Jeff Miller

I know that paper came out of the GAO report. There is a $1.3 billion cost in addition, so that the net cost to the Federal Government is almost $1 billion. This is the revenue, where it goes. There is only $300 million going to the…

I rise today to talk about Medicare, but my colleagues on the other side of the aisle keep bringing up the issue of the environment. I am glad the previous speaker talked about all the environmental Republicans from the fact that President…

Today I rise to advocate the phaseout of the Government-run sugar program in this country. The Government-run sugar program is a cartel that the Government regulates that is very much antifree enterprise, it is anticonsumer, it is…

the Medicare program is a very, very essential program we need to save in this country. It is very important in my congressional district in Florida, where I have more senior citizens than any other congressional district in the country…

I think it is a shame that this debate constantly veers away from the true issue for which we are here in Congress and here today. We are currently facing one of the most important moral and economic challenges of our time, to balance the…

this bill is an integral part of our effort to balance the budget, the moral and economic challenge of our time. This bill meets its share of the burden and therefore deserves every Member's support. These are the tough choices we are…

I rise today to put this bill in its proper context. The 104th Congress is in the midst of the most important debate about America's domestic future since the New Deal. The debate is not about accounting numbers and line items, although…

Mr. Chairman, I am proud to be here today in support of the Tax Fairness and Deficit Reduction Act. Not only does this legislation provide necessary tax relief for the hard-working families of America, it pays for those tax cuts and…

Yes, seniors are always on the losing end. In 1993 that tax bill increased the tax on Social Security. Now, I do not know, this is over $34,000 worth of income. That is not a wealthy person to me. They raised the tax on Social Security for…

Absolutely. That tax increase in 1993 was a tax increase to balance the budget and to reduce spending. That thing, our deficit in this country is getting higher and higher every year. The solution to solving our deficit problem is cutting…

today begins dramatic change in how Government operates. For the first time in decades, we will start talking straight with the American people about the Federal budget. Every American family who must meet a budget understands that an…