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An unarmed Cessna, knowing it is unarmed, knowing the people inside are freedom fighters, knowing that they have committed no acts of violence against Cuba, knowing that they can do nothing to strike back and, unfortunately, calculating…
We continue to bow down to Communist oppression in China, and we have done the same thing in Cuba over the past 35 years. So it is no wonder that Castro feels emboldened. I mean, the guy has learned over the years that you can kick America…
Reclaiming my time just for 1 minute, I would ask you as a judge, I want to ask you a question. If you had somebody that owned a convenience store and a 6-year-old came in and picked up a pack of gum and started walking out that door, and…
let our people go? The Speaker and this House have bent over backwards. We have passed two balanced budget plans, we have passed appropriation bills. The President vetoed the first balanced budget plan in a generation. The President has…
we have got our job done. We as a Congress have passed the first balanced budget in over a generation. A man had not walked on the Moon the last time this institution had the discipline to balance the budget. We have done that now. If we…
Many now are admitting in the press that there are not going to be cuts. Senator Moynihan has said there are no cuts in Medicare. We have had Members in this House come forward and say that the Democrats need to admit that the Medicare…
That is what is so shameful about people getting up here and saying, we have a plan, and our plan is to keep Medicare the way it is. I will tell you, there is a correlation between our Medicare plan and what happened there, and also what…
Voodoo numbers, where in the past a spending increase was called a spending cut. This year when we are talking about abolishing the Department of Commerce, we have Secretary Ron Brown telling us that there is not a penny of corporate…
I campaigned, like you and a lot of other people, over a year and a half against all odds to get elected up here to make a difference, to come up here and make a difference, to change the way that Washington works and to change the…
let us just look at recent history to amplify on what the gentleman has just said. Would we be even talking about to balance a budget at all? Let us look at what the President of the United States said this summer. In June, he said a…
I have been hearing a lot about Medicare and the B-2 bomber. Actually, the two are related, because it seems that some Members continue to stick their head in the sand and deny basic facts. First of all, if we do nothing on Medicare, in 7…
I went home for the August recess and a funny thing happened before I went home for the August recess. I listened to all these political pundits in Washington, read Wall Street Journal articles that said this is the most revolutionary…
I also was home this weekend and also for the entire month of August, and being home for the entire month of August, it really hit me about what is wrong with Washington, DC. There is such a disconnect between the…
during the August recess I heard the same message over and over again, and that is we need to move forward, we need to be bold, we need to dare to make differences that the Democrats have refused to make for the past 40 years. I bought a…
my, my, how the self-righteous have fallen. It was just a week ago that Democrats were beating their chests on this floor about Republicans daring to have a fund-raiser in New York City. Why, that is something Democrats have never done…
like another Member who came up earlier today, I want to talk about the President's veto of the rescissions bill. The President, of course, does not think it is a good bill. I think the bill has problems, too, but obviously not for the…
I could not help but notice that the President vetoed the rescissions bill, and our attempts to cut back spending on the Federal level, and to send money back home on education programs and on job training programs. The President vetoed…
this Congress faces two challenges in the next 100 days and in the rest of this session. We have got to get our financial house in order. We have got to finally balance the budget, do it for the first time since 1969. The second thing we…
it certainly is an honor to be here this morning, and it was an honor to be back in my district during the break and see the excitement that people had about where this country was going, where their government was going. And to follow up…
this week as we start talking about the very important tax debate and the budget debate, I am looking forward to hearing positive discussions on where we move this country over the next 5, 10, 15 years, to see if we will finally come to…
And this Representative was quoted a year ago saying this about this balanced budget amendment, there was going to be such a scourge on humanity. February 28, 1994: ``In this debate for a balanced budget amendment, we are being forced to…
Yesterday the Senate failed to do what American middle-class citizens and State legislators have had to do for some time, and that is, step up to the plate and finally have to balance their checkbooks, to take in only as much, and spend…
I have got a 7-year-old boy that is in public schools, and I am very concerned about what type of educational system he is going to be growing up in. You look at the statistics of what has happened since the Department of Education was…
I was amazed that these hawks that were always on the opposite side of Ron Dellums it seemed like on every issue, spoke in the most glowing terms of Mr. Dellums because he is a very articulate speaker, he has very deep convictions, and he…
It is about time, and I thank the gentleman from Kansas [Mr. Brownback] for his leadership in this area because it is long overdue, and I hope this Congress will move forward, and more than that I hope that the American people that stood…
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