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for 40 years tax-and-spend liberals have come to Washington, DC and run up a $5.6 trillion debt that is going to be passed on to our children. For 40 years, tax-and-spend liberals have increased taxes to a point that the average American…
earlier this morning I heard many floor speeches from people on the other side of the aisle talking about how much they love children and how they want to create a new layer of bureaucracy and raise more taxes on the American people to…
I want to talk about St. Patrick. We are coming up on St. Patrick's Day, and though many people celebrate it in this country, few in America understand or recognize the significance of St. Patrick in the history of western civilization. In…
But, as my colleagues know, if the gentleman could give me a little historical perspective as a relatively new Member here, I believe that they were all in the majority in 1993 and 1994, and I also believe that they had somebody in the…
I may be a dumb country lawyer, I may have graduated from the University of Alabama, but my recollection was that George Bush was not President in 1993 or in 1994, that that was in fact William Jefferson Clinton. They had control over this…
let me say I think the gentleman from California has a wonderful idea and I am certainly pleased to be a cosponsor of his bill. I wanted to talk today about something that occurred in this Chamber yesterday, something that was ridiculed by…
And you would be called a bigot because you do not sit back and say absolutely nothing. Again it is not an issue of intolerance, it is not an issue of whether I am going to judge somebody for the life they live. That is up to them. That is…
I certainly do, and I certainly appreciate your words because I guess this is what has disappointed me over the past 2 years more than anything else. There are Members here who I disagree with on practically every issue, Members like Ron…
When you talk about honest accounting, and talking about trust, I have to tell the gentleman, his job is going to be made more difficult, the job of the gentleman from Wisconsin is going to be made more difficult, and this institution's…
I thank the gentleman. And revisionism occurs all the time, and we are told that our Founding Fathers were racists and bigots and that they were radicals and that is--you know, that did not happen before 1994. It is very interesting that…
Let me ask the gentleman quickly, I know the gentleman from Wisconsin has been talking about taking Social Security off budget. What we mean by that is right now I think Social Security is running about a $62 billion, $63 billion surplus…
What radicals do is, and what they have done by defining deviancy down as up, is radicals attack conventional beliefs, they attack the foundation of this Republic, the views by our Founding Fathers, because that is the only way they can…
The gentleman has touched on something, we have seen it on local school boards, he has touched on something that we have seen up here for too long now. What that is, is people parading around in a politically correct cloak that will tell…
we just took a vote on the Ten Commandments and a controversy that is occurring in Alabama. I heard ridicule from a lot of Members saying, gee, is this the only thing that the House of Representatives can do? This is a trivial little…
I come before this Chamber today to give my strongest commendations to the Congressman from Alabama [Mr. Aderholt], who is coming forward with a resolution today supporting the placement of the Ten Commandments in a courtroom in his home…
Tomorrow this body is going to be looking at a resolution supporting the public display of the Ten Commandments. There has been a very interesting case in the State of Alabama where Judge Roy Moore, who presides over a circuit court…
I came up today to talk about passing the American dream on to our children. We have heard so much today, and it appears that people have been getting together on the other side of the aisle for some time the past couple of weeks trying to…
I am offended by the continued double standard that appears to be occurring in this Chamber where just 2 hours ago a Republican Member was mentioned by name several times and the Speaker did absolutely nothing... I have seen this occur for…
I love children. I have two children myself, and I enjoy listening to politicians try to use children for their own political gain, especially when it smacks of hypocrisy. Some politicians in Washington love children so much that they go…
I think one of the finest examples of how Americans' dollars, tax dollars, come up to Washington, DC to these huge Federal bureaucracies and do not get back home is the example of the Department of Education who 2 years ago said that they…
throughout the long march of history, the story of civilization is replete with examples of how individuals have been burdened by an overbearing Government whose onerous tax systems have destroyed individuals, communities and, indeed…
My resolution today that I have placed before the House is meant to honor heroes that were obviously victims of this terror. If is a modest gesture to salute the 19 men who in life and who in death made their country proud and, in doing…
Medicare is bleeding to death. It is losing more money than it ever has before. In 1995 the President's Medicare trustees said that Medicare would be bankrupt by 2002. This year we hear that it is bleeding to death even faster and it is…
I am distressed to vote in such a way that would deny U.S. Federal judges the COLA's that I believe that they deserve. Unfortunately, because judges have been lumped together with politicians on Capitol Hill, I have no other choice but to…
Because I am a little confused here, Mr. Speaker, because for a year and a half I have been hearing about how the Republicans have cut too much. Now tonight I am being reeducated, and I find out that we are not cutting enough. Can the…
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