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Not just half price, but, no, we insist we will pay our price for it whether it is coming from the Dominican Republic or what have you. This is a bad jobs issue, too. The sugar program is killing jobs in the United States. Let me give a…
Right. It is just not fair. We should be proud of a lot we did with this farm bill last year. We made some historic changes with farm programs that went back all the way to the 1930s. It was a really historic change. Unfortunately, the…
It costs in several areas in taxes. Because, first of all, the American consumer is the American taxpayer. So I am not sure of the distinction. When the American consumer pays $1.4 billion more for sugar than they need to, it costs the…
I mean, as you were saying, the gentleman from Colorado, somebody, you got to be concerned about the patient-doctor relationship, and I mean just kind of like the dermatologist situation in Florida. For all the dermatologists in Florida…
Social Security generates approximately $75 billion more in revenue a year than it pays out. So actually, our deficit is worse than we realize, because Social Security is counted in there. What is really good about the Neumann budget is it…
But it was the frustration of the deans of the medical school because Medicare had come up with a ruling that was a retroactive ruling of how they are going to pay for medical school residents. Now I do not necessarily disagree with the…
Well, I certainly hope so. We have to. I mean 4 years is not very long. I mean when we started this, it was 7 years before bankruptcy. Now it is just 4 years. So we have to do something, the President realizes it. And you know what we are…
Of course Medicare part A is paid for by payroll tax. That is the part that is going bankrupt. The part A program pays hospitalization costs. When you go in the hospital, that is what it pays for is the doctor, the surgeon, the hospital…
We have to be proud of American agriculture. It is the most efficient and productive in the world. We are the major exporter of agriculture products. I do not know the number, but that is one of our largest trade surpluses we have. I have…
The Medicare report is probably going to tell us essentially the same thing we have been hearing the past couple of years, that Medicare is going to be bankrupt in 4 more years. This report coming out from the administration includes…
In some years it has been going down. That is how successful they have been to help control costs. Under the Medicare plan that we are proposing, this is a bipartisan issue as the gentleman said. This is something that we have got to work…
What we find is that in the private sector, we found health care costs really being very manageable the past several years. Actually for larger businesses with over 100 employees, health care costs have even been going down for some of…
Actually I think the President really wants a balanced budget, but we will see. We are at a critical juncture over the next couple of weeks. We will know whether we can work out an arrangement so that we can have a balanced budget with the…
Right. That is what makes it so crazy is that we are, in effect, subsidizing sugar again; we are buying that land. Another little interesting subsidy about the sugar program is we cannot grow enough sugar in the United States to satisfy…
I look at the sugar program as one of the most egregious examples of corporate welfare that we have here in Washington. Anybody who believes in reducing the size and scope of government has to believe in getting rid of this program…
You talk about the drug-free workplace. I would like to make a couple of comments about that, if I may, because it started in my area back in the 1980's. It was very involved with Tropicana. I said, ``We have a drug problem.'' So they…
my friend from Florida was talking about the tie-in between crime and drugs and the need for the leadership at the top. When the President of the United States, as we have said, laughs about whether he would do it again, he says, sure if I…
after a decade of progress under Ronald Reagan and George Bush, Bill Clinton is leading the full-scale retreat on the war on drugs. Upon arriving in the White House, Bill Clinton began by dismantling the war on drugs. He began by slashing…
I rise today to ask President Clinton a simple question. Will you sign the welfare reform legislation? Everyone in this Chamber wants to save our children. Every one in America agrees the current welfare system has failed our children. We…
This red tide is of importance to many coastal areas around the United States. Red tide is known as a nuisance problem because it gives people headaches, makes people nauseous when they are around it, but because we see the dead fish…
as we talk about reforming Congress, we need to reflect back on all the reforms we have already conducted this year. When we first took office in January 1995, we passed the Congressional Accountability Act. We applied 11 laws of the land…
the debate here is not who supports education more. Everybody supports education; the Democrats, Republicans. I have two children, one still in graduate school working on her master's in social work. We support education; that is not the…
the previous speaker tried to scare us about what is happening in education, and I just want to set the record straight. First of all, the Federal Government only pays 5 percent of the total amount of money in elementary and secondary…
I support Mr. Taylor. and his amendment on salvaging timber. That is not the issue we are talking about. The issue we are talking about here is costing the Federal taxpayers money.
did the gentleman know that Citizens Against Government Waste favors this amendment. This is not strictly a green scissors vote. It is a green scissor vote and it is a fiscally conservative vote, too.
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