by the President.

I had a senior who in one meeting, she gave me a stack of envelopes that must have been about 3 inches tall, many, many envelopes. They were all bills that she received. She received them all the same week. She simply said, why could they…

That is why when the gentleman says, the traditional view is that we are playing with dynamite, I was proud to go to my constituents and tell them. This is a plan I had worked on with the gentleman and others for literally years. We now in…

The reason why the managed care plans could save money is there is so much waste and fraud and abuse in government oversight of health care that the managed care plans could oversee it better and they would still have made money, they…