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There has been no even attempt tonight to rebut the statement that the tax cut that we are dealing with here over 10 years exceeds $1 trillion. This exceeds the tax cut that we adopted here last year and ultimately failed, and it will fail…
Mr. Chairman, I do not think the debate here today is about whether the system here is broken. I think, fortunately, that debate is over. This system is broken. This system is rancid. It needs repair. I do not think the debate here today…
this amendment is the only obstacle standing between us and passage of the Shays-Meehan bill. Unfortunately, this is not a debate on the merits of this amendment, because the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Wamp) and I attempted to offer the…
the Hutchinson bill on balance is a good bill. I want to commend the gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. Hutchinson), the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Hulshof), the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Allen) and all of us who worked very hard to put it…
I would like to reinforce the point that the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Weldon) just made. One of the central recommendations of the Cox-Dicks report is that we need to beef up domestic launch capacity here in the United States as a…
I am glad that the House has the opportunity to debate these important questions before us today. While I have not supported the first three options before us, I do believe that Congress needs to have a voice in the involvement of the…
I just want to highlight one more time what we have been talking about tonight, and that is that there should be no greater priority in this Congress than paying down the $5.3 trillion Federal debt. We are living in a time of uncertainty…
But the freshman class of 1996, Democrats and Republicans, worked together on a bipartisan basis with the Shays-Meehan bill to force the issue. We ultimately succeeded in bringing an open debate on this issue to the Floor of the House. We…
today we have a very fundamental choice before us; we can pass the budget resolution that proposes a tax cut over 10 years of approximately $800 billion, or we can do first things first, and that is we can take up and pass the Spratt…
More so than ever before in the history of our country Americans are outliving their savings and good health. Many of these men and women defended our country in times of war and built our country through their hard work and sacrifice…
I rise today to support the position advocated by the President in his budget proposal that we use the lion's share of the surplus to pay down the Federal debt. The proposal to use 62 percent of the surplus for Social Security and 15…
we can all agree that the President's improper relationship was immoral and inexcusable. His actions represent a tremendous lapse of judgement which deeply troubles me and which has caused immense pain for his family and our entire Nation…
as soon as the 42 Democratic freshmen arrived in Washington we chose as our highest priority to reform the campaign finance system in this country. And we knew there were two things that had to be done to accomplish that: First, the bill…
the bill before us today lifts limits on campaign giving. What an outrage. What is at stake here are the rights of citizens at home who simply sent us up here to do our job. Why should they have to compete with all the people who choose to…
the tragic loss of Officer Chestnut and Detective Gibson serve as a painful reminder that every day the men and women of the United States Capitol Police put their lives on the line, prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice. Officer…
I rise in support of the Skaggs amendment on energy efficiency and conservation programs. I appreciate the difficulty in balancing the critical needs of our country in preparing the Interior Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 1999…
we are voting here today on a rule. Let us be clear what that rule does. That rule allows over 100 amendments that are nongermane, which means unrelated to the bills we are about to take up. This is a sham. It is an attempt to defeat the…
James Brad Crooks, a brand new highway patrol trooper in Florida engaged to be married; Randy Bell, a Tampa police detective, a 20-year veteran of the force described as a hard worker with quiet ambition; Rick Childers, a Tampa Police…
I rise in support of the Riggs- Roemer amendment and against the mandate we are debating here this afternoon. This is a well-intended provision in the bill. It has, as its sponsor has mentioned, the goal of encouraging students to…
I support this bill. I think it is important we have an open and honest debate about how we assure the solvency of the Social Security Trust Fund. I think it is terribly important we work off the same set of facts as we debate that. But…
today I rise in reluctant opposition to HR 2400, the Building Efficient Surface Transportation and Equity Act (BESTEA). Quite simply, this bill is too much of a good thing. Infrastructure funding is critical for the economic future of our…
I have never been so ashamed as I am tonight of the tactic that is being deployed to deprive both Democrats and Republicans from having a serious debate in taking up campaign finance reform. Relegating this issue to a series of very…
as the recent report of the Thompson Senate Committee demonstrates, there is widespread and serious abuse of our Nation's campaign finance system on both sides. One of the most rapidly growing excesses is that of soft money, unlimited…
We should hold up a high standard of innovation, and second, we should expect... common sense to be exercised by the Secretary of the Department of Education... valid concerns about how the Federal Government is affecting the ability of…
Tomorrow the House is scheduled to vote on fast track legislation to provide this President with the same negotiating authority that every President has had since 1974 in this country. Opponents argue that the debate is about jobs. That is…
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