David Weldon

Colleagues, let us remember what this debate is really all about. There are a lot of people who want to reopen the whole issue of the inheritance tax, but we already passed a phaseout of the inheritance tax in this body last year. I think…

let me start out by first saying that this is a fair rule. It gives the minority an opportunity for a substitute. I think they can also do a motion to recommit. I am certainly very pleased and honored that the Committee on Rules and our…

that is precisely the issue at hand. Many Democrats want to increase it 10 percent, and we put through an increase of 5 percent or 4 percent, and they call that a cut. Indeed, we saw that for years and years and years in this body. I know…

did I hear the gentleman correctly to say that there are employees at the Department of Education that have used government credit cards to charge personal items?

I want to just underscore that this is also a jobs issue. More than 70 percent of family businesses do not survive to the second generation. Eighty-seven percent did not make it to the third generation. One of the principal reasons is the…

Let me just close with one very important point. We will also hear that making the inheritance tax repeal permanent will hurt donations to charity. The assumption there in that argument is that people are only giving to charity so they do…

I rise to address the body regarding the very, very critical issue of repealing the sunset provision of the inheritance tax repeal. As many Americans know, last year we passed a very, very important tax bill. It reduced taxes on working…

I want to talk about a florist in Kissimmee, Florida. His name is Danny Sexton. A lot of people on the east coast have passed through Kissimmee because it is right outside Disney World. Danny started out with a floral shop. His uncle had…

I would pose another question to my distinguished colleagues on the other side of the aisle. The Social Security trust fund, they keep bringing that issue up. Are they trying to say to our troops in the field they consider it more…

You can get your own time. We all know that under Lyndon Johnson we went under a unified budget. The gentleman from Iowa got up earlier and talked about how he was not here. I was not here either, but the reason I am here, the reason I…

It says ``Yasir Arafat and the members of the Palestinian leadership have failed to abide by their commitments to nonviolence made in the Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles (the Oslo Accord).'' Jeepers, they have not only failed, Yasir…

I first want to commend both the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Schaffer) and the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Hoekstra) for their leadership in support of real meaningful education reform for our kids. Our children are the most important…

This man right here is a taxpayer. We are taking a dollar out of his pocket to send 70 cents to this young man here, who may be his son, may be a kid in his neighborhood, may be his grandson or his granddaughter. What we have here is an…

The A-Plus plan is a very simple plan. If the school is scored low, parents can take their child and the money that was going to their child and go to a private school. The education bureaucracy, teachers unions, liberals on the left went…

Enron was a great tragedy; it was a tragedy for the employees, for the investors, and it was a tragedy for the American public. It was a tragedy for our Nation. We clearly need legislation. We need legislation that will give investors…

I rise in support of making these tax cuts permanent. I just want to talk about the human factor in the death tax. I have a constituent in my congressional district in Kissimmee, Florida. Actually, it is a couple. They owned a florist…

I first came to this body in 1994. At that time what I had heard from the constituents in my district and people all throughout the State of Florida was what a terrible disaster the welfare system was, locking millions of Americans in a…

Mr. Speaker, S. 1026, introduced by the distinguished Senator from New Jersey Robert Torricelli, designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 60 Third Avenue in Long Branch, New Jersey, as the Pat King Post Office…

Mr. Speaker, Jack Shea devoted his life to living the Olympic ideal and passing his inspiration and knowledge to younger generations. At 22, Jack Shea won gold medals in speed skating in both the 500 meter and the 1,500 meter events in…

this Nation suffered a great tragedy on September 11. Our economy was slowing down. The statistical analysis tells us we probably went into a recession some time in the spring, and we have suffered tremendous numbers of layoffs…

last month, prior to Thanksgiving, the House passed the Economic Security Recovery Act. The other body has yet to act on this important legislation. The Associated Press recently quoted the Senate majority leader as saying an economic…

I did my internship and residency in San Francisco in the early eighties when AIDS was ravaging the homosexual community in that city. Prior to coming here to the U.S. House, I practiced infectious diseases and primarily treated AIDS, so I…

As I have conveyed to you, my concern is that as we pursue international trade agreements, we must enter those negotiations recognizing the special needs of our fruit and vegetable sector, and Florida citrus in particular. While many of…

the bill before us includes a $2 million earmark for an organization whose Executive Director, according to the attached Washington Post article, was sentenced in 1995 for taking over $4,000 from the Jewish Community Center of Greater…

the amendments in section 3 dealing with trade-sensitive commodities would limit the President's proclamation authority so that tariff reductions could not be implemented without specific congressional approval. It is also my understanding…