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One comma, one little bracket, taking out a word, adding or not can make a difference. This Congress is looking to get after all three types of welfare, the social, the corporate, and where it was in the farming. There are a few programs…
Well, first off, it is just important that we recognize that the program is growing significantly. The program is growing significantly, it is not being cut. On a per person basis, we are going to allow it to grow as it did last year from…
We rescinded certain expenditures. In fact what we did do, if I could be a little more precise, we actually cut $20 billion from that budget, but then added $11 billion back that the President requested and would have been in the budget if…
I would love to just say to the gentleman that I remember well in 1989 he offered an amendment to try to get a handle on government spending and I think there were only 38 Members who supported him. Each year he kept offering amendments to…
And if my colleague would just yield, I would point out that we are also not just talking about social welfare, we are talking about corporate welfare.
We are trying to get our financial house in order and balance the Federal budget. We are trying to save our trust funds from bankruptcy, particularly Medicare. And we are trying to transform our caretaking, social, corporate and farming…
Mr. Speaker, we have three primary objectives in our effort to get our financial house in order and balance the Federal budget and save our economy. Our first is, in fact, to get our financial house in order and balance our Federal budget…
one of the options will be that we will allow private care plans to offer to seniors a whole host of different services. They may offer eye care or dental care, they may give a rebate on the copayment or the deductible, they may give a…
Well, it is a speech, but it is a very accurate speech. We are saying that last year we spent $4,800 per senior. It will grow to 72 and now $7,000 in the 6th year from where we are today. That is a significant increase. And yet while…
I think sometimes people look at the debate we have on the floor of the House and it looks like a food fight in a high school cafeteria, but there are significant differences that I think my colleague would agree separate us, and then…
To our credit, that is the one area where Congress has greater control than the President. When we spend and appropriate an item and the President vetoes, we get zero.
Well, when I was in the statehouse, I was always amazed that our Federal leaders could continually spend more money than they raised in revenues and their incredible reluctance to do it. I kept asking myself how could it happen, and I…
But the bottom line to this is that each and every year we vote on about a third of the budget. We do not vote on the interest on the national debt, and we do not vote on half of the budget, which are what we call entitlements, that long…
We have had really three main objectives. One is to get our financial house in order and balance the budget. We came forward with a 7-year plan. We actually have real and absolute cuts, absolute cuts in what we call discretionary spending…
In Psalms we read, ``I would have fainted unless I believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.'' This is an excellent debate, and we are having the opportunity on both sides of the aisle and within both parties to…
First, we have no increase in copayment in our Medicare, no increase in the deductible, and we keep the premium at 25 percent. There is no increase in premiums. We only increase the premium for the wealthiest in our country who make over…
Mr. Chairman, our objective in our budget is to get our financial house in order and balance our Federal budget to save our trust funds for future generations, and to transform our caretaking social and corporate welfare state into what I…
On Medicaid, we are increasing spending from $95 billion to $140 billion. My colleague may call that a cut but it is not. It is an increase in spending. We increased Medicare from $196 billion to $284 billion. We are increasing Medicare…
As a moderate Republican who has voted for a number of budgets that have taken care of people, I have seen the result of our work. The result of our work in some cases is 12-year-olds having babies, it is 14-year-olds selling drugs, it is…
I yield myself 30 seconds to talk real specifics and the truth about our budget. Under Medicare, our budget goes from $196 to $284 billion. That is a 45-percent increase in spending in our program in Medicare. We have the same kind of…
Medicare under our bill goes from $196 billion to $283 billion. That is a 45-percent increase in spending from this year to the sixth year. Under our Medicaid Program, it grows from $95 billion to $140 billion. Only in this city, when you…
it is not lost on me and my colleagues on this side of the aisle that when our colleagues on the other side of the aisle had an opportunity to increase the minimum wage when they controlled both the House and the Senate they choose not to…
Amendment offered by Mr. Shays: At the end of title X (page 359, after line 20), insert the following new section: SEC. . DEFENSE BURDENSHARING. (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings: (1) Although the Cold War has ended, the…
we have to take the context of this bill compared to what exists, not the fantasy of what we think exists. We go into public housing areas all around the country. They are in devastating shape. One of the things I find most troubling, the…
I am grateful that we are seeing a 17 percent increase in the Ryan White funding over last year. I am particularly grateful that we are seeing for the first time the prohibiting of health insurance discrimination against someone who…
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