Christopher Shays

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

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…

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 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…

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…

And important, for a variety of reasons. First off, we need to recognize that when you increase some taxes you actually get less revenue because in a dynamic model people respond. They say taxes are higher and they find ways to avoid…

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…

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…

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…

the gentlewoman might want to explain Christmas in April. People of all walks of life, some brought their children, and we painted and repaired inside and out.

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…

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 want to balance the Federal budget and get our financial house in order; we want to save our trust funds for not only future generations but for present generations, because Medicare in particular is running out of money; and third, we…

Mr. Speaker, politicians are elected by adults to represent the children. We need to save our children from crippling national debt, Government debt. We need to make sure that our trust funds, like Medicare, are there for our children. And…

I have to say when you brought out the rule on the congressional accountability bill which was to get Congress to live by all the laws that we impose on everyone else, you were not speaking for the freshmen, you were speaking for the…

I do not believe this debate. I simply do not believe this debate. This is really a debate between union leaders and rank-and-file members. The union leaders tell me they do not want their employees to have the choice, their union workers…

Thirty-eight percent of their income is paid in taxes, where when my parents were raising me it was about 15 percent. And my parents were allowed a much larger deduction per child than families are today. Let me close and thank my…

The collective gross dollars. We are spending $920 billion, or we spent in the last 6 years $920 billion. In the next 6 years, $1,479 billion or $1.4 trillion. This clearly is a significant increase. Now if our colleagues on the other side…

I would say right off that I have tremendous disagreement with the presentation that was just made by my distinguished colleagues on the other side of the aisle. I look forward to filling in some of the missing pieces that I think were…

It is inaccurate for two reasons. First off, recognizing that part of it is a trust fund, the Medicare Part A is a trust fund and Medicare Part B is funded out of the taxes. And we tax revenues and the premium that people pay. By our…

this has been an amazing experience because this is a time in the history of Congress where two-thirds of Congress believes we should move forward in a certain direction where two-thirds of the majority party for very valid reasons…

I support the Fox-Mollohan amendment, this bipartisan amendment. I voted for the Commerce-Justice-State bill last year, reducing support for the Legal Services Corporation from $400 million to $278 million. I never in my wildest…