David Weldon

I did want to inquire of the gentleman from Pennsylvania, and he basically alluded to the reason at the tail-end of his comments, but I think it is something worth stressing, why would the Democrats do this? Why would they stage an event…

You are saying if we did not give families with children, the most heavily taxed group over the past 40 years in this country, an issue that is contributing to the breakdown in the family in the United States, the heavy tax burden on those…

Mr. Chairman, we have got about a $5 trillion debt. We are going to spend $270 billion paying interest on the debt in 1996. Imagine how much we could spend on basic science research, on NASA, on other important seed corn programs, if we…

I went home to my district in August, like most of us did, and, hopefully like most of us, I very much enjoyed going back home. I not only enjoyed going back home to enjoy the beautiful beaches and weather of the space coast area of…

during my campaign for the U.S. Congress last year I met a man who lived in my district. His name was Dave Exley, and he was a painter, and I got talking to Dave. I was interested in talking to him. I had an uncle, Joe Ditta, who raised a…

prior to coming to this body, I was a practicing physician. So I used to see a lot of this stuff on a daily basis. I have to say this program was initiated with the intent of helping to deal with the terrible problem of unwanted…

I believe that this project is an authorized project. Section 201 of Public Law 103-452, signed into law on November 2, 1994, states: The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may carry out the major medical facility projects for the Department of…

I rise tonight to speak out and to salute the people at Kennedy Space Center as well as the officials in NASA and those at the other centers as well as our astronauts in particular and additionally our cosmonauts on the tremendously…

My mother grew up in an Italian home and she learned to speak Italian along with her 3 sisters and her brother and they were all proud to go out on the streets and learn English. My mother went on not only to get a good command of English…

isn't it ironic that the first bill the President lost increased spending by $17 billion, and the first bill he is going to veto cuts spending by almost $17 billion. Where has the President been for the past 2 years? The mandate from the…

while Republicans take positive steps to reduce the marriage penalty, Democrats are giving America's families one more incentive not to stay together. Under their substitute, a family making $75,000 can deduct up to $5,000 per year for…

I rise in support for family tax relief. The rhetoric coming from the other side of the aisle does not match up with the facts. A case in point: I received a phone call last week from Christine, a constituent in my district. She is a…

I rise to speak out in support of our tax package coming before the House to be voted on this week, and Mr. Speaker, I specifically want to talk about our capital gains tax cut. I had a woman in my district who called me in support of our…

We are in a competition worldwide with the Europeans, with the people on the Pacific rim. For competitiveness sake we need this capital gains tax cut. If you go to those countries, their capital gains rates are much lower than ours are…

If I may interrupt the chairman, could you explain why so many of those people who need it are not participating in the program?

it is a pleasure for me to rise today and speak in support of the tort reform or lawsuit reform being brought before the House by the Republican leadership. As a physician who has practiced medicine in the community for the past 7 years, I…

this morning I rise to talk about what I feel is a historic change in the Congress of the United States. When I was running for Congress last year and I received the Contract With America in the mail, I was very, very pleasantly surprised…

I ran for the U.S. Congress not only because I thought our Nation needed things like the line-item veto, passed tonight, as well as the balanced budget amendment, some real welfare reform, but I also ran because I was concerned about the…

I speak out in support of the balanced budget amendment not only because I believe it is good policy or that it is a policy that is supported by many of the leaders of this body, but because it is a policy that is supported by the people…

in his campaign for the White House, President Clinton said that he favored tax relief for the middle class. Well, Republicans in the new Congress agree that the Federal Government taxes and spends too much and that taxpayers should have…